Absolutely any mother wishes her child only the best, and first of all, health. Therefore, it is very difficult for them to watch their child get sick; they are ready to do anything to keep him healthy. Very often, mothers resort to the help of higher powers, namely, they read a strong prayer to Matrona for the health of their children.
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A long time ago, when I was still a child, I once saw a documentary about the Galapagos Islands. The main attraction of which was that this is where large ocean turtles lay their eggs. The poor animal slowly and for a very long time (several tens of meters) crawls along the sandy slope in order to build the clutch as high as possible. So that the surf doesn’t wash it away later. Not all poor souls can withstand this long and painful process. Some of them, weakened, cannot return back to the sea and die.
But after a certain time, small turtles hatch at the same time. In a large “crowd” they rush into the saving sea. But... birds of prey are already waiting for them from above and swooping down on them, snatching out tasty prey one after another. In short, only a few of the many turtles make it to the water. But even there they are met by sea predators...
Prayer for the health of the baby
Often mothers who are worried about their child conduct a prayer ritual that helps to ensure that the baby does not get sick. The first step is for parents to attend a church service with their sick child. After confession and communion, order a prayer service for the baby’s health at the shop and purchase 3 candles. They are placed during a prayer address. One candle should be lit at the image of Jesus Christ, the second at St. Panteleimon, the third at Matronushka. At the icon of the healer, you must say the following words:
This prayer request will help you find peace and restore mental strength. When leaving home, purchase 27 candles and the above-mentioned holy images, and collect consecrated water.
It is necessary to continue offering prayer at home. The ceremony takes place over 3 days. Place the icons on a table covered with a new snow-white tablecloth. Every evening, light 3 candles in front of each face and sincerely pray to the heavenly powers, asking them for help and healing of the sick baby. You need to start by reading “Our Father.” Then proceed to prayer addressed to the holy healers. Give your sick child holy water to drink regularly. This must be done in the morning before the first meal.
How to keep your sons and daughters from harmful influences
And much later I realized that this film is a visual image of a Russian woman-mother. Who experiences much more sorrows than those turtles, conceiving and giving birth to her children. But in our time, there are much more spiritual and other predators waiting for them than on the Galapagos Islands!
And the first such predator is school, both secondary and higher. I’m probably not the only one who noticed such an extremely depressing picture: our little angels come to school, but often they leave it no longer our big “demons”! And this is not surprising. I will not go into detail about all the misadventures and atrocities of the Russian school, I will note only one thing. The mere fact that in Soviet times it became a hotbed of atheism makes it in some way a spiritually criminal organization. Why our education system is one of the main threats to national security.
Another main spiritual danger in Christian education, and in general in raising good children, is the entire current, so to speak, “culture”, saturated with the spirit of debauchery, in particular its media, especially electronic ones. For example, from a certain age, children begin to demand these most expensive smartphones from their parents. But let’s think about what this is in the spiritual sense?! This is a small computer connected to the Internet, in which the unprotected psyche is exposed to anything, primarily to pornography.
By the way, from my pastoral experience I can say that 80-85 percent of young men from Orthodox families who regularly attend church and participate in the Sacraments engage in masturbation. And one of the main reasons for this is their porn addiction. Which they satisfy with the help of the mentioned smartphones, and other improvised means!
So, as we see, the Orthodox Russian woman-mother now has many opponents in the matter of Christian, good upbringing of her children. But I am writing this not to scare you, mothers, but to at least somewhat outline your and our main opponents. But who and what is behind us?!
In what cases should you turn to Matrona of Moscow with prayer for help?
Few people know that Matrona of Moscow, canonized in the 90s, had the gift of foresight from childhood. Having appeared in the simplest family at the end of the 19th century, the girl was doomed to an orphanage, but the situation was changed by a wonderful dream about a white bird, which her mother had, who decided to keep the child at all costs, despite all the poverty and need. The congenital blindness of the baby did not stop the woman, who spent a lot of time with icons and very soon began to predict various events and help people.
Matrona of Moscow had the gift of foresight from childhood
The most powerful prayer for sick children
It turned out that having many health problems, Matronushka began to patronize all the sick and suffering, possessing a powerful healing gift. As a result, people came to the seer from all over the country, asking for help on various issues. Possessing unbending fortitude, the patroness called on everyone to believe in the Lord, noting the almost limitless possibilities that sincere faith could open up for people.
Many people asked Matronushka not for themselves, but for their sick children, regardless of the complexity of the illness.
Congenital and acquired pathologies, injuries, colds, fractures - all this still serves as a reason to turn to the face of the saint, whose power is legendary.
Pregnant women also ask their mother for health, dreaming that the child they are carrying will be born alive and healthy. The impossibility of conception also serves as a reason to seek help from a saint who blesses for a quick pregnancy.
Matronushka began to patronize all the sick and suffering
It is noteworthy that the reasons for appealing to Matrona do not end there, because in addition to physical ailments, many are tormented by psychological and mental problems. That is why those who suffer often pray to the saint to heal their children from the evil eye and damage, fear and stuttering, all kinds of sleep disorders and nervous tics. If a child does not keep up with his studies, falling far behind his peers, then this is also a good reason to turn to his mother.
But the most powerful prayer addressed to this saint is the one in which she asks for health and healing:
“Holy Matronushka! I beg you, I conjure you with my mother’s heart, go to the throne of the Lord, ask God to give health to the servant of God (name). I beg you, holy mother Matrona, do not be angry with me, but be my intercessor. Ask the Lord to grant my child (name) good health. Deliver him from physical and spiritual ailments. Take away every disease from his body. Forgive me for my sins, voluntary and involuntary. Pray for the health of my child (name). Only you, Holy Matrona, are my great intercessor and adviser. I trust in you. Amen."
