Akathist “Seeking the Lost” to the Mother of God: read the text and listen to the performance

Text of the akathist to the icon of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost”

Kontakion 1

To the chosen Voivode, the Queen of heaven and earth, who gave us the most wonderful icon of the Seeking One, we offer thanksgiving singing. But You, as a gracious Mother, do not reject our prayer, but have the good will to accept it, and grant us the opportunity to cry out to You like this:

Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, all-merciful Mother, seeking the lost.

Ikos 1

Saint Anna heard the angelic voice and said: conceive and give birth to the Daughter, blessed Mary, through her the whole tribe of the earth will be blessed and salvation will come to the whole world; We, who know this, will cry out to the Mother of God:

Rejoice, Mother of the Son of God; Rejoice, most immaculate Virgin.
Rejoice, Thou who gave birth to the Savior of our souls; Rejoice, uncontainable container.
Rejoice, good will towards mortals; Rejoice, mortals have boldness towards God.
Rejoice, most honest cherub; Rejoice, most glorious seraphim without comparison.
Rejoice, trampling on hell and death; Rejoice, gift of eternal life.
Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, all-merciful Mother, seeking the lost.

Kontakion 2

Having seen Your holy parents Joachim and Anna, as You are, the Most Pure One, the blessed fruit, they gave thanks to God, and before the doors of the temple they made a vow to dedicate You to the Lord, singing to Him: Hallelu ia.

Ikos 2

You have acquired perfect intelligence, O Mother of God, having been brought up in the Holy of Holies, so do not cease to make wise and enlighten with the light of God’s understanding all Christians who cry out to You like this:

Rejoice, you who lead to the knowledge of God; Rejoice, you who turn the deceived to the light of truth.
Rejoice, instilling the fear of God in hearts; Rejoice, you who teach us to revere the holy thing.
Rejoice, inspiring zeal for salvation; Rejoice, thou who inspirest to honor the temples of God.
Rejoice, you can find inspiring joy in them; Rejoice, thou who arouse the thirst for Holy Communion.
Rejoice, igniting faith and love for God; Rejoice, champion of purity and chastity.
Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, all-merciful Mother, seeking the lost.

Kontakion 3

The Power of the Most High Autumn of You, O Gracious One, when the Archangel Gabriel brought the gospel of the seedless conception from You of the Son of God the Savior to the world; But you, having received this good news with humility, as a servant of the Lord, cried out to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 3

Having in the womb of Christ the Giver of Life, You rose up, O Blessed One, to Your little wife, the righteous Elizabeth, and kissed both mothers, rejoicing in God our Savior. For this reason, as to the source of holy joy, we cry out to You:

Rejoice, you who make our hard life easier; Rejoice, you who drive away cruel troubles and misfortunes.
Rejoice, you who save us from mental anguish and despondency; Rejoice, you who show God's trials for good.
Rejoice, you who give consolation in the midst of suffering; Rejoice, for through You our good desire is fulfilled.
Rejoice, for through You our evil undertakings are stopped; Rejoice, Thy Mother of Fire warming the love of the souls of the faithful.
Rejoice, thou who illuminatest us with the grace of the Holy Spirit; Rejoice, gracious Mother of all who mourn and are oppressed.
Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, all-merciful Mother, seeking the lost.

Kontakion 4

A storm of bewilderment confuses my mind, how can I praise You with unworthy lips, Most Holy Virgin, for Your great help to us; Moreover, magnified by Your innumerable mercies, I humbly sing to the Almighty God: Alleluia.

Ikos 4

Hearing in Bethlehem the shepherd of angels singing the Nativity of Christ, he flowed to the cave, finding there the Mother of God holding the Eternal Child in her arms. With them in spiritual joy we also offer you, as a common Mother, the following verb:

Rejoice, education of infants; Rejoice, O youth of the giver of meaning.
Rejoice, greatness of good deeds; Rejoice, you who enrich mature men with wisdom.
Rejoice, thou who endows life with humility and meekness; Rejoice, sweet tranquility to the reverent elders.
Rejoice, quiet refuge of the kind-loving elders; Rejoice, establishment of honest marriages.
Rejoice, blessing upon pious families; Rejoice, praise and exaltation of virginity.
Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, all-merciful Mother, seeking the lost.

Kontakion 5

You are a God-rich star, O Queen of Heaven, to all who come running under Your omnipotent roof and continually cry out to God with tender hearts: Alleluia.

