There are countless icons of the Mother of God. And each was revealed precisely at the time when it was necessary, and precisely to those people who, more than anyone else, needed the help of the Queen of Heaven.
Several centuries ago, the residents of Chernigov, together with the inhabitants of the local monastery, felt the patronage of the Mother of God. The source of this patronage was the Ilyinskaya (Chernigov) icon of the Mother of God. The celebration of this holy image in the Orthodox Church takes place today - April 29.
Where did the icon come from?
The image appeared in the Chernigov province in 1658 through the works of the icon painter Grigory Dubensky. Probably a layman, and tonsured monk Gennady, painted an icon for the Trinity-Ilya Monastery, because at the time of the miracle the icon was in one of its churches.
The miracle itself happened four years after the appearance of the image. In 1662, Archbishop of Chernigov Lazar (Baranovich), abbot of the monastery Zosima, brethren and residents from all over the area found the icon “tear-stained”. According to legend, the shrine shed tears for eight days - from April 16 to April 24. Even then, it was clear to believers that this was a terrible omen, something terrible and tragic was coming.
Shrine of the Chernigov land
The veneration of the miraculous icon by the residents of the Chernigov region was so great that not a single significant event in family or public life was accomplished without asking for blessings and without prayer from the holy icon.
Faith and hope for the speedy intercession and Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos were especially clearly expressed in days of grave disasters and epidemics. Such was the faith of our ancestors in the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, so sacredly did they honor Her miraculous icons! In the state of Ukraine, which is now separated from Russia, in the Trinity Elias Monastery on Boldina Mountain, located near the city of Chernigov, this miraculous image of the Mother of God is located. It was written in 1658 by the monk Gennady Konstantinovich Dubensky, a painter who in the world bore the name Gregory. The Ilyinsk-Chernigov icon became famous for many miracles. They are described by two great saints of the Russian Church - Blessed John Maximovich and St. Demetrius, Bishop of Rostov. Finishing his book “The Irrigated Fleece,” in which he spoke about the miracles from the icon of the Mother of God of Elias, St. Demetrius writes: “End of the book, but not the miracles of the Most Holy Theotokos, who can honor me?”
But no one counts them: the Church is not an accounting department. It’s just that for many centuries the paralyzed, the paralyzed, the blind, the possessed and other people poor in health or intelligence have been coming to the Miracle Worker and receiving healing.
Miraculous healings from this icon began to occur almost immediately after its appearance in our world.
In 1662, under the Archbishop of Chernigov Lazar Baranovich and the abbot of the Elias Monastery Zosima, the icon suddenly began to cry. According to the testimony of St. Demetrius of Rostov, “all the people of the city of Chernigov looked at this miracle with great fear.” For eight days tears flowed down the face of the Mother of God, and on the ninth, Chernigov was attacked by the Tatars. Many of the Orthodox were brutally killed, many suffered, many were taken captive...
One night, the monks of the Elias Monastery received news that the Tatars were going to attack the monastery. The monks prayed in the temple and took refuge in the cave of St. Anthony, dug by the Venerable himself. Anthony of Pechersk, when he left Kyiv and settled on Boldina Mountain. At midnight the Tatars burst into the monastery and destroyed everything they found in it, not sparing the monastery church. Only the miraculous icon of the Mother of God remained unharmed! She did not allow the enemies to enter the cave where the monks were hiding: although the Tatars tried to penetrate there several times with drawn swords, they were repulsed each time by an invisible force!
Today, one of the best copies of this wondrous image is in the Church of the Deposition of the Robe of the Lord in the Assumption Cathedral, on Donskaya Street. It can be seen on the south side of the left pillar of the refectory part of the temple. This is a copy of the icon presented to Tsar Peter I by Abbot Lavrenty (Irshonovich) and the brethren of the Holy Trinity Monastery in the city of Chernigov. The icon was presented to Peter in connection with the successful completion of the Livonian campaign in 1696. On one side of the face of the Mother of God is depicted the State Emblem and stamps with allegorical images and inscriptions glorifying the intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos for the Orthodox army that won the victory over the “Hagarians”.
