Everyone knows the blessed Elder Matrona of Moscow - one of the most revered newly-minted saints. There is a continuous flow of people to her grave, now located on the territory of the Intercession Monastery in the Russian capital. People come to her with all sorts of problems, but most often they ask Matronushka specifically for healing - for themselves or their relatives.
The prayer to Matrona of Moscow for healing from illness and for health is a miraculous remedy, the effectiveness of which has been proven by a considerable number of examples from real life. She is capable of doing incredible things, raising seriously ill patients, whom even doctors refused to treat, to their feet.
Preparing to say prayers to Matrona of Moscow
A person who turns to the blessed elder Matrona must do so with humility in his soul, sincerity and unshakable faith in her help. Before starting prayer, it is recommended to help everyone in need, give alms to those asking, and make donations to religious institutions.
If the patient is undergoing medical treatment, you should not refuse it while reading prayers to Matrona of Moscow. It is better to combine treatment with medications and healing with prayer. This should be done simply, if only because sometimes Matronushka helps those who suffer through other people.
The life of Matronushka and her help to people
Matrona was born in the last century into a family of ordinary peasants. From birth, the girl was blind because she had no eyeballs. Even at the age of eight, she was observed to have the ability to see the future, as well as heal the sick and help the suffering. Life hasn't been kind to her. At times she was treated like a stray dog.
That is why many believers say that in order to attract her attention, it is advisable to feed a mongrel dog or give alms to a needy person. In addition, she did not neglect orphans or those who had no one to take care of. That is why many married couples who cannot have children turn to her.
At one time, John of Kronstadt called it his successor, but later there was a revolution and a change of power. The new leaders were no longer so loyal to the believers and persecution began. The old woman was no exception. She miraculously avoided arrest, but did not stop helping people. Since Matrona herself has not been in good health since childhood, she tries to help those who pray for the health of the sick to Matrona of Moscow.
But there are other problems with which people resort to her help:
- for various diseases,
- in case of damage from natural disasters,
- to save the family,
- in case of financial difficulties,
- to avoid deception,
- to care for children and loved ones,
- in matters of the heart,
- granting a long-awaited pregnancy.
May 2 is considered the saint's day of remembrance. Many try to visit the Intercession Monastery, where the shrine with her relics is located, or to go to her grave. You can also lean against the icon of the blessed one. The most important thing on this day is sincere prayer, which should come from a pure heart. On such a day, many pilgrims bring bouquets of fresh flowers, which are blessed on the relics and then given to the parishioners.
How many and to whom it hits does not matter. But this memory is dried up and preserved near the images of home. They can sometimes be added to tea. Most often, white chrysanthemums, tulips, carnations, white lilacs and roses of any color are brought for the Matrona of Moscow. Both the crayfish and the saint’s grave are buried in these flowers.
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In addition to reading prayers for illnesses, you can also submit petition notes to Matrona of Moscow. Prayers must come from a pure heart and with sincere faith in their fulfillment.
Text of the prayer to Matrona of Moscow for healing from illness
The most famous prayer, which is addressed to Matrona of Moscow, asking her for healing from illness, sounds like this:
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People usually use this prayer when they visit the grave of Matrona of Moscow. The blessed old woman herself bequeathed those asking to come to her grave shortly before her death. She said that she would hear the prayers of any truly praying person and would definitely ask for him before the Lord. Matrona of Moscow kept her promise: she never refuses people their requests, she helps them cope with the troubles that happened in their lives.
Why do people pray to saints rather than turning directly to God?
Among God’s Ten Commandments given through the prophet Moses, the first reads: “I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt have no other gods...”, it is supplemented by the second: “Thou shalt not make thee an idol...”. However, in Christianity, in the first decades of its existence, saints were revered - isn’t there a contradiction in this?
Saints in the Ancient Church were considered martyrs - people who suffered for Christ; later they were joined by the Fathers of the Church - sages who had spiritual authority, as well as righteous - pious people who pleased God with their lives and many others, for whom aspiration to God became the main vector life.
