The article offers you articles on marriage and happiness in the family, as well as talks about which Saints should be prayed for.
Happiness in personal life is the desire of every person. With your requests and dreams, you can always turn to the Saints, share your joy or pain with them, and pray for a good future. You don't have to look for a special prayer, it is enough to find simple but precise words.
You can pray to such Saints and icons:
- Lord God. You can turn to Him with any prayer with requests for a personal life to develop and a person to find his happiness in love, marriage, children, family.
- Mother of God... You can choose any icon you can find. The famous icon "Fadeless Color" is relevant, from which you can ask for help in choosing a life partner. Another one, which is called "Tenderness", can be asked to meet with a good man... There is one more image - the “Surdega Icon of the Mother of God” is perfect for praying for happiness in family and personal life, for finding a loved one.
- The image of Peter and Fevronia of Murmansk... These two Saints are considered protectors, patrons and inspirers of people for a happy marriage, strong family, great love.
- Image of Martyr Adrian and Natalia... These images are perfect for offering prayers for a loved one and a strong, happy marriage. It is also believed that Adriana and Natalia can be asked for their spouse's fidelity.
- The image of Nicholas the Wonderworker... This Saint can offer prayers in any difficult life situations, including if a person suffers from loneliness and cannot grow his true love. Without a doubt, lift up your prayers to Nicholas the Wonderworker, asking for happiness in your life, the lives of your loved ones and children.
- The image of the Matrona of Moscow... It is known that this image can be prayed for the loyalty of the spouses, the strength and happiness of the family, and even for the forgiveness of betrayal.
- The image of the Great Martyr Barbara... It is customary for this Saint to offer prayers for finding a husband and ask for blessings for happiness in his personal life.
- The image of St. Daniel of Moscow... It is customary to pray to this saint not only for a happy marriage, but also for a cozy home.
- The image of the Great Martyr Catherine... Since ancient times, this Saint, young girls have offered up prayers that they will find a good and faithful groom.
- The image of Blessed Xenia of Petersburg... It has long been customary for this Saint to pray that faithful love be given to the one asking.
- Image of the Holy Martyr Tryphon... It is good for this image to pray with requests for a happy marriage.
To whom and how to properly pray to the mother for marriage and happiness in the daughter's personal life: the name of the icons, the saints
Every mother can and should pray to the Holy Images for her daughter's personal life to develop. You can do this at home in front of the icon, but it is best to go to church for services. Calling to the Saints, be sure to thank them for their grace and all the good that you have, and then tell the name of your daughter and ask for happiness for her: finding a real feeling, faithful and devoted love, concluding a happy marriage with childbirth.
Which icons are suitable for these purposes:
Saints Peter and Fevronia of Murmansk 
Nicholas the Wonderworker 
"Fadeless color" 
"Paraskaeva Friday" 
The image of St. Andrew the First-Called 
Icon: Matrona of Moscow What saint to pray to a girl for love, marriage, in order to start a family and have children: the name of the icons, saints
Young girls should pray for happiness in their personal lives to the patron saints of love (images, icons and names are listed above). However, the Mother of God is considered the strongest intercessor of women. Prayers to her are very strong and powerful, they give young girls confidence in themselves and help them find truly faithful love.
INTERESTING: The Mother of God helps women and girls to find a strong marriage with their faithful husband, and also helps to successfully bear and give birth to a healthy child.
Icon of the Virgin What saint to pray to an adult unmarried woman with a late marriage in order to successfully marry: the name of the icons, saints
In cases where a woman finds her loved one late enough and gets married after 30 (and maybe even 40, as well as 50), the prayer for well-being and personal happiness does not place. Women who want to meet their “soul mate” also need to pray. To do this, you should choose an icon with the image of St. Seraphim of Sarov. He is considered the patron saint for people who find a late marriage.
Seraphim Sarovsky 
To whom and how to properly pray to a divorced woman for remarriage in order to find a good husband and get married a second time?
It is customary to pray for the image of Saint Tryphon for remarriage and finding happiness in marriage. This should be done with a pure heart and soul, thanks to the second chance to find love and family.
Image of Saint Tryphon 
Who should read the akathist about marriage? Who can order a prayer service for marriage?
Akathist is a type of church singing, which is usually offered up with words of praise and thanks.
Akathist can be chanted with prayers for a happy marriage, mentioning and asking for help from all the Saints, as well as the Mother of God.
Prayer for marriage to the Mother of God Unfading color: words
Prayers to the Mother of God will surely bring harmony into your life and help you achieve happiness in your personal life, find love and family.
