Parents are the most precious thing in our lives; we do not choose our creators, but we must honor and help them. Therefore, not only in times of trouble, but also at the behest of the soul, prudent children read prayers for the health of their parents, addressed to God and the saints. With a prayer for help, you can turn to Nicholas the Wonderworker, Matrona of Moscow and the Lord God himself.
The most powerful Orthodox prayers for the health of parents
Prayer to the Lord
Many people believe that the most effective and powerful prayer for the health of parents is a prayer to God. So they turn to the words of hope contained in this prayer.
Holy God Almighty, holy to the King, punishing and not destroying, supporting the lost and lifting up the perishing, healing the fleshly sorrows of people, we pray to You, Lord, visit Your servant (name) in his weakness according to Your mercy and forgive him all his sins, intentional and deliberate. Lord, send down Your healing power from heaven, touch the flesh, quench the fire, pacify the passions and all the weaknesses that lurk in it; Be a doctor to Your servant (name), raise him from the bed of illness and from the bed of bitterness, make him safe and sound and give him to Your Kingdom, so that he pleases You and fulfills Your will. For such is Your mercy and Your salvation, O God, and to You we give glory, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Prayer for the recovery of a sick person in front of the icon of the Mother of God “Three-handed”
The Three-Handed Icon is a special image. At the bottom of the image of the Mother of God there is a third brush, which looks like a separate element, but on the other hand is perceived as the third brush of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This icon is known for its healing properties throughout the Orthodox world.
The history of the creation of the icon is connected with the name of St. John of Damascus. This man lived in Syria and was a famous poet and philosopher. For a long time he held the position of adviser to the caliph. But after the iconoclast emperor Leo the Isaurian ascended the throne, great persecution of Christians began. To destroy the fiery defender of icons, the ruler used cunning. He slandered the Monk John of Damascus before the Caliph. As punishment, the angry caliph ordered the philosopher's right hand to be cut off.
Bleeding, John of Damascus, having come home, wrote a letter to the caliph, who believed the slander, asking him to return his severed hand. The ruler, taking pity on John, fulfilled his request. After this, John locked himself in his cell and began to pray fervently in front of the icon of the Mother of God. A miracle happened - and the severed arm grew back, leaving only a scar at the junction. So that this event would remain in memory, John cast a brush from silver and attached it to the icon of the Virgin Mary. Later, on copies of this image of the Mother of God they began to write a third hand. Time passed and icon painters began to depict a severed hand on lists.
The Monk John of Damascus donated a miraculous image to the monastery of Saint Sava the Sanctified, which was located near Jerusalem. This icon adorned the temple until the 13th century. Then “Three Hands” was presented to the Serbian Archbishop Sava. Soon the Turkish conquest took place and local Christians took the icon out of the country to prevent desecration of it. A legend has been preserved that the Shrine was simply tied to a donkey and he himself, without encountering any obstacles on his way, brought it to the Hilandar Athos Monastery. Since then, this icon has become one of the most revered images in the famous Orthodox monastery.
In Russia, the first list appeared at the request of Patriarch Nikon. He was placed in the New Jerusalem Monastery. To acquaint believers with the iconography, a tablet with an interpretation was initially attached to the image. Another list was intended for the wife of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
In Orthodoxy, the “Three-Handed” icon is highly respected. It was in front of this image that the royal family offered prayers before execution.
Healings occurred many times near the copies of the Three-Handed icon. This icon of the Most Holy Theotokos still enjoys great love and veneration in the Russian Orthodox Church. Various prayers aimed at healing are read in front of this icon.
One of them sounds like this:
“Oh, Most Holy Lady Heavenly Lady Theotokos! You performed a miracle, healed St. John of Damascus. Through her miraculous action she gave true hope to the people. Hear us, sinners who have committed sins due to our own foolishness. Forgive us and turn your gaze to us, praying before your icon. Hear our requests for help, do not refuse us our prayer. You are known for your generosity and mercy, so deliver us from illness, sorrow and sorrow. Help all of us who honor your icon, who kneel before it. And we will all joyfully sing and glorify your name with love, you are chosen among all, blessed forever and ever. Amen".
