Initial Prayer.

In the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

God, be merciful to me, a sinner!

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Heavenly King, Comforter, Spirit of Truth, present everywhere and filling everything, Treasury of blessings and Giver of life, come and dwell in us, and cleanse us from all filth1 and save, O Good One, our souls.

Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us (three times).

Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, both now and ever. and forever and ever. Amen.

Most Holy Trinity, have mercy on us. Lord, cleanse our sins, Master, forgive our iniquities, Holy One, visit and heal our infirmities4 for your name’s sake.

Lord, have mercy (three times).

Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Our Father, who art in heaven! Hallowed be it your name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Tropari.

Rising after sleep, we fall before You, O Good One, and we proclaim an angelic song to You, O Mighty One: Holy, Holy, Holy are You, O God! Through the prayers of the Mother of God, have mercy on us.

Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit: You raised me from bed and from sleep, Lord. Enlighten my mind and heart, and open my lips to sing to You, Holy Trinity: Holy, Holy, Holy You, God! Through the prayers of the Mother of God, have mercy on us.

And now and forever, and forever and ever. Amen: Suddenly the Judge will come, and everyone’s deeds will be revealed. But we cry out at midnight with trepidation: Holy, Holy, Holy are You, O God! Through the prayers of the Mother of God, have mercy on us.

Lord, have mercy (12 times).

Prayer to the Holy Trinity

Rising after sleep, I thank You, Holy Trinity, that by Your great mercy and long-suffering, You, God, were not angry with me, lazy and sinful, and did not take my life with my iniquities, but showed me Your usual love for mankind and raised me, lying carefree to bring You morning prayer and glorify Your power. And now enlighten my spiritual eyes10, open my mouth6, so that I may learn Your word and comprehend Your commandments, do Your will, glorify You in a grateful heart and sing praises holy name Yours, Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Come, let us worship our King, God.

Come, let us worship and fall before Christ, the King, our God.

Come, let us bow and fall before Christ Himself, our King and God.

God, have mercy on me in Your mercy, blot out my iniquities in Your great love. Wash me from unrighteousness and cleanse me from sin, because I am aware of my iniquities, and my sin is always before me. I have sinned against You alone and done evil in Your eyes. You are just in Your judgment and blameless in Your judgment. Behold, I was born a sinner, my mother conceived me a sinner. But You desire the truth hidden in the heart, so fill me with Your wisdom. Cleanse me with hyssop18, and I will be clean; Wash me and I will become whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and joy; Let the bones broken by You rejoice. Turn your face away from my sins and blot out my unrighteousness. Create in me pure heart O God, renew a right spirit in me. Do not cast me away from You and do not deprive me of Your Holy Spirit. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and support me with the sovereign Spirit. Then I will teach the wicked Your ways, and sinners will turn to You. Deliver me from bloodshed, O God, God of my salvation, and my tongue will praise Your righteousness. Open your mouth to me, Lord, and they will magnify You. The sacrifice is not pleasing to You - I would give it, You do not desire burnt offerings. A sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowful heart, O God, You will not reject. Do good to Zion according to Your favor; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Then the prescribed sacrifices, heaps and burnt offerings will be acceptable to You; Then they will bring the bulls to Your altar.

Symbol of faith.

I believe in one God, the Father, Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, of everything visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only begotten, begotten of the Father before all ages; Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not created, consubstantial with the Father, by Him all things were created. For the sake of us people and for the sake of our salvation, He came down from Heaven, and became incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became human. He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried7. And rose again on the third day, according to the Scriptures. And ascended into Heaven, and sits at the right hand8 of the Father. And He will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead; His Kingdom will have no end. And in the Holy Spirit, the life-giving Lord, who proceeds from the Father, worshiped and glorified with the Father and the Son, who spoke through the prophets. Into one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins. I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the future life. Amen.

Prayer 2.

God, cleanse me, a sinner, because I have done nothing good before You, but deliver me from evil and may Your will be done in me. May I not open my unworthy lips in condemnation and praise Your holy name, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Prayer 3.

Rising from sleep, I bring the midnight song to You, Savior, and falling down I cry out to You: Who was crucified for our sake voluntarily, do not let me fall asleep in sinful death, but quickly raise me, who lies in laziness, in standing and prayer, and after a night’s sleep, shine upon me a sinless day , Christ God, and save me.

Prayer 4.

To You, humane-loving Master, having risen from sleep, I come running, and I approach Your works with Your mercy, and I pray to You: help me at all times, in every matter, and deliver me from every worldly evil deed and the devil’s tricks, and save me and lead me to Your eternal Kingdom. For You are my Creator and the Provider and Giver of all good. In You is all my hope, and I send up glory to You now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Prayer 5.

Lord, by Your many goodness and Your great bounties You have given me, Your servant, to pass through the past night time without misfortune11. You Yourself, Master, Creator of everything, grant me Your true light and an enlightened heart to do Your will, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer 6.

Lord, Almighty, God of the disembodied Powers13 and all flesh12, dwelling on high and looking at the humble, testing the hearts and secrets of men, clearly foreknowing, beginningless and eternal Light, which does not change in power and leaves no shadowed place! You Yourself, immortal King, accept our prayers, which we now, hoping for the abundance of Your compassion, offer to You with unclean lips,6 and, having forgiven us our sins, committed by deed, word and thought, consciously or unconsciously, and cleanse us from all uncleanness of the flesh12 and spirit. And grant us, with a watchful heart and a sober thought, to live the whole night of this life, in anticipation of the coming of the bright and glorious day of the second coming of Your Only Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, when the common Judge will come with glory to reward each according to his deeds. May He not find us lying down and sleepy, but awake and working in fulfilling His commandments, and ready to enter with Him into the joy and divine palace of His glory, where the unceasing voices of those who triumph are heard and the inexpressible joy of those who contemplate the inexpressible beauty of Your face. because You are the true Light, enlightening and sanctifying the whole world, and You are glorified by all creation forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer 7.

Most merciful and all-generous My God, Lord Jesus Christ! By great love You came down and incarnated to save everyone. Therefore, I ask: by Your grace, save me too. If You saved me by works, it would not be a gift, but a duty. But You, my Savior, rich in bounty and unspeakable in mercy, said: “He who believes in Me will live and will never see death.” If faith in You saves the desperate, then save me too, for I believe that You are my God and Creator.

Let faith instead of works be imputed to me, O my God, for works cannot be found to justify me. But may my faith replace everything: may it answer, may it justify, may it make me a participant in Your eternal glory. And do not allow Satan to kidnap me, O Word, and boast that he has torn me away from Your hand and fence. But whether I want it or not, You, Christ, save me, for You are my God from my mother’s womb. Hasten to help me, for I am perishing.

Grant me, O Lord, now to love You as I once loved sin itself, and without laziness to serve You as I previously served the flattering Satan. May I serve You even more diligently, my Lord and God Jesus Christ, all the days of my life, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Prayer Mother of God.

My Most Holy Lady Theotokos, with Your holy and all-powerful prayers, remove from me, Your humble and unworthy servant, despondency, forgetfulness, recklessness, negligence and all nasty, evil and blasphemous thoughts15 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.

Prayer to the Guardian Angel.

Angel of God, my holy protector, given to me from heaven by God for my protection, I earnestly pray to you: enlighten me and save me from all evil, guide me to good deeds and guide me on the path of salvation. Amen.

Prayer to the Saint whose name we bear.

Pray to God for me, saint (name), because I diligently resort to you, a quick helper, praying for my soul.

Troparion to the Cross and prayer for the Fatherland.

Save, O Lord, Your people and bless Your inheritance. Grant to Orthodox Christians victory over their enemies and protect Your heritage with Your Cross.

Prayer for the living.

Save, Lord, my spiritual father (name), my parents (names), relatives (names), bosses, mentors, benefactors (names) and all Orthodox Christians.

Prayer for the departed.

Rest, O Lord, the souls of Your departed servants: my parents, relatives, benefactors (their names), and all Orthodox Christians, and forgive them all their sins, voluntary and involuntary, and grant them Your Kingdom of Heaven.

Here, in your own words, pray for your relatives, living and dead.

Worthy to eat.

It is truly worthy to glorify You, Mother of God, always blessed and immaculate, Mother of our God. You are more honorable than the Cherubim and incomparably more glorious than the Seraphim, who immaculately gave birth to God the Word, the true Mother of God, we magnify You.

Prayer of the Optina Elders.

Lord, let me meet with peace of mind everything that the coming day will bring me. Let me completely surrender to Your holy will. At every hour of this day, instruct and support me in everything. Whatever news I receive during the day, teach me to accept it with a calm soul and a firm conviction that everything is Your holy will.

In all my words and deeds, guide my thoughts and feelings. In all unforeseen cases, do not let me forget that everything was sent down17 by You. Teach me to act directly and wisely with each member of my family, without confusing or upsetting anyone.

Lord, give me strength to endure the fatigue of the coming day and all its events. Guide my will and teach me to pray, believe, hope, endure, forgive and love. Amen.

Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, through the prayers of Your Most Pure Mother, our reverend and God-bearing fathers, (names of saints whose memory is commemorated on this day in Orthodox calendar) have mercy on us. Amen.

1. filth(s) – causing disgust; vile, disgusting. bad, vicious.

2. Good - having the goal of bringing good to someone, benefit, aimed at doing good deeds. In prayers it is always an appeal to God!

3. now and ever - currently and always (eternally).

4. infirmities - malaise, helplessness, extreme loss of strength, illness.
5. existing – existing, inhabiting.

6. mouth - mouth.

7. buried - buried.

8. sitting at the right hand of the Father– sitting to the right of God the Father.

9. future – future, approaching.

10. eyes – eyes, glance.

11. misfortune - trouble, misfortune, evil.

12. flesh (flesh) – physical body.

13. ethereal forces – not having a physical body, but alive in another, non-corporeal incarnation.

14. palace - a magnificent, magnificent room or palace.

15. blasphemous thoughts- condemnation, censure.

16. fierce thoughts - evil plans, evil intentions.

17. sent down - sent, granted.

18. Hyssop - plant, blue St. John's wort, tied in a bun, was used for sacred sprinkling (sprinkling).

All morning prayers Orthodox Church You can find it in this article. The editors of Orthodoxy and Peace have collected for you the texts of prayers and explanations for them.

All morning prayers

In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen

Then wait a little until all your feelings come to silence and your thoughts leave everything earthly, and then say the following prayers, without haste and with heartfelt attention:

Publican's Prayer

(Gospel of Luke, chapter 18, verse 13)
God, be merciful to me, a sinner. (Bow)

Initial prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, prayers for the sake of Your Most Pure Mother and all the saints, have mercy on us. Amen. Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Heavenly King, Comforter, Soul of truth, Who is everywhere and fulfills everything, Treasure of good things and Giver of life, come and dwell in us, and cleanse us from all filth, and save, O Good One, our souls.(2)

Trisagion

Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us. (Read three times, with the sign of the cross and bow from the waist.) Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Prayer to the Most Holy Trinity

Most Holy Trinity, have mercy on us; Lord, cleanse our sins; Master, forgive our iniquities; Holy One, visit and heal our infirmities, for Thy name's sake. Lord have mercy. (Thrice). Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. (3)

Lord's Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven! Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as it is in heaven and on earth. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors; and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

Troparia Trinity

Having risen from sleep, we fall down to Thee, the Good One, and cry out to Thee, the Mightier, the angelic song: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, O God, have mercy on us through the Mother of God. Glory: From bed and sleep You raised me up, O Lord, enlighten my mind and heart, and open my lips, to sing to You, Holy Trinity: Holy, Holy, Holy are you, O God, have mercy on us through the Mother of God.
And now: Suddenly the Judge will come, and every deed will be exposed, but we call with fear (4) at midnight: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, O God, have mercy on us through the Mother of God. Lord have mercy. (12 times)

Prayer to the Most Holy Trinity

Having risen from sleep, I thank Thee, Holy Trinity, for for the sake of Thy goodness and long-suffering, Thou hast not been angry with me, lazy and sinful, nor hast Thou destroyed me with my iniquities; but you usually loved mankind and in the despair of the one who lay down, you raised me up to practice and glorify Your power. And now enlighten my mental eyes, open my lips to learn Thy words, and to understand Thy commandments, and to do Thy will, and to sing to Thee in heartfelt confession, and to sing Thy all-holy name, of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages. centuries. Amen.
Come, let us worship our King God. (Bow)
Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ, our King God. (Bow)
Come, let us bow and fall down to Christ Himself, the King and our God. (Bow)

Psalm 50

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your great mercy, and according to the multitude of Your mercies, cleanse my iniquity. Above all, wash me from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin; for I know my iniquity, and I will take away my sin before me. I have sinned against You alone and have done evil before You, so that You may be justified in Your words and triumph over the judgment of You. Behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and my mother gave birth to me in sins. Behold, you have loved the truth; You have revealed to me the unknown and secret wisdom of Yours. Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be cleansed; Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. My hearing brings joy and joy; humble bones will rejoice. Turn Your face away from my sins and cleanse all my iniquities. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a right spirit in my womb. Do not cast me away from Your presence and do not take Your Holy Spirit away from me. Reward me with the joy of Your salvation and strengthen me with the Lord’s Spirit. I will teach the wicked Your way, and the wicked will turn to You. Deliver me from bloodshed, O God, God of my salvation; My tongue will rejoice in Your righteousness. Lord, open my mouth, and my mouth will declare Your praise. As if you had desired sacrifices, you would have given them: you do not favor burnt offerings. The sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; God will not despise a broken and humble heart. Bless Zion, O Lord, with Your favor, and may the walls of Jerusalem be built. Then favor the sacrifice of righteousness, the offering and the burnt offering; Then they will place the bullock on Your altar.

Symbol of faith

I believe in one God the Father, Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, visible to all and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only begotten, who was born of the Father before all ages; Light from Light, true God from true God, born, uncreated, consubstantial with the Father, to Whom all things were. For our sake, man and our salvation came down from heaven and became incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became human. She was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried. And he rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures. And ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father. And again the coming one will be judged with glory by the living and the dead, His Kingdom will have no end. And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Life-Giving One, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who spoke the prophets. Into one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins. I hope for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the next century. Amen.

First prayer of Saint Macarius the Great

God, cleanse me, a sinner, for I have done nothing good before You; but deliver me from the evil one, and may Thy will be done in me, may I open my unworthy lips without condemnation and praise Thy holy name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages Amen.

Second prayer, of the same saint

Rising from sleep, I bring the midnight hymn to Ti, Savior, and falling down crying to Ti: do not let me fall asleep in a sinful death, but be gracious to me, crucified by will, and hasten me lying in laziness, and save me in standing and in prayer, and in sleep Rise up nightly for me a sinless day, O Christ God, and save me.

Prayer three, of the same saint

To You, Lord, Lover of Mankind, having risen from sleep, I come running, and I strive for Your works with Your mercy, and I pray to You: help me at all times, in every thing, and deliver me from all worldly evil things and the devil’s haste, and save me, and bring us into Your eternal Kingdom. For You are my Creator and the Provider and Giver of every good thing, and all my hope is in You, and I send up glory to You, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Prayer four, of the same saint

Lord, Who through Your many goodness and Your great bounty has given me, Your servant, the passing time of this night without misfortune to pass away from all evil that is contrary to me; You Yourself, Master, the Creator of all things, grant me with Your true light and an enlightened heart to do Your will, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Fifth prayer, Saint Basil the Great

Lord Almighty, God of hosts and all flesh, living in the highest and looking down on the humble, testing the hearts and wombs and innermost parts of men, the fore-foreseen One, the Beginningless and Ever-Everlasting Light, with Him there is no change or overshadowing; Himself, Immortal King, accept our prayers, even at the present time, boldly for the multitude of Your bounties, from the bad lips we create towards You, and forgive us our sins, whether in deed, word, and thought, knowledge, or ignorance, we have sinned; and cleanse us from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. And grant us with a cheerful heart and a sober thought to pass through the whole night of this present life, awaiting the coming of the bright and revealed day of Your Only Begotten Son, the Lord and God and our Savior Jesus Christ, in which the Judge of all will come with glory, to whom he will give to each according to his deeds; let us not fall and become lazy, but be watchful and raised up for the work that is to come, prepare us for joy and the Divine palace of His glory, where those who celebrate the unceasing voice and the ineffable sweetness of those who behold Your face, the ineffable kindness. For You are the true Light, you enlighten and sanctify all things, and all creation sings to You forever and ever. Amen.

