The space in which we live is just as subject to information pollution as the human biofield. Esotericists recommend cleaning the aura at home as regularly as the aura of the person himself. What rituals and how to consecrate an apartment yourself, or is it better to invite a priest? We will talk about this in the article. A friend of mine taught me how to cleanse the aura of an apartment using simple methods that have long helped her cope with accumulated negativity. As a result, positive energy is always felt in her house, and the household members live in peace and harmony.
What is the meaning of sanctification
Orthodox Christians call sanctification the rites that are introduced by the Church into the temple and personal life of a person, so that through these rites the blessing of God descends on his life, on all his activities and on the entire environment of his life.
The basis of the various church prayers is the desire to spiritualize human activity, to perform it with God's help and with His blessing. We ask the Lord to direct our affairs in such a way that they are pleasing to Him and benefit our neighbors, the Church, the Fatherland and ourselves; bless our relationships with people so that peace and love prevail in them, etc. And therefore we ask that our home, things that belong to us, vegetables grown in our garden, water from the well, through the blessing of God that has descended on them, help us in this , defended, strengthened our strength.
The consecration of a house, apartment, car or any other thing is evidence, first of all, of our trust in God, our faith that nothing happens to us without His holy will.
The Church sanctifies everything necessary for human life with prayer and blessing. The Church sanctifies all nature and all the elements: water, air, fire and earth.
Is it possible to consecrate yourself?
Contrary to the widespread belief in the need to invite a priest for this rite, the church is not forbidden to carry it out on its own. The answer of the clergy to the question of whether it is possible to consecrate the house themselves will be in the affirmative.
Of course, it is not always possible to carry out the consecration ceremony yourself. Moreover, not everyone. People often confuse the rites of consecration of a home with rituals for its cleansing. There are no obstacles or conditions for cleaning your home on your own. But the possibility of consecrating a home on your own still has limitations.
Why are rites of consecration necessary?
The life, health and well-being of people largely depend on the state of their natural and spiritual environment.
The destructive consequences of environmental disasters associated with contamination and destruction of the surrounding nature for people have not only visible, external, physical causes, but also invisible, spiritual causes.
Among the spiritual reasons underlying all natural phenomena, as well as social and state phenomena, such as revolutions, wars and various kinds of global restructuring, the Holy Church highlights, first of all, the religiosity of people's life. What is the degree of religiosity, what is the morality and behavior of people, such is the state of visible nature and the course of history. People sin, move away from God, perverting their moral order, and, as a result, it deteriorates in the world.
This first happened after the fall of our ancestors Adam and Eve, who violated the only commandment of God given to them. Man sinned, and as a result, the entire world created by God for man changed: destruction, illness, sorrow, corruption, and death entered the world. The Lord spoke to Adam and Eve after the Fall: “He said to the woman: I will multiply your sorrow... And to Adam he said: ...cursed is the ground because of you; you will eat of it in sorrow all the days of your life” (Gen. 3:16-17).
Righteous John of Kronstadt writes that the rites of consecration “are caused by the extreme need of nature itself or the nature of the elements and the need of the people themselves, who live in the air and have an incessant need for the water element,” fire and earth. “All nature, all the elements are constantly desecrated and corrupted by human sins and dark and crafty spirits living in the air and giving rise to all sorts of pernicious trends and diseases in it. There is an urgent need for church sanctification and healing of these elements.”
When taking holy water:
consecrated in church
The church distributes water to all parishioners throughout the year. It is consecrated in a small rite at every service. The rite of great consecration takes place only on the feast of Epiphany. All water brought from the Holy Abode of God is consecrated and has the same power.
holy water for baptism
On Epiphany there is a great rite of consecration. They begin to rule on the 18th, after the service you can get some Jordanian water. But after the night and early 19th, the entire Orthodox world brings home Epiphany.
Why is it so important to consecrate houses in our time?
According to the teachings of the holy fathers of the Church, the unclean spirit, the devil, the prince of darkness and hell, the spirit of malice, the enemy of the human race, dominates the air until the second coming of Christ. The Slavic word air has several meanings. This is the atmosphere of the earth in which we physically exist; this includes the airwaves, which today are more crowded than ever with radio waves, television, cellular and radio signals; this, finally, is what modern pagans and Jews call the astral plane - the area of spiritual visions and contacts, in which, like nowhere else, the devil resides and dominates with legions of unclean spirits.
