When a person’s life is cut short, it is always hard for his loved ones and relatives; they grieve and grieve for the deceased for a long time, and sometimes their entire lives.
However, every believer knows and has always known (and now this fact has been scientifically confirmed) that only the human body is subject to death. The soul - that is, a person’s personality, the ability to think, feel, his consciousness - remains to live. A person who has died in new, unnatural conditions for himself (death was not part of God’s plans, it was the result of the Fall) especially needs support and reassurance - a memorial prayer.
The long years of atheism in Soviet times in our country, mass propaganda and persecution of the Church for several generations cemented in the descendants of our predecessors several features in relation to spiritual life and many things connected with it.
Some still don’t believe in the Creator - not just in his omnipotence, but even in existence, some reinterpret spiritual realities to suit their own understanding, some believe only in the soul, but not in the rest, and some , knowing the truth, resisting it, and much more.
Of course, everyone is free to live as they want and treat everything as they wish. But everyone should know - regardless of his beliefs, every deceased person (translated from ancient Slavic this means “asleep”) remains himself, losing only his material expression, his biological mechanism, which allows him to interact in the world of dense matter.
A real breakthrough in different parts of the world over the past 40 years has been made by resuscitators and biologists, having found irrefutable evidence of the existence of the soul outside the body without any discomfort in well-being.
Scientists and doctors who proved the life of the soul
Evidence of the continuation of the life of the soul after death in the scientific world began with the works of such prominent representatives of science in the foreign world as:
This is a list of just some of the studies. It is easy to notice that almost all of them were published only a few years apart. This is already the result. At the same time, the listed scientists received the first evidence about the life of the soul while still unfamiliar with each other. Their observations and results are almost completely identical.
Domestic scientists did not publish practically any books during the difficult Soviet times. They are just in 1969 in Leningrad at the Brain Institute. Bekhterev filmed the exit of the soul from the human body in high-frequency discharges. And they simply showed it in a popular science film on the main channels of the country, which cannot but make us proud of our own people.
If you don’t yet believe or have little faith in the life of the soul after the body, then turn to scientific facts and, even if you don’t believe yet, simply help disembodied people in their difficult further path to God. To help the soul get used to the new situation, you should read prayers at home, and also be sure to turn to the Church for help.
In church, Christians read sacred books for the dead, remembering each person by name. The Bible, Psalms, and Gospels are not just books written by people, as was taught in Soviet times. These are divinely inspired books, the texts of which were dictated by the Lord himself, his Holy Spirit.
In the temple you can order the most powerful commemorations:
Mandatory activities for every deceased Christian:
- funeral service;
- memorial service;
- (which is a funeral service, you can sing or read it yourself at the cemetery);
- magpies (experience shows that it is best to order for a year at once - it will be a great help to those who have passed away).
Reading home prayer
Each person can help the human soul with his own strength. People still living on earth turn to the Lord to save the soul of the deceased from hell and to persuade Him to mercy. It should also be noted that prayer for the dead makes it possible for the living to be saved. After all, through prayer we do a good deed, we do a deed of love, and this is so pleasant for our Heavenly Father to see. In addition, daily prayer allows you to escape from the everyday hustle and bustle and protect yourself from evil.
About deceased parents
Prayer for the repose of the soul of a deceased parent makes it possible to accept what happened, come to terms with it and be comforted, but most importantly, it will make it easier for her to go through the ordeal after death.
One of the methods that allows you to show care for your parents who have passed away is reading the Psalter. You should read one kathisma prayer for the deceased every day for up to 40 days, the text of which can be found on the Internet or simply purchased. This prayer rule will provide quick peace, support and an additional opportunity for the souls of loved ones to receive liberation from eternal torment. Reading prayer texts is allowed at any time of the day.
About the deceased mother
Losing a mother is one of the most difficult and bitter experiences for a person, regardless of age and often even relationships during life. In order to help the soul of a loved one and ease your own mental pain, you need to turn to the Heavenly Father.
Traditional prayer for deceased parents read for the first 40 days after the date of completion of the earthly journey, 40 days before the anniversary of his death. as well as on all memorial dates: on the day of death, birthday, on the day of the angel, etc. It is worth noting that this is a kind of rule - very conditional, this is the same immutable minimum that must be done for parents.
Everything that has been said about prayer for the soul of a mother equally applies to the soul of a father. The Psalter can also be read to ask for the Lord’s mercy for a deceased father.
Of course, in addition to the indicated texts, you can simply ask the Higher Powers in your own words. However, it is advisable to still resort to sacred texts. During unauthorized prayer, under the influence of mental pain from loss, you can go into the jungle of condemnation, accusations and grumbling. Therefore, at first it is still worth turning to the prayers of the saints.
If you do not provide prayerful support to the deceased at all, then it is difficult to imagine greater torture and betrayal on the part of a loved one. The transition to an incorporeal state is one of the most important and stressful in a person’s life, equal in responsibility and significance to birth, or even more difficult.
If the descendants, as the closest people, deprive their father of prayer support, it will be almost impossible for him to go through an incredibly difficult and dangerous path, where on the way to the Kingdom of God there are spirits of evil, laying claim to every soul. After all, how can they take so long and so many worked to “appropriate” it for themselves. And they come out on the way to demand theirs. We all have many sins. And everyone will need any support.
The prayer for the repose of the soul of the introduced relative must be read thoughtfully and with all the heart (but without hysterics). The texts of the prayers are easy to find in any prayer book or online.
Widowers' prayer for deceased spouses
The prayer of a widow for her soul mate is especially strong and pleasing to God. A woman can pray with a special text. It can be combined with reading the Psalter. It can be left on each “Slava”. This must be supplemented by ordering commemoration in monasteries and churches, with alms.
To help survive grief, it is advisable for a woman to turn to the Lord with a request to give her strength so that she can live on and carry out her feat as a widow with dignity.
The Lord will certainly hear the prayer book and give her strength to cope with trouble. It is important at this time to confess and receive Communion most often, talk with the priest about the grief that happened. In any case, a woman must understand that God unites us on Earth not in order to separate us in eternity. On the contrary, He builds everything in such a way that people who love each other can live together forever in the Kingdom of God - in the world of Love and Goodness. The same words about prayer and reunion are true for a widower.
About alms for the dead
Many have a negative attitude towards this word, believing that this is “another pumping out of money.” This is the stereotype that opponents of the Church instill in people. It is important to understand: your money is not the only way to help. Almsgiving can be done not only with money (it’s just the easiest way). Everyone has the power to:
The main thing is to do it with a pure heart, no matter what exactly you choose. Perhaps you will come up with something of your own, for example, singing spiritual songs in a subway crossing... Whatever. After all, prayer for the repose of the soul of the deceased is the same alms, only done within the walls of one’s home.
Funeral prayer is a long tradition, its roots go back centuries. At all times, people have honored the dead.
The graves of those killed during the mammoth hunt were decorated with flowers and bones of the killed mammoth; ancient peoples (the Romans, for example) honored their ancestors as protectors and patrons of the home (the familiar words “penates” and “lares” come from Rome). The cult of ancestors also existed in the East (the Chinese prayed to their ancestors, asking for wisdom). Slavic tribes also made sacrifices to their ancestors.
The Orthodox faith does not provide for the worship of human spirits. Why then do we still pray, remembering for the repose of the souls of those who left this world?
What is the meaning of funeral prayer for deceased parents?
Anyone who has died loses the right to ask God for himself. Hence the huge number of dogmas associated with the need for repentance before death, and in general - careful preparation for the next world. When a person is dead, his soul has no right to vote, does not speak, but only humbly awaits decisions. The prayer of children for deceased parents and other relatives pleases the soul, because it is not in vain that they say: a person is alive as long as he is remembered.
Prayers for the departed
As was said above, the soul itself cannot pray for mercy, but the relatives of the deceased may well ask the Lord and His honest Angels to mitigate the fate of the newly deceased, and the more fervent the prayer, the greater the chance of receiving God’s mercy for the deceased’s soul. The prayer book contains a huge number of prayers for a variety of cases of death - suddenly passed away, stillborn babies, tragically killed, killed in war - the list is simply huge, you need to try to choose the appropriate prayer for each specific case.
Not so long ago, a Canon appeared about those who died without permission - they had not previously prayed for suicides under any circumstances. Now the merciful Mother Church has allowed cell (home) prayer for them, the unfortunate ones who have committed a sin that they will never be able to pray away.
About parents
It is customary for children to pray for deceased parents - for this there are a large number of prayers, such as, for example, the prayer of children for deceased parents and all Orthodox Christians who have died in the Orthodox faith from time to time.
Prayer “For the Dead”
“Remember, Lord, from this life the orthodox kings and queens, the right-believing princes and princesses, the most holy patriarchs, the most reverend metropolitans, archbishops and Orthodox bishops who departed from this life, who served You in the priesthood and in the parable of the church, and in the monastic rank, and in Your eternal villages
rest with the saints. (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 Your eternal good things and the pleasure of Your endless and blissful life. (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, 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. (Three times)"
Such a prayer allows you to remember a large number of people in your funeral petitions.
There is also a separate prayer for deceased parents - it can be found on the Internet or in special publications with funeral prayers.