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Prayer six, of the same saint

We bless you, O highest God and Lord of mercy, who always does great and unexplored, glorious and terrible things to us, countless in number, giving us sleep for the repose of our weakness, and the weakening of the labors of the arduous flesh. We thank Thee, for Thou didst not destroy us with our iniquities, but Thou didst usually love mankind, and in desperation, Thou didst raise us up to glorify Thy power. In the same way, we pray for Your immeasurable goodness, enlighten our thoughts, our eyes, and raise our minds from the heavy sleep of laziness: open our lips, and fulfill Your praise, so that we can unwaveringly sing and confess to You, in all, and from all, to the glorified God, To the Beginningless Father, with Your Only Begotten Son, and Your All-Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Seventh prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos

I sing Thy grace, O Lady, I pray to Thee, my mind is filled with grace. Go right and teach me the path of Christ’s commandments. Strengthen your children to songs, driving away despondency and sleep. Bound by the captivity of the Falls, allow me through Your prayers, Bride of God. Preserve me in the night and in the day, delivering me to those who fight against the enemy. She who gave birth to God, the life-giver, was killed by my passions and revived. Who gave birth to the non-evening Light, enlighten my blind soul. O wondrous Lady of the Palace, create for me the house of the Divine Spirit. You who gave birth to a doctor, heal my soul of many years of passion. Worried by the storm of life, guide me towards the path of repentance. Deliver me from eternal fire, and from evil worms, and from tartar. Do not show me joy as a demon, who is guilty of many sins. Create me again, having promised to be insensible, Immaculate, without sin. Show me the strangeness of all kinds of torment, and implore the Lord to all. Heavenly grant me joy with all the saints. Most Holy Virgin, hear the voice of Your indecent servant. Give me a stream of tears, Most Pure One, cleansing the filth of my soul. I bring lamentations from my heart to You continually, be zealous, Lady. Accept my prayer service and bring it to the blessed God. Transcending Angel, create me above the fusion of the world. Light-bearing heavenly Seine, direct spiritual grace in me. I lift up my hand and my lips to praise, defiled by filth, O All-Immaculate One. Deliver me from the dirty tricks that are strangling me, diligently begging Christ; To Him is due honor and worship, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

(1) Rising from sleep, before any other work, become reverent, presenting yourself before the All-Seeing God, and, making the sign of the cross,
say:

Prayer of the Optina Elders
Explanation of morning prayers
Prayer rule of St. Seraphim of Sarov

Prayer eight, to our Lord Jesus Christ

My most merciful and all-merciful God, Lord Jesus Christ, for the sake of love you came down and became incarnate for many reasons, so that you would save everyone. And again, Savior, save me by grace, I pray to You; Even if you save me from works, there is no grace and no gift, but more than debt. Hey, abundant in generosity and ineffable in mercy! Believe in Me, you say, O my Christ, you will live and will not see death forever. Even if faith in You saves the desperate, behold, I believe, save me, for You are my God and Creator. Let faith instead of works be imputed to me, O my God, for you will not find works to justify me. But may my faith prevail instead of all, may it answer, may it justify me, may it show me to be a partaker of Your eternal glory. Let Satan not kidnap me, and boast to the Word that he has torn me from Your hand and fence; But either I want, save me, or I don’t want, Christ my Savior, I will soon foresee, I will soon perish: For you are my God from my mother’s womb. Grant me, O Lord, now to love Thee, as sometimes I have loved that same sin; and again work for You without laziness, just as you worked before the flattering Satan. Most of all, I will serve You, my Lord and God Jesus Christ, all the days of my life, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Ninth prayer to the Guardian Angel

Holy Angel, standing before my accursed soul and my passionate life, do not leave me, a sinner, nor depart from me for my intemperance. Do not give room to the evil demon to possess me through the violence of this mortal body; strengthen my poor and thin hand and guide me on the path of salvation. To her, holy Angel of God, guardian and patron of my accursed soul and body, forgive me everything, I have offended you so greatly all the days of my life, and if I sinned this past night, cover me on this day, and save me from every opposite temptation May I not anger God in any sin, and pray for me to the Lord, that He may strengthen me in His passion, and show me worthy as a servant of His goodness. Amen.

Prayer tenth, to the Most Holy Theotokos

My Most Holy Lady Theotokos, with Your saints and all-powerful prayers, take away from me, Your humble and accursed servant, despondency, oblivion, foolishness, negligence, and all the nasty, evil and blasphemous thoughts from my accursed heart and from my darkened mind; and extinguish the flame of my passions, for I am poor and damned. And deliver me from many and cruel memories and enterprises, and free me from all evil actions. For Thou art blessed from all generations, and glorified is Thy most honorable name forever and ever. Amen.

Prayerful invocation of the saint whose name you bear

Pray to God for me, holy servant of God (Name), as if I diligently resort to you, a quick helper and a prayer book for my soul.

Hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos

Virgin Mary, Rejoice, O Blessed Mary, the Lord is with You; Blessed are You among women and blessed is the fruit of Your womb, for You have given birth to the Savior of our souls.

Troparion to the Cross and prayer for the fatherland

Save, O Lord, Thy people, and bless Thy inheritance, granting victories to Orthodox Christians against resistance, and preserving Thy life through Thy Cross.

Prayer for the living

(Name), my parents (names), relatives (names), bosses, mentors, benefactors (their names) and all Orthodox Christians.

Prayer for the departed

Rest, O Lord, the souls of Your departed servants: my parents, relatives, benefactors (their names), and all Orthodox Christians, and forgive them all sins, voluntary and involuntary, and grant them the Kingdom of Heaven. If you can, read this memorial instead of short prayers for the living and the dead:

About the living

Remember, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, Thy mercy and generosity from all eternity, for whose sake Thou didst become man, and Thou didst deign to endure crucifixion and death, for the sake of the salvation of those who believe in Thee; and rose from the dead, you ascended into heaven and sit at the right hand of God the Father, and look upon the humble prayers of those who call upon You with all their hearts: incline Your ear, and hear the humble prayer of me, Your indecent servant, in the stench of the spiritual fragrance, brought to You for all Your people . And in the first place, remember Your Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, which You have provided with Your venerable Blood, and establish, and strengthen, and expand, multiply, pacify, and preserve the insurmountable gates of hell forever; Calm the tearing of the Churches, quench the pagan vacillations, and quickly destroy and eradicate the heresies of rebellion, and convert them into nothingness by the power of Your Holy Spirit. (Bow)

Save, Lord, and have mercy on our God-protected country, its authorities and army, protect their power with peace, and subdue every enemy and adversary under the nose of the Orthodox, and speak peaceful and good words in their hearts about Your Holy Church, and about all Your people: let us live a quiet and silent life in orthodoxy, and in all piety and purity. (Bow)

Save, Lord, and have mercy on our Great Lord and Father, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, Your Eminence metropolitans, archbishops and Orthodox bishops, priests and deacons, and the entire church clergy, who You have appointed to shepherd Your verbal flock, and with their prayers have mercy and save me, a sinner. (Bow)

Save, Lord, and have mercy on my spiritual father (his name), and with his holy prayers forgive my sins. (Bow)

Save, Lord, and have mercy on my parents (their names), brothers and sisters, and my relatives according to the flesh, and all the neighbors of my family, and friends, and grant them Your peaceful and most peaceful goodness. (Bow) Save, O Lord, and have mercy, according to the multitude of Your bounties, all the sacred monks, monks and nuns, and all those living in virginity and reverence and fasting in monasteries, in deserts, in caves, mountains, pillars, gates, rock crevices, and sea islands, and in every place of Thy dominion those who live faithfully, and piously serve Thee, and pray to Thee: ease their burden, and comfort their sorrow, and grant them strength and strength to strive for Thee, and through their prayers grant me remission of sins. (Bow)

Save, O Lord, and have mercy on the old and the young, the poor and the orphans and the widows, and those who are in sickness and sorrow, troubles and sorrows, conditions and captivity, prisons and imprisonments, and even more so in persecution, for You for the sake of the Orthodox faith, from the tongue of the godless, from the apostate and from the heretics, Thy present servants, and remember, visit, strengthen, comfort, and soon by Thy power I will weaken, grant them freedom and deliver. (Bow)

Save, O Lord, and have mercy on those who do good to us, who are merciful and nourishing to us, who gave us alms, and who commanded us to the unworthy to pray for them, and who give us peace, and do Thy mercy to them, granting them all, even petitions for salvation, and the perception of eternal blessings . (Bow)

Save, Lord, and have mercy on those sent to the service, those traveling, our fathers and brethren, and all Orthodox Christians. (Bow)

Save, Lord, and have mercy on them who I tempted with my madness, and turned away from the path of salvation, and led me to evil and inappropriate deeds; By Your Divine Providence, return again to the path of salvation. (Bow)

Save, Lord, and have mercy on those who hate and offend me, and those who create misfortunes against me, and do not leave them to perish for my sake, a sinner. (Bow)

Those who have departed from the Orthodox faith and are blinded by destructive heresies, enlighten with the light of Your knowledge and bring Your Holy Apostles to the Catholic Church. (Bow)

Rising from sleep, before doing anything else, stand reverently, presenting yourself before the All-Seeing God, and, making the sign of the cross, say:

In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Then wait a little until all your feelings come to silence and your thoughts leave everything earthly, and then say the following prayers, without haste and with heartfelt attention:

Publican's Prayer

(Gospel of Luke, chapter 18, verse 13)

God, be merciful to me, a sinner. (Bow)

Initial prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, prayers for the sake of Your Most Pure Mother and all the saints, have mercy on us. Amen.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit

From Easter to Ascension, instead of this prayer, the troparion is read: “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and giving life to those in the tombs.” (Thrice) From Ascension to Trinity, we begin prayers with “Holy God...”, omitting all the preceding ones.

Trisagion

Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us.
(Read three times, with the sign of the cross and bow from the waist.)

Prayer to the Most Holy Trinity

Most Holy Trinity, have mercy on us; Lord, cleanse our sins; Master, forgive our iniquities; Holy One, visit and heal our infirmities, for Thy name's sake.

Lord have mercy. (Thrice)

Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Lord's Prayer

Troparia Trinity

Having risen from sleep, we fall down to Thee, the Good One, and cry out to Thee, the Mightier, the angelic song: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, O God, have mercy on us through the Mother of God.

Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

From bed and sleep You have raised me up, O Lord, enlighten my mind and heart, and open my lips to sing to You, Holy Trinity: Holy, Holy, Holy, O God, have mercy on us through the Mother of God.

And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Suddenly the Judge will come, and every deed will be exposed, but with fear we call at midnight: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, O God, have mercy on us by the Mother of God.

Lord have mercy. (12 times)

Prayer to the Most Holy Trinity

Come, let us worship our King God. (Bow)

Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ, our King God. (Bow)

Come, let us bow and fall down to Christ Himself, the King and our God. (Bow)

Psalm 50

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your great mercy, and according to the multitude of Your mercies, cleanse my iniquity. Above all, wash me from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin; for I know my iniquity, and I will take away my sin before me. I have sinned against You alone and have done evil before You, so that You may be justified in Your words and triumph over the judgment of You. Behold, I was conceived in iniquity, and my mother gave birth to me in sins. Behold, you have loved the truth; You have revealed to me the unknown and secret wisdom of Yours. Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be cleansed; Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. My hearing brings joy and joy; humble bones will rejoice. Turn Your face away from my sins and cleanse all my iniquities. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a right spirit in my womb. Do not cast me away from Your presence and do not take Your Holy Spirit away from me. Reward me with the joy of Your salvation and strengthen me with the Lord’s Spirit. I will teach the wicked Your way, and the wicked will turn to You. Deliver me from bloodshed, O God, God of my salvation; My tongue will rejoice in Your righteousness. Lord, open my mouth, and my mouth will declare Your praise. As if you had desired sacrifices, you would have given them: you do not favor burnt offerings. The sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; God will not despise a broken and humble heart. Bless Zion, O Lord, with Your favor, and may the walls of Jerusalem be built. Then favor the sacrifice of righteousness, the offering and the burnt offering; Then they will place the bullock on Your altar.

Symbol of faith

I believe in one God the Father, Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, visible to all and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only begotten, who was born of the Father before all ages;
Light from Light, true God from true God, born, uncreated, consubstantial with the Father, to Whom all things were.
For our sake, man and our salvation came down from heaven and became incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became human.
She was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried.
And he rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures. And ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father.
And again the coming one will be judged with glory by the living and the dead, His Kingdom will have no end.
And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Life-Giving One, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who spoke the prophets.
Into one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
I confess one baptism for the remission of sins.
I hope for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the next century. Amen.

Prayer 1, Saint Macarius the Great

Prayer 2, Saint Macarius the Great

Prayer 3, Saint Macarius the Great

Prayer 4, Saint Macarius the Great

Prayer 5, St. Basil the Great

Prayer 6th, Saint Basil the Great

Prayer 7, to the Most Holy Theotokos

Prayer 8, to our Lord Jesus Christ

Prayer 9, to the Guardian Angel

Prayer 10, to the Most Holy Theotokos

Prayerful invocation of the saint whose name you bear

Pray to God for me, holy servant of God (Name), as if I diligently resort to you, a quick helper and a prayer book for my soul.

Hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos

Virgin Mary, Rejoice, O Blessed Mary, the Lord is with You; Blessed are You among women and blessed is the fruit of Your womb, for You have given birth to the Savior of our souls.

Troparion to the Cross and prayer for the fatherland

Save, Lord, Your people, and bless Your inheritance, victories Orthodox Christian bestowing on the resistance, and preserving Your residence through Your Cross.

Prayer for the living

(Name), my parents (names), relatives (names), bosses, mentors, benefactors (their names) and all Orthodox Christians.

Prayer for the departed

Rest, O Lord, the souls of Your departed servants: my parents, relatives, benefactors (their names), and all Orthodox Christians, and forgive them all sins, voluntary and involuntary, and grant them the Kingdom of Heaven.

If you can, read this memorial instead of short prayers for the living and the dead:

About the living

Save, Lord, and have mercy on my spiritual father (his name), and with his holy prayers forgive my sins. (Bow)

Save, O Lord, and have mercy, according to the multitude of Your bounties, all the sacred monks, monks and nuns, and all those living in virginity and reverence and fasting in monasteries, in deserts, in caves, mountains, pillars, gates, rock crevices, and sea islands, and in every place of Thy dominion those who live faithfully, and piously serve Thee, and pray to Thee: ease their burden, and comfort their sorrow, and grant them strength and strength to strive for Thee, and through their prayers grant me remission of sins. (Bow)

Save, Lord, and have mercy on those sent to the service, those traveling, our fathers and brethren, and all Orthodox Christians. (Bow)

Save, Lord, and have mercy on those who hate and offend me, and those who create misfortunes against me, and do not leave them to perish for my sake, a sinner. (Bow)

Those who have departed from the Orthodox faith and are blinded by destructive heresies, enlighten with the light of Your knowledge and bring Your Holy Apostles to the Catholic Church. (Bow)

About the departed

Remember, Lord, the Orthodox kings and queens, the noble princes and princesses, the most holy patriarchs, the most reverend metropolitans, archbishops and bishops who departed from this life, who served You in the priesthood and in the clergy, and in the monastic rank, and in Your eternal settlements with the saints rest in peace (Bow)

Remember, Lord, the souls of Your departed servants, my parents (their names), and all relatives in the flesh; and forgive them all their sins, voluntary and involuntary, giving them the Kingdom and the communion of Thy eternal good things and Thy endless and blissful life of pleasure. (Bow)

Remember, O Lord, and all in the hope of resurrection and eternal life, those who have fallen asleep, our fathers and brothers and sisters, and those who lie here and everywhere, Orthodox Christians, and with Thy saints, where the light of Thy face shines, and have mercy on us, for He is Good and Lover of Humanity. Amen. (Bow)

Grant, Lord, remission of sins to all who have previously departed in the faith and hope of resurrection, our fathers, brothers and sisters, and create for them eternal memory. (Thrice)

End of prayers

It is worthy to eat as truly to bless Thee, Theotokos, Ever-Blessed and Most Immaculate and Mother of our God. We magnify You, the most honorable Cherub and the most glorious without comparison Seraphim, who gave birth to God the Word without corruption.

