Prayers in case of muteness and speech disorders - For health and healing of bodily ailments

Very strong prayers to John of Rila read the text of the complete collection, which everyone should know, will always help, these basic prayers are the most powerful prayers every Orthodox Christian should know by heart. Amen.

They pray to Saint John:

- about the granting of health and healing, - about seriously ill children (autism), - about children who cannot begin to speak, - about protection from damage, the evil eye and evil people.

Prayers to St. John of Rila

Troparion, tone 1:

The basis of repentance, the prescription of tenderness, the image of consolation, spiritual fulfillment, your life was equal to the angels, reverend. Abiding in prayers and in fasting and in tears, Father John, pray to Christ God for our souls.

Another troparion, tone 4:

Having humbled the body with fasting, and exalted the soul with singing, the chosen vessel appeared to the Holy Spirit, John, our Father, having lived in the purity of your heart, O Reverend. Therefore, having boldness towards the Lord, pray for the salvation of our souls.

Kontakion, voice 2:

In your vigilant prayers, without falling asleep, and in your unceasing singing, like an Angel, you entered the tomb, leaving your corruptible life, and you passed to Heaven into incorruptibility, John the Father, for from death to the eternal life Christ God transported you, as His saint.

Another kontakion, tone 6:

You have enriched us with the grace of God and made us aware of good deeds, having appeared in the title of John, saint of Christ God. In prayers and fasting, the gifts of God were filled with the Spirit and became a banisher and intercessor for our souls.

Another kontakion, tone 2:

To those who beseech you, warmest intercessor, and beseech the quickest listener, Reverend Father John, accept our prayer and implore Christ to have mercy on us, the Only Most Gracious and Most Merciful.

Prayer:

Oh, great and wonderful miracle worker, Reverend John, accept our prayer and do not turn away from us who have come running to your intercession: you never turned away from those who came to you with their sorrows in the days of your earthly life; We know that you showed signs of mercy even after your repose as Orthodox people! Hear us now, overwhelmed by the great sorrows that have come upon us in these evil days, when the devil, through his destructive machinations, strives to trample the Holy Church, and to deprive us of eternal salvation and the blessings of temporal life! Ask us from the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins, and especially the sin of disobedience to our Mother Church! Grant us contrition of heart, so that with tenderness we steadily approach the holy Sacrament of Repentance, so that the communion of the Body and Blood of Christ will not lead us to condemnation and destruction, but to health and salvation. Drive away from us the spirit of brotherly hatred, give us the spirit of love and peace for the fraternal unity of all your people! Unite us all with love for Christ and His Orthodox Church, so that by observing His saving will, we will be true children of God! Be a guide to us all our days, so that we may always, in the grace of the Holy Spirit, keep our faith in purity and do the will of the Lord until death! At the hour of our death, we appear to present our souls to the throne of the Divine Judge and say to Him: “Behold, I and my children,” for having been delivered from eternal torment by your intercession, we will inherit the ineffable bliss of the Heavenly Kingdom of Christ together with you and all the saints forever and ever. Amen.

First prayer

O reverend and God-bearing Father John, viewer of the ineffable glory in the Heavenly Kingdom and gracious helper to all who come to you,

do not leave this place, where you raised up your labors and deeds for Christ and watered the earth with your tears!

May your monastery remain, where God is pleased to rest your holy relics, unshakable from the tricks of enemies visible and invisible.

Strengthen your children in good deeds, whom you have gathered into your monastery, so that they will recognize their calling and follow your footsteps.

Keep our country in peace, and help the Orthodox people in their battles against resistance.

Visit from the heights of Heaven all who faithfully flow to you and ask for your strong intercession:

Rule the floating sea, calm the sea of life, calm church strife, ask the Lord for peace to the whole world, heal the sick with a saving visit,

Comfort the sorrowful with grace, be to all, as you were in your earthly life.

Make a prayer to God for us, for you have been given the grace to pray for us, so that through your intercession we may be worthy to receive eternal bliss together with you and all the saints in Christ Jesus our Lord, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship with the Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.

Amen.

Prayer before the icon of the Mother of God of Koloch

Oh, Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Queen of Heaven and earth, Highest Angel and Archangel and all creatures, Most Honest, Pure Virgin Mary, Good Helper to the world, Affirmation of all Christians and Deliverance to all in all their needs!