How the icon helps:
- Get a blessing for a wedding
- Get rid of temptations
- Finding happiness in marriage
- Find peace of mind
- Have a happy and faithful marriage
What they pray to the icon:
- Do not make a mistake in choosing a loved one
- Find the right path in life
- Be an example and inspire your children for true faith and love in the family.
How to ask the Guardian Angel for marriage: words of prayer
The Guardian Angel, which is present in every believer, can not only protect against diseases and evil, but also attract grace.
How to ask Matrona for marriage: words of prayer
Prayer to Mother Matrona of Moscow will help anyone who asks to find happiness and achieve what they want.
How to ask the Lord God, Jesus Christ for marriage: words of prayer
God - highest power, which directs a person to good deeds and helps him to overcome various life difficulties. As you turn to him with your requests for a happy marriage, you can receive God's grace and blessing for marriage.
Icon of the Lord Abstainer Jesus Christ 
How to ask Blessed Xenia of Petersburg for marriage: words of prayer
The prayers of Ksenia the Blessed will help you meet your soul mate and find a happy, long and faithful marriage with her.
How to ask Peter and Fevronia for marriage: words of prayer
These Saints are considered the guardians of faithful marriage and true love, therefore petitions for a family, a loved one and prayers to Peter and Fevrony will be very relevant.
How to ask Andrew the First-Called for marriage: words of prayer
Saint Andrew the First-Called is often called out with prayers by those who are looking for strength and blessings on the path of finding true love in marriage.
How to ask Nicholas the Pleasant, the Wonderworker for marriage: words of prayer
Nicholas the Wonderworker will help you meet true, unique and pure love at any age. Pray this image with your requests and you can definitely find family happiness.
How to ask the Kazan Mother of God for marriage: words of prayer
The icon of the Kazan Mother of God is considered strong enough and it helps lonely people who ask to meet a person who is able to share happiness in marriage with you.
Video: "Prayers for a happy marriage and family"
What are the prayers for marriage? To whom should we give praise for a strong marriage? You will learn about this from our article. Prayer texts are attached!
Prayer for marriage
The girl's prayer for marriage
Oh, All-Good Lord, I know that my great happiness depends on my love for You with all my soul and with all my heart, and that I fulfill Your holy will in everything.
So rule, O my God, my soul and fill my heart: I want to please You alone, for You are the Creator and my God.
Save me from pride and pride: let reason, modesty and chastity adorn me.
Idleness is disgusting to You and gives rise to vices, give me the hunt for diligence and bless my labors.
Since Thy Law commands people to live in an honest marriage, then lead me, Holy Father, to this title, sanctified by You, not to please my desire, but to fulfill Your destiny, for You Yourself said: It is not good for a man to be alone and, having created his wife as an assistant, blessed them to grow, multiply and inhabit the earth.
Hear my humble prayer, from the depths of a girl's heart offered to you; Give me an honest and pious spouse, so that we, in love with him and in harmony, glorify You, the merciful God: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
They also pray for a successful marriage:
Holy Great Martyr Catherine
Prayer:
O Saint Catherine, virgin and martyr, the true bride of Christ! We pray to you, as a special grace, to precede your Bridegroom, Sweetest Jesus, who received: as though you shamed the tormentor's seductions with your wisdom, you conquered fifty twists, and having given them heavenly teachings to the light of true faith, instructed you, so ask God for wisdom too. Yes, and we, too, all the intrigues of the hellish tormentor have been dissolved, but the temptations of the world and the flesh are despised, we deserve to appear Divine glory, and to expand our holy Orthodox faith, let us be worthy to become, and with you in the heavenly tabernacle of the Lord and our Lord Jesus Christ with the Father and the Holy Spirit let us praise and glorify forever and ever. Amen.
To the Righteous Philaret the Merciful
Troparion, voice 4th:
Imitating Abraham in faith, but following Job in patience, Father Philaret, you shared the good land with the poor and you endured their deprivation with courage. For this, for the sake of the bright crown of thee, crowned the Hero of God, Christ our God, whose prayers our souls may be saved.
Kontakion, voice 3:
Truly all-graded your purchase is seen and the wise being is judged by all the wise: you have given away something that is long and short-lived, seeking the heavenly and the eternal. You have acquired the same and worthily eternal glory, gracious Filaret.
Stanza, voice 2:
Goodness from God is, says the Theologian, and you are from God, merciful Filarete. As if God is, so is your work, a hedgehog of good deeds, the same by nature, yours by the sacrament.