From Easter to Ascension, instead of this prayer, the chorus and irmos of the 9th song of the Easter canon are read:

The angel cried out with grace: Pure Virgin, rejoice! And again the river: Rejoice! Your Son is risen three days from the grave and raised up the dead; people, rejoice! Shine, shine, new Jerusalem, for the glory of the Lord is upon you. Rejoice now and be glad, O Zion. You, Pure One, show off, O Theotokos, about the rise of Your Nativity .

Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Lord have mercy. (Thrice)

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, prayers for the sake of Thy Most Pure Mother, our reverend and God-bearing fathers and all the saints, have mercy on us. Amen.

Notes:

- Printed in italics (explanations and names of prayers) are not readable during prayer.

- When it is written “Glory”, “And now”, it must be read in full: “Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit”, “And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen"

- In the Church Slavonic language there is no sound ё, and therefore it is necessary to read “we are calling”, not “we are calling”, “yours”, not “yours”, “mine”, not “mine”, etc.

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The prayer to the Holy Spirit is the stichera of the Feast of Pentecost. It is not read from Easter to Pentecost. According to the words of the Apostle Paul, we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings that cannot be expressed ()

King, Comforter, Soul(Spirit), To the Giver, the Good One(Blagoy) – forms of the vocative case.

Comforter– means called to help, Patron, Intercessor. Greek verb comfort also has meanings: to calm, to pacify, to console in sorrow, and convince, instruct to a virtuous life.

See John 15:26: When the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me..

Sit everywhere and do everything- abiding everywhere, like God, and filling everything (the whole world, all existence).

Treasure of the Good- Source, Treasury of all good things. See (according to church glory): A good man brings forth good things from the good treasures of his heart...

The fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control. ().

Life Giver– lit. meaning in Greek words horygos(giver) – the one who at your own expense supplied (in Athens) a choir for festivities (which was one of the most expensive public duties, and therefore was charged only to the richest citizens of the city). Later this word came to mean generally assistant, one who delivers something or supplies something: food, life supplies, taking to myself all expenses. Compare in the New Testament (words with this root are underlined): Giving But seed to the sower and bread for food will provide abundance for what you sow and will multiply the fruits of your righteousness (); If anyone speaks, speak as the words of God; If anyone serves, let him serve according to the strength that God gives, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. ().

In us- in us.

Better– The Holy Spirit is called good as one of the persons of the Holy Trinity, for no one is good, as soon as there is only one God ().

Trisagion

Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us. (Read three times, with the sign of the cross and bow from the waist.)

In 438 there was an earthquake in Constantinople. During the penitential prayer service, the sky opened to one praying boy, and he heard the angels singing the Trisagion hymn. The people began to repeat these words, adding Have mercy on us!, and the earthquake stopped.

Strong— All Might

Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Now and ever and unto ages of ages- now, and always, and to endless ages. Now and forever belong to our world, and forever and ever- to eternity.

Prayer to the Most Holy Trinity

Most Holy Trinity, have mercy on us; Lord, cleanse our sins; Master, forgive our iniquities; Holy One, visit and heal our infirmities, for Thy name's sake.

Visit and heal our infirmities- come (to us) and heal our spiritual infirmities, impotence, weakness.

Lord have mercy. (Three times). Glory, even now.

Three times - according to the number of Persons of the Holy Trinity.

Lord's Prayer

The Lord Jesus Christ Himself commanded His disciples and all Christians to pray with this prayer (see;)

Hallowed be your name- let him become famous. Commentary by St. : "Saying Hallowed be thy name, we do not bring to God holiness that supposedly does not exist with Him, but we glorify what exists.”

Urgent– lit. from Greek - necessary for existence. St. In addition to ordinary bread, the fathers understood by daily bread the Holy Gifts given to those receiving communion.

Don't lead us into temptation- Do not allow us to fall into temptation. Wed. James 1:14: When tempted, no one should say: God is tempting me; because God is not tempted by evil and does not tempt anyone Himself, but everyone is tempted by being carried away and deceived by his own lust; 2 Peter 2:9: The Lord knows how to deliver the pious from temptation; 1 Corinthians 10:13: God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but when you are tempted, He will also provide relief, so that you can endure it; Matthew 26:41: Watch and pray, so that you do not fall into temptation: the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

From the evil one- from the devil and, in general, from all evil.

Troparia Trinity

Rising from sleep, we fall down to Thee, the Blesser, and cry out the angelic song to Thee, the Stronger: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, O God, through the Mother of God have mercy on us.

Troparia Trinity- troparia addressed to the Most Holy Trinity.

Let's fall down- we fall to You (literally at Your feet).

We cry out the angel's song- we sing the song with which the Angels glorify God. The prophet Isaiah tells of the Seraphim standing around the Throne of the Lord and calling to each other: Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts! the whole earth is full of His glory! (). (Lord of Hosts– Lord of Heavenly (Angelic) forces, armies).

Mother of God- according to the prayers of the Mother of God.

Glory: From bed and sleep you raised me up, Lord, enlighten my mind and heart, and open my lips, even singing to You, Holy Trinity: Holy, Holy, Holy are you, God, have mercy on us through the Mother of God.

You raised me up- lifted me up.

Sing to thee- to sing Your praises.

And now: Suddenly the Judge will come, and every deed will be exposed, but with fear we call at midnight: Holy, Holy, Holy are you, God, have mercy on us through the Mother of God.

Suddenly the Judge will come– the Lord will suddenly come to judge each of us (our death), and all of humanity (the Last Judgment). See etc.

Every deed will be exposed- the affairs of each (person) will be opened (See).

But we call with fear at midnight- but with fear, in fear we call in the sinful night.

Midnight is the time for midnight prayers. In addition, midnight is used here, perhaps, as an image of the suddenness of the coming of the Judge (see the parable of the 10 virgins (), where the groom also comes at midnight, as well).

Lord have mercy (12 times) .

Prayer to the Most Holy Trinity

Having risen from sleep, I thank Thee, Holy Trinity, for for the sake of Thy goodness and long-suffering you were not angry with me, lazy and sinful, and you destroyed me with my iniquities. mi; but You loved mankind as a rule, and in the despair of a lying person You raised me up to morning and glorify Your power. And now enlighten my mental eyes, open my mouth, to learn Your words, and to understand Your commandments, and to do Your will, and to sing to You in confession of my heart, and to sing praises Thy all-holy name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages centuries. Amen.

Like many for the sake of Your goodness- for according to Your great mercy, because You are good (cf.).

Below you destroyed mé - and did not destroy (take my life).

You usually loved humanity- showed the usual, constant (Your) love for mankind.

Lying in despair - lying unconscious.

During the morning morning- so that, getting up early, I offer (to You) my morning prayer.

Power- power (also - strength, might, domination).

Eyes of the mind- thoughts, mind.

Learn from Your words- when reading the Holy Scriptures and in prayer, meditate on the word of God and learn to understand His will.

Petya in heartfelt confession- glorify, sing Your praises (with) a grateful heart.

Come, let us worship the King our God. (Bow)

Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ, our King God. (Bow) Come, let us bow and fall down to Christ Himself, the King and our God. (Bow)

Wed. -7: Come, let us worship and fall down before Him, and weep before the Lord who created us: for He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand(obedient to His hand).

Let's fall down– lit. Let's fall at our feet.

Psalm 50

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your great mercy, and according to the multitude of Your compassions, cleanse my iniquity. Above all, wash me from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin; For I know my iniquity, and I will take away my sin before me. I have sinned against You alone and have done evil before You, so that You may be justified in Your words and triumph over Your judgment. Behold, I was conceived in iniquity, and my mother gave birth to me in sins. Behold, you have loved the truth; You have shown me Your unknown and secret wisdom. Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be clean; Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. There is joy and gladness in my hearing; the bones of the humble will rejoice. Turn away Your face from my sins and cleanse all my iniquities. Create a pure heart in me, O God, and renew a right spirit in my womb. Do not cast me away from Your presence and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Give me the joy of Your salvation and strengthen me with the Lord’s Spirit. I will teach the wicked your way, and wickedness will turn to you. Deliver me from bloodshed, O God, God of my salvation; my tongue will rejoice in Your righteousness. Lord, open my mouth, and my mouth will declare Your praise. As if you had desired sacrifices, you would have given them: you do not favor burnt offerings. The sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; God will not despise a contrite and humble heart. Bless Zion, O Lord, with Your favor, and may the walls of Jerusalem be built. Then take pleasure in the sacrifice of righteousness, the offering and the burnt offering; then they will place your calf on the altar.

The 50th Psalm is a repentant prayer of King David, written after the prophet Nathan came to him and convicted him of the crimes he had committed: the death of the warrior Uri in battle that he had arranged and adultery with his wife Bathsheba.

In terms of the depth of repentance and the strength of the humility expressed in it, the 50th Psalm perhaps surpasses all the others. It is included in Small Compline, Midnight Office, Third Hour, morning prayers, following to Holy Communion, etc.

By great mercy– by infinite mercy, because and my sins are limitless.

Most of all- especially, predominantly, repeatedly.

I'll take it out- always, constantly.

To you alone- To you alone, precisely to you.

For you may be justified in Your words- so that You will be righteous in Your judgment.

Win and never judge- you will win when You judge me (you will win in court over me).

Xie bo- for here (introductory words, usually not translated).

In lawlessness- according to the patristic interpretation under lawlessness Here we mean the corruptible (i.e., subject to death) nature inherited from our ancestors, which is associated with many sins and iniquities. The same thing is said further.

Born in sins- She gave birth in sins. Rody– lit. passionately desired(both in the Hebrew original and in the Greek translation).

You loved the truth- (You) love the truth.

You have shown me Your unknown and secret wisdom- You reveal to me the inexpressible secrets of Your Providence.

Sprinkle me with hyssop- Sprinkle me with hyssop. Hyssop- a fragrant subshrub with pink, white or blue flowers. Its twigs, tied into a bundle, were used for sprinkling. They sprinkled them on lepers to cleanse their illness. David talks about sprinkling his soul.

To my hearing dasi– lit. make me hear, cry out in me (the joy of my pardon).

Humble bones will rejoice– here: may the broken bones be strengthened again, i.e. the soul is dejected, depressed (by suffering).

Create a pure heart- cleanse my heart, restore my (fallen) soul to its original beauty.

The spirit is right- the spirit is correct, fair, truthful, faithful. Wed. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit in them. ().

Renew in my womb– renew inside me, inside me.

Reward- give it back, give it back.

Sovereign- ruling, capable of leading me, leading me.

From blood- perhaps we are talking about the shed blood of Uriah, as well as about God’s punishment according to the Old Testament law for unrighteously shed blood. This is what God says to Noah: Whoever sheds the blood of man, his blood will be shed by the hand of man: for man was created in the image of God.

God of my salvation- God, my Savior.

My tongue will rejoice in Your righteousness- May my tongue tell in joy about Your truth and mercy.

Lord, open my mouth, and my mouth will declare Your praise- Lord, open my mouth, and my lips will glorify You.

As if you had wanted sacrifices, you would have given- if You were pleased with the sacrifices (dumb animals) which the law commanded to offer), then I, of course, would bring them (to You).

You do not favor burnt offerings- (but You) do not accept such sacrifices, or they have become no longer so pleasing to You (although burnt offerings) were considered higher than other sacrifices.

God will not despise a contrite and humble heart– God does not turn away from a contrite and humble soul.

Bless Zion, O Lord, with Your favor- Lord, do good to Zion according to Your good pleasure. Here David, prophesying, asks for the restoration of Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity.

May the walls of Jerusalem be built- let the walls of Jerusalem, destroyed by the Babylonians, be built.

Then be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, the offering and the burnt offering- then you will accept the correct sacrifice, which the Jews could only offer in the Jerusalem Temple. Ascension- part of an animal to be sacrificed, burnt offering- whole body.

Then they will place the calf on Your altar- Then the Jews will offer a burnt offering. In the Old Testament temple there were two altars: for sacrifices (altar) and the incense altar (). This refers to the altar.

According to the interpretation of St. fathers, the last lines of the psalm are a prophecy about the Sacrifice of Christ, the Christian Church and the Eucharist.

Symbol of faith

I believe in one God, the Father, Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, visible to all and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only begotten, who was born of the Father before all ages; Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, uncreated, consubstantial with the Father, to whom all things were.

For our sake, man and for our salvation, who came down from heaven and became incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became human.

Crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried.

And he rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures.

And ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father.

And again the glory of the future will be judged by the living and the dead, His Kingdom will have no end.

And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Life-Giving One, who proceeds from the Father, who is with the Father and the Son, we are worshiped and glorified, who spoke the prophets.

Into one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

I confess one baptism for the remission of sins.

I hope for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the next century. Amen.

The creed is summary basic tenets of the Orthodox faith. Adopted at the Council of Nicaea in 325 (Part I) and supplemented at the Council of Constantinople (Constantinople) in 381. It has a protective function in protecting against heretical teachings.

Edinago- one and only one; Wed John 17:3: This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

Almighty- containing all creation in His power; Wed Rev.1:8: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

Creator of heaven and earth, visible to all and invisible– see Col. 1:16: For by Him (God) all things were created, that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible...

Only Begotten- Wed John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Before all ages– first of all creations, i.e. The Son is as eternal as God the Father.

Sveta from Sveta- Wed 1 John 1:5: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness.

Born, uncreated- Wed Hebrews 5:5: So Christ did not appropriate to Himself the glory of being a high priest, but He who said to Him: You are My Son, today I have begotten You.; and also 1 John 5:1: Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who gave birth (i.e., God the Father, the First Person of the Holy Trinity), loves Him who is begotten(i.e. Jesus Christ, God the Son, Second Person of the Blessed Trinity) From him.

Consubstantial with the Father– one nature (essence with the Father). Wed. John 10:30: Me and the Father are one; John 14:11: Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me.

That's all it was– By Him (i.e., the Word of God, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity) everything was created; Wed John 1:3: Everything began to be through Him, and without Him nothing began to be.

For our sake man- for the sake of us, people, for the salvation of everyone in general and each individual.

Descended from Heaven- see John 3:13: No one has ascended into heaven except the Son of Man, who is in heaven, who came down from heaven.; John 6:38: For I came down from heaven not to do My will, but the will of the Father who sent Me.

embodied– see John 1:14: And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth.

From the Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary– see , 35: And the Angel said to Her: Do not be afraid, Mary, for You have found favor with God; and behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a Son, and you will call His name Jesus... The Holy Spirit will come upon You, and the power of the Most High will overshadow You, therefore the Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.

Incarnate- i.e. became fully human, taking on not only the body, but also the human soul, without ceasing to be God. See -7: He, being the image of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God; but he emptied himself, taking on the form of a servant, becoming in the likeness of men, and becoming in appearance like a man.

Crucified for us- crucified for us.

Suffering– who suffered on the cross as a Man. At the same time, His divine nature remained uninvolved in suffering, dispassionate.

According to Scripture- Wed -4: I(i.e. St. Paul) originally taught you... that Christ... rose on the third day according to the Scriptures(lit. in Greek. according to the scriptures). We are talking about predictions from the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament. Here are some of them: Ps.15:10: For You will not leave my soul in hell and You will not allow Your holy one to see corruption. John 2:1: And the Lord commanded the great whale to swallow Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of this whale for three days and three nights (In the New Testament, the Lord Himself refers to this place – ).

Seated at the right hand of the Father- Wed Matthew 26:64: ...from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven. Ps.109:1: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies Your footstool.. In general, sitting at the right hand (i.e. on the right) of the royal throne means equality of honor and, therefore, royal power. Thus, the Son is said to be equal and equal to the Father.

Packs of the future- intending to come again. Wed. Matthew 16:27: For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward everyone according to his deeds.; -11: And when they(Apostles) They looked at the sky during His ascension, and suddenly two men in white clothes appeared to them and said: “Men of Galilee!” Why are you standing and looking at the sky? This Jesus, who ascended into heaven for you, will come in the same way as you saw Him ascending into heaven.

His Kingdom will never end– His Kingdom, i.e. The Kingdom of Heaven will be eternal.

Those who come from the Father– Who (the Holy Spirit) proceeds from God the Father; see John 15:26: When the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me..

