Children are the main part of our life. Many do not see the point in life without children. They give us strength, make us move forward and not give up.
How to protect a child from the temptations of current realities? Only a prayer. A prayer for the blessing of the children that the mother gives - what can be stronger? Weâll talk about it in more detail.
Who to pray for?
Let's not beat around the bush. Who should I ask for the protection of my beloved children? Of course, the Lord and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Virgin Mary will understand the mother like no other. She is the Mother too.
Seek help from a child guardian angel. Ask the holy saints of God to help him. Who exactly should pray from the saints?
John the Baptist.
Great Martyr Barbara.
In order to raise children in Christian piety, call for help the martyr Sophia.
If a child has a tight training, then Sergius of Radonezh will help. You can ask for help from the wonderworkers of Cosmas and Domian.
So that things go smoothly in the offspringâs society, pray to Mitrofan Voronezh.
For the daughter-bride, for her successful marriage, they pray to the great martyress Catherine, Nicholas the Wonderworker, Filaret the Merciful.
When the baby is sick, ask Paraskeva Friday for help.
Now let's talk more about prayer for the blessing of children.
The Lord is our strength
Of course, we turn to the Savior when we need help. And situations with children are no exception.
A prayer for the blessing of children, a maternal petition for children, will be heard by God if it is sincere and cordial. It is not necessary to think that mutter certain words in front of the icons, and immediately the manna from heaven will fall on the child. God is not a goldfish or a magic wand to fulfill our desires after certain words. Prayer is a dialogue with the Savior. And when we talk with our loved ones, we ask them about something, but we donât mutter under our breath. Like, my child needs this and that. Come on faster, yes I'll go.
No, dear readers. God must be addressed from the bottom of his heart. Especially when it comes to the well-being of children and a request for them.
The text of the prayer looks like this:
Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in prayer for the sake of Thy Most Holy Mother, hear me, sinful and unworthy of Your servant. Lord, in the mercy of Your power my child, have mercy and save him for Your sake. Lord, forgive him all the sins, free and involuntary, committed by him before Thee. Lord, guide him on the true path of Your commandments and enlighten him and enlighten with the light of Christ to save the soul and heal the body. Lord, bless him in the house, near the house, at school, in the field, at work and on the road, and in every place of Your possession. Lord, save him under Your Holy roof from a flying bullet, arrow, knife, sword, poison, fire, flood, from a deadly ulcer (rays of an atom) and from vain death. Lord, protect him from visible and invisible enemies, from all sorts of troubles, evils and misfortunes. Lord, heal him of all sorts of diseases, cleanse him of all filth (wine, tobacco, drugs) and ease his mental suffering and sorrow. Lord, grant him the grace of Your Holy Spirit for many years of life, health and chastity. Lord, multiply and strengthen his mental abilities and bodily powers. Lord, give him Your blessing for a pious family life and pious procreation. Lord, grant me, your unworthy and sinful servant, my parental blessing on my child at the present morning, day, evening and night for Your name's sake, for Your Kingdom is eternal, omnipotent and omnipotent. Amen.
This is one of the prayers for the blessing of children. But such a prayer was made by the Monk Ambrose of Optina. It is short enough, easy to remember:
Lord, You are One all the weight, all you can and everyone wants to be saved and come to the mind of Truth. Reason your children (names) with the knowledge of your truth and your will, holy and strengthen them, walk according to thy commandments and have mercy on me, a sinner.
Mother of God - Mother of Light, Love and Good
The subtitle is a line from a beautiful song. Alas, here we discuss prayers for the blessing of children. Therefore, we will temporarily postpone all the songs and return to our prayer rule.
The Virgin is our Hope. Who, besides Her, will help people? Will protect them from evil and misfortune, will cover them with His Omophor? And being a Mother, how can the Mother of God not hear the mother crying out to her with all her heart? Virgin Mary hears us and helps our children. Just need to ask as it should.
