Universal prayer "Our Father"
The Lord's Prayer is universal. The rite of cleansing from drunkenness is simple; with this prayer one goes around all the rooms of the house. In each corner they say “Our Father” three times, then return to the front door and repeat the same words again.
There are church icons that help in cleansing from drunkenness:
- Double-sided Image of the Virgin Mary. On the reverse side is the face of Paraskeva, blessing and protecting housing.
- The face of the “Protection of the Holy Mother of God”, preventing disasters, drunkenness, creating protection from ill-wishers. Considered the strongest.
- The image of the Mother of God “The Burning Bush”. Provides cleansing and protection of the home from fire.
If the apartment has just been purchased, a clergyman is called to perform the ceremony. After all, no one knows what kind of people lived in the house. Maybe there was a lot of swearing and some negative energy remained. Father will cleanse the house and consecrate the apartment, praying to the Lord.
How to properly sanctify and clean a store for a good trade in holy water?
Consecration of the store by the priest
- If you want your business to flourish, then be sure to consecrate the store premises in which goods will be sold. It is advisable to do this before opening. This way you will not only rid the room of negative energy, but also create a blockage to the entry of negativity. So, the first thing you should do is put all the goods on the shelves. All things should be neatly laid out (down to the smallest leaf), empty boxes should be thrown away, and the floors should be washed.
- Pay special attention to the floors. If you want people who come to not leave you their negativity, then take some well water, dilute salt in it and add a couple of drops of Epiphany water, and wash the entire floor surface with the resulting solution. When the floors are washed, take the holy water and walk around the room in a circle, placing crosses of the holy liquid on all surfaces, including the product.
- After this, light the church candle, place it in the center of the room and wait until it burns out completely. While the candle is burning, read the Our Father or pray to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Ask that no one distracts you at this moment; you should focus solely on prayer and your desire to be a successful person.
- Once the candle melts, collect the remains and throw them out of the store. Then take dry sage and wormwood and, also walking in a circle, fumigate the entire room with them. This will help enhance the effect of holy water and prevent negative energy from entering your store from the street.
Aggression, swearing, drunkenness
Often, prayerful cleansing of your home from drunkenness, swearing, and evil becomes the only option to change your life for the better. When they come into a house with a negative atmosphere, it is instantly felt. It’s as if everything in the air is saturated with aggression, pressing, suffocating.
This is felt in apartments where drunkenness and aggressive people predominate. The feeling that negative energy, evil, envy is being emitted. Prayer against aggression, swearing, and drunkenness will help you cope with cleansing your home.
If, for example, a social service employee has to visit such places, and he believes in the Lord, prayer will protect him. Being in such a house can be dangerous not only for peace of mind, but for physical health.
When ill-wishers meet, prayer is the strongest defense. It doesn’t matter how a believer prays, it is permissible to pray in his own words. Therefore, a short “Lord, have mercy!” will always help.
The main thing is to sanctify your soul
Let us quote the words of priest Alexander Ermolin:
“The first thing you need to sanctify is yourself. All of us, Orthodox Christians, are called to holiness. Living a normal spiritual life: confessing, receiving communion - this is the main task of an Orthodox person, and then comes the consecration of all material objects.”
The blessing of an apartment or house is an external sanctification. But it has no meaning without inner sanctification, which leads the soul to salvation. This is why the church Sacraments of Confession and Communion exist.
Confession is not just a listing of your sins. This is, first of all, deep and sincere repentance, a firm intention to change. At Confession, a person repents before the Lord himself. The priest acts only as a witness to this repentance and reads a prayer of permission. The Lord gives the repentant soul the sweetness of feeling His love and forgiveness. If sin remains unrepentant, then it corrupts the soul and leads to more serious sins. This is how a person increases the barrier between himself and God.
Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov) wrote:
“Whoever confesses his sins, they retreat from him, because sins are based and strengthened on the pride of a fallen nature, and do not tolerate reproof and shame” (“Ascetic Experiences”).
In the Sacrament of Communion (Eucharist) we unite with Christ, eating His Body and Blood under the guise of bread and wine.
“He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him” (John 6:56).
