There is always some kind of spiritual connection between parents and children, and their prayers for each other are extremely strong. The Lord gives children, but the connection that is established between these three people is very strong. From birth, babies are under the protection and care of their fathers, and when they grow up they become a support for their aging mother and father.
It is very important to respect them and take care of them the same way they took care of their babies. It is important not only to help them physically, but also spiritually, asking the Lord and the saints for their health.
The meaning and power of prayers for parents
It often happens that we cannot find a common language with our parents, especially in adolescence. Time passes and we realize we were wrong. Throughout our lives, we need wise advice from the older generation. And it’s good that we realize this while we still have someone to turn to. Therefore, you should regularly offer prayers to the Lord for the health of your parents, and try to provide them with all possible help and support. This could be moral support in difficult times, help with housework, or financial support.
In our rapidly developing times, many people are busy worrying about their careers, their own families, organizing their lives, and entertainment. There is nothing wrong. But you can always find a moment to just call your parents and say a kind word to them. You can always find time to visit them for a cup of tea.
If you have adult children, then they can always visit their grandparents and stay with them. When you try to find time for your parents, you set a good example for your children, you sow good seeds in their hearts. Over time, they will also treat you. But what else can you do to increase your care for your father and mother? There are many prayers in Christianity that are suitable for different occasions in our daily lives. The most appropriate prayer is for the health of parents.
Reading this prayer expresses gratitude to the Lord for everything that father and mother did for us: for care, words of consolation in difficult times, instructions. It is important to pray not only when parents have health problems, but also in moments of joy. We want God’s mercy, protection and His protection to be over them constantly.
Making daily appeals to the Savior about father and mother is the will of God. In the Ten Commandments, the fifth concerns respect for parents. A person who respects his parents does good not only for them, but also for himself. God promises long years to those who honor their father and mother. Therefore, everyone can ask the Lord for health, long life, God’s favor and prosperity. It is important to pray for the remission of sins, so that in the next life you can meet your parents in heavenly abodes.
Personal turning to God is very important. But parishioners can also submit notes about their health at the Liturgy, order prayers for saints, and in monasteries donate for the reading of the Psalter. Both parents must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and be baptized. If their faith is weak, they ask the Lord to strengthen it. At baptism, everyone has a Guardian Angel to whom they can turn.
Nothing will go well if the father and mother are forgotten and no help is provided to them.
Prayer as a Divine Gift
Prayer is a priceless gift from the Lord. Only man, of all Divine creations, has the unique opportunity to communicate with God. He is able to offer prayers to his Creator. Prayerful dialogue with God inspires the soul, cleanses the heart, and calms the body. Prayer for parents shows this especially deeply.
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“Prayer is the breath of the spiritual man. Just as a bodily person draws in the surrounding air with his breath and inhales vitality and strength from it, so through prayer the soul opens itself to the everywhere present Spirit of God and receives spiritual life from Him” (St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow).
An Orthodox Christian prays after rising from sleep. He sanctifies his deeds and works with prayer. Asks for blessings before leaving home. Reads evening prayers before going to bed. And, of course, in his prayer appeals a person does not forget his family and friends. First of all, parents.
Whom to ask for health and well-being
The sacred duty of every child is to respect and honor their parents and take care of their health. The prayer of children for their parents is very strong and powerful. You can pray for the health of your father and mother to the Lord God, Nicholas the Wonderworker and Matrona of Moscow.
Prayer to the Lord God
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God. I appeal to you for the health of my parents. Have mercy and help them cope with serious illnesses and painful ailments. Give them strength to pray righteously and extend the years of life on the sinful Earth. Thy will be done. Amen.
Prayer to Nicholas the Wonderworker
Wonderworker Nicholas, I turn to you with a prayer. Protect my parents from loss of health, from weakness and reproach. Help them reach true Orthodoxy and reject all the turmoil from the fall of mortality. Intercede before the Lord God for them, and deliver my parents from illness. Thy will be done. Amen.
Prayer to Matrona of Moscow
Blessed Elder, Matrona of Moscow. You heal the weak and glorify the believers. Heal my parents from bodily ailments, deliver them from enemies and illnesses. Protect them from evil people and from sinful diseases. I pray for health, thank you. Let it be so. Amen.
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Orthodox traditions of honoring parents in Russia
Orthodox traditions, according to which people lived in Russia for a thousand years, were based, among other things, on the veneration of elders: no serious business began without parental blessing. Whatever the parents, they, as a rule, could count on supporting their sons and daughters in old age, especially since there were no pensions. These norms were brought up in children, and abandoned old people were a disgrace for the family.
In Russia, a host of holy saints are glorified, who as individuals were formed in such customs, and in many lives there are direct references to this. One of the beloved and revered righteous women, Matrona of Moscow, grew up in a peasant family in the Tula province. Her biography provides several examples of the respect and care with which she treated her father, Dmitry Ivanovich, and mother, Maria Nikitichna Nikonov. This was naturally instilled in her at home.
In her memoirs about the blessed old woman, her own advice is given: “If the old, the sick, or those who have lost their minds tell you something unpleasant or offensive, then do not listen to them, do not be irritated, but simply help them.”
Prayer to the Mother of God for drunkenness
You can read or listen to an audio recording of the prayer text. You need to contact through the Mother of God about a sick relative, a parent who cannot overcome his own sin. A healing Orthodox prayer for drunkenness is said with the hope that the Mother of God will see the sorrow of the person asking, help in overcoming temptation, give consolation, and cover him with a sacred omophorion. This prayer should be read by the whole family for the sick person. It is better if close relatives apply: children (about parents), mother and father (about descendants).
