“The wife will be saved by childbearing,” wrote the apostle Paul to his disciple Timothy. A rare woman thinks of happiness in life without matrimony. A house full of children, smelling of cinnamon rolls, a husband holding his shoulders is the rosy dream of the beautiful half of humanity. But if building a house and baking buns is easy, then the children and the husband are more difficult. How to get married, if you do not see worthy candidates, and the Lord repeatedly sends tests instead?
Desperate, it is easy to marry the first comer and make a mistake, having betrayed the dreams of the very ideal. However, faith and prayer can bring the desired happiness into your life.
The power of marriage prayers
For good reason in the Orthodox Church marriage is a sacrament. The miracle created by Jesus in Cannes of Galilee, where he turned the wine into plain water at a wedding ceremony, showed the believer a simple thing. A strong and happy marriage is pleasing to our Lord, as is his celebration. And prayers for the conclusion of a strong union are pleasing to the Lord, who is well-disposed towards those who seek happiness.
Did you know that:
- Not only married women, but also free women seeking union can ask the blessings of the Lord for happiness in marriage.
- Russian girls of the royal age revered for the tradition of asking for a happy marriage on the day of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin.
- The blessing of union, which the newlyweds ask the Lord on their wedding day, does not have a time frame and restrictions - and is valid throughout life.
- The strongest prayer for a successful marriage is the mother prayer. Heaven is especially supportive of a mother praying for her daughter or son. Mother's prayer for a daughter for marriage acquires special power on the day of the name of her child.
What are the prayers for marriage?
Choosing a prayer for a quick marriage, stop at the one that is closest to you. If you pray to a saint, consider his image. The one that “smiles” to you the most - he will listen to you more favorably. If you were born on the day dedicated to one of the saints - do not miss the opportunity to thank him for his patronage and ask about his happiness.
Prayers for marriage come true most often. After all, the Lord favors sincere and disinterested prayers, and nothing can be the sincere request of a desperate maiden for happiness. It is important to remember when praying that fate is unpredictable. If after a series of prayers you met a person suitable for the role of a husband, but something in him confuses you, do not rush. Perhaps this is not your man, and you should wait a little longer. The one who is sent to you by Heaven will be dear and close to you at first sight.
Different saints can pray for marriage: Nicholas the Wonderworker, the Matrona, the Theotokos, the holy couples — these prayers are sent to the Lord through them. There is no strongest prayer, everyone is equally effective. Their strength depends only on your sincerity and faith.
Prayer for marriage to Nicholas the Wonderworker
The prayer for marriage to Nikolai Udodnik is one of the strongest, and this will be confirmed in any church. Wherever you go, turning to the father you will hear a dozen stories about how with the help of prayer to Nicholas the Wonderworker many girls found their happiness. The saint is often compared with Cupid, because he patronizes loving hearts. With the help of a prayer to him, you will get rid of the fear of loneliness and will soon meet your soul mate.
“Oh, all-holy Nicholas, it is most pleasing to the Lord, our warm intercessor, and everywhere in the sorrowful speedy helper! Help me sinful and depressed in this present life, beseech the Lord God for the giving up of all my sins, which have sinned a lot from my youth, in all my life, deed, word, thought, and all my senses; and in the end of my soul with the help of a cursed one, beseech the Lord God, all creatures of Sodetel, deliver me of air ordeals and eternal torment: May I always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your gracious intercession, now and forever and ever and ever. Amen".
Prayer to the Holy Satan should be read, focusing on the flame of a candle. It is better to do this in church, but at home it is not forbidden to retire for the sacrament. It is necessary to learn the text of a prayer by heart, or to rewrite it by hand on paper, then the text will acquire the character of a personal one. It is necessary to pray for forty days, and along with this prayer, it is not forbidden to offer others, to other saints. You can also read the prayer to Nikolai for children and grandchildren.
How to ask the Mother of God?
It is recommended that the prayer for the marriage of the Virgin be read after the prayer to Saint Nicholas, but you should be aware of a number of conditions.
