The endemic disease that engulfed young people came not so long ago. About thirty years ago. Why is the disease? Because a person is addicted. And addiction is a real psychological illness.
What to do? Throw everything to chance? Of course not. Start to pray. What is not subject to people is subject to the Lord God.
Is there a prayer for addiction? We will talk about this in the article.
How to pray?
Hands drop when you see how your loved one is trying to get involved in drugs. And they treated him, and drove through grandmothers, but all is meaningless. Continues to "indulge", thereby killing himself. Slowly and painfully.
And if a drug addict kills himself physically, then relatives - psychologically. What is it like living next to him and seeing everything? And the main thing is to understand: there will be no help.
So stop it. Have you tried to turn to God? Yes? Did not help? And how were you treated? They went to the temple once, put a candle, filed a note and began to wait for a miracle? Sorry, but this is a little wrong position. There is no doubt that the Lord can help one time. If this does not happen, do not despair. Keep going to the temple, submit notes for the addicted person, and pray for him.
Are there Orthodox prayers for drug addiction? There are no specific such prayers. There are saints who are addressed with a particular problem. There is the Mother of God, she is resorted to for help in any situation. And there is the Lord God. He decides: to help now or a little later.
Pray in the temple, pray at home. Do not back down and ask God for help.
Who to pray for?
As we found out, there is no particular prayer against drug addiction. But there are saints who pray suffering from the ills of drunkenness and drug addiction.
Ask for the help of John of Kronstadt, Martyr Boniface, Rev. Moses Murin. And of course, prayerfully address the Virgin. It is especially good to pray before the image of Her "Inexpressible Bowl."
Prayer to the Martyr Boniface
How to cure yourself of drug addiction by prayers? Is it possible? Everything is possible for God. But prayers alone are not enough. Here, human arbitrariness is also needed. In other words, the addict must really want to tie this up.
The ideal option to end the drug once and for all is to go to the monastery. To live there and to obey. It will be not only difficult, but very difficult. For drug withdrawal has not yet been canceled. At such moments, the addict is experiencing a terrible state and all thoughts are about one thing: where to take the dose.
It is clear that at the time of breaking it is hardly possible to pray on your own. But this can be done by someone who is next to the sick. Let the martyr Boniface read a prayer from drug addiction:
O long-suffering and all-martyred martyr, Bonathatius! We are now resorting to your intercession. Do not reject our prayers, but graciously hear us. Heal our brethren and sisters (names), by a grave malady of the drunkenness of the obsessed, and for the sake of your mother, the Church of Christ and everlasting salvation fall away. O holy martyr of Christ, touch their hearts with the grace given by God from God, soon rebuild from the fall of sinfulness and bring them to a saving abstinence. Pray for the Lord God, for his sake and suffer if you have forgiven our sins, he will not turn away His mercy from his people, but may he strengthen us in sobriety and chastity, and may he help his sober sober sober up to the end, even in the days and in Wear about him awake and give a good answer about him in the Last Judgment. Accept, servant of God, the prayers of mothers for shedding tears of their children; honest wives, about sobbing husbands; a child of orphans and the wretched left by the drinkers; all of us, who are falling into your icon, may this cry come with your prayers to the Throne of the Most High. Cover and keep us from crafty trapping and all the wiles of the enemy. In the terrible hour of our exodus, help us to go through unhappily airy trials, with your prayers, deliver us to eternal condemnation, and may the grace of God cover us for everlasting ages. Amen.
It is resorted to by those who suffer from drunkenness and drug addiction. Boniface spent his days in wine drinking and entertainment with his mistress. Once a lady ordered a faithful servant to get Christian relics. Then it was common to have them at home. Boniface went on behalf of. The case ended with the fact that he himself professed the Christian faith in front of his tormentors. For which he was subject to suffering and accepted the demise of the sword. His head was chopped off.
The relics of the holy martyr Boniface were transferred to his mistress. She herself, having distributed all her possessions and was horrified of her own life, earnestly repented of her sins. Aglaid lived for 15 years in the feat of repentance and rested peacefully, receiving forgiveness from God.
Prayer of John of Kronstadt
Prayers against drug addiction, some kind of special, do not exist. There is only God who helps those who faithfully ask Him to do so. Helps through their saints saints, through the Blessed Virgin Mary. Ask and it will be given to you, remember these words?
