Prayer for saving pregnancy icon. How to Pray for a Healthy Baby

Prayers for a pregnant woman and a woman in labor. Orthodox patron saints of pregnant women and their icons

Every believing Orthodox pregnant woman needs to know what prayers to the Lord God and the Mother of God will reduce her suffering. Pregnant women and women in childbirth should always have such prayers at hand and read twice a day - in the morning and in the evening every day.

Miracles exist only for those who believe in them. Whoever has faith in God in his soul will multiply, and whoever does not have faith, the last thing will be taken from him.

Pregnancy is always a test, and childbirth is the peak, the culmination of the torment of every woman, doomed because of the original sin of Eve to suffering at the birth of children.

Not all women have a smooth and safe pregnancy. And then it is important to know which patron saints you should turn to for help with the help of an official or your own prayer.

Even if the pregnancy of the future mother proceeds safely, this does not at all guarantee a quick, easy, painless and hassle-free delivery of a healthy, intelligent, kind, beautiful, happy baby, blessed by the Lord God.

This must be asked of the Lord and the Mother of God the Blessed Virgin Mary, the patron saints of pregnant women and women in labor every day, every free moment. And they will definitely hear your spiritual prayer, prayer - you just need to sincerely and wholeheartedly believe that the Lord is merciful and omnipotent.

Some women give birth to children very easily, like from a machine gun - one after another. Some bear children, as in an incubator, up to 60 years. But the Lord does not grant such joy to all ladies - to safely endure the hardships of a pregnant life and quickly, easily give birth to healthy babies.

Many young mothers who have gone through the hellish torments of a difficult pregnancy and childbirth with complications (when the baby is located with the pelvis to the exit from the mother, when his neck is wrapped around the umbilical cord and the day before the birth you can’t even sit down at all - it means strangling the baby itself) come to faith in God, seek protection from the patron saints, from the Mother of God, find and read prayers for the health of their children, buy in Orthodox churches the icon-patron of pregnant and already born children.

It is never too late to turn to the Lord for help. But it is better, of course, to remember the Divine help and protection sooner rather than later.

Therefore, in this article I publish Orthodox prayers that will help pregnant women and women in labor to alleviate their suffering and overcome doubts, I print just below the patron saints of expectant mothers and their children, and I also publish those icons that a pregnant woman should pray.

All materials are taken from official website of the Orthodox Church Pravoslavie.ru , as well as from a booklet bought in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, called "Prayers for Children", which was published by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Poltava diocese in the Transfiguration Mgarsky Monastery in 2001 in the amount of 40,000 copies.

Icons for pregnant women, women in labor and mothers.

The main Holy Patroness of women in pregnancy and childbirth is the Mother of God and her icon "Help in childbirth", it is called - "the holy Image of the Blessed Virgin Mary in childbirth Helper".

Also, pregnant women and women who have already become mothers should appeal to the Mother of God through Her following miraculous icons:

Icon mammalgives mothers milk, children food, adults wisdom;

Icon of the Holy Mother of GodMind additionhelps children in their studies and helps people cope with difficult everyday situations. It is good for this image to pray to those women whom men abandoned during their pregnancy;

Icon Upbringinghelps to raise children;

Softening of Evil Hearts (Seven Shooters)the icon will help a pregnant woman or a woman in labor, in the hour of her grief, sadness and illness, to survive everything, to endure with God's help the prayers of the Virgin;

If you feel bad and you don’t know which icon to pray for the Lord God to hear you faster, then pray to the image of the VirginQuick Hearer- she hears all our requests - both large and small, and quickly, quickly helps people if these requests-prayers are pleasing to God;

Icon healer- heals from any diseases, even from those before which modern scientific doctors hopelessly lowered their hands;

Icon All-Tsaritsa- helps cancer patients and other seriously ill people;

Soothe my sorrows- helps fight fears, anxieties and doubts, drives away depression, which affects almost all pregnant women and women in labor;

Inexhaustible Chalice- helps to return drunkards to normal life, which is important for wives with drinking husbands;

The guarantor of sinners- the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, prayer to which, by the great mercy of God, lets go of the most serious sins - betrayal, abortion, heals small children and adults from many diseases;

Icon of Unexpected Joy- gives people hope even in the most hopeless life situations, resolves, cuts the most difficult problems in a person's life - you just need to believe and pray, trust in the Lord God, ask under the intercessory wing of the Most Holy Theotokos;

Look for humility- this holy image helps believers who are doing well, people who are trying to lead a righteous lifestyle, not become proud and not get carried away;

Recovery of the Dead- the miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary, which helps in life, and in illness, and in poverty, and in sin;

Bread Tenderblesses people for any undertaking pleasing to God.

ORTHODOX PRAYER OF A PREGNANT WOMAN TO THE MOTHER OF GOD

Oh, Glorious Mother of God, have mercy on me, Thy servant, and come to my aid during my illnesses and dangers, with which all the poor daughters of Eve give birth.

Remember, O Blessed One in women, with what joy and love You went hastily to a mountainous country to visit Your relative Elizabeth during her pregnancy, and what a wonderful effect Your grace-filled visit had on both mother and baby.

And according to Thy inexhaustible mercy, grant me, Thy most humble servant, to be relieved of the burden safely; grant me this grace so that the child, now resting under my heart, having come to his senses, with joyful leaping, like the holy baby John, worships the Divine Lord the Savior, who, out of love for us sinners, did not disdain himself to become a baby.