Look now at Your servants, who pray to You with a tender soul and a contrite heart, falling with tears and worshiping Your most honorable and wholesome image. Be an Intercessor for us to Your Son, Christ our God, for we, sinners, are not imams of any other Helper, except You, the Lady. You are our Hope and Hope, You are our Intercessor and Representative, You are Protection for the offended, Consolation for the sad, Joy for the grieving, Refuge for the orphans, Guardian for widows, Glory for virgins, Joy for the tearful, Healing for the sick, Salvation for sinners.

For this reason, O Mother of God, we run to You and, looking at Your holy image, we worship You with love and offer prayers, crying out: have mercy on us, Mother of God, and fulfill our petitions for good, for everything is possible through Your intercession to Your Son , Christ our God. To Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, together with His Beginning Father and His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

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Second prayer

Wonderful earthly star, leafing out the borders of the city of Sredets, wonderful faster and servant of God, Father John,

joy of the venerables, adornment to the Bulgarian Church, strong adamant of the Orthodox faith and living candlestick, illuminating the entire Bulgarian land with the light of God’s truth!

You are a quick helper with faith and love flowing to you and a great intercessor before the Lord for all of us.

Accept, most blessed one, our prayers and implore Christ our God, that all the people of Slovenia, whom you have instructed, may remain united in brotherly love, in peace and piety,

and may the Lord deliver them and all Christian cities and countries from enemies visible and invisible and from the invasion of foreigners, from illness and famine, and all kinds of sorrow, especially from the temptations of the dark enemy.

For those standing here and praying before your most pure image, O Reverend, ask the Lord our God for everything,

as they ask for their salvation, may we all glorify with you the All-Holy Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.

Amen.

Relics and veneration

St. John of Rylsky with his life. Icon (Bulgaria, 1834. Author Tsanyu Zahariev the Elder. 83×69 cm)

Approximately 30 years after his death, during the alarming time of the struggle between Bulgaria and Byzantium, under the Western Bulgarian Tsar Samuel (976-1014), the Monk John of Rila appeared to the abbot of the Rila Monastery and ordered his relics to be transferred to the city of Sredets (now Sofia), where the Bulgarian Patriarch Damian hid (927-972).
On October 18, the holy relics were opened and found incorrupt. They were transferred to Sredets and placed first in the cathedral in the name of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke, and in the 12th century in a newly built church in the name of St. John of Rila. A monastery was founded at the temple in his name. Even before the transfer of the venerable relics to Sredets, the so-called separation of the right hand of St. John took place. According to some historians, the holy relics were transferred in 980, but the right hand of the saint was left by the Ryl monks in the monastery. Soon they had to leave the monastery during the resettlement of Bulgarians in large numbers to Rus' due to the oppression of the Greeks, who had by that time captured Eastern Bulgaria and forbade the Bulgarians to perform divine services in their native language. Perhaps, when the Greeks began to gradually conquer Western Bulgaria, the Rila monks also left for Rus', taking with them the shrine of the monastery - the right hand of St. John. It is known that at the beginning of the century, the fortress city of Rylsk was built in the north-west of Kievan Rus. The first temple, which was built by the residents of the city, was consecrated in the name of St. John of Rila with a chapel in the name of the holy martyrs Florus and Laurus, on whose memory day the saint reposed. Obviously, the Bulgarians who fled from the Rila Mountains settled there. There is reason to believe that the right hand of St. John was also kept in this temple. Thus, St. John became the first South Slavic saint to whom a temple was erected on Russian soil, and who became one of the Heavenly patrons of the Russian people. It is in Russian sources [2] that the date of the saint’s death was preserved. Subsequently, in 1240, according to the chronicler, “only Rylsk survived the Batu pogrom.” When, during the siege, the inhabitants of the city called for help from their patron, the Monk John appeared on the city wall, waved his handkerchief, blinded the Tatars and thus saved Rylsk.

In 1183, the Hungarian king Bela III (1172-1196) captured Sredets and transferred the holy relics to his capital - the city of Gran (glorified Ostrigom, now Ostergom). However, four years later, the king, based on some signs at the saint’s tomb, realized that the monk did not want to stay in Ostrigom, and in 1187 he returned the holy relics to Sredets, richly decorating the tomb with gold and silver.