Prayer “Children for deceased parents”
“Lord Jesus Christ our God! You are the keeper of the orphans, the refuge of the grieving and the comforter of the weeping. I come running to You, orphaned, groaning, and... crying, and I pray to You: hear my prayer and do not turn Your face away from the sighs of my heart and from the tears of my eyes. I pray to You, merciful Lord, satisfy my sorrow
about separation from the one who gave birth and raised me, my parent (name); accept his soul, as if it had gone to You with true faith in You and firm hope in Your love for mankind and mercy, into Your Heavenly Kingdom. I bow before Your holy will, which was taken away from me, and I ask You not to take away Your mercy and mercy from him. We know, Lord, that You, the Judge of this world, punish the sins and wickedness of the fathers in children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, even to the third and fourth generation: but you also have mercy on the fathers for the prayers and virtues of their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. With contrition and tenderness of heart, I pray to You, merciful Judge, do not punish with eternal punishment your deceased servant, unforgettable for me, my parent (name), but forgive him all his sins, voluntary and involuntary, in word and deed, knowledge and ignorance, committed by him in his life here on earth, and according to Your mercy and love for mankind, prayers for the sake of the Most Pure Mother of God and all the saints, have mercy on him and deliver him from eternal torment. You, merciful Father of fathers and children! grant me, all the days of my life, until my last breath, not to cease to remember my deceased parent in my prayers, and to beg You, the righteous Judge, to order him in a place of light, in a cool place and in a place of peace, with all the saints , from here all illness, sorrow and sighing have escaped. Merciful Lord! accept this day for Thy servant (name), my warm prayer and give him Thy reward for the labors and cares of my upbringing in faith and Christian piety, as He who taught me first of all to lead You, My Lord, in reverence to pray to You, in You alone to trust in troubles, sorrows and illnesses and keep Your commandments; for his concern for my spiritual success, for the warmth of the prayer he brought for me before You and for all the gifts he asked me from You, reward him with Your mercy, Your heavenly blessings and joys in Your eternal kingdom. For You are the God of mercies and generosity and love for mankind, You are the peace and joy of Your faithful servants, and we send glory to You with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen."
In addition, it is customary to commemorate separately the deceased who died after a long and serious illness.
Prayer “For the deceased after a long illness”
“God, You made our brother “name” serve (our sister “name” served) You amidst suffering and illness, thus participating in the Passion of Christ; We ask You to honor him (her) participation in the glory of the Savior. Through Christ our Lord. Amen."
But, standing before the Throne of God, accept our prayers and bring them to the All-Merciful God, to forgive us every sin and help us against the wiles of the devil, so that, having been delivered from sorrows, illnesses, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, we will live piously and righteously in the present world and through your intercession we will be worthy, even though we are unworthy, to see good on the earth of the living, glorifying the One in His saints, glorifying God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen."
You can also pray for the repose of the souls of “mentors and educators” - if they were of great importance in your life and upbringing, there is a separate prayer for this case in the prayer book.
How to pray correctly?
You can pray at home and in the cemetery. At home, they pray for the deceased every day during the evening commemoration of the dead, and for the newly deceased (those who died less than forty days ago) - every day, reading prayers. If there is time and opportunity, a special Canon is also read.
When we go to a cemetery, it is customary to read prayers there, but you can get by with the sign of the cross and a short greeting. The Church has established special days (called “parental days”) on which it is customary to visit burial sites. Attributes of the nearest church holiday (willow, Easter, eggs, and so on) are brought to the graves.
It should be noted that on the day of the Holy Resurrection of Christ you should not go to the cemetery - all the dead were raised by Christ from their graves, and they themselves will come to visit for the Easter meal.
You can worship them and congratulate them on Easter in absentia, and visit them on Tuesday in the week following Holy Week - the week after Easter.
In response to the argument “Everyone goes”, one can report that this tradition took root in Soviet times, when there was simply no other opportunity to visit the graves of relatives except on a day off. Now no one will accuse you of parasitism if you take an hour off from work on a weekday to visit deceased relatives .
In Orthodoxy, there is a lot of patristic literature devoted to what awaits people after death. Also, entire works have been written on how to pray for the dead. This is not done just like that, but in accordance with the entire teaching of the Church. Each ritual, each prayer has its own meaning.
Life after death
In fact, the entire Christian earthly life should serve as preparation for the moment of transition to eternal life. Why is this so important? Because on the other side a person can no longer express his repentance, cannot do good to his neighbor. And he can serve the Lord only through prayers. And how much grace can be received. After all, feelings are sharpened many times over, that is, the torment of conscience, barely audible here, will be deafening there.
There are several famous books that describe in detail the journey of the soul in the afterlife. Prayer for the departed is very important - it protects against the attacks of unclean spirits, which in the Orthodox tradition are called ordeals. It is believed that earnest petitions, fasting and good deeds can mitigate the sentence. Until 40 days, a person is considered newly deceased, and he needs especially strong support.
Types of remembrance of the dead
Prayer can be both church and personal. Since Christians constitute one body of Christ, after death the Church continues to care for them.
But it’s better to call the priest, because a person needs to remove sins from his soul, to partake of the holy mysteries of Christ - this is the best death for a believer, which the righteous are awarded. Petitions for such a departure are heard at every Liturgy.
- The Psalter is essentially a collection of religious hymns compiled by King David. Since there are many psalms, the Orthodox Church divided the book into parts called kathismas, there are only 20 of them. From the moment of death, these chapters are read for the soul of the deceased. Between them there are special prayers in which mercy is asked from God for the soul of the deceased; one can remember not only the newly deceased, but also all the deceased.
- Psalm 90 plays a special role - it is filled with a repentant mood, the author’s thoughts are directed towards God. The first verses describe how the soul is attacked by dark forces on its way to heaven. Here the strength of faith that the soul must show is tested. The psalmist believed that the Lord would deliver his children from any danger. It is this prayer, among others, that is traditionally read during the funeral service.
Now let's look at how the Church remembers its children. Notes about deceased parents and husband should be regularly submitted to the proskomedia and memorial service. It’s better not to leave, but to pray with everyone. Who else will support the dead if not children. After all, someday they will also need such support.
Burial traditions
The body of the deceased should also be taken care of. The custom of washing, putting on new clothes, and closing one’s eyes is known from very ancient literary sources. Washing symbolizes that people will appear clean before God, without sins and vices. New clothes are a sign of the incorruptible nature that is bestowed after the resurrection. Yes, and you need to prepare properly for a meeting with God.
It is customary in Orthodoxy to place a crown on which prayers are written on the head of the deceased. All Christians read them daily. The crown indicates that the deceased fought with dignity for Christian values. It also symbolizes the hope of receiving a worthy reward.
What prayers to read
There are many prayers for the deceased - all of them are addressed to the Lord. At home, you need to remember your loved ones every day. The texts of prayers should be taken only from reliable sites, and avoid various occult forums. Nowadays there are many non-canonical texts circulating around. If in doubt, take the Psalter. No one knows how incorrectly composed prayers will respond to your parents.
You can regularly order the magpie; any monastery accepts notes for reading the Psalter - for a long period of time. At home, you need to do this to the best of your ability; if you cannot cope with all the kathisma in a day, then even the weakest can read 2-3 psalms.
When my husband died
A special prayer has been compiled for widows; there are no restrictions on reading. It is important to do this slowly, stand in front of the image, and sincerely forgive everything that the deceased did to you that was bad. Your resentment is of no use - it will not bring the person back, it will only harm your own soul. A widow's prayer should not be filled with despair. After all, according to the prophet Daniel, instead of the departed husband, the Lord Himself now takes care of the woman.
The teachings of the elders say that one should not indulge in grief without looking back. We must give others the opportunity to help themselves, to console themselves. All the love that a woman had for her husband should be directed towards her children. There is no need to be afraid of the future; it is better to devote more time to communicating with God. Honest widowhood is a worthy feat. You can get married a second time, but only according to Christian traditions. Prodigal cohabitation is not approved in any case.
What prayer to read
What prayer to read for the deceased at home is chosen by the person himself. If you have the desire and strength, it is better to devote time and slowly read the 17th kathisma about repose. The mental attitude must be calm, you must trust God, hope for His mercy. It’s good to attend services more often; you can read the Panikhida yourself at the grave in a secular manner. Do not insult the memory of the departed by drunkenness! Better feed the poor. Every deceased person will be grateful for any prayer, even a short one - that’s what they expect from us.
Widow's prayer for her husband
Christ Jesus, Lord and Almighty! You are the consolation of the weeping, the intercession of the orphans and widows. You said: call on Me in the day of your sorrow, and I will destroy you. In the days of my sorrow, I run to You and pray to You: do not turn Your face away from me and hear my prayer brought to You with tears. You, Lord, Master of all, have blessed me to unite me with one of Your servants, so that we may be one body and one spirit; You gave me this servant as a companion and protector. It was your good and wise will to take away this servant of yours from me and leave me alone. Bow down before this Your will and I resort to You in the days of my sorrow: quench my sorrow about separation from Your servant, my friend. Even if you took it away from me, do not take your mercy away from me. Just as you once accepted two mites for a widow, so accept this prayer of mine. Remember, Lord, the soul of Your departed servant (name), forgive him all his sins, voluntary and involuntary, whether in word, or in deed, or in knowledge and ignorance, do not destroy him with his iniquities and do not deliver him to eternal torment, but according to Your great mercy and according to the multitude of Thy compassions, weaken and forgive all his sins and commit them with Thy saints, where there is no sickness, no sorrow, no sighing, but endless life. I pray and ask You, Lord, grant that all the days of my life I will not cease to pray for Your departed servant, and even before my departure, ask You, the Judge of the whole world, to forgive all his sins and to place him in the heavenly abodes that You have prepared for those who love Cha. For even if you sin, do not depart from You, and undoubtedly the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are Orthodox even until your last breath of confession; with the same faith, even in You, instead of works, impute to him: for there is no man who will live and will not sin, You are One besides sin, and Your righteousness is righteousness forever. I believe, Lord, and I confess that You have heard my prayer and have not turned Your face away from me. Seeing a widow weeping green, you were merciful, and you brought her son to the grave, carrying her to the grave; thus, having compassion, calmed down my sorrow. For Thou didst open to Thy servant Theophilus, who went to Thee, the doors of Thy mercy and forgave him his sins through the prayers of Thy holy Church, heeding the prayers and alms of his wife: here and I pray to Thee, accept my prayer for Thy servant, and bring him in to eternal life. For You are our hope, You are God, to have mercy and to save, and to You we send glory with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen!
