We are all lazy and discouraged. There is no such person who is unfamiliar with the state of relaxation. Reluctant to do anything, just lay and read books. Or, he watched TV.
This is a state of laziness. Is there a prayer for deliverance from laziness? Yes, and this article will tell. A prayer of despondency? We will also talk about this in detail in the article.
What is laziness
Laziness is the daughter of despondency. Rev. Ambrose of Optina spoke about this. A lazy person does not want to work at all, preferring to replace labor with entertainment. If he has to work, he does it through his sleeves. At the first opportunity, he takes off from labor.
Is there an Orthodox prayer from laziness? Let us not forget that laziness is a temptation. How to deal with it? By labor. Laziness attacks, overpower yourself. No desire, for example, to clean the house? Instead, you want to watch a movie? Get up urgently, pick up the mop and start cleaning. At the same time, pray. Say Jesus Prayer:
Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me a sinner / sinner
Let us reveal the secret: in monasteries, when the monks are engaged in physical labor, they must constantly say this prayer. Jesus prayer allows you to keep your mind collected and not relax. All our laziness comes from a relaxed mind.
What is despondency
Despondency is the mother of laziness and the grandmother of boredom. These are the words of Father Ambrose Optinsky. If we define this condition, then despondency is apathy, in which a person is not interested in what is happening around him. He does not want to do anything, a depressed state. External relaxation is complete: I would lie on the couch and lay myself. Not only work, but also reluctance to have fun.
Is there an Orthodox prayer from laziness and despondency? First of all, this is Jesus prayer. We talked about it above. Given the fact that laziness and despondency are temptations, one can read the rule of St. Ambrose of Optina. This rule is read during temptations.
The rule of Ambrose Optinsky
Before we give a prayer of laziness and despondency, let's talk a little about the elder Ambrose.
One of the great Optina Elders. The future schemnik was born in 1812. The family was pious: the grandfather of the newborn was a priest, his father was a priest.
The family was large, Sasha Grenkov (worldly name) - the sixth of eight children.
He graduated from the Tambov Theological College. He studied at the Tambov Academy.
He suffered a long illness. He made a vow: if he recovers, he will be tonsured a monk.
In October 1839 he went to Optina Desert near Kaluga. There he was received by Leo Optinsky.
In December 1845 he was ordained a hieromonk. Soon he was tonsured to the Great Schema.
The great elder went to the Lord in 1891. He left a lot of spiritual usefulness after himself. And the rule from temptations is one of the spiritual legacies of the Monk Ambrose:
Psalm 36: Do not be jealous of the crafty; Zane, like the grass will soon die out, as the potion of cereal will soon fall away. Trust in the Lord and do alms, and inhabit the earth, and be guarded in its riches. Enjoy the Lord, and give these petitions of your heart. Open your way to the Lord and trust in him, and he will create: and he will bring forth, like the light, your righteousness and your destiny, like noon. Obey the Lord and beseech him. Do not be jealous of the person who sleeps on his way, a person who creates a crime. Stop from anger and leave rage, do not be jealous of the hedgehog. They will be required of the crafty one, those who endure the Lord, these will inherit the earth. And there is still not enough, and there will be no sinner, and his place is sought after, and not fallen. The Krottsi will inherit the earth and enjoy the multitude of the world. The sinful righteous one is brewing and gnashing his teeth with his teeth. The Lord laughed at him, regained his sight, for his day was coming. Mark the wicked sinner, bending his bow, put down the wretched and the poor, cover with the right heart. Let their mark enter their hearts, and let their rays be afflicted. Better is a little to the righteous, more than the wealth of sinners is many. The muscles of sinners will be afflicted before, but the righteous Lord affirms. The message of the Lord is the way of the immaculate, and their inheritance will be in the age. They will not be ashamed during the fierce, and in the afternoon the gladness will be satisfied, as sinners will perish. Defeat the Lord, glorify him mercifully and ascend, vanishing as the smoke disappeared. He will take a sinful earth and will not return; the righteous one is generous and gives. For His blessings will inherit the earth, but His captives will be needed. From the Lord, man's feet are corrected, and his paths will be delighted with evil. If it falls, it will not break, for the Lord strengthens his hand. The youngest of them, for he has grown old, and not the sight of the righteous is left, asking for bread below his seed. The whole day is merciful and mutual gives the righteous, and his seed will be for blessing. Evade from evil and do good, and enter into the age of the century. As the Lord loves judgment and will not leave His reverends, they will be preserved forever. But the transgressors will be wiped out, and the seed of the wicked will be needed. The righteous will inherit the earth and inhabit the age of a century on it. The lips of the righteous will learn wisdom, and his tongue will be chosen by the court. The law of his God is in his heart, and his feet do not stumble. He considers the sinful righteous one and seeks the hedgehog to put him to death. The Lord will not leave him in his hand, he will condemn him below, he will always judge him. Have patience with the Lord and keep His way, and he will exalt the hedgehog, hedgehogs be consumed forever by the sinner. Videh the wicked is exalted and towering, like the cedars of Lebanon. And by the idoh, and behold, and his seeking, and his place was not found. Keep kindness and see the truth, as there is a remnant to a man of peace. But the transgressors will be needed together: the remnants of the wicked will be needed. The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord, and their Protector is during tribulation. And the Lord will help them, and deliver them, and the sinner will take them from them, and save them, as you trust him.