Imagine that we really, really need something. How do we ask? Sometimes with tears, fiery and pleading. So it is here, prayer must be fiery.
The text of this prayer was distributed to believers in the Shuisky monastery. This is the Ivanovo region. He is on a proven Orthodox site. Therefore, you can safely use:
O Blessed Virgin Mary, save and preserve under Your shelter my children (names), all the ladies, ladies and babies, baptized and nameless and worn in the womb. Cover them with the garment of Your motherhood, observe them in the fear of God and in obedience to your parents, beseech my Lord and Your Son, and give them useful things for their salvation. I entrust them to Your Mother's look, for Thou art the Divine Veil of Thy servants. Mother of God, introduce me to the image of your heavenly motherhood. Heal the spiritual and bodily wounds of my children (names), inflicted by my sins. I entrust my child entirely to my Lord Jesus Christ and Yours, the Most Pure, heavenly protection. Amen.
Prayer in front of the icon "Recovery of the dead"
Prayer for the blessing of children must come from the mother. And what happens with us? We only remember God when we understand that the child went downhill. In today's world, where there are almost no authorities, to enter this path is very easy. Just what do parents do? What does it feel for mother: does she understand that she has lost her child? Somewhere indulged too much, somewhere pretended not to notice any deviations from the norm. Or, on the contrary, kept the offspring in too prickly mittens?
What now to talk about it. The child needs help. And before itâs too late, turn to the Virgin for help. Pray before the image of Her "Recovery of the lost." Here is the text of the prayer; an akathist can be purchased at any Orthodox store. It costs from 30 to 50 rubles.
Rejoice, blessed Virgin Mary, in the arms of Your Eternal Infant and God wore. Ask Him to bring peace to our world and salvation to our souls. Your son Bohomati broadcasts to you, as if he will fulfill all your petitions for good. For this sake, we prayerfully and hopefully, and hope that we will not perish, we will call your name: Thou art, Mistress, the recovery of the lost.
To the zealous, zealous, gracious Lord Mati, I have come running to you as a cursed man and, more than anyone, a sinner; Look over the voice of my prayer, and my cry and lament hear. As my iniquity exceeded my head, and as a ship in the abyss, I plunge into the sea of ââmy sins. But You, the All-Benevolent and Merciful Lady, do not despise the desperate and perishing in her sin; have mercy on me repenting of my evil deeds, and turn my lost, repentant soul on the right path. On You, My Lady, Mother of God, I entrust all my hope. You, Mother of God, keep and observe me under Your shelter, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer of both parents
Not only the mother should pray for her children. The father did not pass by, therefore, his prayerful sigh should take place.
There is a prayer of parents for the blessing of children. Sheâs short, easy to remember, both mom and dad of a child can read it:
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, bless, sanctify, preserve my child by the power of the Life-giving Thy Cross.
Prayer to the Guardian Angel
Maternal prayer for the blessing of children is the strongest. The fact that a mother prays plays a significant role. Who, besides her, with such trepidation will begin to pray for children? With love and hope to help them, who will resort to God, the Virgin and the saints of God?
No one will ask as Mom does. It is in her power to help her child prayerfully, turning to the guardian angel of the offspring.
Is the child baptized? Then everything is in order, he has a guardian angel. In the event that the sacrament of baptism over a child was not performed, this section can be skipped.
Holy Guardian Angel to my children (names), covering them with your cover from the arrows of a demon, from the eyes of a seducer and keep their heart in angelic purity. Amen.
Prayer to John the Baptist
Beloved disciple of Christ, who stood at the Cross at the time of the Crucifixion. Jesus Christ instructed his Most Holy Mother.
"Behold your mother ... Behold your son ..." - there, at the Cross, the adoption by the Mother of God of the Christian family took place. And the apostle John was present at the same time, becoming her son.