Ikos 5

Seeing the righteous Simeon come with the Baby Jesus in the temple, he presented himself to the Lord, saying: A weapon will pierce your very soul, foreseeing your maternal suffering for your Son, God. ́stvenem. For this reason we call Ti:

Rejoice, encouragement to the ridiculed servants of God; Rejoice, you who stand for the defense of truth.
Rejoice, you who delight the patient sufferers with the anticipation of bliss in heaven; Rejoice, hearts of evil people, hostile, softening.
Rejoice, thou who destroyest evil counsel and their deceit; Rejoice, you who protect us from robbers along the way.
Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, all-merciful Mother, seeking the lost.

Kontakion 6

Preachers of Your grace-filled help, all the multitude of those saved by You are: the suffering, the sick, the grieving and those burdened with sin, who cry out to God with gratitude for You: Alleluia.

Ikos 6

The divine light appeared in Egypt and the idols fell there, when you fled, the Most Pure One, with the Infant Jesus, fleeing from the murder of Herod; For You, illuminating the minds of all the retreating delights of the vanity world with the light of God, plucking from their souls the idols of the destructive passions nesting there, we also extol You with these words:

Rejoice, admonishment for those who doubt their faith; Rejoice, you who are proud to bring humility to your minds.
Rejoice, taming those embittered and scorched by anger; Rejoice, reconciliation of those who grumble at God’s providence with the hardships of life.
Rejoice, you who guide those who are lost on the path of salvation; Rejoice, shame on the superstitious and fortune tellers.
Rejoice, reproof of the corrupt and wicked; Rejoice, for you have cast down the harmful teachings.
Rejoice, for you help us to know the truth; Rejoice, for you dispel the darkness of blasphemy, blasphemy and all lies.
Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, all-merciful Mother, seeking the lost.

Kontakion 7

Although you were no longer separated from the Savior of the world born by You, You, the God-blessed One, remained with Him inseparably in the city of Nazareth, raising children and feeding Him as a Man, and singing in the heart To our own, as to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 7

Showing a new motherly love for Your Son, with sorrow you sought Him, the youth of two decades, in the city of Jerusalem on the holiday of Easter, imagining Him to be in the army. Leading this is Your compassion, with tenderness we cry out to You:

Rejoice, you who lift up the offended and distressed; Rejoice, you who crown those hated and rejected by all with honor.
Rejoice, garment of the poor and naked; Rejoice, food for the poor and ruined.
Rejoice, charity for the homeless, the strange, widows and orphans; Rejoice, those who travel will return safely to home.
Rejoice, you have brought those who are lost on their way to their home; Rejoice, renewing the minds of foolish children.
Rejoice, you who do not abandon your help to the minds and morals of ordinary people; Rejoice, joy for those who trust in the will of God.
Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, all-merciful Mother, seeking the lost.

Kontakion 8

Your strange and wonderful care was for Christians on all the paths of their life, many rebellious and difficult ones; Having in You only a merciful and unenvious helper, all Your blessings loudly sing to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 8

You were all with Christ, always serving the human race, as the divine Luke narrates. For I came to Thy Son, saying: Thy Mother and Thy brethren stand outside, wanting to see Thee. We imagine that You, O all-merciful Mother, constantly remain with all those who work for the glory of God and those who praise You like this:

Rejoice, teaching those in power to the triumph of goodness; Rejoice, you who demonstrate the rule of faith and piety to the saints.
Rejoice, you who supply shepherds with zeal for the salvation of the souls of their spiritual children; Rejoice, master of perfect understanding.
Rejoice, progress in science for those who study; Rejoice, helping monks and nuns in the fight against the world and the flesh.
Rejoice, judge of the holy mirror of truth; Rejoice, skillful physician in healing the sick.
Rejoice, co-worker of the farmers and good helper; Rejoice, peace and safe haven for all who labor.
Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, all-merciful Mother, seeking the lost.

Kontakion 9

Every age of the faithful benefits from Your care, all-merciful Mother, as those who always resort to You provide soul-helping gifts that are needed in life, and You earnestly intercede for us, the weak and the sinful. standing at the throne of the Lord of glory, to Him we sing: Alleluia.

Ikos 9

The vitiations of many things cannot express Your motherly sorrow, which was at the cross of Your Son, when You saw Him suffering for all men with unspeakable torments; Moreover, as if we were tempted in all sorts of ways, help us to endure the most difficult sorrows and hardships. For this reason we call upon You:

Rejoice, sight for the blind; Rejoice to the deaf who hear.
Rejoice, lame walker; Rejoice, healing of those who are weakened by the body.
Rejoice, health to the sick; Rejoice, deliverance from colds from demons.
Rejoice, enlightenment of those damaged by the mind; Rejoice, thou who receivest the incurable sick into thy all-powerful hand.
Rejoice, you who do not reject the prayers of desperate sinners; Rejoice, you who snatch them away from their destructive lack of will.
Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, all-merciful Mother, seeking the lost.