The Eucharist ignites the fire of the Lord's love in us, bestowing grace for virtue and the fight against sins. This Sacrament restores in us that spiritual purity that man had before the Fall. Communion heals not only the soul, but also the body. If Confession is the cleansing of the soul, then the Eucharist is its filling with Christ himself. Therefore, in Russian Orthodoxy these two Sacraments usually come one after the other. An Orthodox Christian should begin to practice them regularly. Everyone sets their own limits. But to maintain spiritual purity, priests recommend confessing and receiving communion at least once a month and on great church holidays.
How to cleanse the house of negativity for an Orthodox Christian
Relatives sometimes suffer from drunkenness, become rowdy, and are filled with aggression. It is not only divine measures that should be taken. If you feel that the situation is getting worse, you should seek medical help. Alcoholism is a disease.
To cleanse oneself from drunkenness, one turns to the Lord through a word of prayer. This will save the house from daily angry abuse, alcoholism, and aggression. It is recommended to clean the home after every quarrel. The room, apartment where negative events occurred is saturated with negative sinful energy. A person who was not even present at them, getting here, feels depressed and devastated.
Prayers are said from memory or read from a prayer book. This is not important, the main thing is to pray slowly, sincerely, from the heart, without strangers.
For proper cleansing of negativity, housing is sanctified. The ceremony is performed by a priest. He is invited on a suitable day. When the aggressor systematically rages and objects to cleansing, they perform the ritual on their own.
About the Quran
When the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him, received the Revelation, the Arabs reached that mental boundary where they as a people could accept the concept of Monotheism, the religion of Islam. But the Arabs moved on. They were not only able to accept this religion themselves, but also began to propagate Islam among those who worshiped gods and had their own holy pantheons. Apparently, these people were ready to mentally accept Monotheism. The neophytes began to call the Koran their shrine, abandoned their rituals and religious beliefs, and forgot about witchcraft. Healing and protection were carried out by reading prayers from the Koran for cleaning the house and others that have power against black magic.
So, the New Testament, the Torah and the Koran are not only closely connected with a single spiritual basis, but are also analyzed by the Koran as elements of a single “Mother Book”, which is kept by God. According to the Koran, the New Testament of Christ and the Torah are also true and authentic. And just like the Koran, they descended from the One God. And therefore they can reasonably be considered three messages to the descendants of Adam from the One God.
Additional means of cleansing the negative environment at home
It is recommended to cleanse evil energy from time to time. This is especially true after strong quarrels or fatal diseases. A popular ritual is the cleansing of the house with a church candle and prayer. The process is step by step:
- Before praying, wash all windows, radiators, shelves, and floors.
- Old, unnecessary things are collected. You can give them to those in need.
- Place salt in the corners. It will absorb negative energy. The floors must be washed.
- In the church they buy candles and the face of the Saint.
- Candles are lit. They walk around the whole house with them, stopping in every corner, since that is where negative energy accumulates.
- Candles are placed near the icon and a prayer is read.
- When the candles burn out completely, sprinkle water from the church into all corners.
While the candle burns out, they look closely at the fire. If the flame is active or has died out, then pay attention to these places, passing them repeatedly counterclockwise. This cleansing is carried out every week.
The priest is a mediator between the laity and the Lord. He reads prayers against drunkenness, illuminating the house with special prayer verses according to the missal, and performing ritual actions. Before prayer, he lights a candle, first pouring holy water, prays out loud, sprinkling the rooms.
It is important to understand the reasons for drinking. Once they are eliminated, comfort will return to the family. Sound often helps with this. The sound of bells also cleanses. Previously, people possessed by demons were taken to the bell tower. They put me under the bell and forced me to open my mouth so that my eardrums wouldn’t burst. They fought. This is how the soul and the human body were cleansed with bell vibrations.
It is also permissible to clean the house with recordings of bells ringing. You can download them or purchase a special audio disc in a church store. They listen to the bells, turning them up louder, so that the home is saturated with the blissful sound.
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Prayer texts
Taking care of the well-being of the family, the owner or his wife periodically cleanses the house of negativity. To do this, a special prayer is read to cleanse the apartment. To do this, first a saint is chosen who is the patron saint of the family, and then they regularly turn to him in prayer. The flame of a church candle and sacred water will help cleanse your apartment of negativity.