Maternal prayer for the blessing of her children has extraordinary power. So ask for blessings and help from John the Baptist:
To the Baptist of Christ, a preacher of repentance, repenting not contemptuously, but copulating with the howls of heaven, praying to the Lord for a change that is unworthy, despondent, weak and weak, sad for many misfortunes, bothering with stormy thoughts of my mind: I will never let go of evil have an end to sinful custom; nailed bo is my mind the earthly thing. What shall I create, we shall not, and to whom shall I flee, that my soul may be saved? Tokmo to you, Saint John, name the grace, as before the Lord, according to the Mother of God, all were born more than you, for you were able to touch the top of the King of Christ, the uprising of the sins of the world, the Lamb of God: Blessed be my prayer for my sinful soul, now from now on , in the first ten hours, I will bear a good burden and accept bribes from the latter. To her, the Baptist of Christ, the honest Forerunner, the last prophet, the first in grace martyr, fasters and hermits, a mentor, purity to the teacher and close friend of Christ, I beg you, I resort to you, do not reject me from your intercession, but repent of me, having suffered many sins; renew my soul by repentance, as if by the second baptism, beware of both the chief of you: by washing with sin by baptism, but preaching repentance in purification of every evil work; cleanse me with the sins of the defiled ones and compel them to stand in; to me, nothing is badly entering, into the kingdom of heaven. Amen.
Great Martyr Barbara
Is it possible to read a prayer for the blessing of children for a wedding before the image of the Great Martyr Barbara? No. It is better to bless them with the icons of the Savior and the Mother of God. And to contact St. Barbara in other situations.
How to do it? Yes, here is a prayer, read and ask:
Holy glorious and all-holy Great Martyr of Christ Varvaro! Meetings today in your temple, the Divine people and the race of your relics worshiping and kissing with love, your suffering is martyr and in their Samago the martyr of Christ, giving you not hedgehog to believe in Him, but also a hedgehog for Him to suffer, we praise with compassion , known for the desire of our intercessor: pray with us and for us we implore from His grace of God, may he graciously hear us asking for His blessing, and he will not leave us all for salvation and life, needing petition, and grant Christian death to our belly without pain, I am ashamed, peaceful, involved in the Divine Mysteries, and will give His great mercy to everyone in every place, in all sorrow and conditions that require His humanity and help, and bless the grace of God and your warm representation, soul and body, glorify wondrous saints His God of Israel, not removing His help from us always, now and evermore and forevermore. Amen.
Prayer to the Martyr Sofia
Do you want your children to be pious and love the Lord? Ask for help from the martyr Sophia.
This saint is known for instilling love for Christ and ardent faith in him to her three daughters - Faith, hope and Love. Little girls, the eldest of whom were barely 12 years old, preferred cruel torment and death, but did not renounce Christ when they were tortured and tortured. What strength of spirit must children have to endure torture? And what did their mother feel when they looked at the suffering of their children?
She, being a pious mother and having managed to raise her daughters in piety, will help those who sincerely ask for her children.
Oh, the long-suffering and wise great martyr of Christ, Sophia! You stand before the soul of heaven at the throne of God, but on the earth that was given to you by grace, various healing is done: look upon you graciously for the coming people and praying before your relics, asking for your help: open your holy prayers for us to the Lord, and ask us to leave our sins, ill-healing, afflicted and destitute ambulances: pray to the Lord, may He give us all a Christian demise and a good answer at His Last Judgment, may we also be merciful to you and glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer to Sergius of Radonezh
Is the child tight with school? Prayer (blessing) of the mother to the children at school, addressed to the Monk Sergius of Radonezh, will help the children gnaw at the granite of science.
Why exactly Sergius? As a child, he himself suffered from problems with his studies. The letter was not given to him, and thatâs it. The lad was pious, very worried about his defeats in his studies. Once, having secluded himself, he prayed intensely to God, asking Him for help in teaching. Suddenly, an old man appeared in front of the lad. The future reverend honestly told him about his misfortune. The elder blessed Bartholomew (the name of the reverend at birth), saying that from now on his academic performance would improve, and study would be easy. And so it happened.