Psalm 26: Lord is my enlightenment and my Savior, whom shall I be afraid of? Lord Protector of my stomach, from whom shall I fear? Always approach me vicious, hedgehog to tear down my flesh, insulting me and defeat me, these are exhausted and mean. Asche will gang up on my regiment, my heart will not be afraid, ashe will rise up on me, I hope in him. I ask one of the Lord, I will seek: if I live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, see with me the beauty of the Lord and visit His holy temple. Like I hid me in His village on the day of my evils, covered me in the secret of His village, I lifted me up on a stone. And now, behold, I have lifted up my head against my enemies: I have run dry and burned in the village His sacrifice of praise and exclamation, I sing and sing the Lord. Hear, Lord, my voice, even the cry: Have mercy on me and hear me. You speak my heart, I will seek the Lord. I seek your face, thy face, Lord, I will seek. Thou shalt not turn Your face away from me, and do not deviate with anger from Thy servant: Wake up my helper, do not reject me, and do not leave me, O God my Savior. Like my father and my mother left me, the Lord will accept me. By law, O Lord, in Thy way, and instruct me in the path of my right enemy. Do not foretell me into the souls of those who are cold, as if you were bearing witness to me as a witness to unrighteousness, and a lie is not true to yourself. I believe you see the good Lord on the living land. Have patience with the Lord, take courage, and let your heart be strengthened, and have patience with the Lord.
Psalm 90: Alive in the help of the Most High, in the blood of God God of heaven will be established. The Lord speaks: Thou my protector and my refuge, my God, and I trust in him. Like Toy, he will deliver the cha from the net of prey, and from the word rebellious, His shoulders will overshadow the cha, and under His krill hope: the truth will pass by the weapons of thy. Not afraid of the fear of the night, of the arrow flying in the days, of the thing in the darkness of the passing, of the shaking, and the demon of the midday. Thousand will fall from your country, and right at your right hand, it will not come nearer to you, both of you will watch your eyes, and you will see the reward of sinners. For thou, O Lord, my hope, the Most High has laid thy refuge. Evil will not come to you, and the wound will not come near your body, as if by His angel a commandment about you, save thee in all your journeys. Tha will be raised in your arms, and not when you clasp your foot on a stone, step on an asp and a basilisk, and cross a lion and a serpent. For I trust in Me, and I will deliver it: I will cover it and, for My name is known. He will call to me, and I will hear him: with him I am in grief, I will destroy him, and I will glorify him, for the longest days I will fulfill him, and I will show him my salvation.