The text of another powerful prayer goes like this:
Oh, Most Holy and Great Lady of Heaven, Most Holy Theotokos Virgin Mary! We fall before your image and worship you, remembering before your holy icon all your miraculous healings. Hear us, sinners, turn your holy gaze on us. You atone before the Lord for all our sins, known and unknown. You, Holy Mother, we pray to you to deliver us from illnesses, sorrows and sorrows. Beg the Lord to forgive us our sins committed through foolishness and foolishness. Near your icon we glorify all your deeds and your mercy. Grant us your blessing for a prosperous life in health. We pray to You and ask You, the All-merciful and All-generous Intercessor of the human race. Heal our wounds and give us comfort in our sorrow. Do not let us deviate from the true path and protect us from demonic temptations. Give us support in helping against evil and unkind people, so that they cannot harm our health. We pray for your help in strengthening faith in our souls. Give us hope that we will be worthy to answer for our deeds before the Almighty Lord when our time comes. Let us feast on the forgiveness of our sins and the Kingdom of God. Do not judge us for our iniquities and do not refuse us your help. And we will pray near your image and glorify all your good deeds. Amen".
Prayer to Nicholas the Wonderworker for the health of parents
Prayer to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker helps believers cope with many difficult situations. He will not stand aside when you turn to Him with prayer for the health of the children’s parents. The reference to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is not accidental, since he is considered the patron saint in the field of health. It helps heal the seriously ill, improves the health of the elderly and strengthens strength.
Holy Wonderworker Nicholas, I sincerely pray to you. I ask You to protect my parents from illness, disease and weakness. Help them follow the righteous path and give them hope in the Kingdom of Heaven. Don't let them give in to sinful temptations. Intercede for them before our Lord. Thy will be done. Amen.
Prayer for parents has special power
A sincere prayer for parents cannot fail to be heard by God. From apostolic times to the present day, there are many testimonies of miraculous recovery and God's help provided by the Lord through the prayers of children. For example, the editorial mail of the Pravoslavie.Ru portal regularly receives stories of grateful children.
Zhanna Izmailova writes about how, after her mother’s severe stroke, the Church remained her last hope. On the advice of a priest she knew, the girl began to tearfully pray to the Lord, the Most Holy Theotokos and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker to have mercy on her mother and grant her health. In addition, Zhanna made a vow to God to quit smoking if her mother recovered. The Lord saw the girl’s deep humility and determination to fight sinful habits. He raised her mother to her feet and granted complete healing.
An equally touching story is told by Tatyana Poryadina. Her father suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. As a result, the right side of his body was paralyzed and he was admitted to intensive care in serious condition. Doctors did not believe in recovery and prepared the family for the worst. Having taken upon herself to fast, Tatiana fervently prayed to the Lord for her father for 40 days. Contrary to all the doctors’ predictions, he not only came to his senses, but also began to walk on his own.
“When you see any difficulty occurring, either in marriage or in other circumstances, then pray to God - this is the single best way to get rid of the disasters that happen to us. Truly, prayer is a great weapon” (St. John Chrysostom).
Prayer to Matrona of Moscow for the health of parents
Matrona of Moscow is one of those saints who zealously participated in solving various life problems of Christians who turned to them. She helped them in earthly life and did not leave them without help in the Kingdom of Heaven. Prayer for the health of parents is a warm and caring prayer for loved ones. His words are usually pronounced with special sincerity and a desire for the request to be fulfilled. As a result, this brings the desired result, and elderly parents remain cheerful and healthy for a long time.
O blessed mother Matrona, with your soul in heaven before the throne of God, with your body resting on earth, and with the grace given to you from above, show various miracles. Look now with Your merciful eye on us, sinners, in our sorrows, in our illnesses and sinful temptations, comfort us who are in despair, heal our bitter sufferings that God allows us for our sins, deliver us from many troubles and circumstances, and We beg our Lord Jesus Christ to forgive us all our sins. Through your prayers, having received grace and great mercy, we will glorify the one God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in the Holy Trinity, Consubstantial, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen
Prayers can also be addressed to other saints, including Panteleimon the Healer and the Mother of God, intercessor and patroness of saints. It is better to read these prayers in an Orthodox church in front of an icon. If you cannot go to an Orthodox church, you can pray at home, but the icon should always be in front of the person praying.
Orthodox prayers for Trinity for the health of family and friends
Trinity is a Great Orthodox holiday. Prayers for the health of family and friends read on this day are extremely powerful. You can turn to the Trinity not only to God, but also to other Saints.
Prayer for health to Panteleimon the Healer
On Trinity Sunday you can pray to Saint Panteleimon the Healer for the gift of health. During his lifetime, this Saint was engaged in healing and believed in the power of Christian prayer. He never refused help and support to those suffering, and did not charge any payment for his services.
The Orthodox Church considers Saint Panteleimon the Healer the patron saint of all people suffering from illnesses. Therefore, people always pray to him in difficult moments of their lives, when serious health problems arise. The prayer offered to this Saint helps to properly tune in before the operation. The image of Panteleimon the Healer must be located near the bed of a sick person.