Around the icon is a mental Paradise, mentioned in the inscription, with quotes from the Old Testament.
Other copies of the miraculous Ilinsk-Chernigov Icon of the Mother of God, glorified by miracles, are also known: in Moscow, in the Church of the Holy Apostles (this icon was painted simultaneously with the original Ilinskaya, under Patriarch Nikon in 1658), the image of the Virgin in the town of Sosnitsa, Chernigov region, in the Church of the Resurrection , an icon of the Most Pure Mother of God in the Gamaleevsky Monastery in the Chernigov region and an image of the Mother of God called Yeletsko-Chernigov.
And in the Gethsemane monastery, which is near the Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, in the cave temple there is another Ilyinsky-Chernigov miraculous icon of the Mother of God, glorified and glorified by many signs of the grace of God acting through it.
What exactly happened?
In the same year - 1662 - the Tatars attacked Chernigov. The foreigners did not spare anything or anyone: they smashed and burned houses, killed people. They prepared the same fate for the Trinity-Ilya monastery and its brethren. However, an unknown force did not allow them to desecrate the holy place by shedding blood. The invaders threw down holy images from the walls, stole precious utensils, but they were never able to approach the newly painted icon with rich decorations. The icon remained unharmed. Like the inhabitants who hid in the cave of St. Anthony of Pechersk.
What gift did the icon receive?
For the miraculous warning and for saving the monastery, the monks and laity decided to thank the Mother of God. Of course, having just recovered from the raid, they did not have the means to present their Protectress with a particularly expensive gift, but they did not skimp on sincere gratitude, tearful prayer from the heart, and brotherly love.
Only towards the end of the 17th century, with the blessing of Bishop Lazar and donations from the hetman of the Zaporozhye army, Ivan Mazepa, was it finally possible to make a silver frame and icon case. Another philanthropist, Chernigov Colonel Vasily Dunin-Borkovsky, presented the icon with a crown with precious stones. Around the same period, residents of Chernigov ordered a new beautiful frame from Moscow.
Troparion, tone 5
Most Pure Lady Theotokos,/ the hope of all Christians,/ beyond any other hope are imams, except You,/ my All-immaculate Lady, Lady Theotokos,/ Mother of Christ my God,/ thus have mercy and deliver me from all my evils, / and beseech the merciful Son Yours and my God,/ may He have mercy on my damned soul/ and may He deliver me from eternal torment// and make me worthy of His Kingdom.
Translation: Most Pure Lady Theotokos, the hope of all Christians, since we have no other hope but You, my All-Immaculate Lady, Lady Theotokos, Mother of Christ my God, therefore have mercy and deliver me from all my troubles, and implore Thy merciful Son and my God, may he have mercy on my unfortunate soul and may he deliver me from eternal torment and make me worthy of his kingdom.
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How did the icon travel?
The icon moved first around the monastery, and then went beyond its borders. Before the appearance of the Trinity Cathedral on its territory (1679-1695), the image of the Mother of God stayed in the St. Elias Church near the caves. Later, towards the end of the 18th century, it - in a gilded silver frame, with a silver crown and precious stones - ended up in the Assumption Cathedral of the Yelets Monastery. True, then, in 1794, he returned to the Trinity-Ilyinsky monastery.
What happened to the image next is a mystery. What is known is that after the closure of the Ilyinsky Monastery in 1962, the icon again left its boundaries and “settled” with the nun Agnia, and in the mid-90s it moved to the Yeletsky Monastery that was in operation at that time.
Where is the original?
Since the fate of the icon is not known to us, it is difficult to answer this question. There are two opinions. First, the original is lost, and in the Yelets Dormition Convent, only a copy of the ancient icon is kept.
