Prayer of the Mother of God

For many centuries, Orthodox from different countries have come to the Pochaev Lavra in western Ukraine, where the shrine is located, and offer the prayer of Pochaevskaya. Icon of the Mother of GodAsking for healing from the most serious illnesses. Last year I was lucky enough to visit this beautiful place.

I had been planning to visit Pochaev for a long time, but the final decision to go was information about it. miracle-working. At that time, my father was in the hospital with a stroke, and I prayed for hours for God to recover.

And when he was transferred from the intensive care unit to a regular ward and things went well, I decided that I could afford to go away for a couple of days to bow my head before this icon and ask for a speedy recovery of the Pope.





The Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God is one of the most revered shrines of the entire Slavic world. Along with the Orthodox in worship The miraculous image of the Most Holy Mother of God Christians of other faiths also come.

In the Pochaev Lavra, an ancient stronghold of Orthodoxy, the miraculous icon remains for about 400 years. The miracles arising from the holy icon are numerous and witnessed in the monastery books by the records of believers who prayed for deliverance from incurable illnesses, release from captivity and admonition of sinners.





The celebration in honor of the Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God on July 23 in the old style and August 5 in the new style was established in memory of the deliverance of the Assumption Pochaev Lavra from the Turkish siege on July 20-23, 1675.

Today's edition. "Site" I have prepared for you, dear reader, interesting information about the icon of the Pochaev Mother of God, and will also share with you the strongest prayerWho helps everyone!





Here is what is known about the history of this icon: on the mountain, where the Pochaev Monastery is now located, two monks settled in 1340. One day, after prayer, a monk was walking to the top of the mountain and suddenly saw the Mother of God standing on a stone, surrounded by flames. He invited his brother to see the miracle.

The third witness was the shepherd John the Barefoot. He climbed the mountain and the three of them glorified God. On the stone where the Most Holy Mother of God stood, the imprint of her right foot remained forever.





In 1559, Metropolitan Neophyte of Constantinople, passing through Volhynia, visited the noblewoman Anna Goyskaya, who lived in the Orel estate, near Pochaev. In blessing he left Anna brought from Constantinople. icon. Over time, people began to notice that the icon radiance emanates.

When Anna’s brother Philip was healed before the icon, she handed over the miraculous image to the monks who settled on the Pochaev Mountain in 1597. The holy image was placed in the temple, erected in honor of the Assumption of the Mother of God. Later, a monastery was founded there, for the maintenance of which Anna Goyskaya transferred large funds.





So the miraculous icon became known as Pochaevskaya. Among the many testimonies of the help of the Queen of Heaven is the following.

The monk of the Pochaev Monastery was captured by the Tatars. Being in captivity, he remembered the Pochaev monastery, its shrines, worship, hymns. The monk especially yearned at the onset of the feast of the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God and tearfully prayed to the Mother of God for deliverance from captivity. And after prayers to the Blessed Virgin, once the walls of the prison disappeared, and the monk found himself at the walls of the Pochaev monastery.





The Holy image helps to strengthen the spirit and faith, guides to the right path. Believers come to her with heartfelt prayers for the health of their loved ones, healing from diseases visible and invisible.

With requests to give peace and peace in the home and family, to get rid of misfortune and quarrels. To protect his abode from uninvited guests, thieves. They ask for admonitions from sinners and deliverance from impure thoughts.





As before every image of the Most Pure Mother of God, they pray for their spiritual perfection. It is very important not to forget to thank the Queen of Heaven for her bright help. And the prayer itself to the Holy Pochaevskaya is read as follows:

To Thee, O God-mother, we pray, sins, Thy miracles flow in the Holy Lavra of the Communities, which are manifested in remembrance and in our crushing sins. O Lord, O Lord, you have not asked us for the righteous Judge of our iniquities. All that we have endured in life, and sorrows, and needs, and diseases, as the fruits of our downfalls, I will vegetate with us, this God for our correction.

By the same truth and by His judgment, the Lord will bring to you His sinful servants, who in their sorrows for Your intercession, the All-Pure One, and in the mercy of their hearts, call upon You: Our sins and iniquities, My goodness, do not remember, but rather raise up Your all-honorable hand to Your Son and to God, that the lust we have done may release us, yes, for many unfulfilled promises, we will not save from our souls, giving His blessing from our soul.





To her, O Lady, be our intercessor for salvation, and, having not abhorred our cowardice, look upon our lamentations, even in our troubles and sorrows before Your miraculous image we exalt. Enlighten our minds with tender thoughts, strengthen our faith, strengthen our hope, strengthen our hearts, and love the sweetest gift of receiving us.

By this, O All-Pure One, by giving, and not by diseases and sorrows, our life may be raised to salvation, but from despondency and despair our souls protect, deliver us weak from the troubles and needs that find us, and the slanders of human and intolerable diseases.

Grant peace and prosperity to your Christian progeny by Your Lady, confirm the Orthodox faith in our country, in all the world, the Church of the Apostolic and Cathedral belittlement do not betray, the statutes of the holy Father will forever be unshakable, save all those who flow to You from the den of perdition. But bring also the heresy of our corrupt brethren, or the saving faith in the sinful passions of those who have ruined the Pacas, to true faith and repentance, so that together with us Your miraculous image they will worship Your intercession.





Like us, All-Pure Lady of the Mother of God, see this victory of the truth in your belly with your intercession, like us with graceful joy before our end to receive, as in ancient times the inhabitants of the quarters showed you by Your appearance the victors and enlighteners of the Hagarians, yes, we all with a grateful heart, together with angels, and prophets, and apostles, and with all the saints Your mercy glorify, give glory, honor and worship in Your Trinity, the Son and God in the ages. Amen.

These words heal...

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