The unexpressed joy that filled Your virgin heart when looking at Your newborn Son and Lord, may it alleviate the sorrow that is coming to me amid the illnesses of birth.

Hear, Most Holy Queen of Heaven, my humble prayer and look down on me, a poor sinner, with Your eye of grace; do not shame my hope in Your great mercy and fall on me.

Helper of Christians, Healer of diseases, may I also be able to experience for myself that You are the Mother of Mercy, and may I always glorify Your grace, which has never rejected the prayers of the poor and delivers all those who call on You during sorrow and illness. Amen.

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Prayer of a pregnant woman and a woman in labor to the Lord

Almighty, miraculous, merciful God, Creator and Preserver of heaven and earth and all creatures, Who Himself pronounced a blessing on all Christian spouses: grow and multiply!

And again: this is the inheritance from the Lord: children, the fruit of the womb, a reward from Him.

I thank Thee that You have made me a partaker of this blessing and Thy gift in my marital state, and I pray Thee: deign to bless the fruit of the womb, bestowed upon me by Thee, bless and delight it with Thy Holy Spirit, accept Thy beloved children among the number of Thy beloved ones and make them partakers of the holy sacraments of the Church Thy beloved Son, my Lord Jesus Christ, so that he may be sanctified and cleansed from the poisonous infection of hereditary sin in which he was conceived.

Lord God!

I and the fruit of my womb are children of wrath by nature, but You, beloved Father, have mercy on us, and sprinkle the fruit of my womb with hyssop, so that it will be clean, wash it, and it will become whiter than snow.

Strengthen and keep him in the womb until the hour when he should be born into the world.

This fruit of my womb was not hidden from You, when it was formed in the womb, Your hands arranged it, You gave it life and breath, and may Your supervision preserve them.

Save me from fear and fright and from evil spirits who would like to damage and crush the work of Your hands.

Grant him a rational soul, and make sure that his body grows healthy and undefiled, with whole, healthy members, and when the time and hour come, resolve me by Your mercy.

Grant me strength and strength for my birth, bless him with Your almighty help and ease my suffering, because this is Your work, the miraculous power of Your omnipotence, the work of Your mercy and mercy.

Remember the word that You spoke: You took me out of the womb; I am devoted to You from birth; from my mother's womb You are my God; You gave me rest at my mother's breast.

You are the God who knows and sees the needs of all people; You said: A woman, when she gives birth, suffers grief, because her hour has come.

God!

For the sake of this heartfelt compassion of Yours and for the sake of Your pity-filled heart, I beseech You, deign to relieve my sorrow, which You foresaw, and bring forth the fruit of my womb, with a healthy, living body and intact, well-formed members.

I entrust him to you, into your almighty, fatherly hands, in your mercy and mercy, and I place him, Lord Jesus Christ, in your holy arms, bless this fruit of my womb, as you blessed the children brought to you when you spoke : let the children go and do not prevent them from coming to me, because such is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Savior!

Thus I bring to Thee also this fruit of my womb; lay your graceful hand upon him.

Bless him with the finger of Your Holy Spirit and bless him when he comes into this world with holy, blessed baptism; sanctify and renew him to eternal life through rebirth, make him also a member of your holy body and your holy Christian church, so that praise to you is pronounced from his lips, and he is and remains forever a child and heir of eternal life, through the holy, Your bitter suffering and Your death and Your holy name, Jesus Christ. Amen.

(Prayer of the priest G. Dyachenko)

Prayer with a request to give birth to healthy children before the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, called the "Healer"

Accept, O All-Blessed and Almighty Lady Lady Mother of God Virgin, these prayers, with tears to Thee, now brought from us unworthy Thy servants to Thy wholesome Image, the singing of those who send with tenderness, as if You are the very one who exists and listens to our prayer.

By any request, do fulfillment, ease sorrows, grant health to the weak, heal the weak and sick, drive away demons from heaven, deliver the offended from insults, cleanse lepers and have mercy on small children; also to the Lady Mistress Theotokos, and from bonds and dungeons you free and heal all kinds of passions; All things are possible through Your intercession to Your Son, Christ our God.

O Spepetaya Mother, Holy Mother of God!

Do not stop praying for us Thy unworthy servants, who glorify Thee and honor Thee, and who worship Thy Most Pure Image with tenderness, and who have irrevocable hope and undoubted faith in Thee, the Most Glorious and Immaculate Ever-Virgin, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.

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Not other imams of help, not other imams of hope, unless You, the Lady, help us: we hope in You, and we boast in You; For I am thy servants, let us not be ashamed.

Orthodox prayer during physical illness and mental pain to the holy great martyr and healer Panteleimon

Oh, the great saint of Christ, the passion-bearer and doctor, the merciful Panteleimon! Have mercy on me, a sinful slave, hear my groaning and cry, have mercy on the heavenly, supreme Physician of our souls and bodies, Christ our God, may He grant me healing from the disease that oppresses me.
Accept the unworthy prayer of the sinner more than all people. Visit me with a blessed visit. Do not disdain my sinful sores, anoint them with the oil of your mercy and heal me; yes, healthy in soul and body, the rest of my days, by the grace of God, I can spend in repentance and pleasing God and be able to perceive the good end of my life.