Secondly, the icon presented as a copy is the original of the Ilyinsky-Chernigov image.
Speaking of lists, they were distributed to many monasteries in Russia and Ukraine. One of them is especially revered in the Gethsemane monastery of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. It is called the Chernigov-Gethsemane image. This is another icon; it is celebrated on September 1st.
Why is the image interesting?
At first glance, it may seem like practically nothing. The image is written in accordance with the iconographic type called Hodegetria (Guide). On it are Those We Love. Mother of God and Christ.
The Little Lord sits on the left hand of the Virgin Mary, holding a scroll and blessing those praying. The Mother of God herself points to the Son with her hand, Her head is slightly tilted towards Him.
As for the features, they still exist.
Firstly, the figure of the Mother of God has an almost half-length edge. This image is typical for the southern and western Russian iconography of the Mother of God of the 17th century.
Secondly, you can notice that Christ seems to extend a blessing hand forward. Similar or similar compositional solutions are characteristic of other miraculous images of the Virgin Mary, which are geographically connected with Belarus and Ukraine. You can trace this connection by looking at the icons of the Mother of God: “Borkolabovskaya”, “Trigorskaya”, “Poddubetskaya”, “Gerbovetskaya”.
Thirdly, in some cases crowns can be found on the heads of both the Virgin Mary and the Lord. In general, the royal headdress is not uncommon for icons of the Mother of God, but for the Ilinsk-Chernigov icon this is the exception that has become the rule. And that's why. There are no crowns on the original. For the first time they appeared separately, on top of the icon itself, on the frame. Crowns became established in iconography thanks to the author of the 1683 engraving, made for the book of St. Demetrius of Rostov “Irrigated Fleece.”
It is noteworthy that at the turn of the 17th-18th centuries a special edition appeared in Moscow - it quite accurately repeats the miraculous icon of the Trinity-Ilinsky Monastery and its first silver frame.
The upper and side fields of the frame contain allegorical compositions, where the Mother of God is likened to fruitful trees: olive, cedar, palm, cypress.
But the contents of the lower field differ from the original. It has been deliberately changed. If the original frame depicted the coat of arms of Hetman Mazepa, flanked by a military camp illuminated by the moon and a city bathed in the sun, then in the Moscow version there was a Russian coat of arms with the image of the Azov Icon of the Mother of God. On the left is a plan of military operations in Azov, on the right is a panorama of the Trinity-Ilyinsky monastery.
Description of the icon
The icon belongs to the Hodegetria type - the Mother of God is depicted with Christ in her arms in royal robes. This type of icon speaks of the majestic status of the Mother of God and her high position in the heavenly hierarchy.
On the heads of the Virgin Mary and Christ are royal crowns, which serve as a symbol of the Reign. The Infant Christ blesses everyone from the hands of the Mother with a finger directed towards the beholders. The image is painted on a small canvas in bright gold colors, which seem to complement the regal image of the Mother and Child.
How does prayer in front of this icon help?
In the Orthodox tradition, it is not customary to give saints responsibility for well-being in one or another sphere of life. The Lord, the Mother of God, the saints of God hear each and every one, answer, if it is useful, any request. And the Ilyinsk-Chernigov Icon of the Mother of God is confirmation of this.
Saint Demetrius of Rostov in his works “The Miracles of the Most Holy and Blessed Virgin Mary” (Novgorod-Seversky, 1677) and “The Irrigated Fleece” (Chernigov, 1683) wrote that through prayers at this image a variety of miracles happened. Mostly, these were numerous healings from ailments. Again - very different.
By turning to the Mother of God, people who suffered from blindness, leg diseases, rheumatism, relaxation, demonic possession, mental confusion, chronic diseases, paralysis and smallpox recovered. The saint wrote that through this icon the Mother of God saves even from sudden death.
“The end of the book, but not the miracles of the Most Holy Theotokos: who can count me out?” wrote the saint, thus summing up his literary work and pointing to the inexhaustible mercy of the Mother of God.
