Marital prayer when to read

Extremely important in a shaky relationship between husband and wife is the marital prayer “My Lord.” Its text is based on gratitude to God for the gift of a soul mate among a huge number of people. And if two people found each other, tied the knot, gave birth to children in love and prosperity, nothing should come between them, sow discord and, even more so, separate them.

Spousal Prayer

Text of the marital prayer

My Lord! I thank You that in this world, where there is so much indifference and loneliness, You gave me a person who became so close to me that he merged with me into one whole.

Save our family happiness from selfishness, suspicion and evil causeless jealousy.

Give us the strength to forgive each other and forget previous grievances.

Save our union from the deceit of evil people, and may no person ever come between the two of us.

Let our children grow up in love and obedience, in happiness and joy.

Do not separate us until death and give us the desire to care for each other with tenderness.

Nourish our love from heavenly sources, so that it grows deep into the Kingdom of God, into eternal life.

Spousal prayer seeks to accomplish the following good works:

Prevent possible separation of spouses.
If one of your close people commits infidelity or other inappropriate actions, the prayer asks him to come to his senses and remember who is truly dear to him.
There are discords in every family, and prayer calls for them to stop.

The first part of the prayer says: “My Lord, I thank you for the gift.” Indeed, in the modern world, where many people cannot find their chosen one in their entire lives, married couples look like real lucky ones.

Life together is a real storehouse of happiness and positive emotions, and a spouse is a reliable support and advisor for many years

Such a gift must be cherished throughout your life and under no circumstances should you be allowed to lose each other.

Prayer against desecration:

Lord our God, one good and loving of mankind, one holy and resting among the saints! You showed by vision to Your supreme Apostle Peter that nothing that You created for food and enjoyment of people should be considered unclean or unclean, and through Your chosen vessel, the Apostle Paul, you gave the commandment that for the pure everything is pure: You Yourself, the Most Holy Master, by invoking the terrible and Your most pure name, and the sign of the Holy and Life-giving Cross, bless and cleanse me, Your servant (name), defiled from every evil spirit, from every dream and poisonous vile thing, from all lawlessness and from all deception, from all sorcery and from all vanity, and from every disease and every disease, and from every hostile villainy of the devil. And now, by Your mercy, grant me, Thy unworthy servant (name), to serve Thy most pure Mysteries. And first, cleanse my soul and body from all filth, and forgive every sin, voluntary and involuntary, which I have sinned all the days of my life, in deed, word and thought, day and night, and until this hour. And grant me, Lord, to perform this terrible service in the presence of the Heavenly Regiments, and to partake of Your most pure Mysteries, not in court or condemnation, but in the forgiveness of sins, and in the coming of the Holy Spirit, and to life in eternal joy, which You have prepared for Your true servants. Save me, Lord Almighty, from all sin and malice, save strangers from filth and vice from all leprosy of the hostile devil; and grant me, Lord, to serve You in holiness and truth until the last day, and hour, and my death.

For You bless and sanctify everything, Christ our God, and we send up glory to You with Your Beginning Father and with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and always and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

What does prayer protect against?

Further, the marital prayer asks to preserve family happiness from selfishness. This is a pressing issue of our days, because at the very beginning of a relationship, future spouses try to woo each other, to please their other half. It happens that they even do things that are unusual for them, through force, because they love and can force themselves, they overpower themselves for the sake of another person. But there is an opinion that after legitimizing the relationship, you can return to your usual course of behavior, because the person is already mine. This is not true at all, and either initially one should not pretend and behave naturally, or the attitude for which the second spouse fell in love must be borne every day, all his life. In this case, the second spouse should not be annoyed, but treat his beloved half with understanding and try to always love her, regardless of changes in behavior.