Hey, God's servant! Pray for Christ God, that by your intercession he will grant health to my body and the salvation of my soul. Amen.

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Also, during illnesses and pains, it is useful for physical and mental health to read the 90th psalm “Alive in the help of the highest” and the prayer “May God rise again”, as well as the strong prayer “Symbol of Faith”.

When reading these prayers, you can constantly baptize a sick person as a whole or those parts of his body that hurt (neck, stomach, back).

If a pregnant woman does not feel well, it is advisable to submit a note about her health to the church, order a magpie about health, or even order a private service about her health.

Prayer Creed

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

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only Begotten, Who was born of the Father before all ages; Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, uncreated, consubstantial with the Father, Whom all was.

For us for the sake of man and for our sake of salvation, he descended from heaven and became incarnate from the Holy Spirit and Mary the Virgin, and became human. Crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffering, and buried. And resurrected on the third day according to the Scriptures.

And ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father. And the packs of the future with glory to judge the living and the dead, His Kingdom will have no end.

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

Into one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

I confess one baptism for the remission of sins.

I look forward to the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come. Amen.

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Psalm 90

Alive in the help of the Most High, in the blood of the God of Heaven will settle. The Lord says: Thou art my intercessor and my refuge, my God, and I trust in Him.

Yako He will deliver you from the net of the hunter, and from the word of the rebellious, the splash of His will overshadow thee, and under His wings you hope: His truth will be your weapon.

Do not be afraid of the fear of the night, from the arrow flying in the days, from the thing in the darkness of the transient, from the scum, and the demon of the noonday. A thousand will fall from your country, and darkness at your right hand, but it will not come close to you, both look with your eyes, and see the reward of sinners.

As you, O Lord, are my hope, the Most High have laid down your refuge. Evil will not come to you, and the wound will not approach your body, as if by His Angel a commandment about you, save you in all your ways.

They will take you in their hands, but not when you stumble your foot on a stone, step on the asp and the basilisk, and cross the lion and the serpent.

For I have trusted in Me, and I will deliver, and I will cover, and, as I know My name. He will call to Me, and I will hear him: I am with him in sorrow, I will crush him, and I will glorify him, I will fulfill him with long life, and I will show him My salvation.

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Orthodox prayer "Let God rise again"

Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered, and let those who hate Him flee from His presence.

As the smoke disappears, let them disappear; as wax melts from the face of fire, so let the scales perish from the face of those who love God and are marked by the sign of the cross, and in joy they say: Rejoice, Most Honorable and Life-giving Cross of the Lord, drive away the demons by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, crucified on you, descended into hell and corrected the power the devil, and who gave us His Honorable Cross to drive away every adversary.

O Most Honorable and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord! Help me with the Holy Lady Virgin Mother of God and with all the saints forever. Amen.

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Also, do not forget to pray to your Guardian Angel and the saint whose name you bear.

Prayer to the Guardian Angel

Holy Angel, stand before my accursed soul and my passionate life, do not leave me a sinner, depart from me below for my intemperance.

Give no place to the crafty demon to possess me, the violence of this mortal body; strengthen my poor and thin hand and guide me on the path of salvation.

To her, the holy Angel of God, the guardian and patron of my accursed soul and body, forgive me all, insult you with great insults all the days of my stomach, and if I have sinned this past night, cover me this present day, and save me from every temptation of the opposite Yes, in no sin will I anger God, and pray for me to the Lord, may he confirm me in His fear, and show me worthy of His servant of goodness. Amen.

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Prayer to your saint

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

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During pregnancy and childbirth, you can and should read a prayer from the evil eye, damage, bad wishes of bad people, from sorcery.

Orthodox prayer from sorcery

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, protect me with Your holy angels, with the prayers of the All-Pure Lady of Our Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, by the power of the Honest and Life-Giving Cross, the holy Archangel Michael of God and other incorporeal heavenly powers, the holy prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John, the holy apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, Hieromartyr Cyprian and Martyr Justina, St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Mir of Lycia, Wonderworker, St. Leo, Bishop of Catania, St. Nikita of Novgorod, St. Seraphim of Sarov, the miracle worker, the holy martyrs of Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia, the holy martyr Tryphon, the holy and righteous god-fathers Joachim and Anna and all your saints, help me, your unworthy servant (the name of the prayer), deliver me from all the slander of the enemy , from all evil, witchcraft, magic, charms action and from crafty people, so that they will not be able to do me any harm.

Lord, with the light of Your radiance, save me in the morning, and noon, and evening, and for the dream of the future, and by the power of Your grace, turn away and remove all evil wickedness, acting at the instigation of the devil. If any evil is conceived or done, return it to hell. For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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Holy patrons and patronesses of pregnant women and women in childbirth

During difficult childbirth and difficult pregnancy, one must pray first of all to the Mother of GodVirgin Mary and her icon "Feodorovskaya" and "Assistant in childbirth",

Venerable Melania the Romans,

Great Martyr Anastasia the Destroyer,

Righteous Zechariah and Elizabeth,

Great Martyr Catherine.

For happiness in the family and marriage, one must pray to the Most Holy Theotokos, to his Guardian Angel, blessed Peter and Fevronia of Murom, martyr Paraskeva Pyatnitsa.

It is also worth knowing that prayers to these saints can be found in prayer books in your local Orthodox church (do not buy religious literature and icons from your hands and in stores!)