Ask the Lord for help with the prayer of John of Kronstadt. Sincerely, with all my heart.
Lord, mercifully look upon Your servant (name), seduced by the flattery of the womb and carnal merriment. Grant him the sweetness of abstinence in fasting and the resultant fruits of the Spirit. Amen.
This is what the prayer for drug addiction and drunkenness given by the holy saint of God John of Kronstadt looks like.
Prayer to Moses Murin
The once Rev. Moses was a robber. Yes, yes, do not be surprised. He did terrible things, shed a lot of innocent blood.
But the Lord, as you know, does not want the death of his creation. Once the reverend came to spiritual consciousness, was horrified by his actions and left the robber path.
Great repentance was brought by the reverend. His whole subsequent life is a feat.
Prayer for alcoholism and drug addiction to Moses Murin:
O Reverend, you have achieved extraordinary virtues from grave sins, help the servants of God (names) praying to you, drawn to perdition because you indulge in the use of wine, which is immeasurable and harmful to the body and soul. Bend your gracious gaze upon them, do not turn them down, and do not despise them, but listen to them, who come running to you. Moth, holy Moses, Lord of Christ, lest He, the Merciful, and the devil of their destruction not rejoice, but may the Lord spare these unfortunate and unfortunate ones who possessed the destructive passion of drinking, because we are all God's creatures and have been redeemed by the Pure Blood of His Son . Hear, Rev. Moses, their prayer, drive away the devil from them, give them the power to defeat passion, help them, stretch your hand, lead them on the path of good, free them from the slavery of passions and save them from drinking, so that they, renewed, in sobriety and a bright mind loved abstinence and piety, and eternally glorified the all-good God, always saving His creatures. Amen.
Prayer to the Virgin
Who else should we pray except for the Queen of Heaven? You will begin to turn to Her, and the heart is so warm! As if a wall collapses, the heart becomes open. Only asking the Virgin Mary is necessary with faith and reverence. And not so much that they read the prayer somehow, crossed themselves and forgot. And then we are offended that prayer from drunkenness and drug addiction does not help.
First of all, the addict himself must want to be healed. Secondly, the one asking for him should resort to sincere and heartfelt prayer. And if the sick person starts to pray with all his heart and ask for healing, then it will be wonderful in general. For himself.
Prayer from drug addiction to the Blessed Virgin Mary is given below:
Oh, merciful Lady! We are now resorting to your intercession, do not despise our prayers, but graciously hear us - wives, children, mothers, and the grave affliction of drunkenness of the possessed, and for the sake of your mother, the Church of Christ and the salvation of those who fall away, our brothers and sisters and our relative are healed. O gracious Mother of God, touch their hearts and soon rebuild them from the fall of sinfulness, bring them to saving abstinence. Pray for His Son, Christ our God, forgive us our sins and not turn His mercy away from His people, but may He strengthen us in sobriety and chastity. Accept, Blessed Virgin Mary, prayers of mothers, for sons of their tears shedding; wives of their husbands sobbing; children, orphans and the wretched, those who have erred forsaken, and all of us, falling to your icon. And may our cry come, through your prayers, to the throne of the Most High. Cover and keep us from crafty trapping and all the machinations of enemies, at the terrible hour of our exodus help us to go through unhurriedly ordeal, with Thy prayers, deliver us eternal condemnation, may God's grace cover us forever and ever. Amen.
Akathist of the Inexhaustible Chalice
We talked about prayers from drug addiction. And now we will talk about the icon in front of which they pray for deliverance from drunkenness and drug addiction. This is the image of the Virgin "Inexhaustible Chalice".
It is located in Serpukhov, in the Vysotsky Monastery.
If you had to see this icon, you can confirm the above words. The whole image is decorated with gold. Rings, chains and bracelets are all thanks for healing.
The history of the icon is quite interesting. In the late 1870s there was a retired soldier. He was already old, moreover, a drunkard. He drew himself to the point that his legs refused. In general, by today's standards, and even by that - a descending person.
And once this drunkard had a dream, as if an old man had come to him and sent to Serpukhov to serve a prayer service in front of the icon “Inexhaustible Chalice”. The former soldier woke up in bewilderment: what Serpukhov, what icon, what prayer? Legs do not go, no money.