The following lines pray for the preservation of the union from the deceit of evil people. Here we are talking about cheating on a loved one in marriage. Of course, the one who acts in this way must be condemned, because he betrays the person to whom he promised at the altar to love forever. But, at the same time, the second spouse should also look at his reflection in the mirror - maybe something has changed over the years? No, not in appearance, in behavior, in attitude, maybe she herself gives a reason to behave like this with him. There are always two people to blame for any marital problem, and both must find the strength to eradicate evil, reach some kind of agreement, make some promises to each other, or try to fulfill old dreams.

How to learn to love loved ones? Prayer for family and loved one

How to learn to love those close to you, especially your family? And how to stop seeing only appearance and behavior in people?

How to love people the way they are? Here you need to know yourself. And when you see yourself as you really are, you will begin to treat everyone else more leniently, including your family. Because relatives are people who, like a mirror, remind us. We all, especially in the family, among relatives, are all similar to each other, we have the same qualities. And what irritates you in your loved one is there in you too, you just don’t see it in yourself. When you see this, you will understand, then others will stop annoying you. So you need to know yourself.

Prayer for children's health

“May our children grow up in obedience, happiness and joy” - this line says that marital prayer also helps in protecting children from demons and evil eyes.

The second, and much more valuable gift that the Lord could give is the birth of a new life, because, again, many even loving couples cannot conceive a child for many years. Also, a family that was able to give birth to several babies, and they all grow and enjoy life, is perhaps the happiest. Children, at times, greatly irritate us, do many things differently than we want, and in marital prayer we ask the Lord for help in raising them. In fact, the issue here is very controversial, because with the birth of a child, a new personality begins to form. And it is important not to adjust it to your own framework and requirements, but on the contrary, to allow it to develop as best as possible, to explore the world, only by guiding the child in the right direction. And in case of disobedience, such a moment must simply be endured, and soon, growing up, he himself will understand that he was wrong, but he will not have negative feelings towards his parents for punishing him and not allowing him to do what he wants.

“Do not separate us until death and let us take care of each other with tenderness” are the most correct lines that do not need to be interpreted. Any family, regardless of age, financial situation, health, should always be together, and every problem will be overcome.

And it doesn’t matter whether the children have grown up and gone to seek their own destiny, or not yet, we should always consult with each other, see each other as often as possible, love each other. Because not a single person on earth has anything closer to his family.

How to learn to love God?

Why should we love the Lord God? And how can a feeling of love arise for someone with whom there is no direct direct contact? Why should we love Him more than our parents, wife and children? Regarding them, we can understand why, why we love them.

Of course, it is impossible to love someone with whom there is no direct direct contact. Therefore, you must have this contact with the Lord. Otherwise we will not love Him. You must have the closest fellowship with the Lord. How will it be? Some kind of telepathic contact or the appearance of Christ to the people? No, that won't happen. Although, telepathic contact, if you call it that, can occur during prayer, when we communicate with God. And prayer is not a monologue, but a dialogue. We don’t just speak some words into space, we receive a response from God. You just need to listen a little. The Lord is near. A person slowly gets to know Him, tunes in with Him, learns to understand, learns to accept. And the more he knows God, the more closely he comes into contact with Him, the better he knows Him, the more he begins to love him.

At the first stage, most likely, it will be attempts to love God. Here you will love your wife, children and parents more than Him. But gradually, as you go through life, from year to year, getting to know God, communicating with him more and more closely, noticing him in your life, you will eventually come to the conclusion that he is really more important to you. And this is natural and correct. More important than his wife, more important than his children, more important than his parents, and more important than anything else, even his own life. It is through him that you truly love your wife, and your children, and your parents. Yes, you can do it without it too. But this love will not be of the purity, not of the holiness that it should be.

About the prayer of the spouses

The Church cannot exist without common prayer and without the Eucharistic communion of its members. Without common prayer, without common religious life and spiritual experiences, it is impossible to build a home church - a Christian family, the smallest unit of the common Church of Christ. Many confessors understood this well. Father Alexander Tolgsky [1] did not just ask in confession whether his spiritual child prayed every morning and evening, but whether he prayed daily with his spouse.