Icon of the Mother of God of Chernigov-Gethsemane
Service to the Most Holy Theotokos in honor of Her Icon “Chernigov-Gethsemane”
The text was approved by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on April 16, 2016 (magazine No. 15)
The month of September on the 1st day of the New Year of the Church and the celebration of the Most Holy Theotokos, for the sake of Her icon, called the Chernigov Gethsemane
At Great Vespers
To the Lord, I cried: stichera to the Mother of God, tone 2.
Similar to: Where from the Tree:
Joy to all who mourn,/ and the offended to the Representative,/ and the poor to the Nourisher,/ the strange Consolation, and the Rod of the blind,/ the weak Visitation,/ those who labor to the Protection and the Intercessor,/ and the orphans to the Helper,/ Ma You are the Most Pure God, You are the Most Pure One:/ struggling, We pray that Thy servant may be saved. Twice.
To everyone, Your representative as a person,/ Great refuge for everyone,/ Showing Your intercessor to everyone, O Lady, Christian,/ Who from You has been clothed in our confusion/ And crucifixion and death for our sake will raise us up./ That is why Pray unceasingly/for the purification of sins to be sent down to all, O Bride of God. Twice.
There is no other refuge, O Pure One, / to the Creator and the Master are not imams, / unless You, O Bride of God, / do not leave us with Your warm representation, / lower than denying the love that flows to the honest image of Your worship Be still, / from him flow forth the sources of Your mercy for us, / what we need all the days of our life you give.
Glory, voice 6:
Who is united with the Holy Spirit,/ the Beginning Word and the Son,/ all visible and invisible to the Creator and Creator,/ and bless the crown of summer,/ preserving multitudes of Orthodox Christians in the world,/ through the prayers of Bogoro Holy Mother, and all Your saints.
And now, voice 2:
Oh, great mystery!/ Seeing miracles, I preach the Divinity,/ Emmanuel opened the doors of nature, like the Lover of Mankind,/ but the shutters of virginity were not opened, like God,/ but so I passed through the lies As with the ears, / as one is born, as one is conceived / Elistively downstairs and inexpressible,/ according to the verification of the prophet:/ that door of the shutter will be raging, and no one will pass the brilliant,/ Treasurely the Lord God Israel,/ have a faith of the MIRITY.
Also the entrance. Prokeimenon in the afternoon. And readings from the Mother of God.
On the poem there are stichera and the hymn book of the New Year.
And now, voice 6:
Translation of the sorrowing, / Translation of the sick, O Mother of God, All-Singing, / save the city and the people, / those who struggle, peace, those overwhelmed by silence, / One Representative of the faithful.
Troparion of the Indicus and the Theotokos, tone 5:
We crown with praises, Lady Theotokos, / Your crowned Chernigov image, / from it with the appearance of a miracle / in Gethsemane of the land of Radonezh / The Lord bless the crown of the summer of His goodness. / And now We diligently pray to Thee, the All-Tsarina:/ crown with blessings those who sing to Thee.
At Matins
According to the 1st verse of the sedalen, tone 2:
Let us come to the quiet refuge/ and the Intercessor of our family, the Virgin Mary,/ let us bow to Her honest image, tenderly calling:/ look, O Blessed Mother, upon the fierce sorrows that beset us,/ and heal the illnesses of our souls.
According to the 2nd verse of the sedalen, tone 3:
Flowing to Your multi-healing image, Virgin Theotokos,/ all of you, the Representative of Christians,/ to Your Son and our God, ever pray to Your hand for us, O All-Immaculate One,/ and save Eat from troubles by faith and love of the Theotokos who honor Thee.
According to polyeleos sedalen, tone 5:
The suffering wife, overcome by a serious illness,/ came to Your most pure image, O Mother of God,/ humbly created a tearful prayer,/ asking for a tribute of celibate medicine,/ and in her hope, not according to disgraced from leaving,/ convening the faithful to glorify the Source of healings:/ come and see, even do the Lord, / through the intercession of His Most Pure Mother.