Saint Andrew the First-Called
Prayer:
First-Called Apostle of God and our Savior Jesus Christ, Church follower of the Supreme, all praises Andrew! We glorify and magnify your apostolic labors, sweetly commemorate your blessed coming to us, bless your honest sufferings, even for Christ you endured, kiss your sacred relics, honor your holy memory and believe that the Lord lives, your soul is alive, and with abide by him forever in heaven, where you do not leave us with your love, as our fathers loved you, when you received the sight of our land to Christ by the Holy Spirit. We believe, as if we pray to God for us, in vain in the light of His all our needs. So we confess this faith of ours in your temple, and we pray the Lord and God and our Savior Jesus Christ, that through your prayers he will give us everything that is necessary for the salvation of us sinners: yes, as you are abiye to the voice of the Lord, leave your scum, you steadily followed that, bitch and every one from us is not looking for his own, but a hedgehog for the creation of his neighbor, and he thinks about the high title. Having the property of a representative and a man of prayer for us, we hope that your prayer can do much before our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, all glory, honor and worship with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever befitting Him. Amen.
Saint Nicholas, miracle worker of Myra
Prayer:
Oh, all-holy Nicholas, the most splendid of the Lord, our warm intercessor and everywhere in sorrow, an early helper! Help me, the sinner and the sad in this life, pray to the Lord God with the grants for the forgiveness of all my sins, greatly sinned from my youth, in all my life, in deed, word, thought and all my feelings; and at the end of my soul, help me, the accursed one, pray to the Lord God, all creatures of the Sourer, to save me from airy ordeals and eternal torment: may I always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer to the blessed prince Peter, in monasticism David, and to Princess Fevronia, in monasticism Euphrosyne, to the wonderworkers of Murom
About the great saints of God and the prejudice of the miracle workers, the faithful prince Peter and the princess Fevronia, the representatives and guardians of the city of Murom, and about all of us zealous for the Lord of prayer! We run to you and pray to you with strong hope: bring your holy prayers to the Lord God for us sinners and ask us from His goodness all that is good for our souls and bodies: faith is right, hope is good, love is unfeigned, unwavering piety, prosperity in good deeds, peace of peace, fruitfulness of the earth, goodness of the air, health and eternal salvation for souls and bodies. Proceed to the Heavenly King: His faithful servants, in grief and grief, day and night crying to Him, may our heartbreaking cry hear and lead our belly out of destruction. Ask the Church of the Saints and the entire power of Russia for peace, silence and prosperity, and for all of us a prosperous life and a good Christian end. Protect your fatherland, the city of Murom, and all the cities of Russia from all evil and all the faithful people who come to you and worship with power, overshadow your favorable prayers with the grace-filled action, and fulfill all their petitions for the good. She, miracle workers of the sanctuary! Do not despise our prayers, which are offered to you with tenderness, but wake up representatives of us in a dream to the Lord and grant us with your holy help to receive eternal salvation and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven; let us glorify the ineffable love of mankind of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in the Trinity of the worshiped God, forever. Amen.
Marriage is a crucial moment in the life of every person. Every couple should receive a blessing before a wedding or wedding, especially one who lives according to Christian rules and principles.
Parents' blessing for the wedding
Of course, everyone wants to receive a blessing from their parents. This is a kind gesture that implies that the children receive warm words and permission to marry. Over time, this tradition is increasingly lost, as children become more independent in terms of decision-making over time. Nowadays, almost no one asks permission, and the blessing, in fact, is just a good tradition for the happiness of future spouses.
V Orthodox world it is customary for parents to give icons to their children. The blessing for the wedding of the son is expressed by the gift of the icon of the Savior Jesus Christ. You can give your daughter an icon of the Mother of God. Parents' blessings for the wedding of their child are accompanied by approximately the following parting words:
Dear children, (name of the groom) and (name of the bride). We bless you for a long, friendly and bright life together.
Let there be only peace and friendship between you, love and consent - for the happiness of you and for the joy of us - your parents.
We wish you children's laughter and parental joy, may there be only peace and prosperity in your home, and let troubles pass by.
Wedding blessings should reflect all aspects of life, which is what these words above do.
Prayer before the wedding
The parental word plays a defining role in many weddings. But in addition to the words of the parents, you should yourself bless yourself before the wedding. To do this, you can go to church, light a candle for happiness, pray to Peter and Fevronia of Murom, who are the patrons of newlyweds and lovers. Their union has long been considered a model of Christian faithful marriage.