At the beginning of the Liturgy of the Faithful, the priest loudly proclaims: “Grant to us with one mouth and one heart to glorify and glorify Your Most Honorable and Magnificent Name, of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.”

If the priest asks for the whole church, for everyone standing in the church, to have one mouth and one heart for prayerful and Eucharistic communion with the Holy Trinity, then even more so it is necessary for those who make up “one flesh” to have one mouth and one heart. How can this one flesh not offer to the Lord a common prayer for its needs, its thanksgiving and strengthen its unity through joint communication with God.

Common prayer protects against quarrels, forces those who quarrel to reconcile, and helps to resolve misunderstandings that arise between people. It should be introduced from the very first days of married life - then it will be much more difficult to establish it, because common prayer arises more easily with the complete loving openness of souls towards each other, when new forms of life and way of life are jointly sought - until a common circadian rhythm is possible before the birth of children life. The joint prayer rule of husband and wife is the basis for building a home church. It helps to cultivate prayer in children and organize family prayers.

Sometimes one hears objections to the joint daily prayer of spouses, both from the laity and from young priests. But before answering these objections, it should be remembered that the Holy Fathers distinguished several degrees of prayer.

“First degree,” writes St. Theophan the Recluse [2], - physical prayer, mainly in reading, standing, bowing. Attention runs away, the heart does not feel, there is no desire: there is patience, labor, sweat. Despite this, however, set limits and pray. This is active prayer. The second degree is attentive prayer: the mind gets used to gathering at the hour of prayer and saying it all with consciousness, without plunder. Attention merges with the written word and speaks as if it were its own. The third degree is the prayer of feeling: attention warms the heart, and what is in thought becomes here a feeling. There is a word of contrition, and here there is contrition; there is a request, and here there is a feeling of need and need. He who has turned to feeling prays without words, for God is the God of the heart. With this, reading can stop, just like thinking, but let only remain in feeling with certain prayer signs. The fourth degree is spiritual prayer. It begins when the feeling of prayer rises to the point of continuity. It is the gift of the Spirit of God praying for us - the last degree of prayer comprehended” [3].

Why prayer helps change your life for the better

Prayer, which changes life for the better, has a beneficial effect on a person and gives him the necessary strength.

Prayer, which changes life for the better, is designed to have a beneficial effect on a person’s destiny, give him spiritual strength, heal his soul and give it immortality.

Statistics show that religious people suffering from incurable diseases live several years longer than atheists with similar diagnoses. This is explained by the fact that prayer deprives a person of fear.

He accepts true values and gains peace of mind. After all, it is he who is able to strengthen the body, restoring the body’s protective functions.

It has been experimentally proven that prayer during its pronunciation helps cope with high blood pressure, eliminates the symptoms of diabetes, normalizes metabolic processes in the body and cholesterol levels

It is especially important to pray for people who often become depressed and suffer from other severe forms of mental illness.

The result of a survey of people suffering from similar ailments showed that the vast majority of them became adherents of religion. This helped them get rid of attacks of aggression, despair and depression.

Usually the prayer is said:

after sunrise and before sunset;
a prayer that can change life and destiny for the better can be said before and after meals;
It is recommended to pray before starting a responsible task or after its completion;
no one will forbid a person to express his gratitude to the saints or ask them for help at any other time.

In the morning, prayer is said immediately after waking up. You can read it from memory, or using a prayer book. In the evening, it is not recommended to postpone turning to higher powers until later. The church has not defined a strict time for turning to God.

A believer should strive for constant prayer and unceasing communication with the Almighty. There is a rule of reading the same prayer multiple times throughout the day. To do this, you must obtain the blessing of a priest and take into account that the frequency of repetition of the prayer has strict limitations.

People who have used Joseph Murphy's prayers claim that they have truly magical effects.

Murphy's life-changing prayer is based on the theory that every person is an element of the Universe that helps him get everything that he truly strives for. It represents an appeal to higher powers in a more natural and free form.

The text of the prayer must be said out loud 2 times a day (no more than 15 minutes). This rule must be followed for a month.