There is also another option for a prayer service for a sick child, which can be alternated with the main appeal:
“Oh, Holy Matrona. I appeal to you with a sincere request. Give strength and health to my child (name), who is dying from terrible damage. I ask not for myself, but for an innocent child. Take away the turmoil in your soul, take away suffering, deliver from bodily illness. Pray for him before the Lord God and ask him to forgive me for my maternal sins. Let it be so. Amen!"
Request from pregnant women for the health of the child in the womb
It is difficult to find an expectant mother who would not worry about the health of her baby. For some, these phobias even develop into a pathological fear that needs to be fought. And in order not to give in to panic, you should pray to Matronushka more often, using a special appeal.
“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 groans and bring the Lord to the throne, 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 to eternity. Amen."
This prayer is universal and is suitable not only for pregnant women, but also for those representatives of the fair sex who passionately dream of conception, but cannot bear fruit. Thus, women note that constant prayers bore fruit, fulfilling their most cherished desire for motherhood.
Constant prayers bore fruit and fulfilled my cherished desire
Prayer text for a child to sleep well at night
Unfortunately, the situation when a child suffers from insomnia is familiar to many mothers firsthand. It’s even worse when sleep problems are caused by nightmares and hysterics, which can occur in both infants and older children. In this case, turning to Matrona with a request for the child to sleep well can come to the rescue.
“Holy Matrona! I ask you, I conjure you with all your mother’s love, ask the Lord to give health to his servant (name). I ask you, Holy Matrona, do not be angry with me, but help me. Ask the Lord to give my child (name) good health. He got rid of various ailments both in the body and in the soul. Take all diseases away from his body. Please forgive me for all my sins, both those committed by my will and those created not by my will. Say a prayer to the Lord for the health of my child (name). Only you, Holy Matrona, can save my child from suffering. I trust in you. Amen."
It is worth noting that sleep problems are not always caused by emotional fatigue or mental disorders.
So, the reason for screams at night may be due to severe fear, which another text will help get rid of.
“Holy Matronushka! I beg you, I conjure you with my mother’s heart, go to the throne of the Lord, ask God to give health to the servant of God (name). I beg you, holy mother Matrona, do not be angry with me, but be my intercessor. Ask the Lord to grant my child (name) good health. Deliver him from physical and spiritual ailments. Take away every disease from his body. Forgive me for my sins, voluntary and involuntary. Pray for the health of my child (name). Only you, Holy Matrona, are my great intercessor and adviser. I trust in you. Amen."
It will also save the child from such a terrible and quite common psychological illness as stuttering. The main thing is to turn to the saint with all your soul, sincerely believing in her strength and omnipotence.
Who to pray to so that everything is fine for the children
Blzh. Matrona of Moscow
There is much more for us: the Lord, the Mother of God and a numerous host of saints, in particular, the blessed Matrona of Moscow. Moreover, a mother’s tearful prayer to them can do a lot, because it has an amazing, unique and inimitable power.
So in the Gospel there is only one case when the Lord performed the greatest miracle, resurrecting the son of the Nain widow, without any request on her part, only for the sake of the grief and tears of the mother who had lost her only son! This is what a humble, tearful prayer of a mother can do for her children - even if she does not resurrect them physically, then she may well give them a spiritual resurrection!
Why is prayer for children especially directed to the Venerable Matrona of Moscow?! Because she considered everyone who came to her to be her spiritual children and fervently prayed to God for everyone, thus giving them various spiritual and worldly benefits. So now she prays for us and our children, now being in heaven, therefore having even greater boldness there before God! Here is one such prayer to her:
How to pray for children correctly?
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Ideally, you need to say a prayer directly in a holy place, it is here that you have the most frank conversation with the Saint. To do this you need:
- Visit the church or cathedral where the icon of Matrona is located.
- Light and place three candles near it.
- Contact the priest and ask to order the service.
- Read Matrona’s prayer for children, and then you can simply ask for help in your own words and talk to her.
It is necessary to understand that the Saints are not only where their relics lie, they are present everywhere and hear everyone who needs their help. But it is best to pray directly in the temple where the icon is located.
Nowadays, it often happens that people forget to pray and thank God for all his deeds. They only remember when something bad happened. It is extremely advisable, at least sometimes, to read prayers of gratitude to the Lord, to say “thank you” that the children are currently healthy and happy.
Where to read a prayer for good luck and prosperity to Matrona
People often call upon the blessed Matrona of Moscow, one of the most revered holy women on Russian soil, for luck and prosperity. You can offer prayer to her in the following ways:
- Numerous queues form daily to venerate the relics of Mother Matrona, transferred to the capital's Intercession Monastery in 1998.
- Believers can pray and talk about their sorrows and needs at two icons of St. Matrona, located on the territory of the Intercession Monastery.
- Residents of Russian regions also have the opportunity to venerate the miraculous relics, since the arks containing them are often brought to many Russian cities. As a rule, this event is covered in the media so that any believer can pray to the blessed mother.
- A prayer request to the Holy Matrona of Moscow is offered in front of the icon, which is found in most Orthodox churches.
- A personal icon of any size is suitable for daily appeal to Elder Matrona.
Icon of the Blessed Matrona of Moscow
In fact, it does not matter where the akathist about good luck and prosperity to the blessed Mother Matrona is pronounced. The main thing is how and with what thoughts the praying person turns to her.
It’s interesting: during the day, you can make a request for good luck in righteous deeds to both the Patron Saints and the Lord, since every Orthodox person wears his image on their body.