Together with the Father and the Son, let us worship and glorify the prophets who spoke- (and I believe in the Holy Spirit) Whom we worship and Whom we glorify along with the Father and the Son (as God, as the Third Person of the Holy Trinity), and Who (previously, in the Old Testament) spoke through the prophets. Wed. Matthew 28:19: Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit; 1 John 5:7: For three bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one; and also 2 Peter 1:21: For prophecy was never uttered by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke it, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

One baptism- one single baptism; Wed Eph.4:5: one Lord, one faith, one baptism.

Tea- I expect, I hope.

Lives of the next century– future life (eternal), the Kingdom of Heaven; Wed 1 John 5:11: ...God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

First prayer, Saint

God, cleanse me, a sinner, for I have done no more good before You; but deliver me from the evil one, and let Your will be done in me, that I may open my unworthy mouth without condemnation and praise Your holy name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. in Amen.

For I have done no more good things before You- for I have never done anything good, good before You.

From the evil one- from the devil, from all evil.

May Your will be done in me- see the prayer “Our Father” ().

May I open my unworthy lips without condemnation- may I open my unworthy lips (to praise You) without being condemned for this (for: Not everyone who says to Me: “Lord! Lord!” will enter the Kingdom of Heaven ().

Second prayer, of the same saint

Having risen from sleep, I bring the midnight hymn to Ti, Savior, and falling down crying to Ti: do not let me fall asleep in a sinful death, but have mercy on me, crucify yourself with your will, and hastening to raise me who lies in laziness, and save me in standing and prayer and in sleep By night shine upon me a sinless day, O Christ God, and save me.

Midnight Song- Wed Ps.119:62: At midnight I rose to praise You for Your righteous judgments. Or an excerpt from the parable of the 10 virgins (): At midnight a cry was heard: behold, the groom is coming, go out to meet him.

Falling down crying- falling (literally at Your feet), I exclaim.

Don't let me sleep in sinful death- night is an image of sinful death (the darkness of the night is the darkness of death, sin). The middle of the night (midnight is its darkest hour) symbolizes the density of sinful darkness. Since awakening from sleep is an image of rising from bodily death, we ask the Lord for rising from sinful death.

But be kind to me- but have mercy on me (have mercy on me).

Crucified by will- (You) accepted the crucifixion according to Your will.

In laziness— in carelessness (about one’s salvation).

Quickly raise- hasten to raise, restore.

In a dream at night– after a night’s sleep (extension: after sinful darkness).

Rise upon me a sinless day- send down on me a bright, sinless day (extensively; sinless life).

Prayer three, of the same saint

To You, Lord, the Lover of Mankind, I come running from sleep, and I strive for Your works with Your mercy, and I pray to You: help me at all times, in all things, and deliver me from all worldly evils things and the devil's haste, and save me and bring me to Your eternal Kingdom. For You are my Creator and the Provider and Giver of all good, in You is all my hope, and I send glory to You, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

I'm running- I hasten to turn (with prayer).

I strive for Thy works by Thy mercy- in the hope of Your merciful help, I rush, I hasten to accomplish deeds in Your name, deeds pleasing to You. Wed. John 15:5: Without Me you cannot do anything.

Help me- help me.

For every time, in every thing- always and in everything.

From all worldly evil things- from all evil of this world; at all worldly everything related to the passions of this world is named. Wed. -13: The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people, teaching us that, having rejected ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live chastely, righteously and piously in this present age, awaiting the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. -17: Do not love the world, nor the things in the world: whoever loves the world does not have the Father’s love in him. For everything that is in the world: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not from the Father, but from this world. And the world passes away, and its lusts, but he who does the will of God abides forever.

Diabolical haste- church glory word haste actually means action, V in this case– the persistent desire of the devil to act on us through our passions (through worldly things). Wed. Rom.7:5: When we lived in the flesh, then the passions of sin, revealed by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit in death.. Wed. also from the fifth prayer of St. to Holy Communion: And let this saint be with me... to drive away... the actions of the devil, acting mentally in my lands(i.e. through thoughts inspiring to incline towards evil).

You are my Creator- for You are my Creator.

Provider and Giver– The All-Wise Trustee and Source (of all good).

About you- at you.

Prayer four, of the same saint

Lord, by Your many goodness and Your great bounties You have given me, Your servant, the passing time of this night to pass without misfortune from all evil that is contrary to me; You Yourself, Master of all Creators, grant me with Your true light and an enlightened heart to do Your will, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Lord, Who is Your many goodness- Lord, You, according to Your great goodness.

Passed by– past.

To pass away from all evil without adversity is disgusting- to carry out without temptation from any evil opposing (me).

All kinds of creativity– Creator (Creator) of everything.

Grant me Thy true light and an enlightened heart to do Thy will.- grant me illumination (illuminate, enlighten me) with Your true light (cf. John 1:9: There was the true Light, which enlightens every person who comes into the world) and enlighten my heart with Thy light (honour enlightenment), so that I may do Thy will.

Fifth prayer, Saint

Lord Almighty, God of hosts and all flesh, living in the highest and looking down on the humble, searching the hearts and wombs and innermost parts of men, the forerunner, the Beginningless and Ever-Everlasting Light, with Him - there is no change, or change, overshadowing; Himself, Immortal King, accept our prayers, even at this time, for the multitude of Your generosity boldly, from the profane we create to You, and forgive us our sins, even in deed, and in word, and in thought, in knowledge, or in ignorance, we have sinned; and cleanse us from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. And grant us with a cheerful heart and a sober mind to pass through the night of this present life, awaiting the coming of the bright and revealed day of Your Only Begotten Son, Lord and God and our Savior Jesus The Lord of Christ, in the same place the Judge of all will come with glory, to whom he will give according to his deeds; let us not fall and become lazy, but be alert and raised up for the work of what is to come, prepare for joy and the Divine palace of His glory in the depths, where those who celebrate the unceasing voice, and unspeakable sweetness in vain those who show Your face unspeakable kindness. For You are the true Light, you enlighten and sanctify all things, and all creation sings to You forever and ever. Amen.

God of hosts and all flesh– God of the Ethereal Heavenly forces and all creation endowed with flesh.

Living on high and looking upon the humble- abiding (in His fullness) in the Upper (Heavenly) world and graciously looking at (everything) earthly, above.

Thou who foreknowest testeth the hearts and wombs and the innermost parts of men- one who observes (penetrates) hearts and innermost thoughts and sees (knows in advance) human secrets.

Beginningless- having no beginning to its existence.

Ever-present– Eternal (always Existing).

With Him there is no change, or change, overshadowing– (Light), Which has no change in strength (as opposed to visible light) and Which leaves no shadowed place on Its path (illuminating, illuminating everything). Wed. James 1:17: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights.(i.e. the luminary), with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. According to church glory: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights;. Wed. also 1 John 1:5: God is light and in Him there is no darkness.

Even– which (i.e. our prayers).

I am bold in Your multitude of bounties- hoping for Your much compassion and mercy.

From the bad we create our lips to You- (which, i.e. prayers) we lift up to You with (our) unclean lips.

Leave it- sorry.

Maintaining- consciously.

With a cheerful heart– lit. with an awake heart, i.e. those who keep the commandments of the Lord, awaiting the visit of God. Wed. Rev.3:20: Behold, I'm standing at the door(i.e. at the door of the heart) and I knock: if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me., and also Mark 13:37: What do you need(to the apostles) I say, I say to everyone: stay awake.

With a sober mind– a sober thought, capable of resisting all devilish flattery (i.e. deception) and delusion.

All the night of this present life will pass away- spend (go through) the entire (sinful) night of this (earthly) life.

On the revealed day– glorious day (i.e. the time of the Second Coming); day is the opposite of the night of this earthly life, just as light is the opposite of darkness.

In onzhe - on which (day).

To everyone- to each.

Let us not fall and become lazy, but be watchful and raised up for the work of what is to come, so that the Divine palace of His glory will come to us for joy and joy.– in the original Greek prayer: . ..into the work that will be found, and prepare for joy... In this case, the translation of the indicated fragment is as follows: may we be found (by the Lord) not lying down and sleepy, but awake, and (lit. raised in doing His commandments) diligently fulfilling His commandments, and ready (prepared) to enter with Him into joy and the divine palace His glory. Wed. Matthew 24:42: Watch, because you do not know at what hour your Lord will come. -12: The hour has already come for us to wake up from sleep. For salvation is closer to us now than when we believed. The night is past, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the weapons of light. Eph.5:14: Arise, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will illuminate you. Wed. also the troparion of the 8th tone from the Midnight Office (in addition, it is sung at Matins in the first three days of Holy Week): Behold, the Bridegroom comes at midnight, and blessed is the servant, whom the vigilant will find, but unworthy again, the one who is discouraged will find him...

Ideas for those celebrating- where are the triumphants?

The indescribable sweetness of those who behold Your face, the ineffable kindness- the inexpressible, unspeakable joy of those who see the indescribable beauty of Your face.

For you are the true Light, enlighten and sanctify all- for You are the true Light, enlightening and sanctifying the whole world; Wed John 1:9: There was the true light, which enlightens every person who comes into the world.

Prayer six, of the same saint

We bless you, O highest God and Lord of mercy, who always does with us great and unexplored, glorious and terrible, the number of which is innumerable, giving us sleep for the repose of our weakness, and weakening of labor in laborious flesh. We thank Thee, for Thou didst not destroy us with our iniquities, but Thou didst love mankind as usual, and in desperation, Thou didst raise us up to glorify Thy power. Moreover, we pray for Your immeasurable goodness, enlighten our thoughts, clear our minds, and lift our minds from the heavy sleep of laziness: open our lips, and let me fulfill Your praise, so that we can unshakably sing and confess to You, in all, and from all to the glorified God, the Beginningless Father, with Your Only Begotten Son, and Your All-Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Let's bless- we send praise, glorify.

Vyshny- above all else.

Great and unexplored, glorious and terrible, of which there is no number- great and incomprehensible, glorious and amazing (awe, fear) deeds that are countless.

For the repose of our weakness– for the rest necessary due to our bodily infirmity.

Weakening the labors of the arduous flesh– (and for) relaxation, relief from the labors (i.e. suffering, illness) of the long-suffering, much-painful flesh.

But you usually loved mankind- but showed your usual (Your) love for mankind.

In despair you raised us lying- in a dream, as if in an unconscious state, he raised those lying down and woke us up.

Let us glorify Your power- so that we glorify Your sovereignty (strength, might).

Same- That's why.

Ochesa- eyes. The Lord speaks about the purity of our eyes: The lamp for the body is the eye. So, if your eye is clean, then your whole body will be bright; if your eye is bad, then your whole body will be dark ().

Raise our minds from the heavy sleep of laziness– restore (return to its original state) our mind, which is in the sleep of sinful worldly thoughts, lazy to ascend to God and drive away evil thoughts.

May I fulfill Your praise- fill them with praises offered to You. Wed. with the fact that on behalf of all believers at Communion the choir sings (when transferring the Holy Gifts from the throne to the altar): Let our lips be filled with Thy praise, O Lord, as we sing Thy glory...

Let us unwaveringly sing and confess to You- may we, with unshakable (nothing, no temptations) faith, bring You songs of praise and confess You (our God).

In everyone and from everyone- in all creation and by all creatures (glorified).

Seventh prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos

I sing of Your grace, O Lady, I pray to You, my mind is filled with grace. Teach me to walk the right way, along the path of Christ’s commandments. Strengthen your vigil for the song, driving away despondency and sleep. Bound by the captives of the Falls, allow them through Your prayers, Bride of God. Preserve me by night and by day, delivering me from the fighting enemy. She who gave birth to God, the life-giver, was killed by my passions and revived. Even the One who gave birth to the non-evening Light, enlighten my blind soul. Oh, wondrous Lady of the palace, create for me the house of the Divine Spirit. You who gave birth to a doctor, heal my soul of many years of passion. Worried by the storm of life, guide me towards the path of repentance. Deliver me from eternal fire, and from evil worms, and from Tartarus. May the demon not show me joy, even though I am guilty of many sins. Create me again, having promised to be insensible, Most Immaculate, without sin. Show me the strangeness of all kinds of torment, and implore everyone to the Lord. Heavenly God grant me joy, with all the saints. Most Holy Virgin, hear the voice of Your unneeded servant. Give me tears, Most Pure One, that cleanse my soul of filth. I bring lamentations from my heart to You unceasingly, be diligent, Lady. Accept my prayer service and offer it to the gracious God. Greatest Angel, created me above the merging of the world. Light-bringing heavenly Sena, direct spiritual grace in me. I lift up my hands and lips to praise, defiled with filth, O All-Immaculate One. Deliver me from the dirty tricks that are choking me, diligently beseeching Christ; To him is due honor and worship, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Thank you- fill with grace.

Tread the right way and teach me the path of Christ’s commandments- teach me directly, correctly to follow the path of Christ’s commandments, to act according to the commandments of Christ.

Strengthen the children to the songs– grant strength (to stay awake) for prayerful singing.

Captives of the Falls- the bonds (chains) of my sins.

Allow- release.

Fighting enemy- from enemies attacking (me).

Killed by my passions- me, (soul, conscience) deadened by passions.

She who gave birth to the non-evening Light– (You) who gave birth to the Unfading Light (Unfading).

Going blind– unable to see the truth.

Lady Palato— The palace, the temple of the Lord.

House of the Divine Spirit create me- make me the house of the Spirit of God. Wed. 1 Corinthians 3:16: Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God lives in you? 1 Corinthians 6:19: Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who lives in you, which you have from God?

Doctor– Christ – Physician of souls. See -17: The scribes and Pharisees, seeing that He was eating with publicans and sinners, said to His disciples: How is it that He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners? Hearing this, Jesus said to them: It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. See also ; .

Worried- oscillating (shaking).

Eternal– eternal.

Worms are evil, and tartar- from the evil (hellish) worm (serpent), and from the abyss of hell. Cm. .

May the demon not show me joy, even though I am guilty of many sins- Do not allow me, guilty of many sins, to become a joy to demons.

Promised insensible, Immaculate, sin- weakened and decrepit from insensitive sins (that is, insensible sins to which I have already lost sensitivity), O Most Immaculate.

Strange is all kinds of torment, show me - remove (remove) me from all torment.

Beg - ... for my salvation.

Heavenly one, grant me joy, with all the saints— make me worthy to achieve heavenly joy with all the saints.

Obscene- worthless, useless.

Give me tears- grant me streams of tears.

Benevolent- merciful, compassionate.

Transcendent Angel, above the merging of the world, create me- located above the Angels, elevate (raise) me above the passions, create me above mixing, merging with everything worldly (with passions), lit. lift me above the vanity, confusion, indignation and disorder of this world.

Heavenly Seine– Canopy (Chamber), containing God living in heaven.

Direct spiritual grace in me- arrange, direct the action of spiritual grace in me.

I'll lift– I raise, I turn (to You in prayer).

Deliver me from the dirty tricks that have choked me - deliver me from the evil that is corrupting my soul.

Diligently- intensely.

Prayer eight, to our Lord Jesus Christ

My most merciful and all-merciful God, Lord Jesus Christ, for the sake of love you came down and became incarnate, so that you might save everyone. And again, Savior, save me by grace, I pray to You; Even if you save me from works, there is no grace and no gift, but more than debt. Hey, abundant in generosity and unspeakable in mercy! Believe in Me, O Christ, you will live and not see death forever. Even if faith, even in You, saves the desperate, behold, I believe, save me, for You are my God and Creator. Let faith instead of works be imputed to me, O my God, for you will not find works to justify me. But may my faith prevail instead of all, may it answer, may it justify me, may it show me to be a partaker of Your eternal glory. May Satan not snatch me away and boast, O Word, that he has torn me away from Your hand and fence; but either I want to save me, or I don’t want to, O Christ my Savior, foretell that I will soon perish: For you are my God from my mother’s womb. Grant me, Lord, now to love Thee, as I sometimes loved that very sin; and to work again for you without laziness is as boring as you worked before to the flattering Satan. Most of all, I will serve You, my Lord and God Jesus Christ, all the days of my life, now and forever and to the ages of ages. Amen.

Most merciful and all-merciful- (You), filled with much and perfect mercy.

You came and became incarnate- came down (from Heaven) and took on human flesh. (See notes 12 and 13 to the Creed.)

Like yes you will save- to save.

Packs- again (again).

More- because if.

This is not grace and gift, but duty is greater- (then) this is not grace and gift, but more of a duty (i.e., what is properly due as a reward for deeds).

To her- yes, true.