Every person can radically change their destiny with the help of miraculous prayer. She is able to overcome a serious physical illness, advance in her career, and help her find true love.

You can say a prayer under different circumstances. Visiting church and lighting candles at the faces of saints is encouraged. It is not forbidden to pray at home or immediately before making a responsible decision.

There is nothing impossible for higher powers. The basis of any prayer should be sincere faith in the great power of the saints and their desire to help every person.

Prayers for happiness in the family, personal life, marriage and more

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Prayer for family happiness is quite natural for everyone who wants to live in love and understanding with their spouse, children, and parents. In the understanding of a believer, a happy family is mutual love, support, respect, and all this is accompanied by the Lord.

Family well-being occupies a special place in the life of an Orthodox person. Even the Apostle Paul wrote in his letter to his disciple Timothy: “a woman will be saved by bearing children.” So, for our prosperous life it is simply necessary that we have a faithful spouse and healthy children and parents nearby. Who can ask the Heavenly Powers for happiness in the family, and how to do it correctly?

Thanksgiving Prayer:

Lord Jesus Christ our God, God of all mercy and generosity, whose mercy is immeasurable and whose love for mankind is an immeasurable abyss! We, falling before Your greatness, with fear and trembling, like unworthy slaves, bring thanks to You for the mercies shown to us. As the Lord, Master and benefactor, we glorify You, praise You, sing and magnify You and, falling down, thank You again! We humbly pray to Your ineffable mercy: just as now You have accepted our prayers and fulfilled them, so in the future, let us succeed in love for You, for our neighbors and in all virtues. And make us worthy to always thank and glorify You, together with Your beginningless Father and Your all-holy, good, and consubstantial Spirit. Amen.

Prayer for happiness in marriage

One of the Sacraments of the Orthodox Church is marriage. So Jesus Christ sanctified the marriage bond in Canna of Galilee, and turned simple water into wine at the wedding. He showed the believers that a strong union is pleasing to the Lord, as is its celebration.

Both already married and single people can ask the Almighty for happiness and prosperity in married life.
Even in pre-revolutionary times, Russian girls had a tradition of asking for a good marriage and a strong family on the day of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos.
On their wedding day, many newlyweds turn to the Lord for the blessing of their union.
You can and should ask for wisdom and humility, health and financial well-being every day, turning to God, His saints and the Virgin Mary.

The prayer for happiness in family life to the Almighty is read in these words:

“Lord Heavenly Father! In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray to You for my family happiness. Grant us in our family love for each other. Grant to us that our love may strengthen and multiply. Teach me to love my spouse with all my heart, teach me to love him (her) as You and Your Son Jesus Christ loved me. Grant me to understand what I need to remove from my life and what I need to learn so that we can have a happy family. Grant me wisdom in my behavior and in my words so that I never irritate or upset my spouse. Amen"

Help from Saint Matrona of Moscow

The help of Matrona of Moscow is highly valued in a variety of areas.
Belief in her is confirmed by real miracles that happen to people who turn to the saint. A conspiracy against infertility, a prayer for the family, which is read so that the husband loves as before - all this is under her jurisdiction. Prayer for a happy family is a special text for all Orthodox Christians, the most sacred. We advise you to study Pictures of the Baptism of the Lord

If possible, you need to visit the relics of Matrona of Moscow. If this is not possible, try writing a letter to the monastery asking for spiritual help. To protect your family from divorce, you also need an icon of the Matrona of Moscow, to which you will pray daily for family happiness, for well-being and prosperity in the family.

Anything can happen in life, but more than anything else we need to take care of our family. Matrona is the patroness of enduring values, healer and martyr. She will definitely help if you offer her prayers for the family. Pray for admonition and preservation of marriage, for prosperity in a friendly family. The spell for the icon of the Matrona of Moscow works very quickly and powerfully, you will see the result in just a few days.

Prayer for the happiness of Blessed Xenia

When hard times come, the spouses are haunted by failures in their worldly affairs, family well-being is under threat. After all, you must admit that when a person is not going well with his everyday affairs, he can accidentally offend another person, and often his other half falls under the “hot hand”.