Television, press and radio broadcasting, anti-Christian in spirit, corrupting the Russian people today worse than any wine and vodka, have become the main sources of spiritual food for the Russian people. Today, in almost every home, a “blue icon” of the devil is placed in a red corner - a television, in front of which the population of Russia spends hours on end, as if in a narcotic sleep, hypnotized and programmed for self-destruction and extinction.
Through the ether and astral plane, our houses, apartments, cars were filled with countless legions of demons: spirits of aggression, anger, revenge, shameless passion. People are no longer able to understand how their family and life well-being is being destroyed with the help of thoroughly developed technologies for destroying the traditional system of values, ethics, and morality. Few people today are able to connect the disobedience of children, their addiction to alcohol and drugs, the endless divorces of young and middle-aged married couples with the presence in their home of a real enemy - a television, a radio, a tabloid newspaper, which skillfully undermine the morality of society, the family, through the implanted poison of vulgarity and debauchery. a cult of pleasure that leads more and more souls to destruction.
Therefore, today the grace of God, given through the rites of consecration, in particular, through the consecration of our homes, is especially necessary for us to help us protect, consciously protect ourselves from the viruses of sinful temptation and spiritual decay that penetrate our homes.
Method No. 2
Don’t know how to bless your apartment with a candle yourself? Some recommend doing the following: you need to take a candle in your right hand and go to the right doorframe of the entrance to the room - this place will be the starting point. Then you should light a candle, clench your free hand into a fist and, saying prayers out loud from memory, move along the walls of the room. In the corners you need to stop and make the sign of the cross with a burning candle, clearing the corner of negative energy. It is very important to follow the signs that the candle gives you. If it begins to burn intensely with a crash, then this is the place that first of all needs to be cleansed: read the entire set of prayers known to you until the flame calms down. At the end of the “sacred rite,” you should again approach the starting point and leave the candle there to burn out. As soon as it has smoldered, you need to say: “My place must be clean, not smelly, and not leave the enemies.
I illuminate it with a candle, empower it and keep it that way. Amen!". Only after this can the ritual be considered completed. Now you know how to consecrate an apartment yourself with a candle. However, there are other ways to perform the above ritual.
Will the consecration of the house itself save us?
Saint Theophan the Recluse writes: “All grace coming from God through the holy cross, holy icons, holy water, relics, consecrated bread (artos, antidor, prosphora) and others, including the most holy communion of the Body and Blood of Christ, has power only for those who who is worthy of this grace through prayers of repentance, repentance, humility, service to people, works of mercy and the manifestation of other Christian virtues. But if they are not there, then this grace will not save, it does not act automatically, like a talisman, and is useless for the wicked and imaginary Christians (without virtues).”
The same can be said about the consecration of a home. A house dominated by empty, idle pastime is like a house with luminous windows during a night raid by enemy aircraft. Modern television, press and radio broadcasting, in a completely diabolical way, under the guise of entertainment and pleasure, alienate us from our Heavenly Father, from the One in Whose hand is our entire earthly life and the life of the next century. Therefore, no sanctification will make sense and will not have a beneficial effect on our lives if, in particular, the demons of television and radio broadcasting reign supreme in the air of our apartments and houses. In moments of misfortune that befall us, in order to appease the district judge and prosecutor, on whom our fate or the fate of our loved ones who have violated the criminal law depends, we are ready to sacrifice our last money and much more, and in breaking the law of God, do we really think that if We will continue to irritate the Lord with our unbelief and amusements with demons, then He will be merciful to us? No. The libertine and blasphemer, by his deviation from God and from His commandments, commits the most terrible judgment on himself - he remains without God alone with the devil and his servants, who only need his soul, or rather, its fall and death.
Let us remember that the consecration of a house is both its protection from all disasters, and a blessing for good deeds and for the protection of our home from everything evil that is contrary to God; a blessing so that we do not leave God and try to direct our lives not according to the laws that the enemy of the human race introduces into human life, but according to the Law of God.