But he had a dream twice more. In the end, exhausted from drunkenness and despair, he crawled into Serpukhov. Entering the monastery, he began to ask where the icon was. And nobody tells him, because they themselves do not know. They thought for a long time, until someone realized that it could be an icon hanging in the narthex. The bowl is depicted on it.
The icon was removed, looked at the turnover. And really - she. A prayer service was served. A soldier is healed of his ailment. And from that time the crowd of pilgrims has not dried up to the miraculous image.
For those who do not have the opportunity to visit Serpukhov, we post here a video with an akathist.
Listen and pray for the healing of the affliction of your neighbor or your own.
Mother's prayer
Do you know that maternal prayer can save you from any trouble? Who except the mother is able to pray for her lost child sincerely, with hot tears? How many cases are known when, through the prayers of the mother, the children returned alive from the war, and got out of the troubles, and received healing from illnesses.
Is there a prayer from the addiction of a son or daughter? There is no specific one. There is only a huge maternal heart that cries tearfully to God to have mercy on its child.
Who to pray for? Who should I ask for help from? The Virgin, of course. She is the Mother who can still understand and calm the maternal pain. Seek help from John the Baptist, the guardian angel, the great martyr Barbara, and the Lord God Himself.
Mother's Prayer to God
The mother’s prayer from son’s addiction to God is not special. Her words are the simplest. But not a simple maternal heart. It is all wounded and tormented, desperately asking the Lord for help.
How to pray to God? Prayers are given below:
Oh god To the creator of all creatures, applying mercy to mercy, You have made me worthy of being the mother of a family; Thy goodness has given me children, and I dare to say: they are Your children! Because You gave them being, revived them with an immortal soul, revived them with baptism for a life that was in accordance with Your will, adopted them and accepted them into the bowels of Your Church, Lord! Save them in a gracious condition until the end of life; make them partake of the ordinances of your covenant; sanctify by your truth; hallowed be in them and through them your holy name! Send me your gracious help in their education for the glory of Thy name and the good of your neighbor! Give me for this purpose methods, patience and strength! Teach me to plant in their heart the root of true wisdom - Your fear! Illuminate them with the light that governs the universe of Your Wisdom! May they love you with all their souls and thoughts; may they cleave unto Thee with all their hearts, and throughout their whole lives be trembled by Your words! Grant me the mind to convince them that true life consists in keeping your commandments; that labor, strengthened by piety, gives in this life a serene contentment and in eternity - indescribable bliss. Reveal to them the understanding of Your Law! Yes, until the end of their days, they act in the feeling of Your omnipresence! Plant in their heart horror and aversion from all lawlessness; May they be blameless in thy ways; may they always remember that you, the all-good God, the zealot of your law and righteousness! Keep them in chastity and reverence for Your name! May they not defame Your Church with their behavior, but may they live according to its instructions! Encourage them with a desire for useful teaching and make them capable of any good deed! May they acquire a true concept of those objects for which information is necessary in their condition; May they be enlightened with beneficent knowledge for mankind. Lord Manage me to imprint with indelible traits in the mind and heart of my children the fear of commonwealth with those who don’t know your fear, to inspire them to make every possible removal from any alliance with the lawless. May they not heed rotten conversations; May they not listen to frivolous people; Let not evil examples deceive them from Your way; may they not be tempted by the fact that sometimes the path of the lawless is prosperous in this world!
Father in heaven! Grant me the grace to be careful in every way to tempt children with my actions, but, constantly bearing in mind their behavior, distract them from delusions, correct their errors, curb their perseverance and obstinacy, refrain from striving for vanity and frivolity; May they not be carried away by insane thoughts, May they not follow their hearts, be proud of their thoughts, and forget You and Your law. May the lawlessness of their mind and health not destroy, let the sins of their spiritual and bodily powers not relax. The Righteous Judge, who punishes children for the sins of their parents before the third and fourth kind, turn such punishment away from my children, do not punish them for my sins; but sprinkle them with the dew of Thy grace, that they prosper in virtue and holiness, and increase in Thy favor and in the love of godly people.