According to Psalm 50, stichera, tone 6: No other help:
Canon to the Mother of God, tone 2.
Song 1
Irmos: Come, people,/ let us sing a song to Christ God,/ who divided the sea and taught the people,/ which I learned from the work of Egypt,/ as if I have become glorified.
Patroness of the monastery of Gethsemane, You are the Mother of God, / help us to glorify You, / and grant the resolution of sins to those who piously worship Your image.
Just as you, O Lady, listened to the prayers of your lying wife on the bed of illness, / so do not reject our humble sighing, / but, having interceded yourself, deliver your servants from evil circumstances.
The monastery of Gethsemane will tell, even from Your image there were miracles, / because a fountain has become, flowing healing streams abundantly, / by faith calling on Your name, O Mother of God.
Oh, All-Singing Mother, suffering wife, she spoke, / grant me healing, and, having risen, I will worship your holy image. / But you, bowing to her prayer, / granted your request, O Most Pure One.
Katavasia: Having drawn the cross, Moses:
Song 3
Irmos: The firmament of us is in You, Lord, / With the tree that puts to death sin, / and Your fear planted / in the hearts of us who sing to You.
I praise you, faithful, acquisitive, / refuge and confirmation and joy, and salvation of souls, / hope and wall, protection and intercession, God-gracious Lady.
The Most Pure Mother of Spasova does not fall asleep for us in prayers/ and shows Her wonderful mercy to all who come in faith/ and love to Her holy image.
Bow down to the prayers of Your servants, O Lady, / and do not become stubborn, deliver us from the troubles and sorrows that will support us, / the visible and invisible enemies of marriage, / so that we may not perish evilly, curses.
With Your merciful and meek eye, Mother of God, / look upon us, unworthy, / and from the misfortune of the present freedom, / calling upon You for help, O All-Pure One.
Sedalen, voice 4:
We remember Your mercy, O Lady, / and reverently kiss Your miraculous image, / as we think of You abiding in the midst of us and cry out to You in faith: / Your Son and Lord and/ let His commandments teach us to always do,/ and overcome evil temptations,/ and You, our Representative, are worthy to sing and praise forever.
Song 4
Irmos: I have heard, O Lord, Thy voice, which thou hast spoken,/ the voice of one crying in the wilderness,/ as thou thundered over many waters,/ Thou hast testified unto Thy Son,/ all having been the descended Spirit, cried out ́:/ You are Christ, God's Wisdom and Power .
Most Pure Lady, we ask you to accept this tree from You today, / grant us this miracle-working icon from Yours, / strengthen our weak will, / and the desire for heavenly blessings in our hearts.
I give you hope for salvation, unceasing prayer, the imam’s firm intercession:/ be compassionate and see our unbearable sadness, illness and sorrow/ and graciously visit, Mother of God,/ weaken with which they serve.
In your sorrows, the Intercessor of the money-grubber, Lady,/ even now help us, fiercely overwhelmed,/ extending a helping hand, Pure One:/ be merciful to our illness, Mother of God,/ heal Serving quickly.
Humble, O Lady, the exalted neck of the enemies,/ tame the advice of those and the malicious hearts,/ grant strength to those who call on Thee, Mother of God,/ granting a quick victory.
Song 5
Irmos: Thou gavet to God and man, O Christ God, / For by You, O Master, to Thy Father of Light / from the night of ignorance / bringing the imam.
For many years, a wife bound by a serious illness, having improved her health by You,/ convenes the faithful to glorify Your wonderful work, O Mother of God, calling:/ Rejoice, Source of gifts, B blessed Virgin.
The relaxed wife recognized the unsearchable abyss of Your mercy, / before Your holy icon, she brought a fervent prayer to You, / and, having received healing from her illness, / returned to her home in good health. Xia, praising You.