Believe in Me, thou art“For he who believes in Me,” You said (to Christ) (see John 6:47: He who believes in Me has eternal life).

Even if faith, even in You, saves the desperate, behold, I believe- so, if faith in You saves those who despair (those who have lost all hope), then behold, I believe (and ask).

You will not find works that will justify me- for you will not find any works that justify me.

May it prevail– may (it, i.e. faith) be sufficient.

Let her answer, let her justify me, let her show me a participant- but may she give an answer (for me), may she justify me, may she make me a participant.

Let Satan snatch me away and boast in the Word- So, let not Satan take possession of me and not boast (about this), O Word (of God).

Just turn me away- that I am rejected.

Fences– protection (fencing).

Or I don’t want to... forewarn soon, I’ll die soon- but if I don’t want to, then hurry up and get ahead of me, otherwise I will soon die.

Like- as well as.

Sometimes- once, one day.

Thin- diligently, with zeal.

Flattering- deceitful, insidious.

Most importantly– but especially (but most of all).

Belly– life.

Ninth prayer to the Guardian Angel

Holy Angel, standing before my damned soul and my passionate life, do not forsake me, a sinner, and depart from me for my intemperance. Do not give room to the crafty demon to possess me with the violence of this mortal body; strengthen my poor and thin hand and guide me on the path of salvation. To her, holy Angel of God, guardian and patron of my accursed soul and body, forgive me everything that I have offended you with in so many ways all the days of my life, and if I sinned in this past night, cover me on this day , and keep me from every temptation of the enemy May I not anger God in any sin, and pray for me to the Lord, that He may strengthen me in His passion, and show me worthy as a servant of His goodness. Amen.

Ahead of my damned soul and my passionate life- placed as a guard, protecting my poor, pitiful, struggle-filled soul and my unhappy (subject to disasters and passions) life.

Below, step away from me- and don’t retreat, don’t move away (don’t move away, don’t give up) from me.

Do not give room to the crafty demon to possess me, with the violence of this mortal body– do not give the opportunity (do not allow) the evil and insidious demon to take possession of me (subdue me) through oppression, enslavement of my mortal body (through my bodily passions).

Strengthen my poor and thin hand and guide me on the path of salvation- strengthen (lit. take tightly) my unfortunate, drooping, weak, weak-willed hand (by hand they usually mean will) and lead me to the path of salvation.

To her- yes, true.

Forgive me for all the ways I have offended you- Forgive me for everything I have done to offend you.

If I sinned this past night, cover me- if I sinned in anything this past night, protect me, protect me.

From every nasty temptation– from every enemy (i.e., devilish) temptation.

Yes, in no sin will I anger God- so that I don’t anger God with any sin.

May He strengthen me in His passion- and may He strengthen in me the fear of (grieving) Him. Wed. Proverbs 1:7: The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord.

Prayer tenth, to the Most Holy Theotokos

My Most Holy Lady Theotokos, through Your saints and all-powerful prayers, take away from me, Your humble and accursed servant, despondency, oblivion, foolishness, negligence, and all that is filthy, bow ugly and blasphemous thoughts from my damned heart and from my darkened mind; and extinguish the flame of my passions, for I am poor and damned. And deliver me from many and cruel memories and enterprises, and free me from all evil actions. For Thou art blessed from all generations, and glorified is Thy most honorable name forever and ever. Amen.

Get rid of me- drive away, get away from me.

The Humble and the Damned- dejected, exhausted, poor, pitiful, pitiable.

Oblivion- forgetfulness, inattention (in the matter of salvation).

Negligence– lack of diligence, effort; negligence.

Nasty- unclean.

Crafty- angry, envious.

Beggar- here: poor in virtues, lacking them.

Fierce memories and enterprises– cruel, harmful thoughts (images) and plans, intentions.

For you are blessed from all generations- for all nations, all generations bless (glorify) You.

Prayerful invocation of the saint whose name you bear

Pray to God for me, holy servant of God (name), as I diligently resort to you, a quick helper and a prayer book for my soul.

Yako az- because I am.

I'm running- I turn, I come running for help.

Hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos

Virgin Mary, Rejoice, O Blessed Mary, the Lord is with You; Blessed are You among women and blessed is the fruit of Your womb, for You have given birth to our Savior.

Virgin Mary, Rejoice, Blessed Mary, the Lord is with You ; Blessed are You among women - see - the words of the Archangel to the Virgin Mary.

Blessed are You among women and blessed is the fruit of Your womb- see - the words of the righteous Elizabeth.

Rejoice- a common form of greeting common in the East.

Blagodatnaya- full of God's grace; letters blessed.

In wives- among women.

Yako gave birth to the Savior- for You gave birth to the Savior.

Troparion to the Cross and prayer for the fatherland

Save, Lord, Thy people, and bless Thy inheritance, granting victories over the opposition, and preserving Thy life through Thy Cross.

Your people- Your people, Your people.

Your heritage– lit. - Your heritage (i.e., the believers).

On the resistance- over enemies, adversaries.

Preserving Your residence by Your Cross– by the power of Your Cross preserving Your people ( residence here in meaning residents), Your people (i.e. Christians).

Prayer for the living

Save, Lord, and have mercy on my spiritual father (name), my parents (names), relatives (names), leaders, mentors, benefactors (their names) and all Orthodox Christians.

Prayer for the departed

Rest in peace, Lord, the souls of your departed servants: my parents, relatives, benefactors (their names), and all Orthodox Christians, and forgive them all sins, voluntary and involuntary, and grant them the Kingdom of Heaven.

About the departed- about the dead (about the deceased). The dead are called “dead” because they will one day rise from their graves (as if from sleep) and be resurrected.

If you can, read this memorial instead of short prayers for the living and the dead:

About the living

Save, Lord, and have mercy on our Great Lord and Father, His Holiness the Patriarch (Name), Your Eminence metropolitans, archbishops and Orthodox bishops, priests and deacons, and the entire church clergy, who have appointed You to shepherd Your verbal flock, and through their prayers have mercy and save me, a sinner. (Bow)

Save, Lord, and have mercy on my spiritual father (his name), and with his holy prayers forgive my sins. (Bow)

Save, O Lord, and have mercy on my parents (their names), brothers and sisters, and my relatives according to the flesh, and all the neighbors of my family, and others, and grant them Your peaceful and most peaceful goodness. (Bow)

Save, Lord, and have mercy on those sent to the service, those traveling, our fathers and brethren, and all Orthodox Christians. (Bow)

Save, Lord, and have mercy on those who hate and offend me, and those who create misfortunes against me, and do not leave them to perish for my sake, a sinner. (Bow)

Those who have departed from the Orthodox faith and are blinded by destructive heresies, enlighten with the light of Your knowledge and bring Your Holy Apostles to the Catholic Church. (Bow)

About the departed

Remember, Lord, the most holy patriarchs, eminence metropolitans, archbishops and Orthodox bishops who departed from this life, who served You in the priesthood and in the clergy, and in the monastic rank, and rest in Your eternal settlements with the saints. (Bow.)

Grant, Lord, remission of sins to all who have previously departed in the faith and hope of resurrection, our fathers, brothers and sisters, and create for them eternal memory. (Thrice)

End of prayers

It is worthy to eat as you truly bless Theotokos, Ever-Blessed and Most Immaculate and Mother of our God. We magnify Thee, the most honorable Cherub and the most glorious without comparison, the Seraphim, who gave birth to God the Word without corruption.

The author of the song “More Honest Cherub...” is considered to be St. Cosmas, Bishop of Maium, creator of the canons (†787). And the first part - “It is worthy to eat...” - according to legend, was sung before the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos by an Angel who appeared in the 10th century to a monk on Athos.

It is worthy to eat as one truly bless Thee Theotokos- It is truly fair to glorify You, Mother of God.

Ever Blessed and Most Immaculate- always blessed, always glorified and supremely, completely immaculate.

Most honorable Cherub- awarded greater honor than the Cherubim (Angels closest to God after the Seraphim).

The most glorious without comparison, Seraphim- incomparably most glorious, more famous than the Seraphim (Angels who are closest to God, the highest of the nine ranks of the Heavenly powers, the ranks of Angels).

Without decay- painless, undamaged.

Real Mother of God- the true Mother of God.

Glory, and now: Lord, have mercy. (Thrice)

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, prayers for the sake of Your Most Pure Mother, our reverend and God-bearing fathers and all the saints, have mercy on us. Amen.

For prayers- by prayers.

Notes

(1) Printed in italics (explanations and names of prayers) are not read during prayer.

(2) From Easter to Ascension, instead of this prayer, the troparion is read: “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and giving life to those in the tombs.” (Three times) From Ascension to Trinity, we begin prayers with “Holy God...”, omitting all the preceding ones.

This remark also applies to future bedtime prayers.

(3) When it is written “Glory”, “And now”, it must be read in full: “Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit”, “And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen"

(4) In the Church Slavonic language there is no sound е, and therefore it is necessary to read “we are calling”, not “we are calling”, “yours”, not “yours”, “mine”, not “mine”, etc.

(5) From Easter to Ascension, instead of this prayer, the chorus and irmos of the 9th song of the Easter canon are read:

“The angel cried out with grace: Pure Virgin, rejoice! And again the river: Rejoice! Your Son is risen three days from the grave and raised up the dead; people, have fun!

Shine, shine, new Jerusalem, for the glory of the Lord is upon you. Rejoice now and be glad, O Zion. You, Pure One, show off, O Mother of God, about the rise of Your Nativity.”

This remark also applies to evening prayers.

How to learn to understand prayers? Translation of the words of prayers from the prayer book for the laity from Church Slavonic, clarification of the meaning of prayers and petitions. Interpretations and quotes of the Holy Fathers. Icons.

Morning prayers

Beginning of morning prayers

Rising from sleep, first of all other things, stand reverently, presenting yourself before the All-Seeing God, and, having made the sign of the cross, say:

In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Amen- truly, truly, so be it (Hebrew).

With the first words of our morning prayer we invoke the Triune God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - and we dedicate all our prayers to Him, His name.

“We must learn to behave in the presence of the invisible Lord as we would in the presence of the Lord who has become visible to us...”

Sign of the Cross- sign of the Cross. A sign is a symbol, an image, but also a military banner and a miracle (let us remember the expression “miracles and signs” often found in the Holy Scriptures). The sign of the cross is our testimony of the crucifixion of Christ; it was used in all circumstances of life by the first Christians. This sacred and terrible sign is filled with great power, and it should be used clearly, carefully, without the slightest carelessness. The first three fingers of the right hand (thumb, index and middle) are folded together as a sign of our faith in the One and Indivisible Holy Trinity. The ring finger and little finger are bent towards the palm, which signifies the two natures of the Lord Jesus Christ (that he is true God and true Man). Now with three folded fingers with the words In the Name of the Father... we touch the forehead, as a sign of sanctification of the mind, then, with the words... and the Son... - to the bottom of the chest (and even just below the chest, to the navel area, so that the cross inscribed on the body is proportional , not upside down), as a sign of the sanctification of the heart, then with the words ... and the Holy Spirit! - to the right and left shoulders, as a sign of the sanctification of the works of our hands and all bodily strength. Finally, lowering our hand and bowing, we say: Amen (When the sign of the cross accompanies another prayer, these words, of course, are not pronounced).

You should apply the sign of the cross on yourself in such a way that you feel the touch of your own hand (and not cross the air), and bow only after touching the right and left shoulders (without “breaking the cross” before it is drawn).

Then wait a little until all your feelings come to silence and your thoughts leave everything earthly, and then say the following prayers without haste and with heartfelt attention.

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“Never say prayers in a hurry, but not in a hurry, with thoughts and feelings that are expressed in the prayers being read. The correctness of our prayer is disrupted by thoughts. Try to correct this. The first step to this is, when starting prayer, to arouse in yourself the fear of God and reverence; then become attention in the heart and from there cry out to the Lord."

Saint Theophan the Recluse

From letters to spiritual children.

Publican's Prayer

God, be merciful to me, a sinner(Bow).

Publican- tax collector; in the 1st century the word was almost equivalent to "sinner."

Wake me- come to me.

As an example of true prayer, these words were given in His parable by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself:

“He also spoke to some who were confident in themselves that they were righteous, and destroyed others, the following parable: Two men entered the temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, and the other was a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: God! Thank you You, that I am not like other people, robbers, offenders, adulterers, or like this publican: I fast twice a week, I give a tenth of everything I acquire. But the publican, standing in the distance, did not even dare to raise his eyes to heaven. But striking himself on the chest, he said: God, be merciful to me a sinner! I tell you that this one went to his house justified rather than the other: for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted (Luke 18). :9-14).

If we have good deeds, they are our debt to God, and not merit; and our sins are incomparably greater than our good deeds, and only God’s mercy can cover our unworthiness: God, be merciful to me, a sinner. According to Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov, “even if someone stood at the very height of virtues, if he does not pray as a sinner, his prayer is rejected by God.” In prayer you need to have a repentant and humble heart, asking and crying.

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“What is the most important way for grace to be retained in the soul? By humility. What is it most rejected for? From any movement of pride, conceit and self-reliance. As soon as it senses this bad smell of pride inside, it immediately moves away.”

Saint Theophan the Recluse.

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Initial prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, prayers for the sake of Your Most Pure Mother and all the saints, have mercy on us. Amen.

For prayers- by prayers.

Your Most Pure Mother- Your Most Pure Mother (genitive case).

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"...How! God has the power to forgive sins through the prayers of His Most Pure Mother and the saints, and not himself independently? - And without the prayers of others he has the power - of course, One has the power; but in order to highly honor the virtues of the saints, especially His Most Pure Mother, who are His friends, who to the last of their strength pleased Him in earthly life, - He accepts their prayerful intercession for us, the unworthy, for us, who often must stop their lips due to their great and frequent falls into sin... Through the prayer of His Most Pure Mother, He has mercy on us, who themselves, for great and frequent sins and iniquities, and would be unworthy of His mercy.”

Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt

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Glory to You, our God, glory to You.

This prayer is called a small class: we briefly glorify God, give Him praise.

With deep feeling, with all the soul, this doxology can be pronounced in all circumstances of life, in joy and sorrow. The truly Christian feeling of life, to which we must approach as much as possible, is in last words St. John Chrysostom, who died in persecution, in severe exile: Glory to God for everything!

Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Heavenly King, Comforter, Soul of truth... Giver of life(vocative case) - O Heavenly King, Comforter, spirit of truth... Giver of life! Same everywhere- You, Omnipresent (everywhere): others like it- which; syy- existing, existing, located, abiding; and do everything- and filling everything with Himself, and also - replenishing and improving everything; perform- (participle from the verb fulfill) - fill, complete, complete; Treasure of the Good- treasury, source of all good things (all good things); to us- in us; Better(also vocative case) - Save, O Good One, our souls!

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This is a prayer to the Holy Spirit as the Person of the Holy Trinity.

To the Heavenly King: The Holy Spirit, as God, reigns over the entire universe, so that everything is in His power and authority.

Jesus Christ called Him the Comforter and Spirit of truth in a secret conversation with his disciples at the Last Supper:

But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have said to you (John 14:26).

But when the Teacher comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me (John 15:26).

When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth... He will glorify Me, because He will take of Mine and declare it to you (John 16:13-14).

The Holy Spirit, having descended on the apostles after the Ascension of the Lord, comforted them in their separation from the Lord, and they rejoiced that He dwelt in them and began to guide them into all truth. In the same way, the Holy Spirit can comfort us in sorrow and misfortune and give us every good and knowledge of the truth.

Life to the Giver... These words of prayer correspond with the words of the 8th member of the Creed: And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Life-Giving... In the "Long Christian Catechism" of St. Philaret it is explained: "This should be understood to mean that He, together with God the Father and the Son, gives life to all created things, and especially spiritual life to men."

We turn to the Holy Spirit at the beginning of our prayers, since the gift of true prayer is also a gift of the Holy Spirit.

Whoever thinks that he is praying in a real way without the Holy Spirit, while glorifying God with hymns, is also blaspheming Him, since he is unclean and has not yet made friends with God.”

