In front of which icons to pray for God to give children

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Until a certain time, young couples do not think about children at all, and the absence of children does not bother them at all. Not many spouses want to have a child in the first years of marriage. On the contrary, almost everyone carefully selects different methods of contraception to prevent unwanted pregnancy. But age still has its prerogative. A man is no longer bothered by thoughts about children, and a woman already wants to become a mother, looking at her peers with children.

Happy are those couples who managed to conceive a child without difficulty. They don’t even think that they are very lucky. But in some families, the wait for a child can drag on for many years. In such families, emotional showdowns and worries often occur, people try to heal, and in some cases, complete despair sets in. But there is no need to despair. It is important to believe and turn your requests and prayers to the icon in order to become pregnant and give birth to a healthy child.

Icon about the gift of children

The main defender of the human race before the Lord has always been the Mother of God. We always go to her with our troubles, doubts, illnesses and infertility too. A sincere, pure prayer to the Mother of God for pregnancy can help you solve this problem. In addition, there is a lot of evidence that after turning to St. Mary, girls conceived when doctors diagnosed them with infertility.

Today there are many images of the Blessed Virgin Mary. More often she is depicted with the Child of God, but there are examples where the Mother of God is depicted alone. The name of many images comes from the place where the shrine was found.

How does the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Unexpected Joy” help?

The “Unexpected Joy” icon is a truly universal divine answer to those praying. She is asked for almost everything, and she helps even inveterate sinners and yesterday's atheists.

Most often, a wonderful image is asked for:

• healing from mental and physical illnesses;
• the sending of healthy children and easy childbirth;
• health and admonition of children;
• returning the lost to the true path;
• reconciliation with relatives and friends;
• consolation in sorrows and sorrows;
• looking for a way out of a difficult life situation;
• getting rid of sinful thoughts and so on.

The Heavenly Intercessor intercedes with the Savior for each of us. And he, out of respect for his mother and love for the human race, atones for our sins and saves our souls.

Icons for conceiving a child

Women who want to turn to the icon of the Mother of God with prayer for the birth of a child need to know which of them help most often. It is these images of the Heavenly Virgin that the people called miraculous. There are five such images in Russia. All of them are very revered and famous. Today, there is a lot of evidence of miracles performed by these holy objects, which help us communicate with God.

List of miraculous images of the Holy Mother of God for the birth of a child:

• "Assistance in childbirth";
• Feodorovskaya icon of the Mother of God;
• "Mammal"
• Georgian icon of the Holy Virgin;
• "Baby Leap"

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In order for your prayer to be definitely heard, you need to turn to the Mother of God with a pure, sincere heart and thoughts. It is also best to ask for help from the Saint in the temple in front of the original shrine. But most often we simply don’t have enough time for this. Or the miraculous images are so far away that there is no way to get there. In this case, you can turn to the lists of saints. Many of them have no less miraculous power than the originals.

Prayer for conceiving a girl

For all women, motherhood is the most important task in life. If a woman does not realize herself as a mother, then over time she becomes simply unbearable, hating everyone, including children, bitchy and angry.

A family planning a child does not always understand that this process is natural and can be complicated by various problems. If the couple is a believer, then there is an opinion that God sends children at the most favorable time. Basically, the message to the Almighty should be about health, a prayer for conceiving a healthy child, a girl or a boy - it doesn’t matter.

After several years of unsuccessful attempts to conceive a child and visits to the doctor, the couple, in desperation, begin to look for other methods and methods that would help fulfill the dream of becoming parents.

There are many different methods on the Internet that at first glance are very effective, but not all of them help in reality. When all methods have been tried, but pregnancy still does not occur, it is worth turning to God, perhaps prayer for conceiving a girl will help desperate people.

Where are the lists of icons for the birth of a child?

• Assistance in childbirth to
  the Georgian Mother of God can be prayed at the Church of the Intercession on Vorontsovo Field (Moscow);
• In the monastery of St. Nicholas you can see the Feodorovskaya icon of the Mother of God (Moscow);
• You can pray in front of the “Mammal” in the city of Tula;
• In the Novodevichy Church you can find “The Leaping of the Baby” (Moscow);
• “Help in Childbirth” is located in Serpukhov.