In turning to God, personal experience of knowledge, which is acquired after overcoming a certain segment of the path, is very important. The saints give an example of how they walked this path, so people turn to them both in everyday situations and in matters of spiritual life. This is by no means idolatry, but rather the support of older friends - mentors and teachers. Therefore, it is important not only to ask the saints for help in solving everyday issues, but also to try to learn more about them, “make friends,” and gain spiritual experience.
Priest Andrei Ermolin: “The Orthodox Church has enormous wealth. And this is not material wealth. This is the wealth of spiritual experience. An Orthodox Christian is a rich man. He has not only his personal prayer, but also the intercession of the saints. And here he is much richer than all those who say that he “does not need intermediaries between him and God.” The only main thing <…> is for a person not to fall into the trap of dividing the saints into “areas of responsibility.”
Powerful prayer ritual for health
In addition to the prayer indicated above, there are several more prayers with which you can ask Matrona of Moscow for health. Moreover, you can pray both for yourself and for a loved one who is captured by some kind of illness. To recover from a disease with the help of these words, it is not at all necessary to go to the grave of Matrona of Moscow. The healing ritual occurs in 2 stages:
- Visit to the temple.
- Appeal to Matrona with prayer at home (three-day ritual).
The work of these 2 prayers is based on repentance, which helps relieve pain, deliverance from suffering, and cleansing from carnal sins.
First of all, the patient himself or his close relative must visit the temple and submit a note “On health”. Then you need to place 3 of the simplest church candles at the images of Jesus Christ, the great martyr Panteleimon the healer and the Matrona of Moscow herself. At the icon of Matronushka you need to whisper:
“Blessed Matrona, cleanse my soul, cleanse my body, so that the first does not cry and the second does not get sick. Amen!"
After this, you should cross yourself several times and leave the temple, buying 36 candles and icons of the saints listed above at the church shop for your home, and also collecting holy water.
The second stage of the prayer ritual is performed at home. Having retired at any convenient time, you need to put all 3 icons on the table, place a decanter of blessed water and a cup next to it and light 3 candles for each image. Then the Lord’s Prayer (“Our Father”) is read 12 times. After saying “Our Father,” you need to diligently cross yourself and drink holy water from a decanter.
Next, visualization is carried out, during which you need to imagine yourself or the sick person recovered and feeling well. And only then is one of the following prayers read repeatedly, depending on who needs to be healed - yourself or a sick loved one. Any of these prayers to Matrona of Moscow must be spoken with sincere faith and purity in the soul.
Prayer to Matronushka for your health
The text of the prayer is as follows:
Prayer to Matrona for the healing of a sick person
To heal another person you need to say these words:
Prayers should be read as long as the candles are burning. At the end, you need to cross yourself several times again and drink holy water. At the end of the ritual, the candle stubs are taken out into the trash, and the icons are put away in a closed cabinet. In total, this ritual with home Orthodox prayer is performed for 3 days in a row.
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Saint Matrona of Moscow is one of the most revered Russian saints of the twentieth century.
During her lifetime she was revered as a soothsayer and wonderworker. An endless stream of people came to her, thirsting for spiritual healing, guidance and prayerful help.
Through her prayers, the weak, the paralyzed, and those suffering from mental and physical illnesses were healed. Her prophecies and predictions helped many avoid danger and death, and find the right path in difficult circumstances.
YOU SHOULD ASK THE HOLY MATRONA OF MOSCOW: • For healing • For help in everyday affairs • For meeting your betrothed • For saving your marriage • For motherhood • For getting rid of drunkenness and drug addiction • For help in solving material problems • For help in study, work • About deliverance from suffering
Memorable dates:
- Born in 1885. November 22 is Angel Day.
- 2.05.52 - death of Mother.
- 03/08/98 - acquisition of relics.
- On May 2, 1999 she was canonized.