Kontakion 10

Although the Lord, who was on the cross, saved the world from all others, he gave to the whole world the most holy, most merciful Mother, who always spoke to the most immaculate and beloved disciple: Woman, behold your son, and: Behold your mother. Thanks to the all-good God for this, the verb to Him is: Alleluia.

Ikos 10

The strong wall appeared to you according to the covenant of the Lord, O Blessed One, giving to all prosperity, peace, consolation, joy, as you yourself received from the risen Christ the Savior, having heard from Him greeting voice:

Rejoice, for all your family pleases You; Rejoice, thou who tames all hatred and malice.
Rejoice, instilling peace about the Holy Spirit in the hearts of the faithful; Rejoice, destroyer of slander, jealousy and rancor.
Rejoice, you who suffer from brotherly love; Rejoice, protector from famine, cold, cowardice, flood, fire, and sword.
Rejoice, you who feed the faithful with their daily bread; Rejoice, you who stop the deadly plague.
Rejoice, quenching the righteous wrath of God; Rejoice, haste of righteous deeds.
Rejoice, there is providence on all the paths of life for Christians; Rejoice, you who console parents with the good behavior of their children.
Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, all-merciful Mother, seeking the lost.

Kontakion 11

Our humble singing, offered to You out of the fullness of love and zeal, do not despise, O Bride of God, and do not turn away from us, sinners and unworthy, but help us to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, so that it may be possible Let us sing to God worthily and righteously: Alleluia.

Ikos 11

You appeared as a guiding light as an apostle, Mother of God, after the ascension of Your Son into heaven; Therefore, O All-Singing One, do not deprive everyone of this light, even those who have remained to this day and want to be saved and come to the understanding of the truth. By Your holy guidance, save us, in the sea of life, overwhelmed by worries, but from the heart we bring You the following praises:

Rejoice, thou who burnest up unclean thoughts; Rejoice, you who drive away temptations and temptations from us.
Rejoice, you who strive for repentance and correction of our lives; Rejoice, you who wash away the abyss of our iniquities with tears of contrition.
Rejoice, you who help us to remain spiritually awake; Rejoice, you who lead the faithful to sobriety and prayer.
Rejoice, you who prepare the bliss of the spirit for those; Rejoice, clear strengthening of the ascetics of piety.
Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, all-merciful Mother, seeking the lost.

Kontakion 12

Ask us for divine grace from Your Son and God, extend a helping hand, so that we do not perish in sins and cruel circumstances that come upon us from enemies visible and invisible; Pacify our hearts, filled with malice and enmity, and be comforted by You, we joyfully call to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 12

Singing Your honorable dormition, we glorify Your holy protection, spread over the whole world, especially the Christian race, which glorifies You in this way:

Rejoice, you who prepare us through repentance for the departure from this life; Rejoice, you who cleanse us from sins through illness.
Rejoice, for you have saved the faithful from vain death; Rejoice, for you have granted the last parting advice to those worthy.
Rejoice, you who remove mortal fear from those; Rejoice, you who send speedy release of the soul from the body in the throes of death to those who are in the throes of death.
Rejoice, granter of the peaceful end of our lives; Rejoice, deliverer of bitter ordeals.
Rejoice, you who do not deprive us of Christian burial; Rejoice, to the Lord, Your Son, who stands for us.
Rejoice, you who remain with us both in life and in death; Rejoice, our joy, who opens the doors of heaven to us.
Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, all-merciful Mother, seeking the lost.

Kontakion 13

O Lady of the world! Accept this small gratitude of ours, offered to You from the bottom of my heart, and do not allow us to grow cold in this grateful feeling, but admonish us to always remember Your innumerable mercies and with tears cry out to God about You with tenderness: Alleluia.

This kontakion is read three times, then the 1st ikos “The Angel Hearing...” and the 1st kontakion “To the Chosen Voevoda...”.

First prayer

Oh, Most Holy and Most Blessed Virgin, Lady Theotokos! Look with Your merciful eye on us, standing before Your holy icon and praying to You with tenderness, raise us from the depths of sin, enlighten our minds, darkened by passions, and heal the ulcers of our souls and bodies. shih. Not the imams of other help, not the imams of other hope, do You, the Lady, weigh all our infirmities and sins? We resort to You and cry: do not forsake us with Your Heavenly help, but present We are blessed with Your ineffable mercy and generosity, save and have mercy on us , perishing. Grant us correction of our sinful life and deliver us from sorrows, troubles and illnesses, from vain death, hell and eternal torment. You, Queen and Lady, are a quick Helper and Intercessor to all who flow to You, and a strong refuge for repentant sinners. Grant us, O Most Blessed and All-Immaculate Virgin, the Christian end of our life, peaceful and shameless, and grant us, through Your intercession, to dwell in the abodes of Heaven, where the unceasing voice of the Lord those who need with joy glorify the Most Holy Trinity, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever , and forever and ever. Amen.