Children's prayer for parents
Lord Jesus Christ our God! You are the keeper of the orphans, the refuge of the grieving and the comforter of the weeping. I, an orphan, come running to You, groaning and crying, and I pray to You: hear my prayer and do not turn Your face away from the sighs of my heart and from the tears of my eyes. I pray to You, merciful Lord, satisfy my grief over separation from my parent (matter) (name), and his soul (her), as if she has gone to You with true faith in You and firm hope in Yours accept philanthropy and mercy into Your Heavenly Kingdom. I bow before Your holy will, which was taken away from me, and I ask You not to take away from him (her or them) Your mercy and mercy. We know, Lord, that You, the Judge of this world, punish the sins and wickedness of the fathers in children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, even to the third and fourth generation: but you also have mercy on the fathers for the prayers and virtues of their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. With contrition and tenderness of heart, I pray to Thee, merciful Judge, do not punish with eternal punishment the deceased, unforgettable for me, Your servant (s), my parent (mother) (name), but forgive him (her) all his (her) sins, voluntary and involuntary, in word and deed, knowledge and ignorance, committed by him (her) in his (her) life here on earth, and according to Your mercy and love for mankind, prayers for the sake of the Most Pure Mother of God and All saints, have mercy on him (you) and deliver him from eternal torment. You, merciful Father of fathers and children! Grant me, all the days of my life, until my last breath, not to cease to remember my deceased parent (mother) in my prayers, and to beg Thee, the righteous Judge, to order him (s) in a place of light, in a place cool and in a calm place, with all the saints, from where all illness, sadness and sighing have escaped. Merciful Lord! Accept this day for Thy servant (Your) (name) my warm prayer and give him (her) Your reward for the labors and cares of my upbringing in faith and Christian piety, as having taught me first of all to lead You, my Lord, pray to You in reverence, trust in You alone in troubles, sorrows and illnesses and keep Your Commandments; for his (her) concern for my spiritual progress, for the warmth of his (her) prayer for me before You and for all the gifts he (she) asked me from You, reward him (her) with Your mercy, Your heavenly blessings and joys in Your eternal Kingdom. For you are the God of mercies and generosity and love for mankind. You are the peace and joy of Your faithful servants, and we send glory to You with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
I couldn’t calmly read the article; I recently lost a loved one. For a couple of weeks I walked like in a dream. I went to church, lit a candle for the repose, prayed, and my soul felt lighter. I try to pray every day and give alms. I would like to believe that the soul has found peace and is not tormented.
Having read here that until 40 days you should not allow yourself to lament or cry, since your soul will hear all this and experience severe torment, I pulled myself together. This is the least I can do for my grandmother now. I pray every day, driving away sad thoughts.
Here we live and don’t know what awaits us tomorrow. Who are we in this world? Is there another world where we will be held accountable for everything we have done? As you get older, thoughts haunt you. After all, we are all guests in this world. Death doesn't scare me, the unknown is much scarier. I am learning to enjoy and enjoy life!
Interesting, never thought about it. I live in a home-work-home mode. Usually, after death, everyone fusses about organizing a wake, then arranging the grave. Going to church, lighting a candle, making a donation, in my opinion, is much more useful and important, although in such situations you don’t know what to do.
Our suffering for the dead bothers them. We seem to be calling them all the time and pulling them back with our emotions, longing, and they feel it. For God we are all alive. Death is not torment or punishment; man has fulfilled his mission on earth and moved to another state and dimension. This is how you have to think.
We will all die someday. Death is inevitable and there are no immortal people. Our prayers will help those who are not with us now, since only the living can pray for the dead. For those who are going through a difficult period right now, do not isolate yourself, turn to God with prayers.
This is a painful topic, how to cope with the death of a loved one? I still can’t get out of the stupor, I’m so depressed in my soul. I understand that I need to somehow pull myself together, go to church, read prayers, light a candle for the repose. It is very difficult to cope with loss. Most likely, only time and prayers heal.
My grandmother died when I was 16 years old. I loved her very much. She was the most important person on Earth to me. I lived alone at that time and for forty days after her death I cried. There wasn't a day when I didn't cry. I fell asleep every night hugging her sweater. There wasn't a day when I didn't dream about her. (((How much torment I caused my beloved grandmother. This was the first loved one I lost. I didn’t know anything, at that time I had never been to church. I don’t know what my suffering led to her soul. And I can’t forgive myself for this. Now, realizing what I have done. 14 years have passed, and this pain of loss is so alive in my heart.. I ask for forgiveness from her and from God.
Prayer of St. Leo of Optina for a parent who died without repentance
Seek, O Lord, the lost soul of my father (my mother), if possible, have mercy! Your destinies are unsearchable. Do not make this my prayer a sin for me. But Thy holy will be done.
Prayer that God would grant us zeal for prayer for the departed and would accept it
Most merciful and all-merciful Lord, Lord and Judge of the living and the dead, our God, wondrous and inscrutable in His destinies! You see the sorrows, sorrows and illnesses that overwhelm us, and you hear our sighs, and listen to our voice. How then, in our many sorrows, will our souls find consolation and peace, if not through Your prosperity, O Omnipotent Savior? For You are our God, and don’t we know otherwise to You? Accept, O Lord who loves mankind, our prayer, which we offer to You with all our hearts and with all our soul. Weigh, Lord, that we are not pleased with the prayer worthy of bringing to You; but the All-Good One Himself, teach us how to pray to Ty. Warm our hearts with the warmth of Your Holy Spirit, so that our prayer will not be in vain for the souls of Your servants who have departed from us, and grant us to dare to call upon You, Heavenly God the Father, with boldness and without condemnation, for You are our hope and refuge; We fall before You, our God worshiped and glorified in the Trinity, and to You alone we offer our prayer in our sorrows and illnesses, in joy and sorrow, for You are our consolation, our joy, our treasure and the Giver of our life: from You all things come every deed is good and every gift is perfect. For this reason, we dare to cry out to You with our mortal lips: hear us, O God, hear us sinners praying to You; incline Your ear to our prayer and let our cry come to You. Accept, Most Blessed Lord, our prayer for the souls of Your departed servants, like a fragrant incense offered to You. Drive away from us all evil thoughts; create in us, O God, a pure heart and a contrite spirit; instill in us, O God, the root of good things - Thy fear in our hearts; see our tears, see our lamentation; behold our sorrows, behold those who weep bitterly for Thy servant (name) who has come to You, and rest him in Thy Kingdom, for Thou art the Life, Resurrection and Rest of Thy servants who have fallen asleep, and we send glory to You, as to the Beginning Father with Thy Only Begotten Son and the All-Holy and By Your good and life-giving Spirit always, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Prayer to the Guardian Angel
Holy Guardian Angel, given to the deceased servant of God (servant of God) (name)! Do not cease to protect his (her) soul from these evil and terrible demons; be her nurturer and comforter there, in that invisible world of spirits; take me under your wing and lead me without restraint through the gates of the airy tormentors; appear as an intercessor and prayer book for her with God - pray to Him the Most Good, that she may not be brought down to a place of darkness, but may he restore her, where the non-evening Light abides.
Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Holy Lady Theotokos! We resort to You, our Intercessor: You are a quick helper, our never-ending intercessor with God! Most of all, we pray to Thee at this hour: help Thy newly departed servant (Thy servant) (name) to cross this terrible and unknown path; We pray to Thee, Lady of the world, by Thy power to drive away from his (her) fear-driven soul the terrible powers of dark spirits, so that they may be confused and put to shame before Thee; free the air tax collectors from torture, destroy their councils and overthrow them as malicious enemies. Be her, O All-Merciful Lady Theotokos, an intercessor and protector from the airy prince of darkness, the tormentor and the terrible paths of the champion; We pray to You, Most Holy Theotokos, through Your honest protection, so that He may pass from earth to heaven without fear and without restraint. We pray to Thee, our Intercessor, intercede for Thy servant (Thy servant) with Thy motherhood before the Lord with boldness; We pray to You, our Help, help him (her), who has to be judged even before the Last Judgment Seat, help him to be justified before God, as the Creator of heaven and earth, and implore Your Only Begotten Son, the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ, may he rest the deceased in the bosom of Abraham with the righteous and all the saints. Amen.