In this case, you should pray to Saint Xenia of St. Petersburg, who will help resolve all everyday troubles and give a little success in business:

“Oh holy all-blessed mother Ksenia! You who lived under the shelter of the Most High, known and strengthened by the Mother of God, endured hunger and thirst, cold and heat, reproach and persecution, received the gift of clairvoyance and miracles from God and rested under the canopy of the Almighty.

Now the Holy Church, like a fragrant flower, glorifies you. Standing at the place of your burial, before your holy image, as if you were alive and present with us, we pray to you: accept our petitions and bring them to the Throne of the merciful Heavenly Father, as you have boldness towards Him.

Ask those who flow to you for eternal salvation, for our good deeds and undertakings to receive a generous blessing, and for deliverance from all troubles and sorrows. Stand before our All-Merciful Savior with your holy prayers for us, unworthy and sinners.

Help, holy blessed mother Xenia, to illuminate the infants with the light of holy baptism and to seal them with the seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit, to educate boys and girls in faith, honesty, fear of God and grant them success in learning; heal the sick and ailing, send down love and harmony to families, honor monastics to strive for good deeds and protect them from reproach, strengthen pastors in the strength of the Holy Spirit, preserve our people and country in peace and serenity, pray for those deprived of communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ in the dying hour.

You are our hope and hope, quick hearing and deliverance, we send thanks to you and with you we glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen".

prayer for my husband is very strong.

Strong Christian prayers of a wife for her beloved husband to Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

“O our good shepherd and God-wise mentor, Saint Nicholas of Christ! Hear us sinners, praying to you and calling on your quick intercession for help: see us weak, caught everywhere, deprived of every good and darkened in mind from cowardice: strive, servant of God, do not leave us in sinful captivity to be, so that we may not joyfully be our enemy and we will not die in our evil deeds: pray for us, unworthy of our Creator and Master, to whom you stand with your disembodied faces: make our God merciful to us in this life and in the future, so that he does not reward us according to our deeds and the impurity of our hearts , but in His goodness He will reward us: we trust in your intercession, we boast of your intercession, we call upon your intercession for help, and falling to your most holy image, we ask for help: deliver us, servant of Christ, from the evils that come upon us, and tame the waves of passions and the troubles that rise upon us, so that for the sake of your holy prayers the attack will not overwhelm us and we will not wallow in the abyss of sin and in the mire of our passions: pray to St. Nicholas of Christ, Christ our God, may He grant us a peaceful life and remission of sins, and salvation for our souls and great mercy, now and ever and unto ages of ages.

“Oh, all-holy Nicholas, exceedingly saintly servant of the Lord, our warm intercessor and quick helper everywhere in sorrow! Help me, a sinner and sad person in this life, beg the Lord God to grant me forgiveness of all my sins, which I have sinned greatly from my youth throughout my life, in deed, word, thought and all my feelings; and at the end of my soul, help me, the accursed one; beg the Lord God, Creator of all creation, to deliver me from airy ordeals and eternal torment; May I always glorify the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

No less powerfully will a prayer be heard that comes from the heart and in your own words:

“Lord, my heavenly Father, I ask you to help my husband find and fulfill his purpose. Bless his work, may it bring him success and financial prosperity. Let him get satisfaction while doing his job! Let people respect and appreciate him! Open his heart, Lord, so that everything he does coincides with Your Divine plan. Give him optimism, Lord, give him energy and strength, so that he can work in joy for the benefit of himself and the whole of society. Help him enjoy his successes and appreciate what he has achieved. May his every step and breath be directed towards You, Lord! Bless him on his journey! Help him gain confidence and open the doors of the future for him! Protect him, Lord, from all enemies and ill-wishers! Help him grow and improve! I pray, Lord, that I can be a worthy companion to my husband! So that I can support, delight and inspire him to new achievements! May our union be strong and pleasing to You! I thank you, Lord, for everything that you give us and I surrender to your holy will! Be blessed, Lord, forever and ever! Amen!"