Father of bounty and all mercy! According to my parental feeling, I would wish my children all abundance of earthly blessings, I would wish them blessings from the dew of heaven and from the fat of the earth, but Thy holy will be with them! Arrange their fate according to Your good pleasure, do not deprive them of their daily bread, send them everything you need in time to acquire a blissful eternity, be merciful to them when you sin before You, do not impute the sins of youth and ignorance of them, bring them to grieve when they will resist the guidance of thy goodness; punish them and have mercy, directing you to the path that is pleasing to you, but do not reject them from thy face! Accept with good pleasure their prayers, grant them success in every good deed; Thou shalt not turn Your face away from them in the days of their affliction, that their temptations shall not be comprehended beyond their strength. Overshadow them with Your mercy, may Your Angel walk with them and save them from all misfortune and the evil path, O God all-good! Make me a mother who has fun about her children, that they may be my joy in the days of my life, and will support me in my old age. Honor me, with hope in Your mercy, to appear with them at Your Last Judgment and say with unworthy boldness: Here I am, and my children whom you gave me, Lord! Yes, together with them glorifying your inexpressible goodness and your eternal love, I exalt Your Most Holy Name, Father, Son and Holy Soul, forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer to the Virgin
As we have already found out, there is no maternal prayer for drug addiction. There is only faith with which the mother prays for her child.
Do not be afraid to turn to the Mother of God for help. Here is the text of the prayer:
Troparion, 7th voice: Rejoice, blessed Virgin Mary of the Virgin, 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.
Prayer: To the Intercessor, the Zealous, Gracious of the Lord Mati, I resort to thee as a repentant and more sinful person than all; 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 ​​my 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.
And one more motherly prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos and the Virgin Mary:
O Blessed Virgin Lady Virgin, save and save 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, as if You are the Divine Veil of Your servants. Mother of God, lead me into 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 to the Guardian Angel
An angel is given to each person at baptism. This ethereal spirit accompanies his ward all his life. And the more a person sins, the further the angel departs from him. Why? Because sins stink hard.
Imagine being forced to stand next to a dunghill. She stinks so much that she wants to run away to hell. The sinful man stinks even more. Only an angel cannot escape. He steps away and cries bitterly because of his ward.
A mother can pray to a guardian angel for her lost child.
Holy Angel to the guardian of 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 the Great Martyr Barbara
It was in Rome. The noble pagan Dioscore had an only daughter. Beautiful herself, smart and noble. Dioskor was so proud of the beauty of his Barbara that he ordered the construction of a high tower, and the damsel settled there. He said that commoners were not worthy to see such beauty.
Barbara had no mother, she died. Having assigned the best maids to her, father calmed down. But Barbara, meanwhile, living in a tower, looked out the window from the sky, stars and the whole environment. The girl wondered at the beauty of nature and asked her maids who created such beauty. Those answered that it was the pagan gods who tried. But Varvara understood: idols, made by the hands of people, cannot create such beauty. God who created nature must be One. Knowing nothing of Him, the girl was inflamed with love for the Creator.
When her father found out about this, he became furious. Dioskor himself personally gave the damsel to the torment of the then emperor. The pagan emperor, struck by the beauty and nobility of Barbara, asked her to make a sacrifice to the pagan gods. The girl was adamant.
She had to endure a lot of torment. And then his own father beheaded the saint. Her soul departed for God, whom the great martyr so loved.
Prayer to the Great Martyr Barbara:
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 John the Baptist
Beloved disciple of Christ, he alone did not leave his Divine Teacher in the most terrible moments. John the Baptist, together with the Virgin Mary, stood at the cross of the Lord. It was then that the Savior bequeathed to the apostle refers to the Virgin, as to his own Mother. And Her, in turn, was told that now John is Her son.
Prayer to the Holy Apostle 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.
Summarize
From the article, the reader learned that there are no prayers from drug addiction, as such. There are God's saints whom they pray, asking for help from an illness. There is the Virgin and the Lord himself.
We outline the main aspects:
- The most powerful prayer is maternal. The appeal to the Virgin, the great martyr Barbara, John the Baptist, the guardian angel will not remain unanswered.
- In Serpukhov there is a miraculous icon that heals those who suffer from drunkenness and drug addiction. It is called "Inexpressible Chalice". Akathist to her is given in the article.
- Help the unfriendly John of Kronstadt, Moses Murin and the martyr Boniface. Strong prayers from drug addiction come from those who appeal to the saints wholeheartedly.
Knock and it will be revealed to you, ask, and it will be given to you. The keyword is "ask." By your faith, as they say, it will be unto you.