- May 2 - Matrona Memorial Day
Matrona of Moscow is an Orthodox saint who from birth had the gift of miracles. Her whole life became an example of the great spiritual feat of love, patience, self-denial and compassion. People came to mother for help from tens of kilometers away with their illnesses, anxieties, and sorrows. The flow of pilgrims to venerate her holy relics continues today.
Matrena Dimitrievna Nikonova was born on November 10 (22), 1881. in the village of Sebino, Epifansky district, Tula province, in a poor peasant family. At baptism she was named in honor of the Venerable Matrona of Constantinople. Her parents, Dimitri and Natalia, already had two sons and a daughter. Due to poverty, the mother decided to send her fourth child to an orphanage, but she had a dream. Her unborn daughter appeared to her in the form of a bird of heaven with a human face and closed eyes. Taking the prophetic dream as a sign, the God-fearing woman gave up the idea of sending the child to an orphanage.
The daughter was born blind, but the mother pitied and loved her “unfortunate child.” To her parents' surprise, she was born with a cross-shaped mark on her chest. And at baptism, when the priest lowered the child into the font, those present saw a column of steam or fragrant light smoke. The priest, Father Vasily, whom the parishioners revered as a righteous man, was incredibly surprised: “I have baptized babies a lot, but this is the first time I’ve seen this, and this baby will be holy.” Matrona was not just blind, she had no eyes at all. But the Lord gave her spiritual sight. It is surprising that Matrona had the usual, like sighted people, idea of the world around her: “God once opened my eyes and showed me the world and His creation. And I saw the sun, and the stars in the sky, and everything on earth, the beauty of the earth: mountains, rivers, green grass, flowers, birds..."
At the age of seventeen, Matrona suddenly lost her legs. Until the end of her days she was “sedentary.” And her sitting continued for another fifty years. Mother herself never grumbled, but humbly carried the cross given to her by God. Mother did not preach, did not teach. She gave advice, prayed and blessed. She was laconic, but some of her general instructions remained, for example: “Why judge others? Each sheep will be hung by its tail. What do you care about other ponytails?”
How do people close to you remember Matrona? With miniature, child-like, short arms and legs. Sitting cross-legged on a bed or chest. Fluffy hair parted in the middle. Eyelids tightly closed. Kind bright face. Affectionate voice. She consoled, calmed the sick, stroked their heads, made the sign of the cross, sometimes joked, sometimes sternly rebuked and instructed.
Before her death, Matronushka said: “Everyone, everyone, come to me and tell me, as if alive, about your sorrows, I will see you, and hear you, and help you.” And mother also said: “I will meet everyone who turns to me for help at their death, everyone.”
She also instructed: “When I die, put candles on the canon for me, the cheapest ones, go to my grave, I will always be there, don’t look for anyone else. Everyone, trust me, and I will give you thoughts on what to do and how to act. The time of delusion is coming, don’t look for anyone, otherwise you will be deceived.”
How can one not remember the words of Mother Matrona, perhaps said about our days: “If a people loses faith in God, then disasters befall them, and if they do not repent, they perish and disappear from the face of the earth. How many peoples have disappeared, but Russia existed and will exist. Pray, ask, repent! The Lord will not leave you and will preserve our land!”
Matronushka found her last earthly refuge at the Skhodnya station near Moscow, where she settled with a distant relative. They say that she foresaw the day of her death and made all the necessary arrangements. On May 2, 1952, she died and, at her request, she was buried in the Danilovsky cemetery in order to “hear the service” (one of the few functioning Moscow churches was located there). More than thirty years after the death of my mother, her grave became one of the holy places of Orthodox Moscow - a place of unofficial pilgrimage, where people come from all over Russia and from abroad.