Venerable Simeon the New Theologian

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“The Holy Spirit teaches true prayer. No one, until he receives the Holy Spirit, can pray such a prayer that is truly pleasing to God. Because if someone, without having the Holy Spirit in him, begins to pray, then his soul is scattered in different directions, from one thing to another, and he cannot keep his thoughts on one thing, and moreover, he does not properly know himself, nor his needs, nor how to ask and what to ask from God, and he does not know who such a God. But a person in whom the Holy Spirit dwells knows God, and sees that He is his Father; knows how to approach Him and how to ask, and what to ask from Him. His thoughts in prayer are harmonious, pure and directed to one subject - God; and with his prayer he can definitely do everything."

Saint Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow

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Note. From Easter to Ascension, instead of this prayer, the troparion of Easter is read:

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and giving life to those in the tombs(Three times).

From Ascension to Trinity, we begin the prayers of the cell rule (morning and at bedtime) with the Holy God, omitting all the previous ones.

This remark also applies to future bedtime prayers.

The prayer to the Holy Spirit is not read from Easter to Trinity - during the period when, after the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ, we symbolically await the Descent of the Holy Spirit. For the first time after the break, this prayer will be heard at the all-night vigil of the feast of Pentecost, or Trinity.

King, Comforter, Soul, Giver, Better- all these are forms of the vocative case, which is always used when addressing. When we say: Lord, God, Jesus Christ, Our Father, this is also the vocative case.

Treasure of the Good: good ones - he will give birth. Plural case numbers avg. Rhoda. In the Church Slavonic language, in the generalized meaning of a noun, neuter adjectives are often used, not only singular, as in modern Russian, but also plural: good - good, or all good things, rich - wealth, Holy of holies- literally: The holy of the holy; kind and useful to souls for our...we ask the Lord (from the litany of supplication) - we ask the Lord for what is good and useful (or: good and beneficial) for our souls; You have revealed to me the unknown and secret wisdom of Yours(Ps. 50:8) - the unknown (hidden) and secret (that is, the hidden secret) You showed me Your wisdom.

Trisagion

Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us(Read three times, with the sign of the cross and a bow from the waist).

Saint- saint.

This is a prayer to the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity.

Under the words Holy God of course God the Father; under the words Holy Mighty- God the Son (He is the Mighty, or All-Powerful, since by His resurrection he destroyed hell and defeated the Devil; the coming Lord Jesus Christ is called the Mighty God by the prophet Isaiah - chapter 9, verse 6: For to us a child is born - to us a son is given; Dominion is upon us Him, and His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace); under the words: Holy Immortal- God the Holy Spirit (He, like God, is eternal, and He is the Life-giving Spirit: He gives life to everyone, and especially spiritual, virtuous life and immortality to people). Since all Three Persons constitute the One and Undivided God, the conclusion of the prayer contains a singular verb - have mercy on us - refers to the same Being of God.

The story of this prayer is wonderful. In the 5th century there was a terrible earthquake in Constantinople. All the people cried and prayed to God. During a national prayer service, one boy was lifted high into the air by an invisible force, and then lowered to the ground unharmed. The boy could not answer where he was and what he saw; he only heard the harmonious and touching singing: “Holy God! Holy Mighty! Holy Immortal!” The people realized that this was the singing of Angels, and everyone began to sing the same words, adding: “Have mercy on us!” - and the earthquake stopped. God had mercy on His people. Since then, this song began to be used by Christians. It is sung and read in the Church at every church service. It is also called the Angelic Song to the Most Holy Trinity.

Song of the Angels "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God!" The prophet Isaiah also conveyed to us: Seraphim stood around Him; each of them had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And they called to each other and said: Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts! The whole earth is full of His glory! (Isa.6:2-3). This vision is repeated in the Revelation (Apocalypse) of St. John the Theologian: ... in the middle of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind ... And each of the four living creatures had six wings around, and inside they were full of eyes; and they have no rest day or night, crying out: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, who is, and who is to come (Rev. 4:6-8). This Angelic song, in which God is called the Holy One three times, was one of the first messages about the great mystery of the Trinity of the Divinity.

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“The Holy Seraphim, through the triple Holy, announce to us the Three Persons of the all-essential Divinity. And through one dominion, they announce both the one essence and the one Kingdom of the God-originating Trinity.”

Definition of the Deity God, the Mighty, the Immortal, according to the observation of St. John of Damascus, also stand nearby in Ps.41: verse 3: My soul thirsts for the Mighty, living God. And finally, the Trisagion is concluded with the nationwide cry of the Church, its most frequent prayer: have mercy on us!

“We understand the words Holy God about the Father, not only separating the name of the Divinity from Him alone, but knowing Him as God, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And we understand the words Holy Mighty about the Son, without depriving the Father and the Holy Spirit of strength. And the words Holy Immortal we refer to the Holy Spirit, not placing the Father and the Son outside of immortality, but regarding each of the Hypostases, accepting all the Divine names simply and independently and truly, imitating the divine Apostle, who says: We have one God the Father, from whom are all things, and we are for Him, and there is one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him (1 Cor. 8:6), and one Holy Spirit, in whom are all things, and we in him.”

Venerable John of Damascus

"An accurate statement Orthodox faith"

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Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Prisno- Always; forever and ever - forever.

This is a short, or small, doxology. It means that the same glory and worship belongs to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and not only now, but always, as the One, Eternal God, in all ages, in all generations, constantly and unchangeably.

“God is One in Three Persons. We do not comprehend this inner mystery of the Divine, but we believe in it according to the immutable testimony of the word of God: No one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God (1 Cor. 2:11).”

Saint Philaret.

"Long Christian Catechism"

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In prayer books and liturgical books, this prayer, since it is often used, is often abbreviated: Glory, and now: (or Glory: And now:). In such cases, one should read in full: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Prayer to the Most Holy Trinity

Most Holy Trinity, have mercy on us; Lord, cleanse our sins; Master, forgive our iniquities; Holy One, visit and heal our infirmities, for Thy name's sake.

Lord, cleanse our sins- appeal to God the Father; Master, forgive our iniquities- Appeal to God the Son; Holy One, visit and heal our infirmities- appeal to God the Holy Spirit; for your name's sake- for the glory of Your name.

First words of prayer: Most Holy Trinity, have mercy on us- refer to all Three Persons of the Holy Trinity, to the One Being of God; then, to strengthen the prayer, a petition is raised to each Person separately: Lord... Master... Holy... Conclusion of the prayer: ...for Thy name's sake- again refers to all Persons in order to confirm our faith in One God, Trinity in Persons: One Being of God, but in Three inseparable Persons.

The Being of God is incomprehensible to us. If the Angels do not comprehend the Trinity Being of God, but reverently worship and confess Him, then who are we to dare to test how this is One God in Three Persons? We cannot understand this with our minds; we can only accept with reverent faith what is incomprehensible and know what is open and known. It is revealed and known to us from the Word of God itself that there has been from time immemorial the One, Eternal God, that He is the Spirit, the All-Good, the All-Knowing, the All-Righteous, the Almighty, the Omnipresent, the Unchangeable, the All-Satisfied, the All-Blessed; that He is One in Essence, but Trinity in Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Trinity Consubstantial and Indivisible. For three bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one (1 John 5:7).

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“Just as man, divided into many things, is one by nature, so the Holy Trinity, although divided by names and hypostases, is one by nature. You cannot comprehend the nature of God, even if you soar to Him on wings. God is incomprehensible, like our Creator … Do not test the Trinity, but believe only and worship, for whoever tests does not believe.”

Venerable Neil of Sinai

(Philokalia vol. 2)

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Lord have mercy(Three times).

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“What is the meaning of the verb have mercy or be merciful in all these prayers? This is the consciousness of a person’s destruction, this is the feeling of that mercy, of that self-pity that the Lord commanded us to feel for ourselves and which is felt by very few; this is the rejection of one’s own dignity “This is a request for God’s mercy, without which there is no hope of salvation for the lost.”

Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov

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"Whoever said: have mercy, made a confession and acknowledged his sins, because it is common for those who have sinned to desire mercy. Whoever said: have mercy on me received remission of sins, because the one who has mercy is not punished. Whoever said: have mercy on me received the Kingdom of Heaven, because that God, whoever has mercy, not only frees him from punishment, but also honors him with future benefits.”

Saint John Chrysostom

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Glory, and now:

Let us remind you once again that in all cases of such writings one should read in full: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Lord's Prayer

Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done as it is in heaven and on earth. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Father- Father (appeal is a form of the vocative case). Who art thou in heaven- existing (living) in Heaven, that is, Heavenly (like - which). Yesi- form of the verb being in the 2nd person singular. Numbers of the present tense: in modern language we say you are, and in Church Slavonic - you are. Literal translation of the beginning of the prayer: O our Father, He who is in Heaven! Any literal translation is not entirely accurate; words: Father Dry in Heaven, Heavenly Father- more closely convey the meaning of the first words of the Lord's Prayer. Hallowed be it- let it be holy and glorified. Like in heaven and on earth- both in heaven and on earth (as in). Urgent- necessary for existence, for life. Give it a try- give. Today- Today. Like- How. From the evil one- from evil (the words crafty, wickedness are derivatives of the words “bow”: something indirect, curved, crooked, like a bow. There is also the Russian word “krivda”).

This prayer is called the Lord’s Prayer because our Lord Jesus Christ Himself gave it to His disciples and all people:

“It happened that when He was praying in one place and stopped, one of His disciples said to Him: Lord! Teach us to pray!

He told them: “When you pray, say: Our Father who art in heaven!” Hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; Give us our daily bread; and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every debtor to us; And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil" (Luke 11:1-4).

Pray like this:

"Our Father, who art in heaven! Hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done both on earth and in heaven; give us our daily bread for this day; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen" (Matthew 6:9-13).

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By reading the Lord's Prayer daily, let us learn what the Lord requires of us: it indicates both our needs and our main responsibilities.

Our Father... In these words we still do not ask for anything, we only cry out, turn to God and call him father.

“Saying this, we confess God, the Ruler of the universe, as our Father - and thereby we also confess that we have been removed from the state of slavery and appropriated to God as His adopted children.”

...Who art thou in Heaven... With these words we express our readiness to turn away in every possible way from attachment to earthly life as wandering and far separating us from our Father and, on the contrary, with the greatest desire to strive for the region in which our Father dwells...

Having reached such a high degree of sons of God, we must burn with such filial God with love, so that we no longer seek our own benefits, but with all desire to desire the glory of Him, our Father, saying to Him: hallowed be Thy name, - by which we testify that all our desire and all joy is the glory of our Father - may He be glorified, reverently honored and worshiped be the glorious name of our Father."

May Your Kingdom come - that Kingdom “by which Christ reigns in the saints, when, after taking away power over us from the Devil and driving out passions from our hearts, God begins to reign in us through the fragrance of virtues - or that which at a predetermined time is promised to all perfect, to all the children of God, when Christ says to them: Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world (Matthew 25:34).”

The words “Thy will be done” turn us to the Lord’s prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane: Father! Oh, that You would deign to carry this cup past Me! however, not My will, but Yours be done (Luke 22:42).

Give us this day our daily bread. We ask for the granting of bread necessary for our subsistence, and not only large quantities, but only for this day... So, let us learn to ask for the most necessary things for our life, but we will not ask for everything leading to abundance and luxury, because we do not know whether it is useful to us. Let us learn to ask for bread and everything necessary only for this day, so as not to become lazy in prayer and obedience to God. If we are alive the next day, we will ask for the same thing again, and so on all the days of our earthly life.

However, we must not forget the words of Christ that man will not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4). It is even more important to remember the other words of the Savior: I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world (John 6:51). Thus, Christ does not only mean something material, necessary for a person for earthly life, but also eternal, necessary for life in the Kingdom of God: Himself, offered in Communion.

Some holy fathers interpreted the Greek expression as “supra-essential bread” and attributed it only (or primarily) to the spiritual side of life; however, the Lord's Prayer embraces both earthly and heavenly meanings.

And forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors. The Lord Himself concluded this prayer with an explanation: For if you forgive people their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive people their trespasses, then your Father will not forgive you your trespasses (Matthew 6:14-15 ).

“The merciful Lord promises us forgiveness of our sins if we ourselves show an example of forgiveness to our brothers: forgive us, as we forgive. Obviously, in this prayer only one who has forgiven his debtors can boldly ask for forgiveness. Who from all will not let go of his heart to his brother who sins against him, with this prayer he will ask for himself not pardon, but condemnation: for if this prayer of his is heard, then in accordance with his example, what else should follow, if not inexorable wrath and indispensable punishment? Judgment without mercy who showed no mercy (James 2:13)."

Here sins are called debts, because by faith and obedience to God we must fulfill His commandments, do good, and shun evil; is that what we do? By not doing the good we should do, we become debtors to God.

This expression of the Lord's Prayer is best explained by Christ's parable about the man who owed the king ten thousand talents (Matthew 18:23-35).

And do not lead us into temptation. Bringing to mind the words of the apostle: Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because, having been tried, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love Him (James 1:12), we should understand these words of prayer not like this: “do not let us ever be tempted,” but this way: “do not allow us to be overcome by temptation.”

When tempted, no one should say: God is tempting me; because God is not tempted by evil and does not tempt anyone Himself, but everyone is tempted by being carried away and deceived by his own lust; lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin that is committed gives birth to death (James 1:13-15).

But deliver us from the evil one - that is, do not allow us to be tempted by the devil beyond our strength, but when tempted, give us relief, so that we can endure it" (1 Cor. 10:13).

Venerable John Cassian the Roman

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The Greek text of the prayer, like Church Slavonic and Russian, allows us to understand the expression from the evil one both personally (the evil one is the father of lies - the devil) and impersonally (the evil one is all unrighteous, evil; evil). Patristic interpretations offer both understandings. Since evil comes from the devil, then, of course, the petition for deliverance from evil also contains a petition for deliverance from its culprit.

Troparia Trinity

Rising from sleep, we fall down to Thee, the Good One, and cry out the angelic song to Thee, the Stronger: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, O God, have mercy on us through the Mother of God.

Glory: From bed and sleep You have raised me up, O Lord, enlighten my mind and heart, and open my lips, to Pete You, Holy Trinity: Holy, Holy, Holy are You, O God, have mercy on us through the Mother of God.

And now: Suddenly the Judge will come, and every deed will be revealed, but with fear we call at midnight: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, O God, have mercy on us by the Mother of God.

Lord have mercy(12 times)

Troparion- a short song in which the deeds of God or His saints are glorified. Trinity - related to the Most Holy Trinity, addressed to Her, dedicated to Her.

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God, cleanse me, a sinner, for I have never done anything good before You, but deliver me from the evil one, and Your will be done in me, that I may open my unworthy lips without condemnation and praise Your holy name, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen.

Yako - here: since. Nikolizhe - never. Created - I created (made).

God, cleanse me, a sinner, for I have done no good before You... “Those who are well-skilled before God recognize themselves as very small and extremely unskillful, and for them it has become a natural and indispensable thing to consider themselves low or even nothing... The rich before God seem poor to themselves.” .

And I will praise Your holy name, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen. The end of this prayer (like many others) introduces into the perspective of human life the participation of Divine eternity: now, always and forever and ever, may man praise the Triune God! This “formula” already contains the promise of our stay in eternity, where, like the Angels, we will praise God, and a reminder that this eternity lies ahead of us.

Sotvorich is the 1st person singular past tense form of the verb sotvoriti. In Church Slavonic there are four types of past tense verbs; this form belongs to the most common of these tenses - the aorist. For those who do not specifically study the grammar of the Church Slavonic language, it is enough to pay attention to the fact that in all past tenses the verbs also change according to persons (in Russian - and I, and you, and he - created; in Church Slavonic: I created, you created , he create).

Prayer 2 of the same saint

Having risen from sleep, I offer the midnight hymn to Ti, Savior, and cry out to Ti: do not let me fall asleep in a sinful death, but have mercy on me, crucified by will, and raise me up as I lie in laziness, and save me in standing and in prayer, and in my nightly sleep. Rise upon me a sinless day, O Christ God, and save me.

Don't give it to me - don't give it to me. Have mercy on me - literally: have mercy on me. Crucified by will - voluntarily crucified.

Let us cite another saying of St. Macarius the Great:

“Penetrate into the mental essence of the soul, and delve not lightly. The immortal soul is a certain precious vessel. Look how great heaven and earth are, and God did not bless about them, but only about you. Look at your nobility and dignity, because not the Angels sent, but the Lord Himself came as an intercessor for you, to call upon the lost, revealed, to return to you the original image of pure Adam. God Himself came to intercede for you and deliver you from death. Stand firm and imagine what kind of providence is for you."