Psalm 39: Bearing, the suffering of the Lord, and they heare me, and hearing my prayer. And raise me up from the moat of passions, and from the shaving of mud, and put my nose on the stone, and correct my feet, and put in my mouth a new song, singing to our God. They will see the Mnosis, and they will be afraid, and they trust in the Lord. Blessed is the husband, he also has the name of the Lord his hope, and is not false to fuss and fury, false. Thou hast done thou art, O Lord, my God, your miracles, and by your thinking there is no one who is likened to you. Heralded and verbs, multiplying more than numbers. Thou shalt not thirst for sacrifice and offerings, but the body performed mi thou, burnt offerings, and hath not sought for sin. Then reh: se priidu, in the head of the book there is written about me: hedgehog do your will, my God, delight, and your law in the midst of my womb. The gospel of truth in the great church, I will not forbid to my mouth: Lord, thou hast understood. Thy righteousness is not hidden in my heart, Thy truth and Thy salvation is not, thy mercy and thy truth are not hidden from the host of many. You, Lord, do not remove Your bounty from me: Thy mercy and Thy truth be removed, and intercede me. It’s like I’m possessing an evil one, there’s not even a number, comprehending my iniquity, and not being able to mature, I’ll multiply more than the hair of my head, and leave my heart. Thank God, deliver me: Lord, in the hedgehog, help me out. May they be ashamed and put to shame, together with those seeking my soul to withdraw, may they come back and be ashamed of those who want evil. Yes, they will accept their abie studios with the words: blessed, blessed. May all who seek thee rejoice and rejoice in thee, O Lord, and may you take it out: may the Lord be exalted, in loving thy salvation. But I am poor and wretched; the Lord will take care of me. My helper and my Protector if you, my God, do not touch.
Martyr Alexander of Rome
Did you know that there is a prayer from laziness to Alexander - the Roman martyr? We will publish it here. Just before we tell a little about this saint.
He was a Roman warrior, lived during the time of Emperor Maximian. That is, it is the 4th century. The pagan emperor issued a decree that every resident of Rome should come to the temple of the god Zeus and offer him a sacrifice. The future martyr refused to do this. For which he underwent severe suffering. Repeatedly appeared to this very young Christian angel and strengthened him.
The warrior who was to execute the sentence and cut off the head of the holy martyr did not dare to do so. For he saw angels who came for the soul of Alexander. According to the prayers of the martyr Alexander, the angels became invisible to the warrior. He carried out the sentence.
The body of the saint was dumped into the river. But the dogs took him out of there. Four dogs did not allow anyone to approach the remains of the righteous. Only his mother was allowed to come and take his son's body. Mother buried the holy martyr Alexander. And miracles began to happen at his tomb.
Is there a prayer for laziness? Yes, when there is no urine at all, and the soul is empty, pray to the holy martyr Alexander of Rome.
Prayer to Alexander of Rome
How to pray In your own words, or what kind of prayer is there? There is a prayer to Alexander Roman from laziness. We provide its text below:
"Lord Jesus Christ, have heeded Thy servant who is suffering for Your name, and give Thy grace; may, where my memory be honored, miraculously heal the sick for the glory of Thy name." In the vale of earth we are tormented by many sorrows, cramped with misfortunes, God save and have mercy on my spiritual father (his name), and forgive my sins with his holy prayers. Bow. Save, Lord, and have mercy on my parent (their names), brotherhood and sisters, and my kindred according to the flesh, and all the neighbors of my kind, and others, and grant them Your peace and premium blessings. Worship. Save, Lord, and have mercy on the elders and young, beggars, and orphans, and widows, and creatures in illness and in sorrows, troubles and sorrows, conditions and captives, dungeons and imprisonments, pretty much in persecution, For the sake of the Orthodox faith, from the language of the godless, from apostates, from heretics, the being of your slave, and remember me, visit, strengthen, comfort, and soon by your strength weaken, freedom, and deliver them to press. Bow. Save, Go on, and have mercy on the sending of service, traveling, fathers and our brethren, and all Orthodox Christians. Bow. Save, Lord, and have mercy on them the same as my temptations with madness, and from the way of salvation turn me away, to evil and unseemly merits; By your Divine Providence, return the packs to the path of salvation. Save, Lord, and have mercy on those who hate and offend me, and do misfortunes by us, and do not leave them to die for the sake of a sinner. I bow. Departed from the Orthodox faith and blinded by heresies, enlighten and bring Your Holy Apostolic Council Church. Bow. Amen!
If sorrow strangles
Above, we talked about prayer from laziness and despondency, which is read during temptation. And they introduced the rule of St. Ambrose of Optina.
Do you know that despondency can arise from grief? For example, when a person is very afraid of something. He is grieving and discouraged. On the one hand, it is a temptation. On the other hand, there is temptation and sorrow.
How to deal with sorrows? Only prayer, otherwise nothing. They will attack and strangle. Such thoughts will come to mind that you want to climb the wall. They harass the minds of people, severely harass. Give them only the will, and they will begin to pester a person, push him to something bad, and lead him into despondency.