In 1999, Matrona of Moscow was canonized as a locally revered Moscow saint; church-wide canonization took place in October 2004
Currently, the relics of the blessed one rest in the Moscow Intercession Convent, where they were transferred with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II in May 1998. In addition, every year a reliquary containing parts of the relics of the Matrona of Moscow is transported to Russian cities for veneration. She is worshiped as “Grandmother of the Russian Land”
• Blessed Elder Matrona of Moscow, as the Grandmother of the Russian land, currently occupies an honorable place in the Higher Worlds in the Supreme Trustee Council of human existence, where she oversees the sphere of people’s lives, interceding for them before God in the palaces of the Heavenly Kremlin.
• She has been given broad powers to assist people in their daily concerns and needs . She especially loves to help in raising children. All orphanages and kindergartens are under her care.
•Blessed Matrona pays special attention to the homeless and orphans, as well as the unemployed and those left homeless as a result of an accident.
• You can turn to her with prayer for finding your own home, for work, as well as for a prosperous marriage and on issues related to raising children.
• She can assist in locating missing property. In terms of health, prayer to Blessed Matrona can help in healing eye diseases, dementia, cerebral atherosclerosis, gout, infertility, and hypertension. For diseases of the joints of the hands and feet.
• Before turning to Matrona for help, it is advisable to bring a donation to God to the temple in the form of any of the following products: black bread, sugar, tea, milk, crackers and cookies, raisins, walnuts, vegetable oil, flour, honey, caramel candies . Or you can give them as alms to a beggar in the name of God on the street. You can feed a stray dog or birds - pigeons and sparrows.
• There is a custom of bringing fresh flowers to the blessed Matrona. The chapel, where there is a shrine with the relics of the saint, is always buried in luxurious bouquets. The offering of some becomes a gift for others - to everyone who comes to Matronushka, local attendants give one or more flowers as a farewell, depending on their luck. Flowers that were blessed on the relics before distribution are usually dried and stored at home in the red corner near the icons. For flowers, you can bring her white chrysanthemums, white lilacs, red tulips, carnations and roses of any color.
• Matrona of Moscow also helps in the spiritual growth of a person as a heavenly guardian of his spiritual development. It helps to open spiritual vision, which helps a person to understand his life tasks, helps him solve issues in accordance with the Divine will. Matrona helps the Guardian Angel and Heavenly Teachers guide a person through life in accordance with God’s plan for him.
• Elder Matrona especially patronizes representatives of the following professions: teachers of preschool institutions and orphanages, teachers, nannies, nurses, housekeepers, ophthalmologists, pediatricians, orthopedists, neurologists, watchmen and watchmen, trustees in parochial schools.
How can you achieve the favor of the blessed Matrona?
Her favorite month of the year is May. Therefore, everyone born in May can count on her special intercession for them before the Higher Powers.
• It is very good to pray to Matrona after a Russian bath, wearing a clean, preferably white, shirt or, for women, a dress and a white cotton scarf.
But at any other time, with a sincerely open heart, a prayer to the blessed Matrona can also be heard if she is addressed with love and faith, humility and reverence.
• If you want to earn the attention of the Blessed Matrona, feed a poor person at least once a week for a month in the name of God and out of respect for the Matrona. Preferably from your own hands or at least stand nearby. And then you can express your requests to Blessed Matrona.
• If this turns out to be difficult, prepare semolina porridge without sugar, but sweet (for example, with honey) and feed the pigeons once a day for a week, thanking the God-sent food and having mercy on the flying birds.
• To earn her favor, feed at least two stray dogs. Let’s say three times: in the name of God and as a sign of veneration for Matrona. Some people treated Matrona like a mongrel dog, therefore, by showing mercy to mongrels in the name of God and honoring Matrona, you can earn her quick attention.
• Plant a rowan tree in your garden, maybe chokeberry, in the name of God, for the good of nature in honor of Matrona. And this can also attract her mercy to your household and your family. She really loved rowan berries from the frost. Feeling through them the bitterness of human troubles and the sweetness of the Divine World at the same time.