But it’s even better to buy a large collection of akathists to God, the Mother of God and the saints and not limit yourself in case of great illnesses, pains and sufferings only to prayers, but also read these akathists (they can be read not only standing, but also sitting, and lying down, if it’s bad, it doesn’t matter feel yourself).

Prayer for the preservation of pregnancy is a strong protection for an unborn baby. in his psalm he wrote that the eyes of the Lord saw him while still in his mother's womb (Psalm 139:16).

Babies, covered with motherly prayerful love, are born, as a rule, healthy and happy. Children are special because life on earth continues through them. Mothers who know the power of prayer protection from the day of conception pray to the holy intercessors and the Holy Trinity for the future life of the baby.

Other Orthodox prayers for pregnancy:

Sometimes it happens that doctors pass a terrible verdict and offer, but the true faith of parents and the help of saints do wonders.

Prayer for the preservation of pregnancy is a strong protection for the baby

Which saints to contact during pregnancy

Many pregnant women have a great desire to accept the help and protection of the saints, but do not know whom to ask. Jesus Christ is our Savior and quick helper, the expectant mother calls to Him first of all, reading a prayer for the preservation of pregnancy.

Prayer to the Lord for the preservation of pregnancy
Almighty God, the visible and invisible Creator! To Thee, beloved Father, we resort, beings gifted with reason, because by special advice You created our kind, with ineffable wisdom creating our body from the earth and breathing the soul of Your Spirit into it, so that we could be Your likeness.
It was in Your will to create us immediately as angels, if You wished, but in Your wisdom it was desirable that in the order established by You through marriage, through wife and husband, the human race would multiply. You wanted to bless people so that they multiply and grow. And the earth, and the hosts of angels filled.
O Father and God! May Your name be glorified and glorified forever for what has been done for us. I also thank You for Your mercy, that according to Your will, not only I myself came from Your wonderful creation and replenish the number of the chosen ones, but that You honored me in marriage to bless and the womb sent me a fetus. This is Your gift, Your Divine mercy, O Father.
Therefore, I turn to You alone and I pray to You with a humble heart for help and mercy, so that what You do in me by Your strength will be preserved and brought to a prosperous birth. For, O God, I know that choosing your path is not in human power and not in human strength. We are prone to fall and too weak in spirit to pass through the nets of those that we, by Your permission, the evil spirit sets up.
We are weak to avoid the misfortune to which our frivolity can plunge. Only Your infinite wisdom. And whoever you wish, you will save from any misfortune. Therefore, I, Thy servant, Merciful Father, in my sorrow I commit myself into Thy hands and pray that You look with an eye of mercy on me and save all suffering. Send us, my dear husband and me, joy, the joy of every Lord.
So that at the sight of Your blessing, we worship You from the heart of everything and serve You with a joyful spirit. I do not want to be withdrawn from what You imposed on our entire family, commanding children to be born in illnesses. But I humbly ask you to help me endure suffering and send a prosperous outcome.
And if you hear this prayer of ours, and send us a good and healthy child, we swear to bring him to you again, and consecrate him to you, so that for our seed and us you remain the Father and God merciful, so we, together with our child, swear by faithful servants you always be.
Merciful God, hear Thy servants prayer, fulfill our hearts prayer, for the sake of our Savior Jesus Christ, who was incarnated for us and reigns in eternity. Amen!

The most revered saints among Orthodox women preparing to become mothers are:

Purely on a subconscious level, parents who dream of a son turn to Nicholas the Wonderworker, and for the birth of a girl they appeal to.

Nikolai Ugodnik - the giver of miracles

A pregnant woman is not just an incubator for bearing a fetus, she is the source of his life, which shapes the future of the baby, his character and is responsible for the health of the child. Having learned about conception, the expectant mother not only changes her diet, she earnestly prays for the future of the baby, often stays in the temple, crying out for the help of the saints, among whom is the revered Nicholas the Wonderworker.

Icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker

Loving children during his lifetime, the Holy Pleaser does not leave without his help even after death.

Holy Matronushka - protector and helper

The Matrona of Moscow, who was born blind and has not walked almost all her life, like no one else understands the desire of a woman to endure and give birth to a healthy child.

St. Matrona Moscow

Leaving this world, the Reverend Mother left a promise to people to help everyone who comes to her in prayer.

Prayer to Saint Matrona
Oh, blessed mother Matrono, now hear and receive us, sinners, praying to you, who have learned to receive and listen to all those who suffer and mourn with faith and hope for your intercession and the help of those who come running, quick help and miraculous healing to everyone; may your mercy not fail now to the unworthy, restless in this vain world and nowhere else finding comfort and compassion in spiritual sorrows and help in bodily illnesses, heal our sicknesses, deliver from the temptations and torment of the passionately fighting devil, help convey your worldly Cross, to bear all the hardships of life and not to lose the image of God in it, to keep the Orthodox faith until the end of our days, to have strong hope and hope in God and unfeigned love for our neighbors, so that after leaving this life, help us reach the Kingdom of Heaven with all those who please God glorifying the mercy and goodness of the Heavenly Father, glorified in the Trinity: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.

The only condition for successful prayer is a sincere heart and repentance of sins..