We will not succumb to provocations. Christians have one defense - prayer. We have already talked about prayer from laziness. Now it is time to reveal the rule of the Monk Ambrose of Optina, which is read during tribulations.
The rule read during tribulation
When the soul is bad, laziness overcame, but until the gloom until it came down, read this rule. Turn to God with all your heart, ask for help. The Lord rules us, so ask Him to control our life.
Psalm 3: Lord, what are you multiplying with those who are cold? Mnosi stand on me, Mnosi speaks of my soul: there is no salvation for him in his Bose. Thou, Lord, my Protector, my glory, and exalt my head. I cried out to my Lord with a voice, and hearing my holy thing from the mountain. Az has fallen asleep, and smell, woes, for the Lord will intercede for me. I will not be afraid of those people around me attacking. Resurrect, Lord, save me, my God, as if you struck thou art all warring with me in vain: the teeth of sinners crushed ecu. The Lord is salvation, and Your blessing be upon Your people.
Psalm 53: God, in Thy Name save me, and in Thy power judge me. God, hear my prayer, inspire the verbs of my mouth. Like the stranger strangers to me and to the fortress, I have sought my soul, and you have not offered God before me. God is helping me, and the Lord is the intercessor of my soul. He will turn away the evil enemy of mine, Thy truth consume them. I will devour you, we will confess your name, Lord, as it’s good, because I have delivered me from all sorrow, and my eyes look upon my enemies.
Psalm 58: Kill me from my enemy, God, and deliver me from those who are on my side. Deliver me from those who do lawlessness, and save me from the man of blood. Like catching my soul, attacking my fortresses, below my iniquity, below my sin, Lord. Without lawlessness flowed and fixed, wander in my sight and see. And you, Lord God of forces, God of Israel, visit all languages, so that you don’t endure all doing lawlessness. They will come back for the evening and will hang up, like a dog, and hail will go by. The networks open their mouths, and the sword in their mouths, like whoever hears? And you, Lord, laughing at them, destroy all tongues. I will keep my power unto Thee, for Thou, God, you are my Intercessor. My God, His mercy will be foreseen by me, My God, will reveal to me in a mess of mine. Thou shalt not kill them, and not when they forget Thy law, I shall squander Thy strength, and bring down I, O my Protector, Lord. The sin of their mouth, the word of their mouth, and let them be in their pride, and from the oath and lies will be announced in the end. In the wrath of demise, they will not even be led away, for God is sovereign in Jacob and the ends of the earth. They will return for the evening, and they will hang up like a dog, and hail will go by. Tii will burst into rags. If they don’t get enough, they will scatter. But I will sing thy strength and rejoice the morning of thy mercy, as though I were my guardian and my refuge on the day of my sorrow. Thou art my helper, I sing unto thee: as though God my helper are thou, my God, my mercy.
Psalm 142: Lord, hear my prayer, inspire my prayer in Thy truth, hear me in Thy righteousness, and do not go to court with Thy servant, since all living things are not justified before You. It’s like a chase is an enemy of my soul, I humbled eating my stomach in the earth, planted me in dark, like dead ages. And my spirit is in me, my heart is crushed in me. I recall the days of old, who have learned in all your affairs, in thy hand will learn. I have ascended to you my hand, my soul, like the land of water to you. Soon hear me, Lord, my spirit will disappear, do not turn Your face away from me, and I will become like a congregant in a ditch. Heard me thy mercy the next morning, as though I were on you. Tell me, Lord, I’ll go the way in a lesser way, for I have taken my soul to You. Take me from my enemy, Lord, to thee. Teach me to do Thy will, for Thou art my God. Your Good Spirit will guide me to the land of law. For thy name's sake, Lord, live me, by thy righteousness, bring forth my soul from grief. And your mercy will be consumed by my enemies, and destroy all the tormenting souls of mine, as I am thy servant.