In addition to the revered images listed above, there are many more icons of the Heavenly Queen, to which people come with prayers for a successful pregnancy. There were many cases when these shrines saved marriages, families and people's lives, when modern medicine refused to help and threw up its hands.

Recommended for visiting:

• Holy Trinity Convent in Murom: relics of Peter and Fevronia;
• Moscow Conception Monastery: icon of the conception of the righteous Anna, the miraculous belt of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the “Merciful” icon;
• Moscow Church of the Life-Giving Trinity (Art. “China-Gorod”): miraculous “Georgian” icon of the Mother of God;
• Chapel of St. Xenia of Petersburg in St. Petersburg;
• Moscow Intercession Monastery with the relics of St. Matrona;
• the source of St. Paraskeva in Crimea;
• source of St. Anna in Pochaev.

If it is not possible to visit holy places, you can order prayer memorials at shrines on the websites of monasteries. In the Conception Monastery, childless couples are sent blessed sashes. Send your request to the monastery address

A mother’s prayer for her daughter, for conceiving a child, should be like the prayer of the righteous Joachim and Anna. Being in their old age, they did not lose hope and prayed to the Lord for the gift of a child. God sent them a Daughter - Ever-Virgin Mary.

Which icon to pray to during pregnancy?

1. The prayer before the “Quick to Hear” is addressed largely with the hope of grace-filled help in pregnancy and the birth of a healthy child;
2. “Healer” helps preserve the health of the one who prays or his loved ones, friends, and relatives. This image also serves to give birth to healthy children;
3. People turn to Serafimo-Diveevskaya if any women’s problems arise: miscarriage, women’s diseases, infertility, assistance in conception or difficult pregnancy. People often turn to her with requests for a safe birth;
4. They pray before the image of the Mother of God “Unexpected Joy” when there is no hope left. And if your pure, sincere request is heard, you will have unexpected joy;
5. The Mother of God “Quench My Sorrows” has always helped to treat illnesses of a person’s body and soul, bringing hope and faith to his home. This is exactly what women who want to have children need. As the Queen of Heaven said: “It will be given to them through faith and prayer.”

Prayer to the Mother of God to preserve pregnancy:

“Oh, Virgin Mother of God, Most Holy Mother of our Most High Lord, our hasty intercessor, I turn to You and come running with sincere faith. Look from the heights of heavenly majesty at me, God’s sinful servant (name), I fall before the holy icon, hear my humble prayer. I ask, pray to Your Son to illuminate my dark soul with the light of Divine grace and may he cleanse my mind from black thoughts, may he calm my suffering heart and heal its deep wounds. May he enlighten me, his servant (name), to all sorts of good deeds and strengthen common sense, may he forgive all the evil I have done and deliver me from eternal torment and not deprive me of His Heavenly Kingdom. Oh, Most Pure Mother of God, You commanded those who command everyone to come to You with pure faith, do not let me perish in the deep abyss of my grave sins. I trust in You and hope for salvation, and I entrust myself to Your protection forever. I thank and glorify our God for sending me immeasurable marital happiness. I pray, Most Holy Virgin, only through Your prayers will the Lord God send me and my husband the long-awaited child, may God grant me the fruit of my womb. May it be established by the will of God and for His glory. Exchange the sorrow of our souls for parental joy. Amen".

Do everything in your power to bow before one of these revered, miraculous icons. And then you will find hope and long-awaited help in your desire to have your own child.

Cases of miraculous healings

Here are a few cases of miraculous pregnancy.

1. A woman lived for 8 years with a diagnosis of infertility, but after much prayer to the Mammal Mother, pregnancy occurred.
2. Another woman also turned to the image of the “Mammal Mother” and was able to bear a healthy child. Before the prayer, the woman experienced several missed pregnancies and one miscarriage.

Of course, there are different life situations and it is not always possible to go to the temple where the desired icon is kept. Don’t be upset, you can buy a reproduction or embroidery of an icon consecrated in the temple.

It is placed in a place of honor - in the corner of the room, near the bed, hung on the wall and prayed to until pregnancy occurs. After conception, you must place a candle in front of the icon and thank the saint or the Mother of God for the fact that your prayers were heard.