Prayers to the blessed old lady Matrona
“Pre-chosen from the womb of the mother, the righteous Matrono, to the service of Christ, walking the path of sorrows and sorrows, having demonstrated firm faith and piety, you pleased God.
Moreover, honoring your memory, we pray to you: help us too to abide in God’s love, blessed old lady.” 1. “O blessed mother Matrono, hear and accept us now, sinners, praying to you, who in all your life has learned to receive and listen to all those who suffer and mourn, with faith and hope who resort to your intercession and help, giving quick help and miraculous healing to everyone ; May your mercy not fail now for us, unworthy, restless in this busy world and nowhere finding consolation and compassion in spiritual sorrows and help in bodily illnesses: heal our illnesses, deliver us from the temptations and torment of the devil, who passionately fights, help us convey our everyday Cross, to bear all the hardships of life and not lose the image of God in it, to preserve the Orthodox faith until the end of our days, to have strong trust and hope in God and unfeigned love for others; help us, after departing from this life, to achieve the Kingdom of Heaven with all those who please God, glorifying the mercy and goodness of the Heavenly Father, glorified in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen." 2. “O blessed mother Matrono, standing in heaven before the Throne of God with your soul, resting with your body on earth, and exuding various miracles by the grace given to you from above. Look now with your merciful eye on us, sinners, in sorrows, illnesses and sinful temptations, our waiting days, comfort us, desperate ones, heal our fierce ailments, from God we are allowed by our sins, deliver us from many troubles and circumstances, pray to our Lord Jesus Christ forgive us all our sins, iniquities and falls, in whose image we have sinned from our youth even to this day and hour, and through your prayers having received grace and great mercy, we glorify in the Trinity the One God, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever.”
Prayer for conceiving a child
“Oh, blessed mother Matrona, we resort to your intercession and tearfully pray to you. As you who have great boldness in the Lord, pour out a warm prayer for your servants, who are in deep spiritual sorrow and asking for help from you. Truly is the word of the Lord: ask, and it will be given to you, and again: even if two of you take counsel upon the earth, whatever you ask, it will be given to you from My Father who is in Heaven. Hear our groanings and convey them to the throne of the Master, and where you stand before God, the prayer of a righteous man can do much before God. May the Lord not completely forget us, but look down from the heights of heaven on the sorrow of His servants and bestow the fruit of the womb for something useful. Truly, God wants, so do the Lord to Abraham and Sarah, Zechariah and Elizabeth, Joachim and Anna, pray with him. May the Lord God do this to us, out of His mercy and ineffable love for mankind. Blessed be the name of the Lord from now on and forever. Amen."
Prayer for Marriage
The very prayer for marriage to the Lord: “Oh, All-Good Lord, I know that my great happiness depends on the fact that I love You with all my soul and with all my heart, and that I fulfill Your holy will in everything. Rule Yourself, O my God, over my soul and fill my heart: I want to please You Alone, for You are the Creator and my God. Save me from pride and self-love: let reason, modesty and chastity adorn me. Idleness is disgusting to You and gives rise to vices, give me the desire to work hard and bless my labors. Since Your Law commands people to live in an honest marriage, then lead me, Holy Father, to this title, sanctified by You, not to please my lust, but to fulfill Your destiny, for You Yourself said: it is not good for man to be alone and, having created He gave him a wife to help him, blessed them to grow, multiply and populate the earth. Hear my humble prayer, sent to You from the depths of a girl’s heart; give me an honest and pious spouse, so that in love with him and in harmony we glorify You, the merciful God: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen".
Greatness
“We magnify you, holy righteous old woman Matrono, and honor your holy memory, for you pray for us to Christ our God.”