Prayer for all deceased Orthodox Christians in the faith
First prayer
Master, Most Merciful and All-Merciful Lord Jesus Christ our God! You are merciful to us sinners and Your mercy has no end: since you did not want our eternal destruction, you declared in advance: “I do not want the death of a sinner, but the hedgehog will turn and live for him.” Glory to Your mercy! Glory to Your looking! Glory to Your long-suffering, O Lord! With all our hearts, with all our souls, we thank Thee, our God, for Thou hast vouchsafed Thy deceased servant (Thy servant) (name) to confess his sins to Thee on his sick bed. But You, Lord, are the only One who knows everything, weigh, since his (her) sins are severe, but we pray to You, accept Your servant (Your servant), who has gone to You even if he was a sinner, but not unrepentant (oh), and reward him (her) according to his (her) repentant heart. And just as You accept a single word, and a single sigh, and a single drop of tears from someone confessing to You with a pure and contrite heart, we therefore pray to You, Holy One of the Heart, now accept from us our prayer for the deceased, listen to our prayers in the voice , and we are heard; With a tender soul and a contrite heart, we pray to You, Lord, look with Your all-merciful eye on Your deceased servant (Your servant) (name) who repented to You and fell with the immaterial fire of Your Holy Spirit all the thorns of his (her) sins. unconfessed before Your face. If Your deceased servant (Your servant) in repentance falls into oblivion because of the weakness of nature, or a serious illness, or fear for the sake of the hour of death, it is not possible for him to repent before You in contrition and tenderness of heart, O Lord, then I will be able to bring You fruits worthy repentance, we ask with tenderness, we pray to Thee, our Savior, fill his (her) repentance with the prayers of Thy Holy Church and all Thy saints who have pleased Thee from the ages, most of all, fill this spiritual poverty with Thy goodness, Thy dearest redemptive and saving merits; and just as you justified the publican, and you had mercy on the thief who prayed to You on the cross, we hereby pray to You: have mercy on the one who has come to You with faith and hope and forgive him (her) every sin, voluntary and involuntary, in word, deed, knowledge and what was done through ignorance, and so will appear before Thy face without condemnation on the day of Thy Great and Terrible Judgment. We pray to Thee, our dearest Redeemer, to grant Thy deceased servant (Thy servant) (name) to enter Thy Kingdom, as one who, by Thy goodness, has been deemed worthy to partake of Thy holy, terrible and life-giving Mysteries for the remission of sins and for life eternal. You, Lord, with your most pure lips declared: “Whoever eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood will have eternal life.” You, Lord, You Yourself have granted Your deceased servant (Your servant) to partake of Your most pure Body and Your most pure Blood, as a guarantee of eternal bliss; For this reason we again pray to Thee: may Thy holy and life-giving Mysteries be to him (her), like a coal, burning up all his (her) sins, all his (her) iniquities and unrighteousness, may they be for cleansing, sanctification, justification and remission of sins , and as a guarantee of life and eternal bliss. Amen.
Second prayer
God of generosity and all grace! Look down from the heights of Thy Holy Dwelling upon us, sinners and unworthy Thy servants, praying to You and asking for the remission of debts to Thy deceased servant (s). We pray to Thee, Eternal Goodness, do not enter into judgment with Thy servant (s), as a creation of Thy Wisdom, but rather grant him (s) mercy; Show him (her) Thy compassion, O All-Good Master, and do not turn him (it) away from Thy presence, O Lord of mankind: save his (her) soul from eternal death, which is the second death, so that the deceased may not cease glorify Your infinite goodness and exalt Your name forever. You, the Knower of the Heart, know the deeds, intentions and thoughts of Your deceased servant (Your servant) and all the good and evil things he (she) has done are naked and declared before You. But what is all our goodness before You, Holy One? Like a drop in the sea, so is before You and before Your righteousness and Holiness all our good things done in this world. Our sins are immeasurable; Great and heavy is the burden of our sins, but inexpressibly great and boundless are the merits of Your Only Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, Whom You gave to us sinners out of Your boundless love, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. We are great sinners before You and unworthy of Your mercy, but Your love for mankind makes us worthy; Our iniquities are great, but Your mercy is inexhaustible: the immeasurable merits of Your Beloved Son, who offered Himself as a sacrifice for our sins, conquer all sin, all lawlessness; For this reason, with tenderness and with boldness we pray to Thee, the Source of our life, with boldness of hope we pray that Thy deceased servant (Thy servant) (name) may assimilate these precious redemptive and saving merits of Thy Only Begotten Son; We beg Your mercy with tears of contrition, cover the sins of Your departed servant (Thy servant) with the greatness of these dearest merits of our Redeemer; forgive all his (her) sins and do not destroy him (her) with his (her) iniquities in fiery hell. Spare, have mercy, Master, Thy servant (Thy servant) (name) who has gone to You and deliver him from eternal torment, deliver him for the sake of the immeasurable and unspeakable spiritual sorrows and illnesses of Your Only Begotten Son, suffered by Him before drinking the bitter cup of His suffering; spare him (s) and save him from eternal death for the sake of reproach and beating of our Savior, for the sake of strangulation and spitting; have mercy for the sake of His dearest Blood, which was shed from His most pure ribs. We pray to Thee, Father of generosity and all mercy, with His most pure and life-giving wounds, His holy Blood, heal the deadly and sinful ulcers of Thy deceased servant (Thy servant), and so may he be healed spiritually and may he be honored in Thy unapproachable light, Light-Giver Lord , glorify and glorify Your Most Holy Name forever. Amen.
Prayer three
Lord, Lord! How inevitable, how terrible is Thy impartial and unchangeably eternal Judgment! In great and trembling confusion, our spirit is troubled, our heart trembles and melts away, like wax, from the single announcement of Your immutable verb about the last Judgment; the tongue is silent from the single expectation of the voice of the last trumpet of the Archangel, which has the power to awaken from the dead and call from the living to Your Last Judgment from the east and west, from the north and south. Oh, that day is truly terrible, on which you will come, O God, to earth in glory with the Angels and all the saints! Then everything above and below will appear with fear and trembling, and the hordes of the underworld will tremble before You, Judge of this world; call heaven and earth to Judgment, to judge the universe in righteousness and truth! That day is terrible, in which thrones will be set up, books will be opened, and our open and secret deeds, words and thoughts will be exposed before You, before Angels and men, and together they will be condemned: for nothing, Lord, is hidden with You, and then it will not be revealed, and secretly, so that no one will know. Who will be able, Judge of this world, to stand before Your face and the whole world above and below! Even if the righteous man barely escapes, how will the wicked and sinful stand? And who will stand up for us, if not Your mercy, Lord? Where shall we flee from Thy righteous Judgment? Oh, have mercy, have mercy then on us and on Thy servant (Thy servant) (name) who has gone to You and who is always remembered by us, and do not then condemn him (her) to eternal torment because of his (her) sin. Deign then, O Most Merciful Lord, to accept into Thy heavenly and mental altar our sacrifices for him (nu) - our prayers and alms, like a fragrant censer, coupled with the prayers and bloodless priesthood of the shepherds of Thy Holy Church, that Thy Holy Church may not be ashamed before Thee, before the Angels and the whole world, your departed servant (thy servant). Hear us, our God, and do not completely reject us; see those who kneel and prostrate themselves before You, O Lord; hear those asking Your mercy and the Kingdom of Heaven for Your departed servant(s). We pray to You, O Most Merciful and Most Generous Jesus, when You come with Your Holy Angels to judge the world, have mercy, then, O Savior, have mercy on Your creation: for the image is of Your ineffable glory. With a contrite heart, we pray, we ask Thee, our Savior and Redeemer, do not condemn Thy servant (Thy servant) (name) by Thy righteous judgment to eternal torment, even if he is worthy of all condemnation and torment; do not separate him (s) from the flock of Thy chosen ones, but, according to Thy ineffable mercy, long-suffering and love for us sinners and unworthy servants of Thy, for the sake of Thy dearest merits, grant him (s) worthy, O Lord, of Thy Kingdom, which Thou hast prepared for those who love Thee from the foundation of the world, and let him enter into the place of rest, praising Your all-holy and magnificent Name, glorifying Your ineffable mercy, magnifying Your love for mankind and Your generosity, for You are the God of mercy and generosity, and we send glory to You, with Your beginningless Father, the Most Holy and Good and By Your life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Prayer for everyone who has died
Remember, O Lord our God, in the faith and hope of the life of Thy eternally departed servant, our brother (name), as Good and Lover of mankind, forgiving sins and consuming untruths, weaken, forsake and forgive all his voluntary and involuntary sins, deliver him from eternal torment and the fire of Gehenna, and grant him the communion and enjoyment of Your eternal good things, prepared for those who love You: even if you sin, do not depart from You, and undoubtedly in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, You are glorified God in the Trinity, faith, and the Unity in the Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is Orthodox even until his last breath of confession. Be merciful to him, and have faith in You instead of deeds, and rest with Your saints as You are Generous: for there is no man who will live and not sin. But You are the One besides all sin, and Your truth is the truth forever, and You are the One God of mercies and generosity, and love for mankind, and to You we send glory, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Prayer for benefactors, especially those who led to virtue
Lord Jesus Christ our God! You commanded us to give everyone their due, when you said: “Whatever you want, let men do to you, and you do likewise to them.” What shall I do, O Lord, what shall I repay now, to Thy servant (Thy servant) who has done great good to me, but who has already departed from the land of the living! With You, Lord, with You, our God rich in mercy, is all reward. For this reason, I pray to Thee, the Giver of good things, accept from me this little prayer of mine, together with thanksgiving for all Thy good deeds bestowed upon me in the ever-remembered memory of Thy (Thy) deceased servant. I pray to Thee, O God, to my Savior, look down from the height of Thy Holy Dwelling on my prayer and remember by Thy mercy Thy servant (Thy servant) (name), who has done such good to me, who has gone to You; Show him (her) the power of Thy goodness and Thy ineffable mercy in the forgiveness and forgiveness of sins and cover him (it) with Thy justification; Grant him, O Lord, the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal peace, as he who helped me and my neighbors in need and hardship, in sorrow and illness, and who gave me good from the abundance of Your gifts. I pray to You, Eternal Goodness, reward him (her) for his (her) good deeds a hundredfold - for earthly blessings with heavenly ones, for temporary ones with eternal ones, and grant him (her) eternal peace; and as he who taught me the works of mercy, meekness, humility, patience, abstinence, who instilled in me the spirit of peace and Christian love, who gave me good advice and good images of Christian life, grant, O Most Merciful Lord , it is worthy to behold the non-evening light of Your Kingdom and to satisfy it with Your heavenly table, as in Your name you nourished my thirsty and hungering soul. Remember, Lord, and all those who have gone to You, who labored in faith and virtuous life for the glory of Your Most Holy Name, who did good to the orphans, the poor and the needy; rest in the bosom of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, who visited the sick, the suffering and those imprisoned; receive into Your palace those who have welcomed strangers and strangers into Your house. Remember, Lord, in Your Kingdom your departed servants, who stood before You and prayed with warm prayer for our spiritual salvation and prosperity, for the preservation and well-being of Your holy churches, for the peace and salvation of the whole world; rest with Thy saints Thy servants, who prayed for the conversion to You of those who were lost and fallen from the faith and for the salvation of those perishing in sins. I pray to Thee, Christ our God, I pray to Thee, as the Judge who hast to judge the world, reward them according to Thy love for mankind, and make them worthy to hear that longed-for voice: “Bring, blessed of My Father, and inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world,” and yes They will enter into it, praising and glorifying Your magnificent name to endless ages. Amen.