Prayer for happiness in love

There is nothing wrong with turning to the Heavenly Powers for help with requests for personal life and the granting of mutual love. In addition to the Lord God, prayers for personal happiness can be read to the Mother of God and Her miraculous icons:

You can ask the Most Pure Virgin Mary from her images like this:

“Before You, Most Holy Mother of God, I bow and only before You can I open my heart. You know, Mother of God, everything that I, God’s servant (name), want to ask for, for my heart is free, empty, it cannot live without hot love. I pray and ask, give me a quick way to the only one who can illuminate my whole life with light and open his heart towards mine for the long-awaited and happy merger of our destinies and the acquisition of one soul for two. Amen".

Excellent helpers in arranging your personal life are:

Great Martyrs Paraskeva and Catherine
Apostle Andrew the First-Called
Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

Very strong and effective prayers for mutual love, both for spouses and for unmarried people, are usually read to holy couples:

Martyrs Adrian and Natalia
Venerable Peter and Fevronia
Righteous Joachim and Anna

Address Saints Natalia and Adrian with these prayer words:

“Oh, sacred duo, holy martyrs of Christ Natalia and Adrian, blessed spouses and sufferers. Hear me, God's servant (name), praying to you with pain and tears, send patience to the body and soul of God's servant (name) and God's servant (name of husband), and ask our Almighty, may he have mercy on us and send us his sacred mercy, May we not perish in our terrible sins. Holy martyrs Natalia and Adrian, I beg you, accept the voice of my request, and deliver us from destruction, famine, betrayal, divorce, invasion, abuse and abuse, from sudden death and from all sorrows, troubles and illnesses. Amen".

Which Saints are best to turn to in prayers for a meeting with a loved one?

Love is an interesting topic.
The word “love” can be used to describe anything. And “God is love!” (1 John 4:16). That's what the Bible says, and it's true! But love is sometimes also called simply close relationships. These are all different things. Love is very diverse. It’s one thing when you love your wife, it’s another thing when you love your children, your parents, your Motherland and your neighbors. Marital love can also be different. It’s one thing when at the “bride and groom” level, another thing is the first year, the beginning of family life. Gradually this love changes, becomes deeper, less noticeable. All this calms down and comes to a more stable state. But this does not make love weaker. On the contrary, it becomes stronger, its roots penetrate deeper and deeper. It's like you grow into the person you love. Therefore, love does not decrease over time, but increases. It's wonderful when we have the opportunity to live love from the moment of its inception throughout our lives and see how it changes. Which Saints should you turn to for help?

Lord Jesus Christ.
Mother of God.
Nicholas the Wonderworker.
Guardian Angel.
Ksenia of Petersburg.
Righteous Joachim and Anna.
Holy martyrs Guria, Samon and Aviv.
Natalia and Andrian.
Peter and Fevronia.
John the Theologian.

There are many powerful prayers for attracting love into your life that have already helped thousands of people. However, you can even address the Higher Powers with the words themselves, the main thing is that they come from the soul.

About the happiness of a daughter or son

Maternal prayer has incredible power, and helps in the most difficult moments: in illness, lack of money, loneliness and all sorts of other worldly affairs. It is parents who are the patrons of the happiness of their child, they raise him, teach him and pray to the Lord for their well-being.

To make life’s path less bumpy for your daughter or son, you should turn to the Lord God with the following prayer words:

“Lord Jesus Christ, awaken Thy mercy on my children (names), keep them under Thy roof, cover them from all evil lust, drive away from them every enemy and adversary, open the ears and eyes of their hearts, grant tenderness and humility to their hearts. Lord, we are all Your creation, 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 reason of Your Gospel and guide them on the path of Your commandments and teach them, O Savior, to do Your will, for You are our God.”

