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How to Spend Ilyin’s Day on August 2 to Respect Your Beloved Saint
August 2 is a special day in the church calendar. Believers note Ilyin day - holiday One of the most respected and beloved saints among Christians. On Ilyin Day in 2020, we honor the memory of the great prophet of God Elijah, the guardian and defender of the Christian faith.
This day is closely associated with the pagan holiday of Perun the Thunderer, so it has long been overgrown with many rituals, traditions and signs. And today's edition. "Site" He will tell you what to do and what not to do. Ilyin Day in 2020.
Like Nicholas the Wonderworker, the prophet Ilya is one of the most beloved saints in the people. In the Slavic tradition, he is the lord of thunder and lightning, rain, and harvest and fertility. In a sense, Ilya replaced Perun with the Slavs, so he began to be called Ilya the Thunderer, Ilya the Terrible.
Folk writings represent Elijah galloping through heaven on a fiery chariot drawn by four white horses. The sound of hooves is the sound of thunder, and Elijah himself is the messenger of the law of God. He is a formidable but just patron of hardworking farmers.
In the IX century BC, a boy was born in the Jewish city of Thesbas, who was named Elijah. His father once had a vision that the newborn son of the archangel was fed fire and wrapped in fiery diapers. The vision was prophetic.
The scripture says that Elijah was taken into heaven alive, so that before the second coming of Christ he would return and travel around the world three times in a chariot of fire. He must inform everyone of the coming of the Last Judgment. That is why believers are afraid of Elijah and try to observe all existing prohibitions on the holiday.
Prohibitions on Ilyin Day in 2020 On this day there is a ban on any kind of work. They say everything will fall out of hand and nothing will happen. The work itself can anger the saint and he will punish those who disrespect his holiday.
But the main bans of this day are connected with water. On this holiday it is strictly forbidden to bathe, wash and the like. There are many superstitions about this. It is said that on this day the water is cold because the horseshoe of Elijah’s chariot fell into it.
It is also said that the unclean himself defiled the water. And a very simple popular belief says that Ilya met a small need in water, so after that day in the water stopped swimming. My grandmother said that if you swim after Ilya, you will grow a willow from the wrong place. I have to say, I have never grown up.
Many believed that if you bathe on this day, evil forces will drag to the bottom. These are superstitions that the church does not approve of. Believers go to church on this day and do not fill their heads with superstitions.
The Prophet Elijah helps everyone, although he is formidable. He blesses women for marriage, gives farmers a good harvest, and gives everyone else good luck and success in all endeavors. That is why on this day it is necessary to offer a prayer to the saint, asking for health, well-being, peace and everything you want.
Prayer to St. Elijah “O holy glorious prophet Elijah of God, the great law of God to the jealous.” You were a fair and brave avenger in the murder of the Baal priests: for the glory of God did not implore, but multiplied for ever to see, you wanted to see, and you did not fear much of their many-generated fury, as the Jezebelins of the priests on the sweat of Kissov laid you down with a knife, but followed like a whirlwind in a fiery chariot, took you to the height of heaven with glory.
For this reason, we, unworthy and sinful, humbly pray to you, the honest prophet of God: “Be worthy of glorification and glorification of your honorable intercession, so that we may receive your great intercession, rich mercy from the Lord.”
And now, gloriously pleasing to you, we pray: Protect our state with peace, and deliver us from every slander of the enemy, from the iron, and the coward, and the fire of the Lightning, and do not forget, you sinful, glorious memory of your glorifying and constantly glorifying the glorious thou of the Lord for ever and ever.
Prayer is a way to talk to God, and it’s important to know certain nuances. We recently talked about how to pray to God.
Every prayer is an inexhaustible power! Especially strong is the 90th Psalm from the Psalm. This prayer is a talisman from diseases, disasters and many troubles. You need to learn it by heart and read it regularly.
You can also pray for health and healing to Saint Panteleimon. Saints are sure to help, you just need to sincerely believe and pray.
This day is closely associated with the pagan holiday of Perun the Thunderer, so it has long been overgrown with many rituals, traditions and signs. And today's edition. "Site" He will tell you what to do and what not to do. Ilyin Day in 2020.
Like Nicholas the Wonderworker, the prophet Ilya is one of the most beloved saints in the people. In the Slavic tradition, he is the lord of thunder and lightning, rain, and harvest and fertility. In a sense, Ilya replaced Perun with the Slavs, so he began to be called Ilya the Thunderer, Ilya the Terrible.
Folk writings represent Elijah galloping through heaven on a fiery chariot drawn by four white horses. The sound of hooves is the sound of thunder, and Elijah himself is the messenger of the law of God. He is a formidable but just patron of hardworking farmers.
In the IX century BC, a boy was born in the Jewish city of Thesbas, who was named Elijah. His father once had a vision that the newborn son of the archangel was fed fire and wrapped in fiery diapers. The vision was prophetic.
The scripture says that Elijah was taken into heaven alive, so that before the second coming of Christ he would return and travel around the world three times in a chariot of fire. He must inform everyone of the coming of the Last Judgment. That is why believers are afraid of Elijah and try to observe all existing prohibitions on the holiday.
Prohibitions on Ilyin Day in 2020 On this day there is a ban on any kind of work. They say everything will fall out of hand and nothing will happen. The work itself can anger the saint and he will punish those who disrespect his holiday.
But the main bans of this day are connected with water. On this holiday it is strictly forbidden to bathe, wash and the like. There are many superstitions about this. It is said that on this day the water is cold because the horseshoe of Elijah’s chariot fell into it.
It is also said that the unclean himself defiled the water. And a very simple popular belief says that Ilya met a small need in water, so after that day in the water stopped swimming. My grandmother said that if you swim after Ilya, you will grow a willow from the wrong place. I have to say, I have never grown up.
Many believed that if you bathe on this day, evil forces will drag to the bottom. These are superstitions that the church does not approve of. Believers go to church on this day and do not fill their heads with superstitions.
The Prophet Elijah helps everyone, although he is formidable. He blesses women for marriage, gives farmers a good harvest, and gives everyone else good luck and success in all endeavors. That is why on this day it is necessary to offer a prayer to the saint, asking for health, well-being, peace and everything you want.
Prayer to St. Elijah “O holy glorious prophet Elijah of God, the great law of God to the jealous.” You were a fair and brave avenger in the murder of the Baal priests: for the glory of God did not implore, but multiplied for ever to see, you wanted to see, and you did not fear much of their many-generated fury, as the Jezebelins of the priests on the sweat of Kissov laid you down with a knife, but followed like a whirlwind in a fiery chariot, took you to the height of heaven with glory.
For this reason, we, unworthy and sinful, humbly pray to you, the honest prophet of God: “Be worthy of glorification and glorification of your honorable intercession, so that we may receive your great intercession, rich mercy from the Lord.”
And now, gloriously pleasing to you, we pray: Protect our state with peace, and deliver us from every slander of the enemy, from the iron, and the coward, and the fire of the Lightning, and do not forget, you sinful, glorious memory of your glorifying and constantly glorifying the glorious thou of the Lord for ever and ever.
Prayer is a way to talk to God, and it’s important to know certain nuances. We recently talked about how to pray to God.
Every prayer is an inexhaustible power! Especially strong is the 90th Psalm from the Psalm. This prayer is a talisman from diseases, disasters and many troubles. You need to learn it by heart and read it regularly.
You can also pray for health and healing to Saint Panteleimon. Saints are sure to help, you just need to sincerely believe and pray.
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