Nicholas the Wonderworker
Nicholas the Wonderworker performed many good deeds during his lifetime, protecting people from various machinations of enemies and evil forces. The devil and his servants are constantly among people and do their dirty deeds every day. The prayer to Saint Nicholas the Pleasant “I turn to you, Saint Nicholas...” helps to protect yourself from their machinations.
Priests recommend that in case of failures, lack of money, or constantly breaking out litter in the family, cleaning the house weekly with a candle and prayer to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
Walking around the house is done from the threshold clockwise. In the hands of the person praying are an icon of the holy saint and a burning candle. The prayer is read 7 or 40 times. Having completed the tour of the dwelling, the icon is placed on the table or in the holy corner. The candle is left to burn out nearby. The house is sprinkled with holy water.
The curtains on the windows are opened to allow sunlight to enter the home. It is necessary to open the window sashes or at least the vents to allow fresh air to come in and the negativity to escape.
Jesus Christ
Turning to the Savior will protect the home and the person praying. To do this, light a candle, stand at the threshold and read “Our Father.” Then repeat the prayer in each room and utility rooms. Returning to the threshold of the house, they read a prayer of protection to Jesus Christ.
The candle is then blown out and the remainder is taken out of the house.
Prayer of Schema-Archimandrite Vitaly
Vitaly Sidorenko, who later became schema-archimandrite, was born in 1928 into a poor peasant family. The boy, who showed interest in faith, was given to be raised by the elders of the Glinsk hermitage. When Vitaly grew up, he became a monk and wanderer.
During difficult times of persecution of the church, he walked around Georgia, helping the laity. Already at that time it was noticed that the prayers he read acquired unusual power. Several cases of healing by monk Vitaly of several mentally ill people have been recorded. His prayers brought relief to desperate and life-weary people, instilling in them hope and the desire to live.
Adversity and persecution did not break the wanderer. The elder remained surprisingly meek and humble. He prayed for his enemies, asking the Lord to mitigate their punishment.
The last years of his life, Schema-Archimandrite Vitaly served in Georgia in the Alexander Nevsky Church. He was engaged in healing lepers, demon-possessed and mentally ill people, who were brought to him from different places located close and far from the monastery.
Schema-Archimandrite Vitaly left a prayer to his mother, who had been his spiritual child for 30 years, to bless the house. During the war, it was read several times a day in the house. As a result, the housing remained intact, untouched by the bombing, while all the houses around were destroyed and burned. The elder recommended reading Psalm 90, Psalm 26 and Psalm 50 to protect the house.
Schema-Archimandrite Vitaly’s strong prayer is read after cleaning the house, in case of threat of destruction of the home itself, and as protection from the machinations of enemies. It reliably shields the family from negativity and preserves joy, happiness, and good luck in the apartment. If there are children in the house who are developmentally delayed or mentally disturbed, regular reading of the prayer of Schema-Archrimandrite Vitaly will gradually heal the child, balance his nervous system, help him master literacy and get an education.
Prayer to Archangel Michael for cleansing the house
Long before man appeared on earth, Archangel Michael led an army of angels. They fought with Dennitsa, who was an angel, but imagined himself omnipotent and decided to take the place of God. As a result, the traitor and his army were cast out of heaven. Since then, they have taken the form of a person, walk among people and sow black negativity, quarrels, damage, and enmity between them.
Archangel Michael, the leader of the angelic army, continues to fight evil spirits. He willingly responds to prayers with a request to cleanse a home, a specific person and his family from filth. You should pray in front of the icon to Archangel Michael. You need to light a candle or lamp. The flame will strengthen the words of the prayer and deliver them to the recipient faster.
First, the “Our Father” is read three times, then a prayer for cleansing of negativity to the leader of the angelic army. The text is pronounced in a low voice, clearly and legibly. Words must be learned by heart. The prayer is repeated 7 times. If the atmosphere in the house is heavy, the prayer text must be repeated 40 times. You need to pray daily until the house is completely cleansed of negativity. Then repeat cleansing once a week or month.