Your sacred icon / another font of Siloam appeared, O Lady, / cleansing and healing illnesses of souls and bodies, / coming to her with faith / and magnifying You with love.
Let us approach, faithful ones, with love the miraculous image of the Ever-Virgin/ and reverently worship it,/ for in it the power of the All-Blessed Lady manifests miracles and saves everything,/ with undoubted faith we worship those who Her likeness is Her pure face.
Song 6
Irmos: Lying in the abyss of sin, / I call upon the unsearchable abyss of Thy mercy: / from aphids, O God, lift me up.
Deliver us from misfortunes and troubles, Bride of God, / For God has arranged for You as an Intercessor for our salvation and intercession. / For this reason, intercede for us, unworthy, / from the sorrow of sin.
We sing to Thee and worship Thee, Our Lady of God, / through faith and love, preaching many and glorious miracles, / from Thy icon, the miraculous manifestations. / Moreover, deliver us from all troubles.
O Thy compassion, O Pure Virgin!/ Thou freest from immeasurable sorrows and misfortunes in the needs and circumstances of those who call upon Thee./ Even now, O Blessed One, be our Intercessor.
Know our infirmities, O Mother of God,/ heal our spiritual ailments,/ let us glorify Your Son and our God,/ as the Physician of all.
Kontakion, tone 8:
Let us pray, faithfully, to the multi-healing image of our Intercessor, the Mother of God Mary,/ and, falling to it with love, with our face:/ O, All-Singing Mother, look upon us, unworthy, with Your mercy,/ and show us Your mercy and bounty:/ in healing of illnesses, consolation in sorrows, intercession in troubles/ and save us all, who trust in Thee, let us call Thee:/ Rejoice, O Virgin, intercession of Christians.
Ikos:
For you have received the gift, Mother of God, to heal all Christians’ ailments, / to deliver from troubles, to save from captivity and to intercede from enemies; / do not despise us, O All-Merciful Lady, Mother of God, who cry to You: / Ra Pout, angels' surprise; Rejoice, consolation of peace. Rejoice, Christian joy; Rejoice, affirmation of the monks. Rejoice, strengthening of those who strive; Rejoice, Joy to those who mourn. Rejoice, healing of the sick; Rejoice, admonition of those who have gone astray. Rejoice, Quencher of sorrows; Rejoice, Virgin, Christian intercessor.
Song 7
Irmos: Yes, Thy glorious Nativity, O Christ, which is from the Virgin, / foreshadowed in reality, / You kept the youths burning in the cave, / singing songs to You: / God of the fathers, blessed are you.
Show Your speedy intercession, O Lady, / You can, as the Mother of God. / Moreover, we call on You with our hearts, with tears falling / and place our undoubted hope in You.
You are the good hope and the Intercessor of the faithful, O Lady:/ for this reason we pray to you to grant rich mercy to all/ who trust in you and call:/ blessed is she who gave birth to God in the flesh.
This is the only hope and help of the faithful, O Mother of God, / seeking help for Your servant, overcome by sorrows and in sins, / who resort to You through love.
Oh, wondrous miracle!/ Relaxed Godly woman,/ kissing Thy celibate icon, Mother of God,/ soon felt the strength of the body and cried out gratefully:/ Blessed art Thou, Most Pure One.
Song 8
Irmos: Into the fiery furnace of the Jewish youths who descended/ and the flame into the dew of the Lord,/ sing the works of the Lord,/ and exalt them unto all ages.
Our refuge and joy to the world, O Mother of God, have mercy and quickly grant Thy grace to us, the sorrowful, and intercede, O Good One, Thy servants.
O Theotokos, / in all sorrows and in various illnesses, / troubles and cruel circumstances, hasten to hear thee with all my soul, / delivering them continually through thy prayers.
Immortality is the dawn and the source of salvation for us, Thee, Mother of God, / who gave birth to the Father of the Immortal Word, / who delivers all from death, / who exalt Him forever.