Prayer for the pastors of the Orthodox Church
Lord Jesus Christ our God, who has given us apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds and teachers for the perfection of the Saints, for the work of service, for the building up of Your Body! We pray to Thee, O Most Merciful Master, hear our prayerful voice and remember in Thy Kingdom those Thy servants who have passed from this earthly world to the heavenly world: Orthodox Patriarchs, metropolitans (names), archbishops and bishops (names), archimandrites, abbots, hieromonks, priests (names) ), hierodeacons and deacons (names); place them, O Lord, in the heavenly shelters of eternal rest, as having served for the glory of Thy Most Holy Name and for the glory of Thy Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, for the edification and salvation of Her children; Remember everyone in the monastic rank and church clergy who served You. We pray to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ our God, we pray as the Chief Shepherd, by Thy mercy accept the souls of Thy departed servants, as chosen servants and builders of Thy Mysteries, who stood before Thy terrible throne, performed bloodless sacred rites and gave us Thy Holy and Life-giving Gifts - Thy Honest Body and Your honorable Blood, for the remission of sins and eternal life; For this reason, we pray to Thee, our God, to make them also partakers of the gracious gifts of Thy Holy Spirit in Thy Kingdom. God! Thou hast given them the power in Thy name to forgive and forgive us our sins, to bind and resolve, we diligently pray to Thee: forgive, forgive them their sins and do not remember their sins; save and have mercy on them according to Your great mercy; look upon them with Thy mercy and accept them, O Christ, under Thy compassion, as Thou hast taught us to guard everything that Thou hast commanded us; rest with the saints in Thy house, as stewards who humbly labored in planting and strengthening the Orthodox Faith and piety in our hearts; make them worthy to appear before You at Your judgment, without condemnation, as before the Chief Shepherd, and place them in Your heavenly hillside, like an olive planting. Bring them, Light-Giver Lord, to the unevening light of Your Kingdom, as if you enlightened us with the light of the Gospel, instill them in Your Holy City, as if you instilled in us the spirit of wisdom and reason, the spirit of advice and strength, the spirit of knowledge and piety, the spirit of Your fear - and grant them to enjoy the fatness of Thy house, as they nourished and enjoyed our souls from Thy divine Table. We pray to Thee, the King, with the prayers of the apostles and prophets, saints and teachers and all the saints, glorify them as servants of the word in Thy Holy Church, militant on earth, glorify them in the Church triumphant in Heaven, and number them with the face of Thy holy apostles, saints and teachers of the Church who served and pleased You in word and deed. Amen.
Prayer for mentors and educators
God of reason, God of miracles, living, ever-flowing Source of wisdom! I pray to You, remember in Your Kingdom the souls of Your departed servants, my mentors (names), who enlightened my mind and instilled in my heart the spirit of wisdom and reason, the spirit of advice and strength, the spirit of knowledge and truth, truth and virtue. I pray to You, Master, be merciful about their sins; weaken, forgive and forgive them all the sins they have committed in this life, in word, deed, thought, knowledge and ignorance. Reward them, the Giver of light, with Thy mercy, with Thy bounties for all their care for our spiritual prosperity; Show them the mercy of Thy mercy for their good teachings, for their beneficial advice and admonitions, which I sowed and planted in our minds and hearts, like good seeds; reward them for all their good with Your heavenly and eternal blessings, so that they may see in You, O God, face to face the eternal Truth and may they be illuminated and enjoy Her tri-radiant Light for endless ages in Your Kingdom. Amen.
Prayer for those who have offended and hated us
Master, Lover of Mankind, Jesus Christ, Son of God! You, out of Your inexpressible love for us, Your sinful and unworthy servants, make Your sun shine on the evil and the good, bring rain on the righteous and the unrighteous; You, the Most Good, command us to love our enemies, to do good to those who hate and offend us, to bless those who curse us and to pray for those who attack us and drive us out. You, our Savior, hanging on the tree of the cross, You Yourself forgave Your enemies who cursed You blasphemously, and prayed for Your tormentors; You have given us an image, so that we may follow Your footsteps. You, O dearest Redeemer, who taught us to forgive our enemies, commanded us to pray together for them; I pray to You, Jesus the Most Generous, Son and Lamb of God, take away the sins of the world, forgive your servant (your servant) (name) who has gone to You and accept him (s) not as my enemy, who has done evil to me, but as the one who has sinned before You, I pray to You, infinite in mercy, O Lord our God, accept in peace, who has come to You from this world without reconciliation with me; save and have mercy on him, O God, with Your great and rich mercy. Lord, Lord! Let not Thy wrath, nor Thy wrath, punish Thy servant (Thy servant), who has caused me to attack, insult, reproach and slander; I pray to You, do not remember these sins of him (her), but let go and forgive him (her) all this according to Your love for mankind, and have mercy according to Your great mercy. I pray to Thee, O Most Good and Most Generous Jesus, as the Solver of the bonds of hell, the Victor of death, the Savior of sinners, allow Thy servant (Thy servant) these sins, in the image of the deceased who are bound as captives of hell. You, Lord, declared: “If you do not forgive men their sins, neither will your Heavenly Father forgive you your sins”; oh, let this not happen! With tenderness and contrition of heart, I beg You, O Most Merciful Savior, to release him (her) from these bonds of evil obsessions and the wiles of the devil, do not destroy the deceased with Your wrath, but open to him (her), Giver of Life, the doors of Your mercy, so that he may enter into Thy holy city, praising Thy all-holy and magnificent Name and singing the ineffable love of Thy Holy Spirit for perishing sinners. And just as You, Eternal Goodness, remembered on the cross the prudent thief who was crucified with You, making it possible for him to enter paradise, I pray to You, O All-Bountiful One, remember in Your Kingdom also Your servant (Thy servant) who has gone to You ( name) do not close, but open also to him (her) the doors of Thy mercy, for Thine is to have mercy and save us, O our God, and to Thee we send glory with Thy Beginning Father, Thy Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer for those who died outside their Fatherland, for the rootless and wretched
Lord Jesus Christ our God, Protector of the orphans, Guide of the strange, Pilot of the floating, shelter of the stormy, traveling with the traveling, comfort of the weeping, feeder of the poor! We pray to Thee, O most merciful Lord, remember in Thy Kingdom the souls of Thy departed servants (names), who reposed in the faith to Thee, but departed to foreign lands, without the motherly guidance and blessing of Thy Holy Church. Receive, Master, under Your compassion the slaves who passed away there in grief and sorrow for their relatives and neighbors, where no one consoled them in the terrible hour of death, where no one offered You a warm prayer for their gracious passage from this temporary life into the heavenly world. Therefore, we pray to Thee, Most Good One, we pray to Thee, O omnipresent and ever-present Lord, look upon these Thy servants with Thy mercy, forgive them every sin, voluntary and involuntary, committed in word and deed, and everything, even in knowledge and ignorance. We beg You with prayers and intercession to Your Mother, Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos, and all the saints, do not destroy those who have gone to You with their iniquity, but do them Your great mercy, show them Your love for mankind and Your generosity, lead them to Your quiet refuge and establish them in Your House.
We also pray for the repose of the souls of the departed Thy servants (the souls of Thy departed servant (Thy servants) (names), who went to Thee rootless and have no prayer books for themselves from their relatives, except for Thy Holy Church; for this reason we pray to Thee, Lord, accept our prayer for these too: forgive them all their sins and have mercy on them according to Your great mercy; place them in Your Holy dwelling, so that they may find peace in You, as in the Savior and Redeemer of the human race.