Our most blessed Queen, our hope, the Most Holy Theotokos, friend of the orphaned and strange, Intercessor, help for the needy and protection for the embittered.
See our misfortune, see our sorrow:
We are overwhelmed by temptations everywhere, but there is no intercessor.
You Yourself, help us as we are weak, nourish us as we are strange, guide us as we are lost, heal and save us as we are hopeless.
The imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all the sorrowful and burdened.
Look upon us, sinners and those in bitterness, cover us with Your Honest Omophorion.
May we be delivered from the evils that have befallen us, especially drunkenness.
May we always praise Your Most Holy Name.
Amen.
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Prayer for hearing loss and ear disease
The power and purity of the Ever-Virgin is glorified, while the prayer admits that he is unworthy, and therefore asks for help to turn to the Almighty so that he will forgive his sins. Let the one who asks glorify the Mother of God, for everyone sees her purity and intercession in heaven. When the text is read, there is no mention of what help is being sought. But this prayer helps with ear pain. To alleviate the condition, you need to mentally address your problem while reading.
Oh, Most Holy Virgin, the All-Blessed Son of the All-Blessed Mother, the protection of this city, faithful to the Representative and Intercessor of all who are in sins, sorrows, troubles and illnesses!
Accept this prayer song from us, Thy unworthy servants, offered to You;
and just as you did not despise the sinner of old, who prayed many times before your honorable icon every day, but you granted him the unexpected joy of repentance, and through your zealous intercession to your Son you bowed the sinner to the forgiveness of the sinner, so even now do not despise the prayers of us, unworthy servants. Yours, but pray to Your Son and our God, and to all of us, with faith and tenderness before Your celibate image, who, according to each need, grants unexpected joy;
Yes, everyone in heaven and on earth sees You as a steadfast and unashamed Representative of the Christian race, and through this they glorify You and Your Son with His Beginningless Father and His Consubstantial Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Amen.
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Other Orthodox prayers for health
There are not only Orthodox prayers for the health of parents, but also prayers addressed to other relatives. After all, one of the main components of life is health. Prayers for health will help ease the pain of illness and restore the immunity of the child, parents, and husband. Prayer for the health of loved ones has enormous power. It is not necessary to read it in church, you can do it at home, the only main point is that it needs to be read for a baptized person.
An appeal to the Lord about the health of a sick person looks like this:
O my Lord, my Creator, I ask for Your help, grant healing to the servant of God (name), wash his blood with Your rays.
Only with Your help will he be healed. Touch him with miraculous power, bless all his paths to salvation, recovery, healing.
Give his body health, his soul blessed lightness, his heart divine balm.
The pain will subside, and strength will return, and his physical and mental wounds will heal, and Your help will come.
Your rays from Heaven will reach him, give him protection, bless him for healing from his ailments, strengthen his faith. May the Lord hear this prayer.
Glory and thanks to the power of the Lord. Amen.
It is unbearable to see one of your relatives sick, but it is even more terrible to watch a child exhausted from illness. An Orthodox prayer for health will help your child recover and restore strength.
Lord Jesus Christ, let Your mercy be on my children (names), keep them under Your roof,
Cover from all evil, take away every enemy from them, open their ears and eyes, grant tenderness and humility to their hearts.
Lord, we are all Your creatures, have pity on my children (names) and turn them to repentance.
Save, O Lord, and have mercy on my children (names), and enlighten their minds with the light of the mind of Your Gospel, and guide them on the path of Your commandments, and teach them,
Father, do Your will, for You are our God.”
We must understand that prayer does not exclude the use of modern medicine. Each petition is an auxiliary means to help overcome the disease.
The prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos, which can be read not only in the Temple of God but also at home, very well helps to enlist support from above.
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Strong prayer to the Mother of God for healing in serious illnesses
When reading the prayer text, the Mother of God is glorified and her virtues are listed. This allows you to turn to the all-generous Saint with a request for mercy. A prayer is read to the Most Holy Theotokos for the health of the child, mother, father, as well as other loved ones, help is sought through the Virgin, because she will help moderate the wrath of God through her intercession.
Most blessed Lady, Ever-Virgin Mother of God, who gave birth to God the Word more than any word for our salvation, and who received His grace more abundantly than all others, who appeared as a sea of Divine gifts and miracles, an ever-flowing river, pouring out goodness to all who come running to You with faith!
To Your miraculous image, we pray to You, the all-generous Mother of the Humanity-loving Lord: surprise us with Your rich mercies, and speed up the fulfillment of our petitions brought to You, Quick to Hear, all that are arranged for the benefit of consolation and salvation for everyone.
Visit, O Blessing Thy servants, with Thy grace, grant to those who are ill, healing and perfect health, to those overwhelmed by silence, to those in captivity, freedom and various images of the afflicted to console, deliver, O all-merciful Lady, every city and country from famine, plague, cowardice, flood, fire, sword and other temporal and eternal punishments, by Your maternity boldness turning away the wrath of God:
and spiritual relaxation, overwhelm by passions and falls, free Thy servant, for so that without stumbling in all piety we have lived in this world, and in the future of eternal blessings we will be made worthy of the grace and love for mankind of Thy Son and God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father and the Most Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Amen.
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