Here is a great prayer to read before the wedding:
O Lord our God, in Your salutary gaze, honored in Cana by Galileysteus to show an honest marriage by Your coming, now Your servants (names) Himself have deigned to be combined with each other, in peace and unanimity preserve: show their honest marriage, observe their unfair bed, keep them blameless cohabitation, bless and make me worthy of old age, attain thy commandments with a pure heart. Thou art our God, the God of mercy and save, and we glorify Thee, with Thy beginningless Father, All-Holy and Good and Life-giving Thy Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.
Parents should also open a prayer book on their wedding day and pray for the health and happiness of their child in order to bless him at the very beginning of a responsible journey.
A wedding is exactly the step that you want to take only once, so the blessings of the parents for the wedding are extremely important. , give icons and say every word only from a pure heart. Be happy and don't forget to press the buttons and
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Every worldly girl or woman dreams of creating a strong, healthy family, finding her true soulmate, finding that the only man, with whom you want to live side by side all your life, love, raise children, and on the declining days of your babysitters and grandchildren.
Beautiful? Of course! Not only that, I tell you, our Orthodox Church very highly appreciates and blesses those Orthodox marriages and families who live according to the laws of Love, and therefore live according to the laws of God.
A striking proof of this is the example of the holy union of Peter and Fevronia.
The romantic story of their love simply fascinates with its beauty, the wise words of Fevronia about the taste of water from different sides of the boat make you think, and the readiness of Peter (after all, a prince by birth) to give up all power and wealth for the sake of love for a commoner - here she is a spiritual beauty, here is that ideal, this is the model of the family to which we should strive. And even God "emphasized" the importance and sacredness of such relationships by awarding this story with a beautiful ending - the saints die together at the same time, as if they were not two different people, but one flesh and soul. I will not describe this beautiful story - it would be more correct about it from Wikipedia. I will only place a small emphasis on the fact that the holiness of Peter and Fevronia of Murom is not in the observance of fasts, not in some miracles and acquisitions - their holiness is in true Love and boundless fidelity to each other and to God.
Nice beginning of the article? I like it too! But still, let's move on to what, judging by the name, primarily interests you:
"How to find this soul mate, where is he the one and only, or to someone to pray for a successful marriage?"
In my opinion, this is the case:“If you want an alcoholic husband, look for him in a pub (there is a greater likelihood of meeting), if you want an intelligent husband, look in the library, if you need a husband, a plumber, there is a direct road to the housing office. Well, but if you want something that would be beautiful for you and for life, because in the tale of Saints Peter and Fevronia of Murom - "turn" to the one who knows everything, who wishes you only good, to the one who there is Love, that is, to God.
If you believe in God, then it is simply obvious - it is HE who knows who is best for you. So, my dears, of course the first request, or rather the prayer for a successful marriage, will be addressed to our heavenly Father. But VERY important point prayers: "May he (the chosen one) be according to your will, but not mine." It goes without saying - He can see better who your soul mate is, who is the same "Soul".
We ask in our own words, the main thing is that the words are from the heart
The only reservation that I have learned from the holy fathers and its essence is as follows:
“There is the will of God, there is the will of yours (that is, human), and both of them (of course, to varying degrees) act on this world. Yes, yes, we are created in the image and likeness of Him, but if the will of God does not coincide with yours, there is no time for this to happen. This I mean that if nothing is happening so far, it does not mean that your exclamation has not been heard, it means that perhaps you are not yet ready, and perhaps there is another reason that is known only to the Almighty ...
But in any case: “Ask and you will find”.
Prayer to God for a family
Oh, All-good Lord, I know that my great happiness depends on my love for You with all my soul and with all my heart, and that I fulfill Your holy will in everything.
So rule, O my God, my soul and fill my heart: I want to please You alone, for You are the Creator and my God.
Save me from pride and pride: let reason, modesty and chastity adorn me. Idleness is disgusting to You and gives rise to vices, give me the hunt for diligence and bless my labors. Since Thy Law commands people to live in an honest marriage, then lead me, Holy Father, to this title, sanctified by You, not to please my desire, but to fulfill Your destiny, for You Yourself said: It is not good for a man to be alone and, having created his wife as an assistant, blessed them to grow, multiply and inhabit the earth.