God! God! Even if Your departed servants, who were in poverty and misery, for a cup of cold water, for a piece of bread, for a single mite given to them in Your name, brought You prayers for us, petitions and thanksgivings; Even the orphans blessed the hand that did good to them, praying for the sending down of Thy blessings to us, for this sake we pray to Thee now, Christ our God, and we for them: remember in Thy Kingdom these, as the least, according to Thy brethren; forgive them every sin, voluntary or involuntary, cover them with Your compassion and place them in Your Holy palace; and as those who received food here on earth through the invocation of Your holy name, feed there in heaven from the fatness of Your house and may they be comforted and may all who truly mourned to You enjoy endless joy; place them with Your saints, so that all things may be purchased by You, Judge of the living and the dead, and may they form a host of Your chosen ones, and so may they glorify, praise and extol Your boundless mercy to boundless ages. Amen.
Prayer for those who have died due to mental illness
Wonderful are Your works, O Lord, and there is no end to the greatness of Your mind! How, through varied and unsearchable paths, do You lead Your people in this world from the world below to the world above! You destroy the wisdom of the wise, you reject the wisdom of the wise, you waste and humble the high and proud, you overthrow and disgrace the strong and noble; You choose the wild and humble, the humble, the weak and the weak, elevate, strengthen and glorify, revealing the wise and good advice of Your providential vision to infants and hiding them from those who imagine themselves to be perfect in their minds. Who is pleased to understand all Your destiny, O God, in the image, according to the richness of Your goodness and long-suffering, admonishing, teaching and saving us sinners and unworthy Thy servants? You apply intelligence to the other and bestow sound judgment, but you take possession of the other, tear away the stony heart from the other and invest it with flesh; You bestow upon him physical strength and vigor, as well as spiritual courage; You allow others to be sick in soul and body; You make him happy, but you want to make him sad; You live, and you die. Oh, great and inscrutable in the secrets of His consideration for us, Lord our God! I confess with all my heart before You, as with the deceased (-neck) of Thy servant (Thy servant) (name), who has died (my) ever-remembered, it was not without Your wise and good will and vision that a crushing illness of the soul, and its true guilt, occurred and all the power of You alone knows exactly the essence: I also reverently submit before Your, O Lord, indescribable, but I will take out saving destinies, with tenderness I cry out to You: incline Your ear to my prayer and listen to my love for mankind, and soon hear my prayer for this Thy servant ( yours). I am perplexed and greatly grieve over the extraordinary fate of him (her), who, not like other people with sense, self-awareness and firmness in memory, has come to You from us, but as if he is deprived of his mind, perverted in meaning, painfully saddened ( -on) with the heart, not having the self-controlling power of your will, appearing frantically and ferociously in your actions. God! God! What is this incomprehensible phenomenon in the spiritual life of mankind? How can one created in Your image and likeness fall into extreme foolishness, go mad, go berserk, and do inappropriate things? What then is this with the breath of Thy life, O God Almighty? Truly, according to Your, O Lord, unsearchable paths and ineffable advice, all of this is arranged wisely and with good intentions by You: inflict it, as if it were a temporary punishment, and allow a great deal of disorder and transformation in the wonderful composition of our being, so that by the hidden ways of You you will arrange, restore and correct all obstinate and corrupted things that have been created by unreasonable, evil and crafty custom, and such visible evil in people, in You, All-Good Master, ever-flowing Source of Wisdom and Reason, in You they turn into good. For this sake, humbly falling to Thy inexhaustible bounties, our Humane-loving Savior, I pray to Thee, Giver of good things, accept Thy deceased servant (Thy servant) (name), as he was so ill and suffered in in this life, accept by Thy mercy, and do not add, O Good One, even there, in the country of our brothers who have departed from us, the pain and suffering of him (her), which are immeasurably more cruel than here on earth; but turn away from him (her) the rebuke of Your anger and look at him (her) with the bright eye of Your mercy; but do not let the cruel ones perish forever, for He Himself, the Most Merciful Savior, who does not want the death of a sinner, who does not want anyone to perish, Sweetest Jesus Christ, the Son of God, heal those who are incurably ill in body, cleanse lepers and make the demons understanding! I pray to You, Lord, heal the soul of Your deceased servant (Your servant) (name), cleanse him (her) from all voluntary and involuntary, known and unknown sins and sins of him (her), cleanse Himself, Savior, since he was not able to rationally and in sound memory confess them to You, for this sake, have mercy on him (her), Lord, and take from him (her) all the heavy burden of sins. Take away the sins of the world! Cover and justify him (s) with Your grace, and, in his image, weigh his destinies. Save Thy servant (s) from Thy chosen ones, but make it worthy to be a fellow member (s) of heavenly faces, like Thy wretched servant (Thy servant), who was excommunicated here on earth (- y) and alienated from one’s own name from one’s relatives, friends and neighbors, and do not deprive him of Thy Heavenly Kingdom, as one is deprived of seeing Thy goodness here on earth and left to drag out one’s days in the performance of bitterly lamentable deeds : For this sake, I pray to Thee, Lord, rest him (s) with Thy saints in the House of Thy Father, with Him, together with Thy Most Holy Spirit, we send glory to Thee, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Prayer for the repose of those who have died after a serious and long illness
Lord, Lord! You are righteous, and Your judgment is righteous: You, in Your eternal Wisdom, have set the limit of our life, which no one will pass. Wise are Your laws, unsearchable are Your ways! You command the angel of death to remove from the body the soul of a baby and an old man, a husband and a young man, a healthy and a sick person, according to Your unspeakable and unknown to us destinies; but we believe that this is Your holy will, beforehand, according to the judgment of Your righteousness, You, Most Good Lord, as the all-wise and omnipotent and omniscient Physician of our souls and bodies, send illnesses and ailments, troubles and misadventures to man, as spiritual healing. You strike him and heal him, you put to death what is dead in him and give life to the immortal, and, like a loving Father, you punish him even if you accept him: we pray to You, O Lord who loves mankind, accept Your servant (Your servant) (name) who has come to You, whom You have sought Thou art, by Thy love for mankind, who punished with grave bodily illness, to save the soul from mortal illness; and if all this has been received from You with humility, patience and love for You, as the all-powerful Physician of our souls and bodies, show him (her) this day Your rich mercy, as he who has endured all this sin of his for the sake of. Impute to him (her), Lord, this temporary serious illness as some kind of punishment for the sins committed in this vale of tears, and heal his (her) soul from sinful ailments. Have mercy, Lord, have mercy on the one you have sought, and, punished temporarily, I pray to You, do not punish him with the deprivation of Your eternal heavenly blessings, but grant him (s) the right to enjoy them in Your Kingdom. If the deceased Thy servant (Thy servant), without reasoning within himself, for the sake of this was the touch of Thy healing and providential Hand, obstinately speaking to himself, or, out of his unreasonableness, grumbling in his heart, like this burden consider yourself unbearable, or, due to the weakness of your nature, suffering from a long illness and upset by a misfortune, we pray to You, Long-suffering and Much-Merciful Lord, forgive him (her) this sin according to Your boundless mercy and Your unconditional mercy towards us sinners and unworthy Thy servants, forgive for the sake of Your love for the human race; If his (her) iniquity exceeds his (her) head, but illness and illness do not move him (s) to full and sincere repentance, we beg You, the Author of our life, we beg You with Your redemptive merits, have mercy and save, Savior, slave Thine (Thy servant) from eternal death. Lord God, our Savior! You, by faith in You, granted forgiveness and remission of sins, granting pardon and healing to the thirty-year-old weakened man, when you said: “Your sins are felt by you”; With this faith and hope in Your goodness, we resort to Your, O Most Generous Jesus, ineffable mercy and in the tenderness of our hearts we pray to You, Lord: for now and today, this is the word of pardon, the word of remission of sins to the deceased, to the ever-remembered (- my) by us to Thy servant (Thy servant) (name), may he be healed spiritually, and may he dwell in a place of light, in a place of peace, where there is no sickness, no sorrow, no sighing, and may his (her) illnesses and ailments be replaced there, tears of suffering and sorrow into a source of joy about the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Prayer for the repose of Orthodox soldiers killed in battle for the faith and Fatherland
Invincible, incomprehensible and strong in battle, Lord our God! You, according to Your inscrutable destinies, send the Angel of Death to another under his roof, to another in the village, to another on the sea, to another on the battlefield from the weapons of war, spewing out terrible and deadly forces, destroying the bodies, tearing apart the limbs and crushing the bones of the warriors; We believe that according to Your, Lord, wise vision, such death is accepted by the defenders of the faith and the Fatherland.