A prayer to the Virgin Mary cannot be read, calling the name of a certain person, and one should not desire another man’s husband. Such an act, regardless of the chosen prayer, is not approved by Heaven. On the contrary, self-serving desire can bring trouble to you instead of blessing. Praying to the Mother of God should be wholeheartedly, with faith and sincerity, then your efforts will be rewarded.
The following prayer text was compiled by Rev. Konstantin Parkhomenko. You can read it at home and in church. It is intended for the very girl who wants to get married.
“Most pure Lady of the Theotokos! Your Son Himself charged You to take care of His disciples. By the false faith of the Church, You are the Mother of all who love the Lord. Pray for your Son to grant me, a novice of His will, the joy of a fair marriage. Help me, my spouse, and our children to be faithful to the Lord and live according to His commandments. You know what the joy of motherhood is, what it is to teach the baby the first words, raise the child, let the grown-up child go into an adult, independent life. I pray, Blessed One, to give me the joy of marriage and motherhood. I will do my best to be worthy of this gift! Amen".
You should have before your eyes the image of the Virgin - the Keeper of the hearth, so that your desire sounded higher and stronger.
We pray to Matron for a meeting with her husband
Saint Matrona is most often addressed by women of age, who are desperate to find a partner in life and who are disappointed in marriage. Matron helps everyone without exception, so a young girl can pray to her in the name of wish fulfillment.
Matron's prayer for marriage is a strong prayer, must be pronounced in the house of God, on his knees, with his head covered and meekly lowered eyes. In this case you should hold a lighted candle and read the prayer by heart:
“Oh, the blessed mother of Matrono, the ones who will stand in heaven before the throne of God will rest, rest upon the earth on this earth, and give this grace of different things to the divine. Regard now with your gracious eye on us, sinners, in sorrow, sickness and sinful temptations, your dependent days, comfort us, desperate, heal the afflictions of our lyutya, God permissive of us through our sins, save us from many troubles and circumstances, pray for our Lord Jesus Christ forgive us all our sins, iniquities and fall, we are from our youth even to the present day and hour of sin, and with your prayers we receive grace and great mercy, we will glorify in the Trinity of One God, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever and ever. Amen".
Prayers to the holy couples for marriage
No less popular among the people are prayers to holy pairs of martyrs, such as Adrian and Natalia, Peter and Fevronia, Joachim and Anna.
- To martyrs Adrian and Natalia
Spouses Adrian and Natalia, whose touching history of loyalty to each other and earnest faith in Christ knows the whole world, patronize the family hearth. They read the following prayer on the icon with their image:
“O holy twin, holy Christ the Martyrs Adrian and Natalia, blessed suprise and dobli sufferers!
Hear us, praying to you with tears, and send down on us all that is necessary for the souls and our television, and pray to Christ God, may we have mercy on us and work with us through our grace, but we will not perish in our greresch.
To her, the holy martyrs!
Accept the voice of our prayer, and deliver us by your prayers from witness, ruin, coward, flood, fire, hail, sword, invasion of foreigners and civil strife, from sudden death and from all ills, sorrows and diseases, and your prayers and intercession will strengthen you. Let us glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. All glory, honor and worship befits Himself, with His beginningless Father and Sacred Spirit forever and ever.
Amen".
- Peter and Fevronia
Unlike Adrian and Natalia, the princely couple of Murom are honored not for martyrdom, but for the rare sincere and pure love for each other. They were so faithful and sensitive to each other, that they died on the same day and were buried as an exception in one coffin. The most famous, originally Russian couple of saints was perpetuated in the memory of people with sincerity of feelings. About them tell tales to children to this day. Released in 2017, blessed by the Synodal Church and personally by Patriarch Cyril, the cartoon Tale of Peter and Fevronia won the hearts of children and adults.
In prayer to them, there is no special ritual, but it is believed that the girl asking Peter for grace in finding love, and then Fevronia for happiness in marriage, will find what she needs in the shortest possible time.
“Oh, great servants of God and divine miracles, blessing princes Peter and princess Fevronia, city of Murom, presidents and guardians, and prayers for the Lord in all of us, zealous for the Lord!