Pious pupils and students living in Moscow and Moscow Region travel to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra to venerate the relics of the saint. And ask him for help with studies. Knowing all her difficulties, he will understand the asker.
It is not always possible to go to the laurel. But we can also pray at home, before the image of the reverend:
Oh, sacred head, our Father reverend and God-bearing God, by your prayer, and by faith and love, even to God, and by the purity of heart, even on earth to the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, having arranged your soul, and made angelic communication and the Most Holy Theotokos to visit, and give receiving miraculous grace, but after your departure from earthly things to God, he who was approaching and joined the heavenly forces, but didnât back away from us with your love spirit, and your honest power, like a vessel of grace full and overflowing, leaving us! Having been bold to the Merciful Master, pray to save His servants, who are in you the grace of His believer and flowing to you with love. Ask us from the Great God of God for every gift that is beneficial to all and for all: faithful vigilance, peace, affirmation of peace, deliverance from invasion and destruction, saving from invasion of the aliens, sorrowful comfort, non-frightening healing, fallen restoration, deluded on the path of truth and salvation return, laboring strengthening, benefiting in the cause of good, success and blessing, infant education, young instruction, ignorant admonition, orphans and widows' intercession, departing from this time but living to the eternal good preparation and parting, departed blissful repose, and all of us hastening with your prayers, bless the shuiya of the part of us on the day of the Last Judgment, but the gums of the country, communes of life and the blessed voice of the Lord Christ hear: âCome, bless my Fatherâs blessings to you the Kingdom from the foundation of the world. â Amen.
Here is a prayer for the blessing of children, for successful study and overcoming difficulties in it.
Prayer to Cosme and Damian
They are prayed when a child has problems with physical and mental health. Ask for help from the holy healers in this case:
O miracle workers of glory, a doctor of apathy, Cosmo and Damian! You, from the youth of Christ the beloved of God, did not heal only tokmo art, but moreover, the gracious grace of healing all sorts of ailments from God was naturally received. The same and us, before the honest icon of your people, you will soon hear. Young children, your help in teaching asking for prayers, instruct with your prayers, but they will earnestly earnestly and earnestly receive your life, and moreover, in piety and righteous faith they continually rejoice. On the bed of sickness lying, in despairing humanity of help, warming up to you with faith and earnest prayer, heal your illnesses with your gracious miraculous visit, grant: also from severe illnesses in despondency, cowardice and murmuring of the person who came from God, giving you grace in patience and instruct, that they may understand God's will, perfect and holy, from them, and God's partakers will be made God's saving grace. All those who are assiduously resorting to you, keep harmless from the diseases of fierce ones, and protect from sudden death, and with your powerful intercession to God in the right faith, keep firm, but piety for your piety, and together with you in the future we will be honored to praise and glorify the Almighty and the magnificent Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer to Mitrofan of Voronezh
Is there a short prayer for the blessing of children? Yes, you can just cross the child before he leaves the house and ask God to protect and protect the child from all evil.
When to pray to Mitrofan Voronezh? This is clearly not a brief prayer. They pray to the Voronezh miracle worker when children have problems in society.
Hierarch Father Mitrofane, incorruptible of your honest relics and many good deeds, miraculously done and done by you, flowing to you in faith, believing that we have great grace in the Lord our God, we all humble ourselves and pray to you: pray for us Christ our God, bless to all who honor your holy memory and zealously resorting to you, His rich mercy: may He affirm in His Holy Orthodox Church the living spirit of right faith and piety, the spirit of knowledge and love, the spirit of peace and joy about the Holy Spirit, and all its members be pure from worldly temptations and carnal lusts and the evil of the evil spirits, with spirit and truth worship Him and assiduously care for His commandments for the salvation of their souls. Shepherd her will give holy zeal of care for the salvation of people who are entrusted to them, and that they will enlighten unbelievers, who will instruct the ignorant, who will doubt and certify those who have fallen from the Orthodox Church, will be converted to holy bowels, believers will be kept in faith, sinners will be moved to repentance, repented will be comforted and strengthened in the correction of life, those who have repented and have been corrected will be confirmed in the sanctity of life: and they will bring all these in the manner indicated by Him into the prepared eternal Kingdom of His saints. To her, the saint of God, may all your good things be arranged with your prayers to our souls and our bodies: yes, and we will glorify the Lord and our God, Jesus Christ, Him and the Father and the Holy Spirit, in glory and power in our souls and in our bodies forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer Paraskeva Friday
They turn to the holy martyr when the decks start to hurt. What is Paraskeva famous for?