The Most Pure Mother of God - an ambulance for expectant mothers

With the threat of the life of an unborn baby, the expectant mother is constantly in prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary in front of Her holy face ""

Icon of the Mother of God "Quick to Hear"

Prayer in front of the icon "Quick to Hear"
The Most Pure Virgin Mary, Mother of our Lord Most High, quick to hearken and intercessor of all who resort to You in prayer. Pay attention from the height of Your heavenly majesty to me, a sinner, falling in hope to Your holy face, hear my prayer, filled with humility and humility, and bring it to the Savior. Ask Him, Most Pure Mother of God, to illuminate the dark corners of my soul with God's light by His grace and free my mind from unclean thoughts, calming my heart filled with anxiety, and heal spiritual wounds. Yes, enlighten me, Mother of God, to do good deeds and worship the Lord in fear, good to forgive all the evil done before, so that He will deliver me from eternal torment and not deprive me of the grace to dwell in the Kingdom of God.
Blessed Mother of God, You deigned to allow everyone in the holy face of the Quick Hearer to come to You in faith, do not give up on me a sinner and do not allow the fetus to die in my womb because of my sins. All my hopes are in You, Divine, hope for salvation and Your cover, to which I entrust myself and the future of the child. Amen.

May the Lord bless you to know the joy of happy motherhood.