We resort to you and we pray with strong hope: bring your sinful prayers for us to the Lord God for us and ask us from His goodness for all that is necessary for our souls and our television: faith in law, hope for good, love for no mercy, piety unshakable, in good deeds of prosperity, peace of peace, earth of fruitfulness, goodness of air, soul and body health and eternal salvation. Examine with the King of Heaven: His faithful servants, in grief and sorrow for the day and night crying out to Him, let the sickly shout hear and let our stomach die from death.
Ask the Church for saints and all the power of Russia peace, silence and well-being, and for all of us living a happy and good Christian demise. Protect your fatherland, the city of Moore, and all the cities of Russia from all evil and all Orthodox people coming to you and with the relics of worship, make your favorable prayers yours, and fulfill all your requests for good. Hey, wonderworkers of the Holy!
Do not despise our prayers, with affection you who are lifted up, but awaken us presidents to the Lord and grant us the help of your holy eternal salvation to receive and to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven; May we glorify the unspeakable humanity of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in the Trinity we worship God forever. Amen".
- Righteous Joachim and Anna
Reverend gods Joachim and Anna go to pray married couples who have no children in marriage. However, they are approached by girls who see marriage and a happy family as the goal of their lives. To do this, read the following prayer:
“Oh, in the presence of the righteousness of Christ, the holy God-reverers Joachim and Anno, the coming Heavenly Throne of the Great King and great boldness to Him, immaculate, like the Most Blessed Daughter of yours, the Most Clear Mother of God and the Virgin Mary, to embody the desecrated! To you, like a mighty powerful representative and a prayer book who is zealous for us, we resort, sinning and unworthy. Pray for His goodness, let His anger be turned away from us, motivated by our righteous deeds, and disregarding our innumerable transgressions, turn us on the path of repentance, and in the path of His commandments let us affirm. Also with your prayers in the world, preserve our life, and in all good deeds ask for all good for the belly and piety we are bestowed on God, from your misfortunes and misfortunes and sudden deaths by your redeemer, redeeming us, and from all visible and invisible defenders, we must live in all piety and purity, and such a temporary life in the world, in the eternal we will attain peace, go with your holy entreaty and grant Heavenly Kingdom of Our God, He, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, according to obaet all glory, honor and worship forever. Amen".
Prayer of Ksenia of Petersburg
Blessed Xenia from Petrograd is buried in a small chapel at the Smolensk Orthodox Cemetery. A lot of people visit it daily, offer flowers and candles, and consecrate icons with its image. In the grooves in the wall of the chapel insert a note with pleas and requests for health, welfare, and family happiness. The saint does not refuse anyone, including those who want to marry the virgins. Praying to her, the girls fast and drink holy water, and soon find what they want.
Prayer from loneliness to a woman when she cannot get married for a long time helps without fail.
“Immaculate Ksenia, Lady of St. Petersburg. I pray you about marriage light, and the existence of a comfortable. Not in punishment, send me a husband so that a puddle of tears will not fall. Let my spouse be strong, not drinking, loving and peaceful. I believe in the One God, that only the road leads to it. Blessing asking, marriage will give up the whole. Thy will be done. Amen".
Prayer for the happiness of the daughter
The maternal prayer for happiness in the children's personal life has a special power of love and care. Mothers of the whole world pray for their children. Daughters wish marriage through the sevenfold reading of the prayer to the Virgin:
“Holy Mother of God, refuge for sinners and intercessor of Christians! Save and protect those who take refuge in your misfortunes, hear our groanings, pleadings and requests, ear Your inclination to our words! Do not deny our requests, educate and teach thy servants! Be our Patron Mother, to your help trusting, we all walk to a quiet and serene life, asking for it. Mary, Mother Advocate, protect us with Your petition, protect from enemies and foes, soften evil hearts and thoughts! For my daughter, I ask the servant of God (name), for her family happiness. Take her to the harbor quiet, her faithful husband reward for all the efforts, for the requests, for the good deeds! On the right track, the commandments to fulfill help, on the final judgment, stand up for her! Amen".
Every mother cares about the welfare of their children. The Lord hears all sincere prayers and does not leave those who suffer without their blessing.