The sacred text that will allow you to get rid of ailments and significantly improve your well-being is as follows:
“Oh, great saint of Christ, Saint Panteleimon the Healer, the Many-Merciful healer. Have mercy on the Servant of God (the name of the sick person), hear my prayer and my spiritual cry. Beg the Lord God for forgiveness of the sins of a person close to me. Ask for him from the Throne of the Lord to grant him healing. Help, Saint Panteleimon, fight the Servant of God (the name of the sick person) with this terrible illness, give him hope for a long, happy life. And for your mercy, all my life I will glorify your deeds and the Lord for His mercy. Amen".
Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary for a newborn baby
Every mother dreams of her child growing up healthy and strong. Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos can help with this. The Mother of God always hears the maternal prayer. Trinity prayers said for a newborn baby are considered especially powerful.
A mother’s prayer on the Great Holiday for the health of her newborn child, addressed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, allows you to create reliable protection around the baby. This means that external negativity will not be able to harm him and he will definitely develop correctly and have good health. In addition, such a prayer appeal can protect the baby from all possible problems in life, which means that he will be destined for a smooth life path and a happy fate.
Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos is also different in that it gives the mother peace of mind and confidence that she can raise her child in the fear of God, guide him on the true path and protect him from the influence of devilish forces.
The prayer goes like this:
“Oh, Most Holy Lady Virgin Mary, Most Holy Theotokos, hear the maternal prayer of the servant of God (proper name). I ask you to save and preserve my child, the servant of God (baby’s name), under your roof; cover him with your robe of your holy motherhood. Protect him from everything bad and help me raise my child in the fear of God and obedience to parents. Keep sincere faith in his soul throughout his life and awaken in his soul gratitude for all the mercies of the Almighty, the Great Lover of mankind, your Son. I entrust my child to your maternal care and believe in your support. Amen".
Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Accept, O most holy and almighty Mother of God, Mother of God, these prayers, brought to You now with tears from us, our tears and cries brought to You by our unworthy servants, who sing with compassion before Your altar image, for only the Mother of God is here and hears our prayers. In every transition You do Your work, relieve pain, give health to the weak, heal the weak and sick, drive away the sick from the poor, redeem the offended from their wounds, cleanse the lepers and have mercy on little children; in addition, Most Holy Theotokos, you deliver from dangers and prisons and heal all evil deeds: through your intercession before your Son, Christ our God, all things are possible. O Mother of God, most holy Mother of God! Do not cease to pray for us, Your unworthy servants, who honor and adore You, who tenderly venerate Your most pure image, who hope and believe unceasingly, now and always, in You, the most holy and immaculate Mother, forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer to Panteleimon the Healer
Holy Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon, merciful saint of God! Look with kindness and hear us, sinners, praying before Your holy icon. Ask the Lord God, standing before Him with the angels in heaven, to forgive us our sins and misdeeds. Heal the mental and physical illnesses of the servants of God standing here, now mentioned, and all Orthodox Christians who trust in your intercession. For due to our sins, we suffered grievously from many ailments and received neither help nor consolation, but we turn to You, so that You would give us the grace to pray for us and heal every ailment and every disease. May your holy prayers grant us all health and well-being for our souls and bodies, prosperity for our faith and piety, and everything that is necessary for earthly life and salvation. Having received through you great and abundant mercies, let us glorify you and Him who gives you all glory, the God of our saints, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who exists in supreme bliss. Amen.
Sorokoust prayer for health
The forty-day sermon is a prayer read in church for forty days. Ordering this prayer is ideal for children who are concerned about the health of their parents, but are often on the road and cannot pray in church or at home, where they rarely go or do not have the necessary icons. At the same time, Orthodox prayers for the health of parents can even be ordered in not one, but in three Orthodox churches. This will have an even greater impact as many people will read it within forty days. However, it is important to know that it can only be ordered for those who have been baptized.
Contemporary issues
Unfortunately, today, after seventy years of destruction of Christian traditions in Russia, it is difficult to talk about piety in our families. A disrespectful, consumerist attitude towards mother and father has become the norm. Advertising is full of tempting offers to place old people in private nursing homes, where they are guaranteed good care.
Priests say with pain that the relationship between children and parents is one of the most burning problems that people talk about in confession. Archpriest Fyodor Borodin testifies:
“Very often old people come to confession and begin to complain about their children. <...> Some themselves notice: “Word for word, what I told my mother, now my daughter tells me.” Some people have to be led to this thought: “What about you, haven’t you sinned against your parents?” Indeed, as punishment for violating this commandment, the Lord very often puts a person in the same situation, but from the other side, from the side of the suffering parent.”
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