You can turn to the Lord, the Mother of God and the Saints for help and protection in the temple, in front of the miraculous faces. And if it is not possible to visit the house of God, pray at home at your iconostasis. You can buy icons in a church shop, on the Internet, and even embroider them. The main thing is to believe in what you ask for and in the power of the Lord.

How to pray correctly

The appeal can be pronounced mentally or out loud, at home or directly in the temple in front of the saints. Usually prayer involves observing a certain ritual:

A person must kneel.
You need to look at the icon or just up.
Place your hands together.

But some prayers can be read

without adhering to this rule. At the same time, a person must have faith that his request will be heard and fulfilled.

Only the Lord has the power to correct the current situation and return everything to the right path. Any conversion should begin with thanksgiving to God for everything that he has already given, and repentance for all sins committed. Then you need to ask, in front of the image of the chosen saint, to convey your request to the Almighty.

The Power of Prayer

Those who have a daily prayer practice have no doubt that according to everyone’s prayer, what will be given to him. Many Orthodox saints are approached with prayer for peace in the family and family well-being; some saints are even considered patrons of their families and with any problem they turn to them with prayer.

For Christians, the family is a kind of second, small temple, for this reason all family members are under the protection of the saints and the Lord. Accordingly, the responsibility of each spouse for their family, relationships and children is not only before each other, but also before God.

Other prayers for the family:

A prayer for peace in the family can be addressed both to some Saints and to the Mother of God.

Below is the text of one of the most famous prayers addressed to her.

Most Blessed Lady, take my family under Your protection. Instill in the hearts of my husband and our children peace, love and non-questioning of all that is good; Do not allow anyone from my family to experience separation and difficult parting, to premature and sudden death without repentance.

Saints Peter and Fevronia of Murom are among the most famous defenders of love in the family. Another holy couple - Anna and Joachim - are the parents of the Mother of God, who lived their whole lives together and are the ideal of the family. They are addressed in prayers in cases where the family is on the verge of divorce or quite serious problems are occurring in it.

And they turn to Saint Paraskeva when problems in the family arise not among spouses, but among children and parents.

Prayer for evil thoughts:

My Most Holy Lady Theotokos, with Your saints and all-powerful prayers, remove from me, Your humble and unworthy servant, despondency, forgetfulness, recklessness, negligence and all nasty, evil and blasphemous thoughts from my accursed heart and from my darkened mind; and extinguish the flame of my passions, because I am poor and pitiful. Deliver me from many evil thoughts16. and enterprises, free me from all evil deeds. For You are blessed in all generations and Your most honorable name is glorified forever and ever. Amen.

Reading rules

Before you start reading the prayer, you should prepare for it.

It is very important to find a secluded place in your home where no one will distract you; for this reason, it is better to choose either early morning or evening for prayer, when household members are still or already asleep.
To tune in to prayer, you can light a candle near the holy image and stand in silence for a while. You will feel the moment when you need to start praying yourself.
It is also important to choose in advance who you will pray to.

If quarrels often occur in your family, then you need to pray:

How does it help?

Prayers addressed to the Saints, the Mother of God or God will help:

strengthen the family;
return harmony to relationships;
come to an understanding between children and adults;
will help those quarreling to reconcile and, having realized their mistakes, repent and ask for forgiveness;
accept the point of view of one of the spouses for those who do not have unity in their worldview.

You can pray for a family not only for married people, but also for those who only dream of starting a family, because through your prayers the Lord will give you a good husband or wife, and then many problems in the future may be avoided.

To help warring spouses

Many girls believe that if “I am to blame” for a quarrel, then it is necessary to read some kind of conspiracies for reconciliation. It is worth saying right away that the church does not welcome any rituals, witchcraft, magic, or the reading of dubious prayers.

It also won’t hurt one of the spouses to go to church and order a prayer service for the eradication of anger and the increase of love. You can order it at any temple. The note must include the names of both spouses.

The holy fathers also recommend that spouses read psalms, which strengthen family ties and are an inexhaustible source of worldly wisdom.