Hear my humble prayer, from the depths of a girl's heart offered to You; Give me an honest and pious spouse, so that we, in love with him and in harmony, glorify You, the merciful God: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
Theotokos - the all-merciful Queen will help you find your love
It is She who is revered with special love in Russia, it is She who shows a huge variety of miracles, including the miracles of finding a family and childbirth. There are many icons for the glory of the Theotokos - choose the one that is closer to your heart. It does not matter what kind of icon it is: Kazan, Vladimir, Tolgskaya or another - the Mother of God is alone and it is she who helps us. So, there are no special instructions for which icon to pray for, for example, I read about miraculous icon"Inexhaustible Chalice", which, although considered to be healing from bad habits, is written about the cases when, through prayers in front of this icon, the two halves find each other and, even more marvelous, they write that it helps to find housing.
Pray for marriage and family in front of the Inexhaustible Chalice icon.
And also pray for marriage and family in front of the icon "Fadeless Color"
There is no special prayer for marriage, so choose any akathist to the Mother of God, and also mentally talk to Her in your own words, ask, if only from your heart and soul.
My beloved queen, my hope to the Mother of God, the friend of the orphaned and strange to the representative, grieving joy, offended by the patroness!
Behold my misfortune, behold my sorrow, help me as if I am weak, feed me as strange. My grievance is weighing, resolve that, as if you will: as if not an imam of any other help unless you, not a different representative, not a good comforter, only to you, oh bogomati, as if save me and cover me forever and ever. Amen.
Peter and Fevronia of Murom
About the saint of God, the faithful prince Peter and princess Fevronia, we resort to you and to you with strong hope we pray: lift up your holy prayers to the Lord God for us sinners (names) and ask from His goodness all that is good for our souls and our bodies: faith right, hope for good, love is unhypocritical, piety unshakable, prosperity in good deeds.
And intercede to us from the Heavenly King for a prosperous life and a good Christian end.
She, miracle workers of the sanctuary! Do not despise our prayers, but awake the presence of us in a dream to the Lord, and grant us with your help to receive eternal salvation and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven; let us glorify the ineffable love of mankind of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, in the Trinity worshiped God for ever and ever. Amen
Prayer for love and family to Great Martyr Barbara
Holy glorious and all-praiseworthy Great Martyr of Christ Barbara!
Gathering today in your Divine temple, people and race of your relics, worshiping and kissing with love, but your suffering is martyr and in their very passionate Christ, who gave you, not just a hedgehog in Him to believe, but also for Him to suffer, with praises gratifying, we pray , known to the desires of our intercessor: pray with us and for us who begs God from His benevolence, may he mercifully hear us asking for His mercy, and will not leave us all the petitions we need for salvation and living, and grant Christian death to our painless belly, not shameful, I will peacefully, I will partake of the Divine Mysteries, and will give His great mercy to everyone in every place, in all sorrow and circumstances that require His love for mankind and help, but by the grace of God and your warm intercession, soul and body always in health, we glorify the wondrous God in His saints Israel, who does not remove His help from us always, now and forever, and forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer for family and love to St. Catherine the Great Martyr
Oh, Saint Catherine, virgin and martyr, the true bride of Christ!
We pray to you, as a special grace, to precede your Bridegroom, Sweetest Jesus, who received: as though you shamed the tormentor's seductions with your wisdom, you conquered fifty twists, and having given them heavenly teachings to the light of true faith, instructed you, so ask God for wisdom too. Yes, and we, too, all the intrigues of the hellish tormentor have been dissolved, but the temptations of the world and the flesh are despised, we deserve to appear Divine glory, and to expand our holy Orthodox faith, let us be worthy to become, and with you in the heavenly tabernacle of the Lord and our Lord Jesus Christ with the Father and the Holy Spirit let us praise and glorify forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer for marriage to Saint Xenia of Petersburg
Oh, holy all-blessed mother Xenia! She who lived under the roof of the Almighty, guided and strengthened by the Mother of God, hunger and thirst, cold and heat, reproach and persecution, who endured the gift of clairvoyance and miracles from God, and you are resting under the shame of the Almighty. Now the Holy Church, like a fragrant flower, glorifies thee. Forthcoming at the place of your burial, in front of your holy image, as if you live with us, we pray to you: accept our petitions and bring them to the Throne of the Merciful Heavenly Father, as if she has boldness to Him.
Seek eternal salvation for those flowing to you, our generous blessing for good deeds and undertakings, deliverance from all troubles and sorrows. Appear with your holy prayers before our All-merciful Savior for us unworthy and sinful.
Help, holy blessed mother Xenia, to illuminate the infants with the light of Holy Baptism and to seal the gift of the Holy Spirit, youths and young women in faith, honesty, fear of God to educate and success in teaching them to bestow; heal the ailing and the ailing, family love and the consent of the descendants, monastics to ascend to asceticism and vindicate the fence from the reproach, affirm the shepherds in the fortress of the Holy Spirit, preserve our people and our country in peace and serenity, pray for those who have been deprived of the Holy Mysteries of Christ at the hour of death.