How to bless a car with holy water
A car today has long ceased to be a luxury. It is an integral part of our lives; we spend a lot of time in it. It is also worth understanding that riding it is quite dangerous. You can protect yourself with icons, prayer and a special rite of consecration of vehicles. Transport includes everything you can ride on, except a bicycle.
For consecration, the transport must be driven to the church. The priest does not travel for such events. A series of prayers are read, the vehicle is blessed inside, outside, and under the hood. An icon, maybe a cross, is attached to the interior.
The priest will tell you some rules that must be strictly followed after the rite of consecration:
- There is no smoking inside the car;
- Adhere to traffic rules;
- Being irresponsible on the road, breaking rules, risking your own and others’ lives is a mortal sin. If all this begins to happen in a consecrated car, the driver has no forgiveness;
First of all, we protect not the car, but our own soul. The rite of consecration implies a general prayer, in which, in addition to the priest, the driver himself and people close to him participate.
If it is not possible to bring the car to the priest, you can carry out the rite of consecration yourself. It will not be possible to replace those strong prayers that are read by the priest. But for the time being, until you have the opportunity to come to the church, this method is a lifeline. A strongly religious person can perform such a ritual.
For the ceremony you need to have a candle purchased in the church. It must be set on fire with matches, and the car goes around in a circle (clockwise) three times.
At this time the following prayers are read:
Text of prayers:
It wouldn’t hurt at all if, before leaving home or going on a long journey, you read prayers that protect the driver himself, for example:
Ceremony of consecration of a new house
The entire world created by God lives and moves according to the Law of God. Therefore, without God’s blessing and help, nothing truly valuable, important, good, or useful can be done. The Savior Himself said in the Gospel: “Without Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5).
And the prophet David says: “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain; unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman watches in vain” (Ps. 127:1).
Our ancestors knew about this. “Without God there is no way,” says the Russian proverb. They often prayerfully turned to God, calling for blessings on every endeavor. Therefore, from ancient times, the homes of Christians were consecrated with prayer songs and sacred rites.
The Orthodox Church consecrates new houses following the example of the consecration of the temples of God. Even at the beginning of the construction of a house, a cross is laid at its foundation, and holy icons are installed in the house itself as signs (signs) of the gracious presence of the Lord and the saints in the Christian home. In the home of a Christian, the Church allows all types of its worship to be performed with the exception of the Divine Liturgy and the sacrament of the priesthood. She does not forbid bringing into every Christian home, in certain cases, the most holy and all-sanctifying Body and life-giving Blood of Christ.
Since ancient times, special prayer rites have existed for the blessing and consecration of a Christian home and hearth. At the beginning of the construction of a house, a small consecration of water is performed and prayers “for the foundation of the house” contained in the Trebnik are read. The Trebnik also sets out the rite of consecration of a new house. To this rite, when consecrating a house, prayers “About the temple, cold from evil spirits” and the prayer “Over the stove” can be added. The first prayer, as the name suggests, is of an incantatory nature; it is used during the consecration of those houses “that suffer the intrigues and misfortunes of evil spirits” (New Tablet). The second prayer is read to consecrate the hearth - the most important part of the Christian home, associated with the preparation of meals.
Before the consecration of a new house, a small blessing of water is performed, or the priest comes to the house, bringing holy water with him. A table covered with a clean tablecloth is provided in advance in the house, a vessel with holy water and a small vessel with ordinary, unconsecrated oil (vegetable oil) are placed on it, the Gospel, a cross are placed, and candles are lit in candlesticks.
On each of the four walls a cross is depicted in advance - to commemorate the cover and firm fencing, deliverance and preservation by the power of the cross from all evil and misfortune, from enemies visible and invisible.
After the exclamation “Blessed is our God...” and the usual initial prayers, the 90th psalm “Living in the help of the Most High...” is read, in which the Church encourages future residents, saying that they will live in their new home under the shelter of the God of heaven and that in the shadow They will not be afraid of the Almighty, neither the horrors in the night, nor the arrows flying during the day. “No evil will befall you, and no plague will come near your dwelling,” exclaims the prophet (Ps. 91:10).
Then a troparion (a short church hymn) is sung, which says that once the Savior, having entered the house of Zacchaeus, granted salvation to him and all his household. So now, together with the servants of Christ, the Angels of God enter the new house. The Church asks the Lord to give peace to this house and to graciously bless it, saving and enlightening all who are going to live in it.