Prayers during pregnancy

Oh, Glorious Mother of God, have mercy on me, Thy servant, and come to my aid during my illnesses and dangers, with which all the poor daughters of Eve give birth. Remember, O Blessed One in women, with what joy and love You went hastily to a mountainous country to visit Your relative Elizabeth during her pregnancy, and what a miraculous effect Your grace-filled visit had on both mother and baby. And according to Thy inexhaustible mercy, grant me, Thy humble servant, to be relieved of the burden safely; grant me this grace so that the child, now resting under my heart, having come to his senses, with joyful leaping, like the holy infant John, worships the Divine Lord the Savior, who, out of love for us sinners, did not disdain himself to become a Baby. The unexpressed joy that filled Your virgin heart when looking at Your newborn Son and Lord, may it alleviate the sorrow that is coming to me amid the illnesses of birth. May the life of the world, my Savior, born of Thee, save me from death, which cuts off the lives of many mothers at the hour of resolution, and may the fruit of my womb be counted among the elect of God. Hear, O Most Holy Queen of Heaven, my humble supplication and look upon me, a poor sinner, with Thy eye of grace; do not shame my hope in Your great mercy and fall on me. Helper of Christians, Healer of diseases, may I also be able to experience for myself that You are the Mother of Mercy, and may I always glorify Your grace, which has never rejected the prayers of the poor and delivers all those who call on You during times of sorrow and illness. Amen. The Most Holy Theotokos in front of Her icon "Healer" Troparion, tone 4: Like the Most Bright Star, praying Divine miracles to Your holy image to the Healer. Grant us, Mother of God Mary, the healing of mental and bodily ailments, salvation and great mercy. Prayer: Accept, O All-Blessed and Almighty Madam Lady Theotokos Virgin, these prayers, with tears now brought to You from us, Your unworthy servants, to Your wholesome image, the singing of those who send with tenderness, as if You yourself are here and listen to our prayer. By any request, do fulfillment, ease sorrows, grant health to the weak, heal the weak and sick, drive away demons from heaven, deliver offended from insults, cleanse lepers and have mercy on small children; moreover, to the Lady Mistress of the Theotokos, and free from bonds and dungeons and heal all kinds of passions: all the essence is possible through Your intercession to Your Son, Christ our God. Oh, Mother of God, Mother of God! Do not stop praying for us unworthy Thy servants, glorifying Thee and honoring Thee, and worshiping Thy Most Pure Image with tenderness, and having irrevocable hope and undoubted faith in Thee, the Most Glorious and Immaculate Ever-Virgin, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen. Prayer of Saint Blessed Xenia of Petersburg Oh, simple in the way of her life, homeless on earth, the heiress of the cloisters of the Heavenly Father, blessed wanderer Xenia! As if before your tombstone fell ill and sorrowful and abie filled with consolations, now we (names), overwhelmed by pernicious circumstances, resorting to you, with hope we ask: pray, good celestial, that our feet would be corrected according to the word of the Lord to the doing of His commandments and may the God-fighting atheism be abolished, which has captivated your city and your country, and plunges us sinners into mortal fraternal hatred, proud self-exaltation and blasphemous despair. Oh, most blessed of Christ, for the sake of confounding the vanity of this age, ask the Creator and Giver of all blessings to grant us humility, meekness and love in the treasure of our heart, faith in strengthening prayer, hope in repentance, strength in a difficult life, merciful healing of our soul and body , chastity in marriage and care for our neighbors and sincere ones, our whole life renewal in the purifying bath of repentance, as if all-praisefully singing your memory, let us glorify the miraculous in you, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity Consubstantial and Indivisible forever and ever. Amen. Prayer for pregnant women (for a safe resolution) Almighty God, Creator of everything visible and invisible! We resort to You, beloved Father, endowed with the mind of creation, because You, on Your own advice, created our race, having created our body from the earth with indescribable wisdom and breathing into it the soul from Your Spirit, so that we would be Your likeness. And although it was in Your will to create us immediately, like angels, if only You wanted, but Your Wisdom was pleased that through husband and wife, in Your established order of marriage, the human race multiplied; You wanted to bless people so that they grow and multiply and fill not only the earth, but also the angelic hosts. O God and Father, may Your name be forever glorified and glorified for all that You have done for us! I also thank You for Your mercy, that not only I, according to Your will, came from Your wonderful creation and fill the number of the elect, but that You honored me to bless in marriage and sent me the fruit of the womb. This is Your gift, Your Divine mercy, O Lord and Father of spirit and body! Therefore, I turn to You alone and pray to You with a humble heart for mercy and help, so that what You do in me by Your power will be preserved and brought to a prosperous birth. For I know, O God, that it is not in the power and power of man to choose his own path; we are too weak and prone to fall to bypass all those networks that the evil spirit sets up for us, according to Your permission, and avoid those misfortunes into which our frivolity plunges us. Your wisdom is limitless. Whom. You wish, You will save unscathed through Your Angel from every misfortune. Therefore, I, the Merciful Father, commit myself in my sorrow into Your hands and pray that You look at me with the eye of mercy and save me from all suffering. Send me and my dear husband joy, O God, Lord of all joy! So that we, at the sight of Your blessing, worship You with all our heart and serve with a joyful spirit. I do not want to be removed from what You imposed on our entire race, commanding to give birth to children in illnesses. But I humbly ask You to help me endure suffering and send a prosperous outcome. And if You hear this prayer of ours and send us a healthy good child, then we swear to bring him back to You and consecrate him to You so that You remain for us and our seed the Merciful God and Father, as we swear to always be Your faithful servants together with our child . Hear, Merciful God, the prayer of Your last servant, fulfill the prayer of our heart, for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Savior, who became incarnate for us, now abides with You and the Holy Spirit and rules in eternity. Amen. Prayer to the holy martyr Paraskeva, named Friday Troparion, tone 4: All-wise and all-praise Christ’s martyr Paraskeva, accepting a male fortress, rejecting female weakness, defeat the devil, and shame the tormentor, crying out and saying: come, cut my body with a sword and burn it with fire, for rejoicing I go to Christ , to my fiance. With prayers, Christ God, save our souls. Kontakion, tone 3: Bringing the all-holy and immaculate torment, like the most honorable wine, to the immortal Bridegroom Christ, you rejoiced the angelic standing and defeated the demonic intrigues: for this sake, we honestly honor the faith, martyr Paraskevo, long-suffering. Prayer: Oh, holy and blessed Paraskevo, the martyr of Christ, beauty of a virgin, praise of martyrs, purity of image, magnanimous mirror, wise surprise, Christian faith guardian, accuser of idol flattery, champion of the Divine Gospel, zealot of the commandments of the Lord, worthy to come to the haven of eternal rest and in the devil of your Bridegroom Christ God, brightly rejoicing, adorned with the crown of virginity and martyrdom! We pray to you, holy martyr, be sorrowful for us to Christ God, with His most blessed sight to rejoice. Pray to the All-Merciful, His word opens the eyes of the blind, may he save us from the disease of our eyes, both bodily and spiritual; kindle with your holy prayers the dark darkness that has come from our sins, ask the Father of Light for the light of grace with our spiritual and bodily eyes; Enlighten us, darkened by sins, with the light of God's grace, and for the sake of your holy prayers, sweet sight will be given to the innocent. Oh, great saint of God! Oh, most courageous girl! Oh, strong martyr Saint Paraskevo! With your holy prayers, be our sinful helper, intercede and pray for accursed and negligent sinners, hasten to help us, for we are very weak. Pray to the Lord, pure maiden, pray to the Merciful, holy martyr, pray to your Bridegroom, immaculate bride of Christ, and help with your prayers, the darkness of sin is gone, in the light of true faith and deeds of the Divine, we will enter into the light of the eternal day of the never-ending, into the city of joy forever, into now you shine brightly with glory and endless joy, glorify and sing with all heavenly powers the Trisagionary One Deity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen. Prayer to the Holy Great Martyr Catherine O Saint Catherine, virgin and martyr, true bride of Christ! We pray to you, as if it were a special grace, that your Bridegroom, the Sweetest Jesus, had already received you: as if you had put to shame the seductions of the tormentor with your wisdom, you defeated fifty winds, and having drunk them with heavenly teachings to the light of true faith, you instructed you, so ask us this God's wisdom, Yes, and we, all the intrigues of the hellish tormentor, have dissolved, and despised the temptations of the world and the flesh, we shall appear worthy of Divine glory, and to the expansion of our holy Orthodox faith we will become worthy vessels, and with you in the heavenly tabernacle of the Lord and Master of our Jesus Christ with the Father and the Holy Spirit praise and glorify forever and ever. Amen.

For our readers: a prayer for a pregnant woman with a detailed description from various sources.

Pregnancy is a special state in a woman's life. The expectation of the unborn child transforms her, changes the usual course of life.

In our time of dysfunctional ecology, it is rare for a woman to endure pregnancy without difficulties. And sometimes, it is accompanied by serious threats to the fetus. When doctors are no longer able to help, only prayer can help save the life of an unborn child.

Turning to God from the heart can work wonders. In addition, prayer calms pregnant women, acting as a talisman for them and strengthening their state of mind. And, as you know, peace of mind is one of the key components of a favorable course of pregnancy.