She was born into a family of wealthy and pious people. They had the fear of God and especially revered Friday. On this day the Savior was crucified. So the daughter Paraskeva was called (from Greek - Friday).
The damsel was orphaned early. She, like her parents, was pious. The state received from them was spent on help and food for the poor. In addition, Paraskeva was distinguished by its extraordinary beauty. But she didnât even look towards the young people, being overcome by love for God.
The wicked pagan emperor found out about this. At his command, the saint was mocked for a long time, forcing her to renounce Christ. But the tormentors did not achieve anything. And then the angry emperor ordered the girl to be cut off. So the martyr died, having won a crown of glory.
Oh, holy and blessed martyr of Christ Paraskevo, beautiful virgin, martyrs praised, purity of image, generous grains, wise wonder, faith of the Christian keeper, idolish flattery of the accuser, gospel of the Divine protector, commandment of the Lord to the zealot, blessed to come to God Your Christ God lightly having fun, decorated with a pure crown of virginity and martyrdom! We pray to you, holy martyr, be a sad woman for us to Christ God, with His most blissful eyes, in particular, have fun. Moths of the All-Merciful One, with his eyes a blind opening to his eyes, may our tufts, bodily and spiritual, deliver us from the disease; kindle with your holy prayers the dark gloom that has come from our sins, ask the Father of Light for the light of grace with our soulful and bodily comb; enlighten us, clouded by sins, with the light of God's grace, but for your holy prayers, sweet sight will be given to those who are unholy. Oh, great saint of God! Oh, courageous maiden! Oh, strong martyr Saint Paraskevo! With your holy prayers, be our helper for sinners, intercede and pray for the cursed and vigilant negligent sinners, speed up our help, for Esma is weak. The prayers of the Lord, pure maiden, pray the Merciful, holy martyr, pray the bridegroom, the virgin Christâs bride, who helped with your prayers, but the darkness of sinful abundance, in the light of true faith and the work of the Divine, let us ever see the light of eternity, in the midst of joyfulness At the same time, now you are shining brightly with glory and endless merriment, glorifying and singing with all the heavenly powers the Tri-sanctified One Deity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever. Amen.
Prayer to the Great Martyr Catherine
So we got to prayer for the blessing of children for marriage. St. Catherine pray that the girl is well married.
The great martyr Catherine was very beautiful and educated during her lifetime. Many wooed her. But the girl rejected all the suitors. She wanted to find someone who would suit her in reason and beauty.
Once Catherine had a dream. She saw Christ himself, who refused to look at the girl. Waking up, the future great martyr decides to be baptized. So she became a Christian.
After the sacrament was performed, the saint again saw the Savior in a dream. This time He looked affectionately at her. And he held out the ring. Jesus Christ became the bridegroom that the maiden dreamed of.
She mistook death for faith. The saint was tortured for a long time, but she not only did not refuse God, but continued to praise him.
Parents' prayers for the blessing of children (for marriage) will reach the saint if they begin to ask her for help from the bottom of their hearts:
O St. Catherine, the virgin and the martyr, the true bride of Christ! We pray thee, as a special grace, even before it, thy Bridegroom, Sweetest Jesus, who received: even having disgraced the tormentor of your tormentor with your wisdom, you have overcome fifty wisdom, and having given them heavenly teaching to light the true faith instructed you, so ask God and us. Yes, and we, all the machinations of the hellish tormentor, have been dissolved, but the temptations have been despised of the world and the flesh, we will be worthy of Divine glory, and we will make worthy vessels to expand our holy Orthodox faith, and with you in the heavenly tabernacle of the Lord and our Lord Jesus Christ with O we praise and glorify the Holy Spirit and glorify it forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer to Nicholas the Pleasant
One of the favorite saints of the Russian people. Who are we running to with all troubles and tribulations? Who are we asking for help from? Of course, with St. Nicholas, the World of the Lycian Wonderworker.