You are our hope and hope, soon hearing and deliverance, we send thanks to you and with you we glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer to St. Matrona of Moscow in order to improve your personal life
O blessed mother Matrono, with your soul in heaven before the Throne of God, you are in the body, resting on the earth, and with the grace given from above, various miracles emanate.
Consider now your merciful eye on us, sinners, in sorrows, illnesses and sinful temptations your days are dependent, console us, desperate, heal our fierce ailments, from God we are tolerated by our sin, save us from many troubles and situations, pray our Lord Jesus Christ forgive us all our sins, lawlessness and fall, we have sinned from our youth even to the present day and hour, and by your prayers we have received grace and great mercy, we will glorify in the Trinity of the One God, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever. Amen.
O blessed mother Matrono, hear and accept now us, sinners, praying to you, accustomed in all your life to accept and listen to all those who suffer and grieve, with faith and hope to your intercession and help who come running, quick help and miraculous healing serving everyone; May your mercy to us, unworthy, restless in this busy world and nowhere find solace and compassion in the sorrows of the soul and help in bodily illnesses also not fail now: heal our diseases, save from the temptations and torment of the devil, who is passionately at war, help bring your life Cross, bear all the burdens of life and not lose the image of God in it, preserve the Orthodox faith until the end of our days, have strong hope and hope in God and unfeigned love for neighbors; help us, after our departure from this life, to reach the Kingdom of Heaven with all who have pleased God, glorifying the mercy and goodness of the Heavenly Father, in the Trinity glorified, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer for the family of the Great Martyr Paraskeva Friday
O holy and blessed martyr of Christ Paraskevo, virgin beauty, praise of the martyrs, the purity of the image, the magnanimous mirror, the wise wonder, the Christian keeper of the faith, the denunciatory of idols, the Gospel of the Divine champion, the commandments of the Lord to the jealous woman who deserves to be cherished in thy eternal Christ of God, brightly rejoicing, adorned with the augmented crown of virginity and martyrdom! We pray thee, holy martyr, wake up a sorrowful woman for us to Christ God.
Always rejoice with his most blessed sight; pray to the All-Merciful, with the same word open your eyes to the blind, may our scabs, both bodily and spiritual, save us from the disease; kindle with your holy prayers the dark darkness that came from our sins, ask the Father of Light for the light of grace with our soul and body; enlighten us, darkened by sins, with the light of God's grace, so that yours for the sake of holy prayers will be given uncombed sweet sight.
O great saint of God! O most courageous virgin! O mighty martyr, Saint Paraskevo!
With your holy prayers, wake us a sinner helper, intercede and pray for the accursed and utterly negligent sinners, hurry up to help us, for the semes are extremely weak. Pray to the Lord, pure virgin, pray to the Merciful, holy martyr, pray to your Bridegroom, immaculate bride of Christ, with your prayers, help you out of sinful darkness, in the light of true faith and divine deeds, let us enter into the eternal light of the day of the evening, into the city of joy Even now you shine brightly with glory and endless joy, praising and singing with all the Heavenly Forces the Trisagginal One Deity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer for family happiness to Nicholas the Miracle-worker of Mirliki
Oh, all-holy Nicholas, the most splendid of the Lord, our warm intercessor and everywhere in sorrow, an early helper!
Help me, the sinner and the sad in this life, pray to the Lord God with the grants for the forgiveness of all my sins, greatly sinned from my youth, in all my life, in deed, word, thought and all my feelings; and at the end of my soul, help me, the accursed one, pray to the Lord God, all creatures of the Sourer, to save me from airy ordeals and eternal torment: may I always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer to Philaret the Merciful for the family
Troparion, voice 4th
Imitating Abraham in faith, but following Job in patience, Father Philaret, you shared the good land with the poor and you endured their deprivation with courage. For this, for the sake of the bright crown of thee, crowned the Hero of God, Christ our God, whose prayers our souls may be saved.
Kontakion, voice 3rd
Truly all-graded your purchase is seen and the wise being is judged by all the wise: you have given away something that is long and short-lived, seeking the heavenly and the eternal. In the same way and with dignity you have acquired eternal glory, merciful Filaret.
Stanza, voice 2:
Goodness from God is, says the Theologian, and you are from God, merciful Filarete. As if God is, so is your work, a hedgehog of good deeds, the same by nature, yours by the sacrament.