Save Thy servants from evils and sorrows, O Mother of God, / and grant the peace of God, which exceeds every earthly world, / to Thy servants who praise Thee.
Song 9
Irmos: Every tongue does not know how to praise according to its heritage, / but the mind and the worldly one sing to You, Mother of God: / both, O good being, accept faith, / for love weighs our divine, / You Because you are the Representative of Christians, we magnify You.
In our prayers, let us all call upon the everlasting Pure Mother of God, crying out:/ Deliver Thy servant from cruel death and the fire of Gehenna,/ For Thou art the Representative of Christians, We magnify Thee.
For those who are desperate, you are a strong refuge, / for those who are overwhelmed, you are a quiet refuge, O Mother of God. / In the same way, we flow to You, crying out: / save us, who zealously magnify You.
Do not cease, Pure One, praying from You to the God born/ for all who flow to You with faith/ and ask for deliverance/ For You are the Representative of Christians, We magnify You.
You have received a gift from God, as the Mother of God, / to heal ailments and deliver from troubles, / to beg for sins and to save from captivity. / Do not despise us, Lady Most Merciful, / For you are the Representative of Christians, T I am magnified.
Luminous indicta.
Glory, and now, to the Mother of God:
This day of faith, having come, / worship worthy of Thy, Most Pure One, they bring to the image, / of Thy protection and intercession, asking and calling: / bring Thy warm prayer for us to Thy Son and our God eing.
On praising those stichera are self-concordant with indicta.
Also the stichera of the Mother of God, tone 1.
Similar to: Oh, wondrous miracle:
Oh, wondrous miracle!/ Source of healings,/ Your honest image seemed faithful, O Lady,/ flowing out healing to ailing bodies,/ and quenching mental illnesses,/ for this sake of all earthly creatures, / reverently kissing Your image, / from the depths of the soul they bring You praise singing, crying out:/ Rejoice, O full of grace,/ through you the Lord/ gives with faith to those who come, mercy and healing.
Oh, wondrous miracle!/ You, the Most Pure One, appeared to the faithful to be an adornment:/ fulfillment to the prophet,/ glory to the apostle,/ fertilizer to the martyr,/ praise to the virgins/ and wonderful Covering to the whole world./ Coverings Oh, Lady, by Your mercy/ by faith, those who worship Your honest image/ and with love before him they cry to You:/ Rejoice, O Lord, with You,/ Give the world great mercy through You.
Oh, Most Merciful Lady!/ Your intercession for us to the Lord is marvelous,/ day and night you stand before the Throne of Your Son,/ stretching out your prayers for us to Him/ and asking the source of mercy to open cabbage soup,/ singing of praise from the depths of the soul to those who bring you:/ rejoice , O blessed one,/ for your sake the Lord/ turns righteous anger into mercy.
Glory, indicta. And now, tone 8:
Mistress, accept the prayers of Your servant/ and deliver us from all need and sorrow.
The same great praise and dismissal
At the Liturgy
Prokeimenon indicta, tone 3: Our Lord is great, and His strength is great, and His understanding is without number. Verse: Praise the Lord, for the psalm is good. And the Mother of God prokeimenon, tone 3: My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior:
The Apostle to Timothy, conceived 282. And the Mother of God, to Philippisi, conceived 240.
Alleluia, tone 4: A song becomes for you, O God, in Zion. Verse: Bless the crown of the summer of Your goodness, Lord. And the Mother of God: Hear, Daughter, and see and incline Your ear.
Gospel of Luke, concept 13. And the Mother of God: Luke, concept 54.
Indication is involved: Bless the crown of the summer of Thy goodness, Lord. And the Mother of God: I will accept the cup of salvation and call on the Name of the Lord.
Menea. September 1st. Celebration of the Most Holy Theotokos for the sake of Her icon, called “Chernigov Gethsemane”