Well, let's pray to him that our daughters marry, being chaste, and their husbands get loving and kind:
O, all-holy Nicholas, the servant of the most excellent Lord, our warm intercessor and everywhere in sorrow quick helper! Help me, a sinful and despondent in a real life, implored the Lord God to grant the forgiveness of all my sins, which have sinned from my youth, in all my life, deed, word, thought and all my feelings; and at the end of my soul, help me, cursed, beseech the Lord God, all the creatures of the Sodetel, to deliver me the air ordeals and eternal torment: yes, I always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your gracious intercession, now and ever and ever and ever. Amen.
Morning prayer
Is there a morning prayer for the blessing of children? Of course, and in all the Christian prayer books of the country. This is a joke, if that. But such a prayer actually exists in any Orthodox prayer book. It is about the health of others, and read at the very end of the morning rule:
God save and have mercy on my spiritual father (name), parents (names), relatives (names), superiors, mentors, benefactors.
The children here are relatives. Their names are listed immediately after the parent.
Prayer after the blessing of the child
Someone will be surprised: does such one exist? Yes, there is one. Only we will not give it. And do not blame us for greed. The point here is that this prayer comes from the motherâs heart. And what words live in it, we do not know.
Do you know the parable about the power of maternal prayer? As three girlfriends walked along the railroad tracks and ended up between two oncoming trains. Survived, to each other's surprise. And the demons that lay in wait for the girls began to scold each other. One shouts to the other: "Why were you inactive?" To which he replies that the girl read a prayer. Flew into the second. And he has one answer: "The cross was on it." We stuck to the third: "Are you not ashamed? Your ward does not believe in God." But the evil one spread his paws: âShe doesnât believe, but her mother crossed her path and said:â Go with God. â
Even if the sign of the cross and three words so protect the child, then imagine what a motherly prayer can do?
Your child leaves the house, cross him in the back. Ask God for help to protect the child from the troubles and evil that might happen to him along the way.
Did the lad go to school? Cross and ask Sergius of Radonezh to help him. But God has protection.
Prayer in the temple
How to pray for your children while in church? Be sure to submit notes. Ideally, custom-made. But if this is not possible, then you can write simple ones.
Buy the most inexpensive candles, if there is no money for others. Put before the image of the Savior and the Virgin Mary. Pray in your own words about the child. Ask for cover and protection over it. Ask God to protect the child from the temptations of the modern world. To save him, He led to salvation by His own ways. And ask the Mother of God that with her holy prayers She will protect your offspring from adversity. Took him under her cover. She covered Her omophorion.
Pray before the image of the saint in whose honor the child is named. Ask him not to leave the child in trouble. He helped him in everything, protected him with his cover and prayed to God for the salvation of his soul.
Ideally, to teach a child from an early age to attend the temple of God. Proceed to the sacraments of confession and communion. Then there will be less problems, the church-child will be more careful about his soul. Not seeking to throw her all sorts of nasty things.
As you know, ideals are rarely achievable. We ourselves do not go to the temple most often. We run around to put candles, and even then rarely. Children take an example from us. Therefore, we will not forget to at least pray for them, since our children are not accustomed to the temple.
Conclusion
We talked about maternal prayer for the blessing of our children. The article told in detail when, to whom and in what cases to pray for a child. They brought the texts of prayers, briefly talked about those or other saints from whom we ask for help.
Children are our future. They are the main, and we are already in second place. And it is our responsibility to pray for the children that the Lord gives.