“Chosen by God from the swaddling clothes of infancy and with the gift of clairvoyance, miracle-working and healing by the grace of the Holy Spirit, the gifted, blessed old lady Matrona, crowned with an incorruptible crown from the Lord in Heaven, we, Orthodoxy, weave on earth a crown of praise from spiritual songs. You, blessed mother, accept this from our grateful hearts, and as you have boldness before the Lord, deliver us from all troubles, sorrows, illnesses and the snares of the enemy, and let us sing to you with love: Rejoice, blessed Elder Matrono, wonderful wonderworker.” Based on materials from www.st-nikolas.orthodoxy.ru, www.alltaro.ru
How to ask Matronushka for help
You can contact Mother Matrona in different ways
Thousands of people flock to the grave of Saint Matrona, to her relics and icons. She helped, taught, enlightened, and cured many who turned to her in tearful and humble prayer from spiritual and physical ailments. If you want to visit Mother Matrona, then come to the Intercession Convent in Moscow. Here you can venerate her relics and pray at the icon of the blessed old woman.
How to get to Blessed Matrona : metro station “Marksistskaya” or “Taganskaya”, then by trolleybuses 16, 26, 63 and 63k to the stop “Bolshaya Andronevskaya Street - Pokrovsky Women’s Monastery” You can get to the monastery on foot (10-20 minutes) from the metro stations : Taganskaya, Marxist, Proletarskaya, Ilyich Square, Rimskaya. The closest is from the Proletarskaya metro station, walking along Abelmanovskaya Street to the Pokrovsky Monastery.
The monastery is open to visitors from 07.00 to 20.00, on Sundays from 06.00 to 20.00. After 20.00 access to the monastery is closed.
Mother does not push away even people with weak faith and those who come out of curiosity, but helps, thereby strengthening them in their faith. However, you can turn to Saint Matrona anywhere - including in the city where you live, in the church you go to, and at home - the saints hear us anywhere. Many churches have an icon of the blessed old woman; in any corner of the globe you can turn to Matrona for help. And even if you do not know and cannot read the full prayer, turn with all your heart and mind to the holy blessed Matrona of Moscow with a request to guide you on the path of truth and salvation. Pray and you will be heard!
You can read prayers to the Holy Elder Matrona without leaving your home. You can contact Saint Matrona:
Holy righteous mother Matrona, mother Matrona, Matronushka, our intercessor, blessed mother Matrona.
Short prayer: “Holy righteous Elder Matrono, pray to God for us!”
“Holy righteous mother Matrona! You are a helper to all people, help me in my troubles (…..). Do not leave me with your help and intercession, pray to the Lord for the servant of God (name). In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen."
“Blessed Elder Matrona, our intercessor and petitioner before the Lord! You look with your spiritual gaze both into the past and into the future, everything is open to you. Enlighten the servant of God (name), give advice, show the way to solve the problem (....) Thank you for your holy help. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen."
It is advisable to ask Matrona in your own words. The main thing is that the request must come from a pure heart.
Those in need of Matronushka’s intercession before the Lord can write a letter to Matronushka and send it to the Intercession Convent at the address: 109147, Moscow, st. Taganskaya, 58.
The website of the Intercession Convent provided the opportunity to write Matronushka an email to the monastery address: mailto: [email protected]
You can also write a letter to Matronushka online on the website you-matrona.ru Your letters will be placed at the relics of the holy old woman.
You can light a candle to the icon of the Matrona of Moscow online in the Virtual Chapel of All Saints
Send us, Mother, boundless love and tenderness, become our protector and intercessor in life.
About the life of Matronushka
She was born into a poor peasant family absolutely blind. At birth, the eyelids were tightly closed, which is how she is depicted on icons. However, physical blindness did not become a hindrance; rather, it enhanced the inner spiritual vision of things and people. She started treatment at the age of 9.
All sorts of people came to her from everywhere. She also knew how to predict. By the age of 18, her legs gave out, but the blessed one never complained about physical ailments. By the age of 25, she moved to Moscow, lived wherever and however she had to, and still helped the weak and disadvantaged.
She bequeathed to bury her remains at the Danilovsky cemetery in order to hear the ringing of bells and be closer to God. In 1998, the remains were reburied on the territory of the Intercession Convent.