God, Mother of God, saints, St. martyrs - all They wish us only good and help us through fervent prayer, but we should also be grateful and having received help from Them, starting a family, finding your love, do not forget to thank Them from the fullness of your soul.
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Both the bride and the groom are blessed by the parents before the wedding. Wish for a happy and serene life. So that the house has prosperity, comfort, understanding, grace, the kids run around. What prayer to bless your son before the wedding? How to do it right, and when. You will learn all these subtleties in this article.
It is customary to bless a son twice before the wedding. For the first time, the groom's parents give their blessing on the day of the engagement. It is necessary to take the icon, cross the children three times, and wish them a prosperous married life. It is customary to bless even non-believing children.
The second time one should bless the son just before the wedding itself, before the son crosses the threshold to go after the bride.
Blessing process
Attention should be paid not only to prayer, but also to the process itself. Parents should be close to each other so that the son is opposite them. This should be done in a separate room, and without strangers. The father should hold in his hands an icon depicting Jesus Christ. The son kneels down at this. First of all, the father baptizes his son with an icon three times, and passes it on to his mother. She repeats the same thing. The son is baptized and kisses the icon.
Parents can say these words:
“As the church is indestructible and strong, faith is strong and sweet mead, so (the name of the son) and (the name of the bride) were strong and inseparable. Without each other, so that they would not be, they did not live apart a minute or a day from that day from the wedding table, as I read the slander. Amen three times. "
One more words of his son's blessing before the wedding:
- “Dear son, we admonish you to your future family life. We wish you happiness, love, health, family understanding and prosperity. Live in the name of love and goodness. We bless you for a strong family and happy marriage ”!
- “Dear (son's name)! We bless you for a friendly and strong family. Live for the good. Honor and protect your wife. Live in friendship and peace, harmony and love, for the joy of people and happiness for yourself! May there be prosperity and peace in your home, and children's laughter will sound in your family ”!
- “Today we wish you happiness, May God protect you from bad weather and storms, illness, pain and the language of the people, from difficult years and unbearable troubles. And God give you a lot of ardor, passion, love and a lot of happiness!
- “Dear son! We wish you all the best that you desire for yourself. Joy, happy days and health and a lot of nimble kids! Let the sun shine joyfully, prosperity, love, peace and harmony ”!
- “Son (name of son), all earthly blessings to you, peace and prosperity to your home, strong family and prosperity. We wish you happiness and joy, so that the family prosper and the work is in full swing. So that a beautiful wife gives birth to seven heroes, seven handsome men, and daughters for a sight for sore eyes, let the economy run! Take care, respect your wife, love you and happiness!
In the old days, marriages made without parental blessings were considered unhappy. Things are different nowadays. But in fact, it is important for the child that his parents accept his choice, that they will love his wife like their own daughter, and want him good and happiness in family life.
Parental blessing came to the modern world from Christian traditions. After all, the Bible punishes honoring your parents, respecting them and loving them, only then will a person receive such a necessary and important blessing. Only then will he live happily ever after.
So how do you bless your son before marriage? If children respect their own parents, then they will live long and feel no need. The sacrament of the wedding says that the prayer of the parents is the basis and foundation for a happy family life for a child. Therefore, it is imperative to obtain the blessing of the mother and father before entering into a legal marriage and starting a family.
Children have known since time immemorial that it is impossible to build a happy family without parental blessing. Almost no one dared to violate this, because young people were very worried about the appearance of unpleasant consequences.
The blessing is very important for the son, because he will later be the main one in his family. However, now times have completely changed, traditions have become different. Young people do not consider blessing their parents a necessity, they see it as just a formality.
Now many people prefer to live in a civil marriage, get to know each other better, consider the creation of a family to be something not particularly important. In these cases, the young couple may not even inform their parents about it. Only after the girl and the guy live together, they find out the pros and cons of each other, they inform their father and mother about the decision to marry.
Then they decide to get married, and therefore ask their parents for blessings. However, few people know that it is possible to receive a parental blessing in a civil marriage. You just need to understand that it is really required and necessary. Everyone dreams of a happy family life, so that there is prosperity and joy in it, and sorrows are absent. The blessing for the young is very serious. Before the wedding ceremony, parents are obliged to prepare parting words for a happy family life.
What should be the blessing?