We pray to Thee, Most Blessed Lord, remember in Thy Kingdom the Orthodox soldiers who were killed in battle, and receive them into Thy heavenly palace, as wounded martyrs, stained with their own blood, as if they suffered for Thy Holy Church and for the Fatherland, which Thou hast blessed, as Thy heritage . We pray to Thee, accept the warriors who have gone to You into the hosts of the hosts of the Heavenly Forces, accept them by Thy mercy, as those who fell in battle for the independence of the Russian land from the yoke of the infidels, as if they defended the Orthodox faith from enemies, who defended the Fatherland in difficult times from foreign hordes; Remember, Lord, and all those who fought a good deed for the ancient preserved Apostolic Orthodoxy, for the Russian land that You have chosen, sanctified and holy in its language, and the enemies of the Cross and Orthodoxy offered both fire and sword. Receive in peace of soul your servants (names), who fought for our prosperity, for our peace and tranquility, and grant them eternal rest, as they saved cities and towns and defended the Fatherland with themselves, and have mercy on the Orthodox soldiers who fell in battle with your mercy, forgive them everything sins committed in this life in word, deed, knowledge and ignorance. Look with Your mercy, O Most Merciful Lord, on their wounds, torment, groaning and suffering, and impute to them all this as a good deed and pleasing to You; Accept them by Thy mercy, having endured fierce sorrow and hardship here, in need, cramped conditions, in labor and vigil, there was hunger and thirst, you endured exhaustion and exhaustion, you were considered like sheep of the slaughter. We pray to Thee, Lord, that their wounds will be medicine and oil poured out on their sinful sores. Look down from heaven, O God, and see the tears of the orphans who have lost their fathers, and accept the tender prayers of their sons and daughters for them; hear the prayerful sighs of fathers and mothers who have lost their children; hear, O most gracious Lord, the inconsolable widows who have lost their spouses; brothers and sisters crying for their relatives - and remember the men who were killed in the strength of their strength and in the prime of their years, the elders, in the strength of spirit and courage; look at our heartfelt sorrows, see our lamentation and have mercy, O Most Good One, towards those who pray to You, Lord! Thou hast taken away our dear ones from us, but do not deprive us of Thy mercy: hear our prayer and accept Thy servants (names) who have mercifully gone to Thee. call them to Your palace, like valiant warriors who laid down their lives for faith and the Fatherland on the battlefields; accept them into the host of Your chosen ones, as those who served You with faith and righteousness, and rest them in Your Kingdom, like the martyrs who went to You wounded, ulcerated and betraying their spirit in terrible torment; brought into Your holy city all Your servants (names) who are ever remembered by us, like valiant warriors who fought courageously in the terrible battles of which we remember them; their garments there are in fine linen, bright and clean, as here they have whitened their vestments in their blood, and are worthy of the crowns of martyrdom; make them collectively participants in the triumph and glory of the victors who fought under the banner of Your Cross with the world, flesh and the devil; place them in the host of glorious passion-bearers, good-victorious martyrs, the righteous and all Your saints. Amen.
Prayer for those who have died due to sudden (sudden) death
First prayer
Inscrutable are Your destinies, Lord! Thy ways are unsearchable! Give breath to every creature and bring everything from those that do not exist into being, You send the Angel of death to him on a Day he does not know, and at an hour he does not expect; You snatch him from the hand of death, granting him life with his last breath; Be long-suffering to the new one and give him time for repentance; You cut it like a grain with the sword of death in one hour, in the twinkling of an eye; You strike him with thunder and lightning, you burn him with flame, and you betray him as food for wild beasts; You command them to be swallowed up by the waves and abysses of the sea and the abysses of the earth; You kidnap them with a destructive ulcer, where death, like a reaper, reaps and separates father or mother from their children, brother from brother, husband from wife, tears the baby from the mother’s womb, casts lifeless the mighty of the earth, the rich and the poor. What the hell is this? Your look is wondrous and perplexing to us, O God! But Lord, Lord! You are only One, knowing everything, weighing why this happens and why it should be, as if Your servant (Your servant) (name) was consumed in the blink of an eye by the gap of death. If you are punishing him (her) for his (her) many, grave sins, we pray to You, O many-merciful and all-merciful Lord, not with Your wrath do you reprove him (her) and punish him completely, but, according to Your goodness and according to Your unconditional mercy, show him (her) great Your mercy is in the forgiveness and forgiveness of sins. What if your deceased servant (thy servant), in this life thinking about the Day of Judgment, recognized his own repentance and desired to bring you fruits worthy of repentance, but not having achieved this, was called by you to be on the day of his not knowing, and at an hour for which I was not expecting, for this sake we pray to Thee even more, Most Gracious and Most Merciful Lord, to correct, arrange, complete the unfinished work of saving him (her), the unfinished repentance, which Thy eyes have seen, with Thy ineffable goodness and love for mankind; The imams have only one hope in Your endless mercy: You have judgment and punishment, You have truth and inexhaustible mercy; You punish, but at the same time you are merciful; beeshi, and at the same time you are acceptable; We diligently pray to Thee, O Lord our God, do not punish the one suddenly called to You with Thy Last Judgment, but have mercy, have mercy on him (them) and do not cast him away from Thy presence. Oh, it is terrible to suddenly fall into Thy hands, O Lord, and to appear before Thy impartial judgment! It is terrible to come to You without gracious guidance, without Repentance and communion of Your Holy, terrible and life-giving Mysteries, Lord! If Thy servant (Thy servant) who has suddenly died and is remembered by us is so much a sinner, so much guilty of condemnation at Your righteous court, we pray to You, have mercy on him (her), not condemn him (s) to eternal torment, to eternal death; Be patient with us, give us the length of our days, so that we may pray to You all our days for Your departed servant(s), until you hear us and accept by Your mercy the one who suddenly departed to You; and grant us, Master, to wash away his (her) sins with tears of contrition and our sighs before You, so that Your servant (Your servant) (name) may not be brought down by his sin to a place of torment (name), but may he dwell in a place of rest . You Yourself, Lord, command to strike at the door of Your mercy, we pray to You, O Most Generous King, and we will not cease to beg Your mercy and cry out with the repentant David: have mercy, have mercy on Your servant, O God, according to Your great mercy. If You are dissatisfied with our words, with this little prayer of ours, we beseech You, Lord, with faith in Your saving merits, with trust in the redemptive and miraculous power of Your sacrifice, offered by You for the sins of the whole world; We pray to Thee, O Sweetest Jesus! You are the Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, you were crucified for our salvation! We pray to Thee, as our Savior and Redeemer, save and have mercy and deliver eternal torment from the soul of Thy servant (Thy servant) (name) who has suddenly died, so often remembered by us, and do not leave him to perish forever, but make you worthy to reach Your quiet refuge and rest there, where all Your saints rest. Together we pray to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ our God, by Thy mercy accept all Thy servants (names) who suddenly came to Thee, who were covered by water, who were embraced by the coward, who were killed by murderers, who were hit by fire, hail, snow, frost, hunger and the spirit of a stormy slaying. , thunder and lightning struck, struck a destructive ulcer, or died by some other guilt, by Your will and permission, we pray to You, accept them under Your mercy and resurrect them into eternal, holy and blessed life. Amen.
Second prayer
Inscrutable and incomprehensible in the deeds of Your wondrous and wondrous looking at us, O Lord, and inexhaustible in mercy, our God! Look down from the heights of Thy Holy Dwelling and visit, and with Thy autumn grace Thy sinner and unworthy servant praying to You, so that by the all-powerful and all-powerful power of Thy Holy Spirit my prayer may be corrected before Thy heavenly mental altar, like a fragrant censer. Hear the voice of my prayer, O God, my God, and pour the gracious oil of consolation and strength on my weak, sorrowful and sad heart, embarrassed and cold about an unknown lot, according to Your unsearchable destinies, suddenly stolen from us by the death of Your servant ( Thy servants) (name). Oh, Most Merciful Lord! Do not turn away from Thy presence, but have mercy on his (her) trembling soul, called to Thy impartial judgment at an hour not expected. Turn away from him (her) Your righteous rebuke, do not reprove him with Your wrath, disturb and punish him with Your wrath, but have mercy according to Your great mercy, have mercy for the sake of the merits of the cross of Your beloved Son, the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ and prayers for the sake of His Most Pure Mother and all Your saints; forgive him (her) all the sins committed in knowledge and ignorance. Look with Thy humane eye on his (her) faith, trust, and hope in the saving merits of Thy Only Begotten Son, and accept his (her) soul from the maternal womb of the Orthodox Church of Christ, which suddenly passed from the earth, accept with Thy mercy, Thy goodness, gracious love Thy Holy Spirit, and instilled in the bosom of Abraham and rest there, as if here, in this life, I was worthy to partake of the Holy Life-giving, saving and immortal Mysteries. If its lamp - faith, from the impoverishment of the oil of love and good deeds, fades away before Thy radiant face, I pray to Thee, fill it, filling it all, with the oil of Thy goodness and the unflickering light of Thy ineffable love; kindle, O Father of lights and Light-Giver, her intelligent lamp, so that the deceased may see the light in Your light and glorify You with a pure heart; do not shut the doors of Your beautifully decorated palace from the unrequited servant (Thy servant) (name). Lord God and Father of heaven and earth! You do not want the death of a sinner, but you mercifully accepted from him and for him everything that is done towards conversion and salvation, and you yourself arranged his paths in every way, even as he lives, I pray to you, O Master Lord, be pleased to remember all the deeds of mercy and prayer, here on earth performed for the departed Thy servant (Thy servant), and accept the sorrowful and prayerful cry of my heart, together with the prayers for him (her) of the clergy of Thy Holy Church! I pray to You, Lord, have mercy, have mercy on Your servant (Your servant), weaken, forgive him (her) all his (her) sins and sins, done willingly and unwillingly, by reason and foolishness: heal his (her) much-painful soul, satisfy, pacify and enlighten his (her) heart, which is confused and enveloped in alien darkness, and as one who hungers and thirsts for Your mercy, fill Your eternal blessings; for it is Yours to have mercy and save us, O our God, and to You alone be due glory forever. Amen.
About stillborn babies
Lord, have mercy on my children who died in my womb. For my faith and tears, for the sake of Thy mercy, Lord, do not deprive them of Thy Divine light!