On October 19, 1195, after the liberation of Bulgaria from Byzantine dependence by Asen I (1187-1196), the king transferred the holy relics to the new capital - Tarnovo [3]. A temple was erected on Trapezitsa Hill, in which the relics of St. John were placed. The honorable relics were in Tarnovo even after it was taken by the Turks in 1393, and only in 1469, at the request of the brethren of the Rila Monastery and thanks to the help of the widow of Sultan Murad II Maria, daughter of the Serbian despot George Brankovich, were they returned to the monastery of St. John, where they rest until now. On June 30, 1469, under Abbot David, the holy relics were solemnly placed in a new tomb in the church of the Rila monastery. The celebration of the return of the relics was established on July 1.

Meanwhile, the beginning of all-Russian veneration of St. John of Rylsky conventionally dates back to the 14th century, since his name was first discovered inscribed in a 14th-century semi-charter in a 12th-century manuscript - the Galician Gospel. Further information about the veneration of St. John in Rus' dates back to the first quarter of the century [4]. Since the 16th century, the name of St. John of Rila has been mentioned in many liturgical books. The service to the saint in the everyday life of the Russian Church was established with the advent of printed Menaia, not earlier than the end of the 17th - beginning of the 18th century. In 1645, a service to the saint was first published in Rus', and in 1671, in the printing house of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the “Service with the Life of Our Venerable Father John of Rylsk” was printed, which is also the first printed edition of the Life of the saint, compiled by the Bulgarian Patriarch Euthymius in the 14th century.

The great righteous man and ascetic of the Russian Church, Archpriest John of Kronstadt, was born on October 19, 1829, on the day of remembrance of St. John of Rylsky. In memory of his heavenly namesake patron, he founded a convent in St. Petersburg at the beginning of the century, where John was subsequently buried.

The veneration of St. John in Bulgaria is so great that it can only be compared with the special veneration of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Rus'. Just as St. Sergius is called “Hegumen of All Rus',” so St. John can be called “Hegumen of All Bulgaria.” The similarity of both their biographies and their heritage is striking - both increased the number of ascetic disciples, becoming pillars of the Bulgarian and Russian Churches. The monasteries they founded became the largest centers of spiritual enlightenment in these states, and their incorruptible relics are guarded by their capitals.

Prayers

St. John Rylsky

Troparion, tone 4
Having humbled the body with polish,/ but exalted the soul with singing,/ the chosen vessel appeared to the Holy Spirit,/ John, our Father,/ lived in the purity of your heart, O Reverend One./ Thus, having boldness towards the Lord,/ pray for our souls to be saved .

Troparion, voice of the same

By the return of your relics/ your monastery has been enriched,/ your church, having received it, has been enlightened/ and, adoring itself, convenes the faithful with joy/ your luminous day to brightly celebrate,/ come, you who speak,/ and receive the graces of the gift.

Troparion, tone 1

The basis of repentance, the prescription of tenderness, / an image of consolation, spiritual fulfillment / your life was equal to the angels, reverend. / Abiding in prayers and in fasting and in tears, / Father John, / pray to Christ God for our souls.

Kontakion, tone 2

With a strong mind and unceasing prayers/ a fighter of the enemy who has overcome the all-destroying power to the end,/ you have been worthy glorified by Christ,/ John the All-Blessed./ Therefore, on the day of the return of your relics/ a bright celebration of the holiday in joy,/ according to your cry:/ you are to your flock and your people with God, reverend father, / praise and affirmation.

In kontakion, voice the same

In your prayers cheerfully, without falling asleep / and in your unceasing singing, you became like an Angel, / you entered the tomb, leaving your corruptible life, / and you passed to Heaven / into incorruption, John the Father, / from death to eternal life / Christ God has enthroned you, for Your pleaser.

In kontakion, voice the same

To those who pray to you, warmest intercessor/ and to those who ask for the quickest listener,/ Reverend Father John,/ accept our prayer/ and implore Christ to have mercy on us,/ the only Most Gracious and Most Merciful.

Kontakion, tone 6

You have enriched us with the grace of God/ and you have made us aware of good deeds/ by the title of appearing, John, the saint of Christ God./ In prayers and fasting, you were filled with the gifts of God/ and became a banisher/ and intercessor of our souls through illness.

Kontakion, tone 8

Having become jealous of the angelic life, reverend, / leaving all earthly things, you came to Christ / and, protected by His commandments, / you appeared as a pillar unshakable from enemy attacks. / Thus we call to you: / Rejoice, Father John, bright light.