You can pray in your own words. After all, its strength depends on the sincerity of the one who prays. There are also specially composed Orthodox prayers for pregnant women. It is believed that by reading them, future mothers gain strength that will help them endure all hardships.

What are the Orthodox prayers for pregnant women?

In the Orthodox tradition, it is customary for a pregnant woman to pray for her health and the health of her child in front of the parents of the Most Holy Theotokos (Jokim and Anna) and the parents of John the Baptist (Zechariah and Elizabeth). In fact, there are a lot of icons patronizing pregnant women and motherhood. Consider the most revered.

Important icons for future mothers

The icon of the Mother of God "Help in childbirth" enjoys special reverence among women who are expecting children. Most often, it is in front of her that pregnant women perform their prayer. You can also see this icon in the rooms of women in labor.
The Fedorov Icon of the Mother of God has been well known since the time of Kievan Rus. For a long time, the Fedorov Icon has been the protector of family well-being and patronizes the birth of healthy offspring.
The icon of Joachim and Anna can help even childless couples to find long-awaited offspring. After all, Joachim and Anna are the parents of the Virgin Mary, who for a long time remained childless. And only in his declining years God sent them a daughter.
The seven-shooter icon (“Softener of Evil Hearts”) patronizes women who bear the difficult burden of pregnancy. And if the icon is hung at the entrance to the house, it will be able to protect the family hearth from various adversities.
Icon of St. Roman. A prayer performed by a pregnant woman near the icon of the Great Martyr helps many desperate women find the happiness of motherhood.
The icon of St. Periskeva Friday has always had great honor among the common people. It was from her that the girls asked for good suitors, and childless parents - for the birth of an heir. The icon of the Mother of God is a good helper of motherhood, protects women's health and family harmony.
The icon of the guarantor of sinners - patronizes motherhood, has the power to heal various ailments. In addition, it helps to let go of even such serious sins as infidelity and abortion.

Before childbirth, prayer for pregnant women is of particular importance. You can pray for a safe resolution in front of the miraculous icons of the Mother of God: “Assistant in childbirth”, “Healer”, “Fedorovskaya”, etc.

Prayers for pregnant women with a threat of miscarriage

It is believed that a prayer for the preservation of pregnancy to the Most Holy Theotokos has special power for a pregnant woman. In addition, you can read the “Prayer for Preservation of Pregnancy to the Lord Jesus Christ” or “Prayer of Pregnant Women” in front of the icon of the Kazan Mother of God and others.

Prayer is an appeal to the Almighty. God hears a sincere heart in all languages, in any form and in any part of our planet. It all depends on the future mother herself and her religion. Prayers for a pregnant woman every day will help to find peace of mind.

Orthodox prayer of a pregnant woman to the Blessed Virgin Mary

The unexpressed joy that filled Your virgin heart when looking at Your newborn Son and Lord, may it alleviate the sorrow that is coming to me amid the illnesses of birth. May the life of the world, my Savior, born of Thee, save me from death, which cuts off the lives of many mothers at the hour of resolution, and may the fruit of my womb be counted among the elect of God.

Hear, Most Holy Queen of Heaven, my humble prayer and look down on me, a poor sinner, with Your eye of grace; do not shame my hope in Your great mercy and fall on me.

Helper of Christians, Healer of illnesses, may I also be able to experience for myself that You are the Mother of Mercy, and may I always glorify Your grace, which never rejects the prayers of the poor and delivers all who call on You during sorrow and illness. Amen.

Prayer for the preservation of pregnancy to the Lord Jesus Christ

Almighty God, Creator of everything visible and invisible! To You, beloved Father, we resort, gifted with the mind of creation, because You, on special advice, created our race, having created our body from the earth with indescribable wisdom and breathed into it the soul from Your Spirit, so that we would be Your likeness.

And although it was in Your will to create us immediately, like the angels, if only You wanted, but Your wisdom was pleased that through husband and wife, in Your established order of marriage, the human race multiplied; You wanted to bless people so that they would grow and multiply and fill not only the earth, but also the angelic hosts.

O God and Father! May Your name be forever glorified and glorified for all that You have done for us! I also thank You for Your mercy, that not only I, according to Your will, came from Your wonderful creation and replenish the number of the elect, but that You honored me to bless in marriage and sent me the fruit of the womb.

This is Your gift, Your Divine mercy, O Lord and Father of spirit and body! Therefore, I turn to You alone and pray to You with a humble heart for mercy and help, so that what You do in me by Your power will be preserved and brought to a prosperous birth. For I know, O God, that it is not in the power and power of man to choose his own path; we are too weak and prone to fall to bypass all those networks that the evil spirit sets up for us at Your will, and avoid those misfortunes into which our frivolity plunges us.

Your wisdom is limitless. Whom do you wish. Through Your angel, You will save us unharmed from every misfortune. Therefore, I, merciful Father, commit myself in my sorrow into Your hands and pray that You look at me with the eye of mercy and save me from all suffering.

Send me and my dear husband joy, O God, Lord of all joy! So that we, at the sight of Your blessing, worship You with all our heart and serve with a joyful spirit. I do not want to be removed from what You imposed on our entire race, commanding to give birth to children in illnesses.

But I humbly ask You to help me endure suffering and send a prosperous outcome. And if You hear this prayer of ours and send us a healthy and good child, then we swear to bring him back to You and consecrate him to You, so that You remain for us and our seed a merciful God and Father, as we swear to always be Your faithful servants together with our child.