Second prayer

Zealous intercessor, Compassionate Mother of the Lord, I resort to You, the accursed one and the most sinful man above all, hear the voice of my prayer, hear my cry and groaning, for my iniquity has surpassed My head is mine, and I, like a ship in the depths, am plunging into the sea of my sins . But You, All-merciful and Merciful Lady, do not despise me, desperate and perishing in sins; have mercy on me, who repent of my evil deeds, and turn my lost, damned soul to the right path. On You, my Lady Theotokos, I place all my hope. Thou, Mother of God, preserve and keep me under Thy roof, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Prayer three

O Most Holy Virgin Mary, most merciful Mother of all Christians, especially those who grieve, those who are persecuted and those who are overcome by various ailments! I, poor and poor in soul and body, stand before Your holy image with tears and tenderly ask for Your gracious care, for there is nothing good and good in me: I am completely covered with infirmities, poverty and squalor; My feet have no shoes on, so that I might hasten to do holy and godly deeds; My hands are dirty from the many iniquities I have committed; My eyes are downcast from uncleanness of conscience, they will not be able to look at the splendor of Your beauty; my face is darkened and speckled with the mark of my countless vices and falls. I have neither saving faith nor consoling hope, less than gracious love.

I am like a putrid vessel, filled with all filth, pride, selfishness, arrogance, vanity, anger, irritability, malice, resentment, ill will, envy, jealousy, condemnation, murmuring, slander, idle talk, deceit, flattery, deception, incontinence of soul and body feelings, passions, carnal knowledge of all kinds, voluptuousness and other countless passions; and all my spiritual misery, and bodily illnesses, and adversities that beset me, and my whole life, like a reed, shaken by the wind, is full of unworthiness, fear, and all kinds of danger; according to the verb of the holy apostle, troubles attacked me from everywhere; troubles from the spirits of wickedness in high places, troubles from those who hate and offend people who are at enmity against me; troubles from animals, livestock and creatures of the earth, troubles from the elements of the world: lightning, fire, water, harmful air, cold, famine; troubles from the many infirmities and illnesses of my body; troubles on the way and in the house, troubles during the days and nights.

Who will delight me from enemy, who will direct the deeds of deeds, who will heal my sickness, who will console and reassure, enlighten, leave, save and pardon me, and now you, the murder of Mati, the huddle and the patron of the whole! You gather my scattered mind, cleanse my thoughts from all filth; refresh feelings poisoned by evil; Strengthen my weak will for all good things and deliver me from destructive lack of will; Fill my heart with the passions of freedom and holy love for God and neighbors; Organize my entire inner temple and make it a comfortable dwelling for the Holy Spirit. Do not leave me, most merciful Lady, in my bodily, sorrowful life. Consume diseases, visible and invisible enemies, destroy evil situations, destroy the fear that comes from the spirits of malice and people who want to destroy me, drive away. Grant me everything I need and need; good spirits after; Yes, the renewed, yes cleansed, but comforted by the glory, my queen, will glorify the Holy Through, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, and your diomal care for me today and in the beliefs of centuries. Amen.

Akathist to the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” - history

Patriarch Joachim the Venerable lived on earth a long time ago. His sister suffered from a protracted illness, literally suffered. Every day the girl prayed, but one day she heard God. The Holy Voice told her that the best action was to say her prayers in front of the icon “Joy to All Who Sorrow.”

The girl immediately did what the Lord said. A few days later a miracle came to the house - the disease disappeared and healing occurred. After this story, the icon of the Mother of God and the akathist were recognized by many believers and classified as the most miraculous images in the world.

Akathist - what it helps with

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There is no doubt that the Mother of God is ready to help everyone. Since the Virgin Mary constantly provides immense help to believers, the Orthodox called it “Recovery of the Lost,” since it is the Most Holy Theotokos that is the Holy image that people see a moment before death. That is why the akathist “Seeking the Lost” and “Joy of All Who Sorrow”, as a rule, are found together, since they are attributed to the same Face. When exactly should you turn to the Mother of God with this akathist?

With money shortage, poverty. The Virgin Mary will show you the right path even in material difficulties.
With a speedy recovery from a terrible illness, a request for healing.
With dying children.
When a person is freed from alcoholism.
If you sincerely desire to successfully marry a good and worthy person.
When receiving spiritual help and invisible support.

Read the akathist Recovering the Lost.