Turning to the east, the priest says: “Let us pray to the Lord,” “Lord, have mercy,” they answer him, and he reads a prayer similar in content to the troparion sung before this. He prays to the Savior, who deigned to enter the house of Zacchaeus and granted salvation to his entire house, to bless the newly built dwelling and save those who will live in it from all evil, abundantly giving them all the blessings of the Lord for their benefit.
In the next secret prayer (that is, a prayer read not aloud, but silently), the priest asks the Lord to grant salvation to the house, as he brought it to the house of Zacchaeus, to bless this house, as he once blessed the house of Laban with the coming of Jacob to it. , the house of Pentephry - by the arrival of Joseph into it, Abeddar - by the bringing of the ark into his house. (These events are narrated in the Bible, in the book of Genesis, chapter 30, verses 2–30; chapter 39, verses 1–5 and in the 2nd book of Kings, chapter 6, verses 10–12.) He prays to the Savior to send blessings down to the future inhabitants of the new house from the heights of His dwelling, to protect them with the fear of God, to protect them “from those who resist” and to multiply “all that is good in this house.” At the end of the prayer, the priest proclaims: “For it is Yours to have mercy and save us, O our God, and to You we send glory, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.” Those present respond: “Amen.”
At this point in the rite, the prayer “Over the cave” can be added to it. In it, the priest calls for help to protect the home from enemies visible and invisible - Angels, guardians of Christians, and all the saints of God, including the Hieromartyr Cyprian, whom demons once served in the art of magical intrigues and who, having believed in Christ, began to rebel against them and defeat them (New Tablet).
Then the priest crosses the oil three times in the name of the Most Holy Trinity and reads a prayer over the oil, in which he asks God to send the Holy Spirit onto the oil and consecrate it, so that it will be for the consecration of this place and the house built on this place to drive away “all resistant and satanic forces.” slander."
After reading the prayer, the priest sprinkles the entire house with holy water (sprinkles each room on all four sides), praying: “By sprinkling this sacred water, may all evil demonic action be put to flight.” Then he anoints the 4 main walls of the house in a cross pattern (in those places where the cross was previously inscribed) with holy oil, saying the words: “This house is blessed by the anointing of this holy oil, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.”
Candles are lit in front of each cross inscribed on the walls, giving honor to the Honest Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, “which is a shield, a weapon against the devil and a sign of victory over him, ... a seal so that the “destroying angel” will not touch us (Ex. 12:23) and ... tree of eternal life.
The stichera, which the choir sings, contains a prayer to the Lord to bless this house, fill it with earthly blessings and save its future inhabitants “from every evil of the situation” and grant them an abundance of heavenly and earthly blessings.
Then the priest reads the Gospel (Luke 19:1-10), which tells about the Savior’s visit to the house of the publican (tax collector) Zacchaeus, who, although he was a sinful man, wanted to see the Lord so much that he climbed a tree. In response to the murmur of those who said that Jesus had entered the house of a sinful man, Christ said about Zacchaeus and about his house: “Now salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham; for the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.” The Church offers this passage from the Gospel to the residents of a new Christian home, joyfully proclaiming that now salvation has come to their home and that the Lord always comes to the home of those who long to see Him.
Then Psalm 100 is read, which contains instructions on how to behave in a new home. Reflecting on the blameless way, King David says: “I will walk in integrity of my heart in the midst of my house” (Ps. 100:2).
After the reading of the psalm, a litany is said. In it, in addition to the usual petitions, there are also petitions for the blessing of the house. All those present pray to the Lord of our life to send a Guardian Angel, a guardian of the new home, preserving everyone “who wants to live piously in it,” from all evil and instructing them to do virtues, to fulfill the commandments of Christ. They also ask that the Lord save them all from hunger and all deadly wounds and grant them health and long life.
Sanctification - what is it?
For those who do not know how to consecrate an apartment on their own, it will be useful to learn about what this church ritual is.
From the point of view of the Orthodox religion, God's grace descends on a person through sanctification. Church rituals help to increase the significance of the moral principles of human existence.
In other words, it is assumed that after completing the ritual, moving into new mansions, their owners will begin a righteous life, in accordance with Christian commandments.