Psalm 101: Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to thee. Thou shalt not turn Your face away from me: I stink more sorely the day, and bend thy ear to me: I sternly invoke Thee bitterly the day, soon hear me. As if vanishing like the smoke of my days, and my bones as if drying dried. Bykh is sick like grass, and from above my heart, like forgotten to carry my bread. From the voice of my gasp, my bone is my flesh. Similar to the owl as a desert, they were like a night-old lizard in diving. Bdeh and bykh like a bird special in the zde. All day I swindle my smash, and I praise me swearing. Zane ash like bread poison, and my drink with weeping solutions. From the face of Thy wrath and Thy fury: it was as though he had exalted overthrow me. My days are like a canopy shying away, and as a hay I dried out. Thou, Lord, abide throughout the ages, and Thy memory be in generation and generation. You have risen the henchings of Zion, for it is time to hedge him, for you have come time. Like Thy kind servants Thy stone are his, and his finger will heal. And the Gentiles will be afraid of the name of the Lord, and all the king of Zemstvos will be Your glory. For the Lord will build Zion, and appear in his glory. Behold the prayer of the humble, and do not destroy their prayers. May these things be written into the race of the people, and the people of Zijemia will praise the Lord. As if you sacrificed from His high place, the Lord, from heaven to heaven, to hear a ghost, hear the sigh of those bound, let the sons of the mortified, proclaim the Name of the Lord in Zion, and His praise in Jerusalem: gather together forever, and the king, the hedgehog of the Lord's work. Revealing to him on the way of his fortress: the diminution of my days to erect with me. Thou shalt not raise me up in the preparation of my days: Thy kind of summers are in the genera. In the beginning, thou, O Lord, thou hast founded the earth, and Thy hand is the essence of heaven. They will perish, but you abide: and all, as a robe, are worn out, and like clothes I have changed, I will change. Thou art Thou, and thy summers shall not be impoverished. Thy servant shall dwell in the son, and their seed shall be repaired in a century.
The Benefits of the Psalms
Monk Trofim, Optina New Martyr, said that the Psalter has special power. It happens that the soul is gloomy and gray-gloomy outside the window. You start to lose heart, take the Psalter in your hands. And just starting to read, the soul becomes so good. You look out the window, and there the sun appeared.
Demons are afraid of the Psalms, like fire. This book burns them. Is laziness and despondency striking? The best prayer from laziness is reading the Psalms.
How to read it? The psalm is made up of kathisma. There are twenty of them. Each kafisma, in turn, is divided into three glories. The Christian is ordered to read one Kathisma a day. Glory to the living relatives, glory to the departed and the third glory to all living benefactors, superiors, mentors, spiritually close people.
If you don’t have the strength or time to read all of kathisma, read two glories. Remember the living and deceased loved ones.
At first, the Psalter is very difficult to read. It seems incomprehensible, complex and strange. Nothing, keep reading. Over time, everything will fall into place and become clear.
If there is no way to read, then listen. Full Psalter in this video:
How to force yourself to work
When we are lazy, we harm our own souls. Of course, someone will object that it is also necessary to rest. Undoubtedly. But when rest turns into the main activity, and little time is given to labor - this is laziness.
Have you come to work? Do not be lazy and do not relax. Do your job properly. We are not working for the boss. We will give the answer for our work before God himself.
And what happens with us? Especially for those who work at the computer at the office? They came to work, brewed tea for themselves, and gossiped with a colleague. It seems we work, only on the Internet we are distracted by periods. And then lunch time came up. They ate, talked with colleagues. Again we work intermittently. Looking - and the day flew by. And did not have much.
Familiar situation? No, no, but it does arise. How to fix it? After all, at work there is no way to read a prayer from laziness.
Why not? Very much there. A hand reaches for the Internet icon, and then mentally say Jesus' prayer. This is a matter of seconds, and its benefits are enormous.
Or do things at home. But at work, it was such a difficult week that I wanted to lie down and lie with my book and goodies in my arms. Give yourself a rest, lie down for an hour and a half. And then get up off the couch. Pray, read the kathisma Psalms, or pray Jesus. And get to work.
Summarize
In the article, we talked about prayer from laziness. They brought the texts of the rule of St. Ambrose of Optina. They gave a prayer to the martyr Alexander of Rome.
We outline the main aspects:
- Laziness and despondency are sinful states. Sin is treated by labor and prayer.
- Sometimes you have to get yourself into business.
- When there is no strength at all, there is spiritual and physical relaxation, read the Psalm. Very strong protection for the soul.
- In case of sorrow they read the rule from the sorrow of Ambrosius of Optina.
- When you have to lose heart, read the rule from the gloom of Ambrose Optinsky.
And most importantly - remember the old adage: business is time, fun is an hour.