There are no hard and fast rules for a parental blessing. You can just follow some generally accepted norms. The bride must first receive a blessing from her father and mother when she informs them that she has decided to marry. The bride should be blessed with an icon Holy Mother of God... After that, two young people should be blessed at once, when the bride goes to get acquainted with the mother and father of the groom with the help of the icon of Jesus Christ.
Parents need to bless their children with the sign of the cross three times and say a prayer, you can use your own words coming from the bottom of your heart. Young people should kneel before their parents and listen to their instructions. They need to kiss the icon at the end. Some during the wedding feast put icons in front of the young, but this is not at all necessary. The icons need to be placed in the corner. Even if the son does not believe in the Lord. The blessing of his parents still works on him.
Blessing ritual
Currently, girls and boys independently choose their partners for relationships and legal marriage. However, at the wedding, everyone dreams of receiving a parental blessing, because this is considered a sacred sacrament for further prosperous family life. Naturally, this is correct, because only parental approval can set the newlyweds in the right mood, give parting words and give self-confidence.
The blessing ritual can be done in many ways.
- An Orthodox blessing must be carried out strictly according to the rules. You should also know that all participants in the ritual must be baptized, and if this is not the case, then you need to cross yourself in advance, and then carry out the ceremony. You also need to purchase icons in advance. They are the main components of the ritual. However, anyway, before carrying out the ritual, you need to talk to the priest and clarify with him all the nuances and rules.
- The modern blessing is currently the most popular. Young people who are not yet ready to seriously marry. Use only a formal blessing. Even people who have not been baptized in the church can do it. You just need to prepare a parting word for parents, and then tell it to the young. After the words have been spoken. Mother and father ask the guests to bless the children for happiness in family life. Further, all guests and young people go to the registry office to register the marriage.
Icons for receiving blessings
V modern world mainly in order to bless children for family life, the icon of Jesus Christ, the Mother of God of Kazan is used.
You need to study them in more detail:
Our Lady of Kazan is the most revered image of all. Since ancient times, she was considered the patroness and intercessor of the whole people. She was miraculous, because many were confident in her strength and ability to save people. It should be noted that it is with the help of this icon that the wedding ceremony is held in the church. She is very important to a woman. Before the icon, one should pray for the conception of a child and the birth of children.
The icon of the Savior Abstainer is also used to bless newlyweds. Before her, one should pray that the young people will be good and happy, that difficult moments in life will not come. She should be addressed so that the bride and groom always have well-being.
At present, it is possible to carry out a blessing with the help of one icon, or two at once. You can buy a fold of these images in the church.
Son's blessing
For a blessing, you will need an icon of the Kazan Mother of God. The father must give this face to the mother, it is considered a very important condition that the mother should hold the towels, because it is not recommended to take the icon with her hands. The father needs to take a loaf and hold it.
Parents must say in turn what they wish for the young, while they must not interrupt each other. It is necessary to pronounce the most simple and understandable parting words for future family life.
After that, the son should be baptized three times and the icon should be brought to him. He should also illuminate the image with the sign of the cross, and then kiss him. If the guy does not have parents, then you should contact your godparents. It is also recommended for young people to use the icon of the Savior Abstainer for the blessing of his parents.
Who should hold what during the ritual?
Usually, children decide to enter into legal marriage mostly unexpectedly for their father and mother. When a celebration is planned and roles are assigned for the blessing, it brings with it difficulties. However, there is absolutely nothing complicated here. There are some options for the distribution of roles:
- the groom's father is holding an icon, and his mother is a loaf;
- the mothers of both young men are holding icons, and the fathers are holding a loaf;
- the mother is holding two icons, and the other is a loaf, the fathers are on the side.
During the ritual, you can use a special prayer for blessing. After reading it, parents should wish the young people something of their own. It is recommended to learn the prayer in advance so as not to be distracted by peeping, and the words can simply be pronounced from the heart.
Keeping icons after the ceremony
After the ritual, it is imperative to give the icons to the newlyweds. They become the first family heirloom. If the young people believe in the Lord and attend church, then the icons should be placed in a red corner, a clean napkin or handkerchief should be placed under them, and then covered with a church towel.
According to the rules of the church, these icons are recommended to be placed on the eastern side of the house in the corner. Candles are placed next to them after the wedding ceremony or a candle that personifies home... There is also a sign that for happiness in family life, you need to light candles on every anniversary once a year.
If the newlyweds are not very religious or there is no red corner in the house, they simply do not have a place where to put holy images, then you need to wrap them in towels and determine a place to store them.
The Lord will surely hear the words that come from a pure heart and are sincere. He will protect the newlyweds from misfortunes and hardships, bring happiness and peace to the house.
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