Which icon to pray to give birth to a healthy child

In addition to the images of the Mother of God with the Child of God, in the Orthodox Church there are many faces depicting Martyrs, Saints, Righteous and Blessed. These images are also very much revered by people. Many offer their prayers to them in the hope of intercession.

Here is a list of images of Saints that can help in healing from illness, infertility, and conceiving and giving birth to a healthy child:

1. Matrona of Moscow is the most famous saint who always helped all those in need, especially women;
2. Ksenia of Petersburg - prayers to this image can protect against many troubles in family life. Women often turn to her asking for a successful marriage, peace in the family, the opportunity to become pregnant and have children;
3. Luka Krymsky;
4. Alexander Svirsky;
5. Blessed Seraphim of Sarov.
6. Righteous Anna and Joachim.

The image of the Venerable Xenia of St. Petersburg is in almost every church of Orthodox believers. Turning to the Saint can help in many problems of family life.

Many women pray before this saint in the hope of getting peace in the family, young girls wish for a good marriage and a successful husband, women kneel before her face in the hope of finding their child or asking for protection in a difficult pregnancy. Many people say that prayer before a saint can give children. This shrine is revered not only in Russia, but throughout the world, because it helps in bereavements.

One of the most popular icons during pregnancy and childbirth among Orthodox believers is the image of the Holy Matrona of Moscow. This image is very revered. Since childhood, the saint received the gift of spiritual vision from the Lord, although the girl herself was blind from birth.

They say that Matrona began to work miracles even before her birth. When the saint's mother became pregnant, she immediately decided to give the child to an orphanage, since the family was very poor. But one day in a dream the born Matrona came to her, turned into a white bird with the face of a man and sat on her hand. Matrona’s mother considered this dream prophetic and did not send her daughter to the shelter.

Little Matrona always sought to serve the Lord. She always went to the corner to the holy images and icons. She played with them and constantly went to church services. The mother always felt sorry for the girl, although she claimed that she had been given more than the rest. When she grew up, she dedicated her life to serving God and helping those in need. She always helped people. She even predicted fate for some.

When the Blessed One died, she did not stop fulfilling people’s sincere requests for intercession, help, and healing. People turned to her with prayerful words and were always heard. They say that the Blessed One helps everyone, but especially women turn to her with their family, everyday problems or with requests for marriage, pregnancy or the birth of healthy children.

Prayer to Matrona of Moscow about pregnancy:

“Oh, blessed Matrona, accustomed all her life to receive and listen to the suffering and needy, hear and accept me, unworthy, praying to You. May your mercy towards me, unworthy and sinful, not become scarce even now. I pray that you heal the illness of God’s servant (name) and God’s servant (spouse’s name), deliver us from the torment and temptations of the devil, help us carry the Cross of life. Beg the Almighty Lord to have mercy on us, to forgive all sins, anger, hatred, insults and dirty thoughts, beg Him to give us a new life, a healthy and kind girl. We trust and hope in You and our God to have strong and unfeigned love for all our neighbors. Amen"

Of course, we have not listed the entire list of images that can help during pregnancy and childbirth. Remember that prayer to the Saints can work real miracles. And to find lists of holy faces, just visit the nearest temple.

Recommendations for turning to icons with a request for the gift of children:

• It is better to pray in silence and alone;
• The prayer begins by lighting a candle;
• Don't stop praying after giving birth;
• Thank your intercessors;
• If you haven't gotten married in a church, get married. Many people managed to become parents after this;
• Prayer must be from a pure heart.

God bless you!

Watch the video prayer to the Lord for the gift of children:

Mantra for conceiving a girl by the righteous Anna and Joachim

Orthodox couples who do not have children often pray to the righteous Anna and Joachim, who are the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary. These people could not conceive a child for a long time and had already lost faith in such a possibility, but a miracle happened. At an old age they became the parents of a girl.

To summarize, it must be said that not only the prayers indicated in the Holy Book, but also words composed independently have great power. The main thing is to put your soul and heart into them. Prayer will help if it comes sincerely and with good thoughts of both future parents.