If there are any difficulties, then you need to read the following psalms:

Psalm 43 – protects against hasty decisions and conclusions, gives the opportunity to reflect on what has been done and gives wisdom in resolving various family troubles;
45 – protects against homewreckers;
Psalm 54 - after reading it, the spouses treat each other with respect;
116 – brings kindness, love, respect to the family;
126 – gives spouses the opportunity to think about their actions every time, learn to give in and respect each other.

Pray, driving away negative thoughts from yourself. If hatred and resentment predominate in the soul, then it is better to postpone conversion until calm comes.

There must be an icon of the Mother of God and Jesus.

How to read

Two people should take care of the well-being of the family - husband and wife. When two people worry about the well-being of the family, the relationship strengthens.

However, one should not assume that prayer alone is a universal helper in life’s adversities. If your attitude to the problem does not change, your heart does not soften, then a miracle, as if by magic, will not happen. The Lord helps those who lament in prayer about their behavior, even if they bear a lesser degree of guilt; in this case, having secured the support of God, one can hope for a miracle.

Therefore, if you have decided to pray for the salvation of your family or for the improvement of relationships, do not forget to also communicate with your soulmate, be interested in how your lover or lover breathes and lives.

Advice! Before reading the prayer, you need to establish relationships with your household - reconcile with them if you are in conflict, ask for forgiveness, even if the quarrel was not provoked by you.

The person who is the first to seek reconciliation shows in this way that, no matter what, not taking into account any circumstances, he is ready to meet halfway, because this relationship, this family is valuable to him.

Prayer from scandals

O great archangel of God, Archangel Barachiel! Standing before the Throne of God and bringing the blessings of God into the homes of the faithful servants of God, ask the Lord God for mercy and blessings on our homes, may the Lord God bless us and increase the abundance of the fruits of the earth, and give us health and salvation, good haste in everything, and victory and defeat of enemies, and will preserve us for many years, always. Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

“Most Blessed Lady, take my family under Your protection. Instill in the hearts of my husband and our children peace, love and non-questioning of all that is good; Do not allow anyone from my family to experience separation and difficult parting, to premature and sudden death without repentance.

And save our house and all of us living in it from fiery ignition, thieves' attacks, every evil of the situation, various types of insurance and devilish obsession. Yes, we too, collectively and separately, openly and secretly, will glorify Your Holy Name always, now and ever, and forever and ever. Most Holy Theotokos, save us! Amen.

Oh, simple in the way of her life, homeless on earth, but heir to the abodes of the Heavenly Father, blessed wanderer Xenia! Just as we previously fell to your tombstone in illness and sorrow and were filled with consolations, now we too, overwhelmed by pernicious circumstances, resort to you and ask with hope: pray, O good heavenly woman, that our steps may be straightened according to the word of the Lord to do His commandments, and yes The godless atheism that has captivated your city and your country, plunging us many sinners into mortal hatred of our brothers, proud self-indignation and blasphemous despair, will be abolished.

Oh, most blessed one of Christ, who has put to shame the vanity of this age, ask the Creator and Giver of all blessings to grant us humility, meekness and love in the treasure of our hearts, faith in strengthening prayer, hope in repentance, strength in a difficult life, merciful healing of our soul and body , chastity in marriage and caring for our neighbors and sincere ones, renewal of our entire life in the purifying bath of repentance, as we praise your memory with all praise, let us glorify the miracle worker in you, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity Consubstantial and Indivisible forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer before traveling:

Lord Jesus Christ, our God, the true and living way! You accompanied Your imaginary father Joseph and Your most pure Mother the Virgin Mary to Egypt, and also accompanied Luke and Cleopas to Emmaus! Now we humbly pray to You: Most Holy Master, accompany us, Your servants, with Your grace. And, like Your servant Tobiah, send a guardian angel and mentor, preserving and delivering us from every accident, from visible and invisible enemies and instructing us to fulfill Your commandments. For it is Your nature to have mercy and save us, and to You we exalt glory with Your beginningless Father and with Your most holy, good, and life-giving Spirit, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.