Prayer 3, of the same saint

To You, Lord, Lover of Mankind, having risen from sleep, I come running, and I strive for Your works with Your mercy, and I pray to You: help me at all times, in every thing, and deliver me from all worldly evil things and devilish haste, and save me, and bring us into Your eternal Kingdom. You are my Creator and the Provider and Giver of every good thing; all my hope is in You, and I send up glory to You, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

I come running - I come, looking for help, asking for help. I strive for Your mercy - that is, according to Your mercy. Devilish haste - assistance of the devil, devilish temptation (haste - help in achieving something). Pomyslennik - Thinker. All my hope is in You - all my hope is in You.

To You, Lord, Lover of Mankind... I resort... Although in modern language the verb to resort, to resort (to resort to decisive measures) has been preserved, as well as cognate refuge, - the meaning of the word, its internal form usually escapes our awareness. Children's perception of the word resort as running is completely correct. Just as a child, out of fear, always resorts to his mother’s womb, and to the protection of his mother’s hands, so in prayer we resort to the protection of the Lord, His Mother, His saints. Let us recall the image of a medieval city - a space enclosed by stone walls. The city fence very soon began to not accommodate the inhabitants, who were forced to settle outside, behind the walls (suburban residents). But when the enemy’s troops were approaching, the country residents fled (often burning their houses) to the city-city - a refuge, a refuge, to which they looked with great hope. This image leads us to God and the Most Holy Theotokos: They are our refuge from any enemy invasion. The famous image of the Mother of God “The Unbreakable Wall” (in the Church of St. Sophia of Kyiv) embodies precisely this symbol.

...And deliver me from all worldly evil things and the devil’s haste, and save me, and bring me into Your eternal Kingdom. Let us supplement this line from the prayer of St. Macarius the Great with the words of his teachings. “The soul, truly striving for the Lord, fully and completely extends its love to Him and, as much as it has strength, becomes attached to Him alone by its will, and in this it acquires the help of grace, denies itself and does not follow the desires of its mind, because for the reason the evil that is inseparable from us and deceives us, he walks craftily. Thus, as soon as the soul has loved the Lord, it is snatched from the net by its own faith and great zeal, and together with help from above, it is made worthy of the Eternal Kingdom and, having truly loved it, of its own will and with the help of the Lord, he will no longer lose eternal life."

“I tell you that every person desires and longs for all this: fornicators, tax collectors, and unjust people would like to receive the Kingdom so easily, without labor and deeds. That is why temptations, many trials, sorrows, struggles and shedding sweat, so that those who really loved the one Lord with all their will and with all their might, even to death, and with such love for Him, no longer had anything else desired for themselves, would become visible. Therefore, in truth, they enter the Kingdom of Heaven, having renounced themselves, according to the Lord’s word, and having loved the only Lord more than their own breath, which is why they will be rewarded with high heavenly gifts for their high love.”

For you are... the Thinker and Giver of all good... The Lord is called here the Thinker: the One who creates and directs everything in the world with His thought that anticipates and determines all things. Let us remember the words of the Bible: What You thought, that was done: what You determined, that was also manifested and said: Here I am (Judith 9: 5-6). More often we use the noun providence (sometimes in the Slavic text - industry) - “the unceasing action of the omnipotence, wisdom and goodness of God, by which God preserves the existence and strength of creatures, directs them to good goals, helps every good, and suppresses the evil that arises through removal from good or corrects and turns to good consequences" ("Long Christian Catechism" by St. Philaret of Moscow). In secular dictionaries of the modern Russian language we can find a word of the same meaning and extremely similar form - providence; Wed Church Slavonic: looking (another word of the same meaning).

Prayer 4, of the same saint

Misfortune is trouble; temptation. She is repugnant from all evil - having been preserved from all evil. All Creators - Creator of all things (vocative case). The expressions all, all creation are used in the language of the Church to designate the entire world created by God - earthly and heavenly, visible and invisible.

Prayer 5, St. Basil the Great

Lord Almighty, God of Powers and all flesh, living in the highest and looking down on the humble, testing the hearts and wombs and innermost parts of men, the Foreknowledgeable One, the Beginningless and Ever-Everlasting Light, which has no use, or overshadowing application; Himself, Immortal King, accept our prayers, even now, boldly for the multitude of Your bounties, from the bad lips we create towards You, and forgive us our sins, whether in deed, word, and thought, knowledge, or ignorance, we have sinned; and cleanse us from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. And grant us with a cheerful heart and a sober thought to pass through the whole night of this present life, awaiting the coming of the bright and revealed day of Your Only Begotten Son, our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ, the Judge of all will come with glory, to whom he will give according to his deeds; May we not fall and become lazy, but be watchful and raised up for the work that is to come, and prepare for the joy and Divine palace of His glory, where those who celebrate the unceasing voice and the ineffable sweetness of those who behold Your face, the ineffable kindness. For You are the true Light, you enlighten and sanctify all things, and all creation sings to You forever and ever. Amen.

God of the Powers and all flesh - God of the heavenly Powers, incorporeal and of all flesh. Living in the highest - living in the sky, on the heights of heaven. Look down upon the humble (more correctly, look down upon the humble) - one who looks down (bows his gaze) on the humble, the lower, the earthly. Test the hearts and wombs - he who observes the innermost thoughts. The hidden things of men are revealed to be foreknowledgeable - clearly knowing the secrets of men. Ever-present - eternal. It is not good to bear change, or transformation, overshadowing - Which is unchangeable, does not fade and does not leave anything obscured (change is change; overshadowing is shadow). Even - here: which. Those who dare to rely on the multitude of Your bounty - hoping for the abundance of Your compassion. The night of real life is the night of here, present (earthly) life. Those awaiting the coming of the bright and revealed day - those awaiting the bright and glorious day of the (Second) coming. Vonzhe - into it (on this day). To everyone - to everyone. According to deeds - according to deeds, according to deeds. Not fallen and lazy - not lying down and sleepy. Prepare for those who find themselves - we will be ready; You will find us ready. Ideje - where. Kindness is beauty, goodness. Everything - everything that exists, the whole world. The creature is a creation.

This prayer contains several expressions from Holy Scripture, the understanding and correct translation of which is very important.

In the highest he lives and looks down upon the humble. The heights of heaven are contrasted in this biblical expression with the valleys of the earth: Who is the Lord our God? He lives on the high and looks down on the lowly in heaven and on earth (Ps. 113:5-6; in the Russian translation of the psalm: Who is like the Lord our God, Who, dwelling on high, bows down to look down on heaven and earth) . The same expression is in Ps. 137:6: For the Lord is exalted, and looks down on the humble, and the message is high from afar.

It is not good to bear change, or change of overshadowing. These words are from the Epistle of St. James: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights; with Him there is no change or change (James 1:17; in Russian translation: Every good work and every perfect gift is coming down from above from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change and not a shadow of change). The Slavic translation of the apostle’s words is somewhat incomprehensible, and the Russian translation is not entirely accurate (the words change and change seem to repeat each other). The words of the transformation convey overshadowing to the Greek... meaning the shadow that is formed when the luminary turns (when turning, the luminary illuminates objects, but they certainly cast a shadow, so that all objects and places cannot be illuminated evenly, but the light of the Divine illuminates everything equally and leaves no shadow) .

Those who dare to receive the multitude of Your bounties. We easily understand the word generosity, which is often used in prayers, as generous mercy. This is true, of course, but the main meaning of the corresponding Greek word is compassion, pity. I come boldly to Your bounties, says the 5th prayer for Holy Communion. The mercy of the Creator and Master gives us boldness - courage in asking; we stand not only before the Righteous Judge, but also before a loving Father; let us hear from Him: Be of good cheer, child! your sins are forgiven you (Matthew 9:2); Dare, daughter! your faith has saved you (Matthew 9:22).

Those who await the coming of the bright and revealed day of Your Only Begotten Son, Lord and God and our Savior Jesus Christ... Let us not fall and become lazy, but watchfully and rise to the work that is to come, prepare for the joy and Divine palace of His glory, where those who celebrate the unceasing and ineffable voice the sweetness of those who behold Your face, the unspeakable kindness. These words of prayer bring to mind the parables of Christ about His Second Coming: Let your loins be girded and with burning lamps. And you be like people who wait for their master to return from marriage, so that when he comes and knocks, they will immediately open the door for him. Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, finds awake; Truly I tell you, he will gird himself and make them sit down, and he will come and serve them (Luke 12:35-37; see also chapters 24-25 of the Gospel of Matthew).

Ineffable kindness - the ineffable beauty of the Face of God - is not an aesthetic concept, but a fusion of the highest beauty and the highest Good. Let us remember the title of the precious collection of patristic teachings on how a person can and should approach God: “The Philokalia.” The beautiful Church Slavonic word kindness, consonant with our goodness, kindness, should return our mind to the understanding of goodness and goodness as the ultimate, highest beauty. To be a Christian means to be expecting and desiring the coming of the day of God (2 Pet. 3:12), the bright and revealed day when this highest beauty of Good will finally be revealed to those who love God. The Apostle James consoles and strengthens us in this expectation: Therefore, brothers, be patient until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and for it he endures for a long time until he receives the early and late rain. Be patient and strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawing near (James 5:7-8).

Stink, stink - into him. The spelling in one, in on is wrong. This spelling was born from the understanding of the word as a combination of the preposition in with the pronoun he; this is true in content, but not in form (it could not have appeared at the end of the pronoun, our soft sign). Here, rather, it’s stinking, stinking: the preposition въ and the form of the pronoun it - и, to which “n” is added in the position after the vowel of the preposition - въ (н) - stink. Wed. modern Russian: about them, into him, etc.

Prayer 6th, of the same saint

We bless you, the highest God and Lord of mercy, who always does great and unexplored, glorious and terrible things to us, countless of them, giving us sleep for the repose of our weakness and the weakening of the labors of the arduous flesh. We thank Thee, for Thou didst not destroy us with our iniquities, but Thou didst usually love mankind, and in desperation, Thou didst raise us up to glorify Thy power. We also pray for Your immeasurable goodness, enlighten our thoughts, clear our eyes, and raise our minds from the heavy sleep of laziness; open our lips and fulfill Your praise, so that we may unwaveringly sing and confess to You, in all, and from all, to the glorified God, the Beginning Father, with Your Only Begotten Son, and Your All-Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.

We bless you - we praise you (the word bless in the Church Slavonic language, following the Greek, means not only the priestly or parental blessing we are accustomed to, but also a generally good word - praise). Unexplored - incomprehensible (let us remember - this was said in the note to the prayer "To the Heavenly King" - that in the Church Slavonic language in the generalized meaning of a noun adjectives of the neuter plural are used: great and unexplored, glorious and terrible, there are countless of them - great and incomprehensible, glorious and terrible without number). Usually - as always, as You constantly do. We lie in despair - we, sleeping (in our sleep, not aware of the surrounding reality). In order to (note: this is why, why the Lord awakened us from sleep!). Power is strength, power, subject area (that is, the whole world of God). If I fulfill them, fill them.

Notice the similarity of this prayer with the morning prayer to the Most Holy Trinity. You can compare these two prayers. Please note that the prayer to the Most Holy Trinity is built in singular(addressed to God from “I”), and the prayer of St. Basil the Great is in the plural (from “we”). The prayer rule wisely alternates prayers with “I, me” - such, for example, are all the prayers of St. Macarius the Great - and prayers in plural(“we, us”), an example of which is provided primarily by the Lord’s Prayer. This teaches a Christian to constantly pray for his neighbors, the Church and the whole world of God and at the same time never pray abstractly, “in general” - not to forget about the desperate state of his own soul.

Prayer 7, to the Most Holy Theotokos

Georgian Icon of the Mother of God. Icon, 19th century

I sing Thy grace, O Lady, I pray to Thee, my mind is filled with grace. Go right and teach me the path of Christ’s commandments. Strengthen your children to song, driving away despondency and sleep. Bound by the captivity of the Falls, allow me through Your prayers, Bride of God. Preserve me in the night and in the day, delivering me to those who fight against the enemy. Who gave birth to God, the life-giver, was killed by my passions and revived. Even as you gave birth to the non-evening Light, enlighten my blind soul. O wondrous Lady of the plateau, create for me the house of the Divine Spirit. You who gave birth to a doctor, heal my soul of many years of passion. Worried by the storm of life, guide me towards the path of repentance. Deliver me from eternal fire, and from evil worms, and from tartar. Do not show me to be a demon of joy, who is guilty of many sins. Create me anew, worn out by the insensible, Immaculate, in the face of sin. Show me the strangeness of all kinds of torment, and implore the Lord to all. Heavenly grant me joy, with all the saints, grant me joy. Most Holy Virgin, hear the voice of Your indecent servant. Give me a stream of tears, Most Pure One, cleansing the filth of my soul. I bring lamentations from my heart to You continually, be zealous, Lady. Accept my prayer service and bring it to the blessed God. Highest Angel, create me above the fusion of the world. Light-bearing heavenly Seine, direct spiritual grace in me. I lift up my hand and my lips to praise, defiled by filth, O All-Immaculate One. Deliver me from the dirty tricks that are strangling me, diligently begging Christ; To Him is due honor and worship, now and ever, and unto ages of ages, Amen.

The prisoner is a chain. Allow - release (release from bonds). Worried - worried, worried (that is: “me, worried..”; see below: guide me towards the path of repentance). Path - path, road. Tartarus is a hellish abyss. The culprit of many sins is the culprit of many sins. Dilapidated - exhausted, contrite, aged. Strange - alien, left aside. Grant - honor. Obscene - worthless (literally - look at the word!). Compassionate - merciful (literally: having a good heart). Create me beyond the merging of the world - deliver me from clinging to earthly concerns, from the power of this world (merging - mixing, connecting). Sene - canopy, shadow (vocal case).

Create me, worn out and insensible, again, Immaculate One, from sin. Prayer points to an important side in the action of sin: it makes a person more and more insensitive to the spiritual, becomes less and less noticeable to the sinner, who at the same time loses freshness and strength, deteriorates, weakens, moving further and further from the Source of true grace-filled life.

Exceeding the Angel, create me beyond the fusion of the world. This is a petition to the Highest Heavenly Powers of the Mother of God (the Most Honest Cherub and the Most Glorious Seraphim) for otherworldliness, a necessary property of a Christian. In a secret conversation with his disciples at the Last Supper, the Lord repeatedly repeats to them that they are not of the world: If you were of the world, then the world would love its own; But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you (John 15:19). Let us also recall the words of the apostle: For everything that is in the world: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not from the Father, but from this world (John 2:16); It is impossible to cleave to this lust of the flesh, the lust of hair and the pride of life, to merge with it, to let it into oneself, but such worldly merging can only be avoided with the help of God's grace.

Light-bearing heavenly Seine, direct spiritual grace in me. A canopy is a shadow (remember the Russian word canopy - an extension to a house that provides shade, or shade - canopy, in hot weather). The expression Luminous Seine, heavenly, is so deeply and theologically significant that a simple translation would not explain anything. It is based on the idea of the luminous darkness of the Divine, the inconceivable, unrepresentable, impregnable God. A cloud covers Mount Sinai when God descends on it in fire to talk with Moses. The mountain burned with fire to the very heavens, [and there was] darkness, clouds and gloom (Deut. 4:11). And the people stood afar off, and Moses entered into the darkness where God is (Ex. 20:21). During the exodus from Egypt, the Lord walked before them [the children of Israel] by day in a pillar of cloud... and by night in a pillar of fire, giving light to them (Ex. 13:21) and entered into the middle between the camp of Egypt and between the camp of Israel, and there was a cloud and darkness [for some] and illuminated the night [for others] (Ex. 14:20). About the appearance of the Lord, David sings: He bowed the heavens and came down; darkness was under His feet. And he mounted the Cherubim and flew and was carried on the wings of the wind. And darkness made His covering, the darkness of the waters, the clouds of the air, around Him (Ps. 17:10-12; the same - 2 Samuel 22:10-12; the translation is slightly different: and He covered Himself with darkness, like a shadow, thickening the waters of the clouds of heaven ).