Widower's prayer for his wife
Christ Jesus, Lord and Almighty! In contrition and tenderness of my heart, I pray to You: rest, O Lord, the soul of Your departed servant (name), in Your Heavenly Kingdom. Lord Almighty! You favored the marital union of husband and wife, when you said: it is not good for man to be alone; let us create for him a helper for him. You have sanctified this union in the image of the spiritual union of Christ with the Church. I believe, Lord, and confess that You have blessed me to unite me in this holy union with one of Your handmaids. By your good and wise will you deigned to take away from me this servant of yours, whom you have given to me as a helper and companion of my life. I bow before Your will, and I pray to You with all my heart, accept my prayer for Your servant (name), and forgive her if you sin in word, deed, thought, knowledge and ignorance; Love earthly things more than heavenly things; Even if you care more about the clothing and decoration of your body than about the enlightenment of the clothing of your soul; or even careless about your children; if you upset anyone by word or deed; If you murmur in your heart against your neighbor or condemn someone or anything else you have done that is evil. Forgive her all this, for she is good and philanthropic; for there is no man who will live and not sin. Do not enter into judgment with Thy servant, as Thy creation, do not condemn her to eternal torment for her sin, but have mercy and mercy according to Thy great mercy. I pray and ask You, Lord of Powers, to grant me throughout the days of my life to never cease to pray for Your departed servant, and even until the end of my life to ask her from You, the Judge of the whole world, for forgiveness of her sins. Yes, just as You, God, have placed a crown of stone on her head, crowning her here on earth; Thus, crown me with Your eternal glory in Your Heavenly Kingdom, with all the saints who rejoice there, and together with them forever sing Your All-Holy Name with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Children's prayer for parents
Lord Jesus Christ our God! You are the keeper of the orphans, the refuge of the grieving and the comforter of the weeping. I, an orphan, come running to You, groaning and crying, and I pray to You: hear my prayer and do not turn Your face away from the sighs of my heart and from the tears of my eyes. I pray to You, merciful Lord, satisfy my grief over separation from my parent (matter) (name), and his soul (her), as if she has gone to You with true faith in You and firm hope in Yours accept philanthropy and mercy into Your Heavenly Kingdom. I bow before Your holy will, which was taken away from me, and I ask You not to take away from him (her or them) Your mercy and mercy. We know, Lord, that You, the Judge of this world, punish the sins and wickedness of the fathers in children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, even to the third and fourth generation: but you also have mercy on the fathers for the prayers and virtues of their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. With contrition and tenderness of heart, I pray to Thee, merciful Judge, do not punish with eternal punishment the deceased, unforgettable for me, Your servant (s), my parent (mother) (name), but forgive him (her) all his (her) sins, voluntary and involuntary, in word and deed, knowledge and ignorance, committed by him (her) in his (her) life here on earth, and according to Your mercy and love for mankind, prayers for the sake of the Most Pure Mother of God and All saints, have mercy on him (you) and deliver him from eternal torment. You, merciful Father of fathers and children! Grant me, all the days of my life, until my last breath, not to cease to remember my deceased parent (mother) in my prayers, and to beg Thee, the righteous Judge, to order him (s) in a place of light, in a place cool and in a calm place, with all the saints, from where all illness, sadness and sighing have escaped. Merciful Lord! Accept this day for Thy servant (Your) (name) my warm prayer and give him (her) Your reward for the labors and cares of my upbringing in faith and Christian piety, as having taught me first of all to lead You, my Lord, pray to You in reverence, trust in You alone in troubles, sorrows and illnesses and keep Your Commandments; for his (her) concern for my spiritual progress, for the warmth of his (her) prayer for me before You and for all the gifts he (she) asked me from You, reward him (her) with Your mercy, Your heavenly blessings and joys in Your eternal Kingdom. For you are the God of mercies and generosity and love for mankind. You are the peace and joy of Your faithful servants, and we send glory to You with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Parents' prayer for children
Lord Jesus Christ, our God, Lord of life and death. Comforter of the Sorrowful! With a contrite and tender heart, I run to You and pray to You: remember, Lord, in Your Kingdom your deceased servant (Thy servant), my child (name), and create eternal memory for him (her). You, Lord of life and death, have given me this child. It was your good and wise will to take it away from me. Blessed be Thy Name, O Lord. I pray to You, Judge of heaven and earth, with Your endless love for us sinners, forgive my deceased child all his sins, voluntary and involuntary, in word, in deed, in knowledge and ignorance. Forgive, O Merciful One, our parental sins, so that they may not remain on our children: we know that we have sinned many times before You, many of whom we have not observed, and have not done, as You commanded us. If our deceased child, ours or his own, for the sake of guilt, lived in this life, working for the world and his flesh and not more than You, the Lord and his God: if you loved the delights of this world, and not more than Your Word and Your Commandments, if you indulged in sweets worldly, and not more so in contrition for one’s sins, and in intemperance having given up vigil, fasting and prayer to oblivion, I earnestly pray to Thee, forgive the most good Father, my child, all such sins of him, forgive and weaken, even if he has done other evil in this life, Christ Jesus! You raised up the daughter of Jairus through the faith and prayer of her father. You healed the daughter of the Canaanite wife through faith and the request of her mother: hear my prayer, and do not despise my prayer for my child. Forgive, Lord, forgive, all his sins and, having forgiven and cleansed his soul, remove eternal torment and dwell with all Your saints, who have pleased You from all eternity, where there is no sickness, no sorrow, no sighing, but endless life: like there is no man who will live and not sin. You are One except for sin: so that when you judge the world, my child will hear Your most beloved voice: come, blessing of My Father, and inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For You are the Father of mercies and generosity, You are our life and resurrection, and to You we send glory with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Widow's prayer for her husband
Christ Jesus, Lord and Almighty! You are the consolation of the weeping, the intercession of the orphans and widows. You said: call on Me in the day of your sorrow, and I will destroy you. In the days of my sorrow, I run to You and pray to You: do not turn Your face away from me and hear my prayer brought to You with tears. You, Lord, Master of all, have blessed me to unite me with one of Your servants, so that we may be one body and one spirit; You gave me this servant as a companion and protector. It was your good and wise will to take away this servant of yours from me and leave me alone. Bow down before this Your will and I resort to You in the days of my sorrow: quench my sorrow about separation from Your servant, my friend. Even if you took it away from me, do not take your mercy away from me. Just as you once accepted two mites for a widow, so accept this prayer of mine. Remember, Lord, the soul of Your departed servant (name), forgive him all his sins, voluntary and involuntary, whether in word, or in deed, or in knowledge and ignorance, do not destroy him with his iniquities and do not deliver him to eternal torment, but according to Your great mercy and according to the multitude of Thy compassions, weaken and forgive all his sins and commit them with Thy saints, where there is no sickness, no sorrow, no sighing, but endless life. I pray and ask You, Lord, grant that all the days of my life I will not cease to pray for Your departed servant, and even before my departure, ask You, the Judge of the whole world, to forgive all his sins and to place him in the heavenly abodes that You have prepared for those who love Cha. For even if you sin, do not depart from You, and undoubtedly the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are Orthodox even until your last breath of confession; with the same faith, even in You, instead of works, impute to him: for there is no man who will live and will not sin, You are One besides sin, and Your righteousness is righteousness forever. I believe, Lord, and I confess that You have heard my prayer and have not turned Your face away from me. Seeing a widow weeping green, you were merciful, and you brought her son to the grave, carrying her to the grave; thus, having compassion, calmed down my sorrow. For Thou didst open to Thy servant Theophilus, who went to Thee, the doors of Thy mercy and forgave him his sins through the prayers of Thy holy Church, heeding the prayers and alms of his wife: here and I pray to Thee, accept my prayer for Thy servant, and bring him in to eternal life. For You are our hope, You are God, to have mercy and to save, and to You we send glory with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen!
Prayer for the departure of the soul from the body
God of Spirits and all flesh! You create Your angels, Your spirits, and Your servants, Your fiery flame. Cherubim and Seraphim tremble before You, and thousands of thousands stand before Your Throne with fear and trembling. For those who want to improve their salvation, You send Your holy Angels to serve; You also give to us sinners Your holy Angel, like a mentor, who kept us in all our paths from all evil and mysteriously instructed and admonished us even until our last breath. God! Thou hast commanded to take the soul away from Thy servant (Thy servant) (name), who is ever remembered by us; Thy will is the holy will; We pray to Thee, Life-Giver Lord, do not now take away from his (her) soul this nurturer and guardian of it, and do not leave me alone as I walk on the path; commanded him, as a guardian, not to go away with help in this terrible passage of her into the invisible world of heaven; We pray to You that He will be her intercessor and protector from the evil enemy during the ordeal, until he brings You to You, as to the Judge of heaven and earth. Oh, this passage is terrible for the soul that is coming to Thy impartial judgment, and that in the course of this passage will be tormented by the spirits of wickedness in the heavens! Therefore, we pray to You, Most Good Lord, to favor and send Your holy Angels to the soul of Your servant (Your servant) (name) who has come to You, so that they will protect, protect and preserve You from the attack and torment of these terrible and evil spirits, as torturers and tax collectors of the air, servants of the prince of darkness; We pray to Thee, free this evil situation, so that a horde of evil demons does not gather; grant me the honor to fearlessly, graciously and unrestrainedly take this terrible path from the earth with Your Angels, may they lift you up to bow to Your Throne and may they lead you to the light of Your mercy.
Prayer of Elder Antonia
Remember, Lord, the souls of Your departed servants, those newly reposed on this day, at this hour, at this moment, who departed from this world in the hope of resurrection: those who were burned in fire, those who drowned in water, those who froze on the way, those who died from famine, those who died without Repentance and Communion, and those who laid down their lives for the Orthodox Faith, the orphans and the poor...