The first chapter of the “Mystical Theology” of Saint Dionysius the Areopagite is called: “What is Divine Darkness.” At the pinnacle of knowledge, “in the complete absence of light, in the complete absence of sensations and visibility, our mind, impervious to spiritual enlightenment, is illuminated by the brightest light, filled with the most pure radiance!” God is absolute light - the true Light, which enlightens every person who comes into the world: In Him was life, and life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it (John 1:4-5,9); but this Light is unapproachable: the One and having immortality, which dwells in the unapproachable light, which no man has seen or can see (1 Tim. 6:16). You cannot see My face, because man cannot see Me and live (Ex. 33:20). The impossibility of knowing God and approaching Him is resolved only by the fact that God became incarnate and became human. That is why the Most Holy Theotokos is for us not only the Burning Bush, which is not burned by the fire of the Divine, but also the Luminous Shadow of the Divine “Darkness”, similar to Mount Sinai: in Her God appears in the darkness of His light.

Prayer 8
Our Lord Jesus Christ

My most merciful and all-merciful God, Lord Jesus Christ, for the sake of love you came down and became incarnate for many reasons, so that you would save everyone. And again, Savior, save me by grace, I pray to You. Even if you save me from works, there is no grace and a gift, but more than a duty. To her, abundant in generosity and ineffable in mercy. Believe in Me, you say, O my Christ, you will live and will not see death forever. Even if faith in You saves the desperate, behold, I believe, save me, for You are my God and Creator. Let faith instead of works be imputed to me, O my God, for you will not find works to justify me. But may my faith prevail instead of all, may it answer, may it justify me, may it show me to be a partaker of Your eternal glory. Let Satan not kidnap me, and boast to the Word that he has torn me away from Your hand and fence; but either I want, save me, or I don’t want, Christ my Savior, foresee that I will soon, soon, perish: You are my God from my mother’s womb. Grant me, O Lord, now to love Thee, as I have sometimes loved that very sin, and again to work for Thee without laziness, tediously, as I previously worked for the flattering Satan. Above all, I will serve You, my Lord and God Jesus Christ, all the days of my life, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.

Like you will save everyone - to save everyone. Packs - more. If only You had saved me from my deeds - if only You had saved me for my deeds. No, this is not. But the debt is greater - but rather a debt(more so - more). Advertise you - You said. Or worse - because, because. Not at all - absolutely, in no way. Let it suffice - let it be sufficient (doveleti - to be sufficient; cf.: enough). Participant - participant. Let him not kidnap - and let him not kidnap (Ubo is an intensifying particle; here it can be translated both as “well” and as “truly”. And he will boast... that he has torn me away - and he will boast that he has torn me away (stolen) me. Preface - warn (my desire to be saved - that is, do not wait for this desire). I am lost - I am lost. As I loved sometimes - as I loved before (sometimes - once, once). To the flattering - to the deceitful. Most of all - especially, most of all. My life - my life.

Even if you save me from works, there is no grace and a gift, but more than a duty. To her, abundant in generosity and unspeakable in mercy... May faith instead of works be imputed to me, O my God, for you will not find works that justify me. The idea of the prayer is based on the words of the apostle: The reward of the one who works is not imputed according to mercy, but according to duty. But to him who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness (Rom. 4:4-5). Let us remember that generosity is generous mercy, compassion, mercy.

Believe in Me, you say, O my Christ, you will live and will not see death forever. The prayer directly points to the words of Christ Himself: I am the resurrection and the life; He who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live. And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die (John 11:25-26). Compare also: Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life (John 5:24). This is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day (John 6:40). Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in Me has eternal life (John 6:47). Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever keeps My word will never see death (John 8:51).

Prayer 9, to the Guardian Angel

Holy Angel, come before me more dearly than my soul and more passionately than my life, do not leave me, a sinner, and forsake me for my intemperance. Do not give room to the evil demon to possess me through the violence of this mortal body; strengthen my poor and thin hand, and guide me on the path of salvation. To her, holy Angel of God, guardian and patron of my blessed soul and body, forgive me everything, I have offended you greatly all the days of my life, and if I sinned this past night, cover me on this day, and save me from every opposite temptation May I not anger God in any sin, and pray for me to the Lord, that He may strengthen me in His passion, and show me worthy as a servant of His goodness. Amen.

Forthcoming - upcoming. More wretched - unfortunate, poor, full of struggle. More passionate - here: long-suffering, unhappy (remember that passion means suffering); however, it is slavery to sinful passions that is the main source of unhappiness in human life. Below - and nothing. To the evil one - evil, deceitful. Strengthen my poor and thin hand, and guide me on the path of salvation - in the Greek text of the prayer literally: “take me by the unfortunate and drooping (weak-willed) hand and lead me to the path of salvation”; Dan image of a person who has lost his will and energy, with his hands “dropping”, unable to independently get out on the path of salvation. To her - yes, truly (cf. colloquial: “she-she”). All... great things I have insulted you with - everything with which I have insulted you (great - how many, how great). Cover - cover, protect. Opposite - opposing, enemy. She will show me worthy of the servant of His goodness - she will make me a slave worthy of His mercy (to show usually does not mean “to bring to an external likeness,” as in modern language, but “to make obvious”).

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“Know that the Angels stir us up to prayer and stand with us in it, rejoicing and praying together for us. So, if we are careless and accept contrary thoughts, then we extremely anger them: for while they struggle so much for us, we about ourselves We don’t want to beg God for ourselves, but, neglecting our service to God and abandoning their God and Master, we carry on a conversation with unclean demons (in our thoughts).”

Venerable Neil of Sinai

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Prayer 10, to the Most Holy Theotokos

Drive away - drive away. Humble - pathetic, low. Enterprises - here: plans (an enterprise is what precedes the acceptance of a thought or action, a preliminary intention).

"Why do people sin?" - the Venerable Ambrose of Optina sometimes asked a question and solved it himself: “Either because they do not know what to do and what to avoid; or, if they know, they forget, then they become lazy, despondent... These are three giants: despondency or laziness, oblivion and ignorance, - from which the entire human race is bound by insoluble bonds. And then follows negligence with the whole host of evil passions. That is why we pray to the Queen of Heaven: My Most Holy Lady Theotokos, with Your holy and all-powerful prayers, take away from me, the humble and accursed servant Yours, despondency, oblivion, foolishness, negligence, and all the nasty, evil and blasphemous thoughts."

It is also worth comparing these words of prayer with one of the petitions of John Chrysostom’s prayer (according to the number of hours of the day and night, from prayers for sleep): Lord, deliver me from all ignorance and oblivion, and cowardice, and petrified insensibility.

Your humble and accursed servant... The words humble and accursed are often found in prayers, so it is worth delving deeper into their basic meanings. Humble means not only “endowed with humility” - one of the most important Christian virtues (to say about yourself to God: “I am humble” is even more absurd than to say to people: “I am modest,” and in prayer we should not allow even a shadow of exaltation to our imaginary " humility"!) - but generally humiliated, low, pitiful (in the explanation to the 5th prayer, the constant opposition in the Holy Scriptures of the highest - the above and the humble - the lower was pointed out). Damned - unhappy, rejected, filled with torment.

Deliver me from many and cruel memories and enterprises, and free me from all evil actions. With these words of prayer, we ask the Most Holy Theotokos to free us from numerous evil (many fierce) thoughts, both about the past (memories) and about the future (enterprises), as well as from evil actions associated with these thoughts. The focus of this petition on guarding the mind and heart is very important. Standing attentively in prayer, we inevitably notice the invasion of those very memories and enterprises from which we pray to the Most Holy Theotokos for deliverance; the struggle for prayer (and for a truly Christian inner life) - to a large extent, the fight is against these enemies, which it is impossible to defeat alone, without the help of God's grace.

Prayerful invocation of the saint whose name you bear

Pray to God for me, holy servant of God (name), as I diligently resort to you, a quick helper and prayer book for my soul.

Yako az - because I am. I come running and ask for help.

The prayer to the patron saint in all prayer books is given in this most general form, but in practice it is often pronounced differently, according to church custom - with the name of the rank of holiness of the heavenly intercessor: “Pray to God for me, holy Archangel of God Michael...”; “Pray to God for me, holy prophet of God Elijah...”; "...Holy Apostle of God Peter..."; "...Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene..."; "...to Saint Father Nicholas..."; “...holy great martyr and victorious George...”, “...holy martyr...”, “... holy martyr...”, “... reverend Father Sergius...”, “... reverend mother Mary...” - and so on.

In this part of the prayer rule it is also good to include short prayer appeals to other saints of God who are most revered by you. They can be completed with an appeal to all saints: All saints, pray to God for us! It is also good, at least sometimes, not to limit yourself to one prayerful appeal, but to read or sing a troparion to a saint (or several commemorated saints). The troparion should be known and understood by your patron saint.

By giving the baptized person the name of a saint, the Church, as it were, gives him the right to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, where the saint has already moved; at the same time, the Church shows the baptized person this path to the Kingdom of Heaven, which was followed by the saint of the same name - the way of life for which the saint became famous. By giving a person the name of a saint, the Church, as it were, binds him in a spiritual union with the saint of the same name, entrusts him with intercession, protection and intercession before God. The saints of the same name are our prayer books before God, guardians, like Angels, and our mentors, our friends in heaven and helpers.

Hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos

Virgin Mary, Rejoice, O Blessed Mary, the Lord is with You; Blessed are You among women and blessed is the Fruit of Your womb, for You have given birth to the Savior of our souls.

The words of this, the oldest and most beautiful of the countless prayers of the Mother of God, are taken from the Gospel - from the story about the event of the Annunciation:

The angel Gabriel was sent from God to the city of Galilee, called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a husband named Joseph, from the house of David; The name of the Virgin is: Mary. The angel came to Her and said:

Rejoice, O Blessed One! The Lord is with You; Blessed are You among women.

She, seeing him, was embarrassed by his words and wondered what kind of greeting this would be. And the Angel said to Her:

Fear not, Mary, for you have found favor with God; and behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a Son, and you will call His name Jesus.

Having received good news from the Angel, Holy Virgin She immediately went to her holy relative - the righteous Elizabeth, the future mother of John the Baptist. As soon as Elizabeth saw the Most Pure Virgin, she was filled with the Holy Spirit, and exclaimed in a loud voice and said:

Blessed are You among women, and blessed is the Fruit of Your womb! And where does it come from for me that the Mother of my Lord came to me? (Luke 1:26-31,41-43).

Holy righteous Elizabeth, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, uttered the same amazing words as Archangel Gabriel: Blessed are You among women (or, in Church Slavonic: Blessed are You among women). And we add to the words of the Angel and righteous Elizabeth: for you gave birth to the Savior of our souls, thereby expressing to the Most Holy Theotokos faith in Her Divine Son, Whom we recognize with all our hearts as the Savior of our souls.

Troparion to the Cross and prayer for the fatherland

Save, O Lord, Thy people, and bless Thy inheritance, granting victories against resistance, and preserving Thy residence through Thy Cross.

Property- heritage. On the resistance- over opponents, over enemies. Residence- the home, that is, the people of God - Orthodox Christians.

The Cross of Christ has a special power to save us from all evil. We call upon this power in prayer to the Cross for all the property of God - for everything that belongs to Christ: for His people, that is, Orthodox Christians who even bear the name of Christ; on our fatherland and especially on the Holy Church - the community of all true believers, among whom the Lord invisibly abides and lives.

Prayer for the living

Save, Lord, and have mercy on my spiritual father (name), my parents (names), relatives (names), bosses, mentors, benefactors (their names) and all Orthodox Christians.

Prayer for the departed

Lord rest the souls of your departed servants: my parents, relatives, benefactors (their names) and all Orthodox Christians, and forgive them all sins, voluntary and involuntary, and grant them the Kingdom of Heaven.

Memorial

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“To remember in prayer the peace of the Holy Churches and everything else that follows is good, for this is the apostolic testament; but in doing this, one must recognize oneself as unworthy and not having the strength to do so. The Gospel and Apostolic word says: Pray for one another in order to be healed: the fervent prayer of the righteous can do much (James 5:16), and: Whatever you want people to do to you, do so to them (Luke 6:31). condemns himself; and therefore, whether I can or cannot, I force myself to fulfill the commandment.”

Venerable Barsanuphius the Great

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The memorial is usually placed in prayer books at the end of morning prayers, but not everyone is comfortable and able to pray for the living and the departed in the morning. We need to find the most appropriate time for the commemoration; for some it will be the evening, when all the work has been done, for others it will be the middle of the day, lunch break...

If you can, read this memorial instead of short prayers for the living and the dead: (on the next 2 pages of the site editor).

About the living

Remember, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, Thy mercy and generosity from all eternity, for whose sake Thou didst become man, and Thou didst deign to endure crucifixion and death, for the sake of the salvation of those who believe in Thee; and you rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, and sit at the right hand of God the Father, and despise the humble prayers of those who call upon You with all their hearts; incline Your ear and hear the humble prayer of me, Your indecent servant, into the stench of the spiritual fragrance that is brought to You for all Your people. And in the first place, remember Your Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, which You have provided with Your Honest Blood, and establish, and strengthen, and expand, multiply, pacify, and preserve the insurmountable gates of hell forever; Calm the tearing of the Churches, quench the pagan vacillations, and quickly destroy and eradicate the heresies of uprising, and turn them into nothingness by the power of Your Holy Spirit. (Bow)

Generosity - manifestations of mercy, compassion. From the beginning of existence - eternal, existing from the beginning of the world. For their sake - for which, for which you are the Prize - you graciously look from above, bow down with love. Into the stench of a spiritual fragrance - like a fragrant spiritual sacrifice (to stench is a smell, aroma; the form in the stench is similar here to the form “as a sacrifice” in the expression “accept as a sacrifice”). In the first place - first of all, first of all. South - which. You supplied - saved, protected (supply - protect, preserve; save). The gates of hell - the forces of hell (an ancient, frequent expression in the Bible). Rending - discord, division into parts, separation. Unrest - disturbances, riots.

Remember, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, Thy mercy and generosity from all eternity... Remember the first prayer - a request to the Lord Jesus Christ to remember the mercies He did, for the sake of which He became man, and endured crucifixion and death, and was resurrected, and ascended. In prayer the whole work of God's economy - God's providence - is remembered. All this - the mercy of God shown to the human race from time immemorial - is the basis for our subsequent petitions for the whole world.

Save, Lord, and have mercy on our God-protected country, its authorities and army, so that we may live a quiet and silent life in all piety and purity. (Bow)

Save, Lord, and have mercy on the Great Master and Father of our Holiness Patriarch (name), your Eminence metropolitans, archbishops and Orthodox bishops, priests and deacons, and all the church ranks, who You have appointed to shepherd Your verbal flock, and through their prayers have mercy and save me sinful. (Bow)

Even - which ones. Verbal - here: spiritual, rational (there is also the expression “your verbal flock of sheep”).

Save, Lord, and have mercy on my spiritual father (his name), and with his holy prayers forgive my sins. (Bow)

Your peaceful and super-worldly good - Your earthly and heavenly blessings (literally: Your worldly and supermundane good).

Save, O Lord, and have mercy on the old and the young, the poor and the orphans and the widows, and those who are in sickness and sorrow, troubles and sorrows, conditions and captivity, prisons and imprisonments, and even more so in persecution, for You for the sake of the Orthodox faith, from the tongue of the godless, of the apostate and of the heretics, who are Thy servants; and remember, visit, strengthen, comfort, and soon by Your power I will weaken, grant them freedom and deliver. (Bow)

Existing - existing, abiding. Circumstances - difficult circumstances of life, adversity (the main meaning of the word “circumstance” is siege). Fairly - especially, more than anything. For you and the Orthodox faith - for You and the Orthodox faith. From the tongue - from the pagans. I ... them. When I weaken, it’s a relief. Deliverance - deliverance.

Save, Lord, and have mercy on those sent to the service, those traveling, our fathers and brethren, and all Orthodox Christians. (Bow)

Save, O Lord, and have mercy on them who I tempted with my madness, and turned away from the path of salvation, and led me to evil and inappropriate deeds; By Your Divine Providence, return again to the path of salvation. (Bow)

Theirs - those whom. Az - I. I tempted, turned away, brought - I seduced, turned away, brought (form of the 1st person singular of the past tense - aorist). Paki again.

Save, Lord, and have mercy on those who hate and offend me, and those who create misfortunes against me, and do not leave them to perish for me, a sinner. (Bow)

Those who create misfortunes for me - those who do evil to me.

Those who have departed from the Orthodox faith and are blinded by destructive heresies, enlighten with the light of Your knowledge and bring Your Holy Apostles to the Catholic Church. (Bow)