Hear, merciful God, the prayer of your servant, fulfill the prayer of our heart, for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Savior, who became incarnate for us, now abides with you and the Holy Spirit and rules in eternity. Amen.

Prayer for the preservation of pregnancy to the Blessed Virgin Mary

Oh, Glorious Mother of God, have mercy on me, Thy servant, come to my aid during my illnesses and dangers, with which all the poor daughters of Eve give birth.

Remember, O Blessed One in women, with what joy and love You went hastily to a mountainous country to visit Your relative Elizabeth during her pregnancy, and what a miraculous effect Your grace-filled visit had in the mother and in the baby.

The unexpressed joy that filled Your virgin heart when looking at Your newborn Son and Lord, may it alleviate the sorrow that is coming to me amid the illnesses of birth.

May the life of the world, my Savior, born of Thee, save me from death, which cuts off the lives of many mothers at the hour of resolution, and may the fruit of my womb be counted among the elect of God. Hear, Most Holy Queen of Heaven, my humble prayer and look down on me, a poor sinner, with Your eye of grace; do not shame my hope in Your great mercy and fall on me, Helper of Christians, Healer of diseases, may I also be able to experience for myself that You are the Mother of mercy, and may I always glorify Your grace, which never rejects the prayers of the poor and delivers all who call on You during times of grief and illness. Amen.

Prayer of a pregnant woman for a safe resolution

Oh, Glorious Mother of God, have mercy on me, Thy servant, come to my aid during my illnesses and dangers, with which all the poor daughters of Eve give birth.

And according to Thy inexhaustible mercy, grant me, Thy humiliated servant, to be relieved of the burden safely; grant me this grace so that the child, now resting under my heart, having come to his senses, with joyful leaping, like the holy infant John, worships the Divine Lord the Savior, who, out of love for us sinners, did not disdain himself to become a Baby.

The inexpressible joy with which Your virgin heart was filled when looking at Your newborn Son and Lord, may it alleviate the sorrow that is coming to me amid the illnesses of birth.

Hear, O Most Holy Queen of Heaven, my humble supplication and look upon me, a poor sinner, with Thy eye of grace; do not shame my hope in Your great mercy and fall on me. Helper of Christians, Healer of diseases, may I also be able to experience for myself that You are the Mother of Mercy, and may I always glorify Your grace, which has never rejected the prayers of the poor and delivers all those who call on You during times of sorrow and illness. Amen.

Prayer for children

Father of bounty and all mercy! As a parent, I would wish my children every abundance of earthly blessings, I would wish them blessings from the dew of heaven and from the fat of the earth, but may Thy holy will be with them!

Arrange their fate according to Your good pleasure, do not deprive them of their daily bread in life, send down to them everything necessary in time for the acquisition of blessed eternity; be merciful to them when they sin against you; impute not to them the sins of youth and their ignorance; bring contrite hearts to them when they resist the guidance of thy goodness; punish and have mercy on them, directing them to the path pleasing to You, but do not reject them from Your face!

Accept with favor their prayers; grant them success in every good deed; turn not thy face away from them in the days of their affliction, lest their temptations be overtaken above their strength. Overshadow them with Your mercy; May Your Angel walk with them and keep them from every misfortune and evil way.

Prayer of a pregnant woman (in her own words)

Lord, I thank you for giving me a child.

And I ask You to bless the fruit within me. Help keep him from vices and diseases. Bless him with full development and health.

Bless me also. So that there are no diseases and complications in my body. Strengthen me and keep us with the child.

May my birth be blessed and easy.

You gave us this miracle. Thank you. But help me to be a worthy mother.

I trust in your hands his life and our future.

Amen.

With these prayers, you can ask for the health of the woman in labor and for improving her well-being (for example, with toxicosis, uterine tone, etc.). They also ask for the preservation of the fetus in case of a threatened miscarriage. A husband can turn to the saints with prayers for the favorable course of his wife's pregnancy.

Choose from the menu:

All prayers in a row:

Prayer to the Lord God for the health of a woman in labor

Almighty God, the visible and invisible Creator!

To Thee, beloved Father, we resort, beings gifted with reason, because by special advice You created our kind, with ineffable wisdom creating our body from the earth and breathing the soul of Your Spirit into it, so that we could be Your likeness.

It was in Your will to create us immediately as angels, if You wished, but in Your wisdom it was desirable that in the order established by You through marriage, through wife and husband, the human race would multiply.

You wanted to bless people so that they multiply and grow.

And the earth, and the hosts of angels filled.

O Father and God!

May Your name be glorified and glorified forever for what has been done for us.

I also thank You for Your mercy, that according to Your will, not only I myself came from Your wonderful creation and I replenish the number of the chosen ones,

but that you have honored me in marriage to bless and the womb of the fetus sent me.

This is Your gift, Your Divine mercy, O Father.

Therefore, I turn to You alone and I pray to You with a humble heart for help and mercy, so that what You do in me by Your strength will be preserved and brought to a prosperous birth.

For, O God, I know that choosing your path is not in human power and not in human strength.

We are prone to fall and too weak in spirit to pass through the nets of those that we, by Your permission, the evil spirit sets up.

We are weak to avoid the misfortune to which our frivolity can plunge.

Only Your infinite wisdom.

And whoever you wish, you will save from any misfortune.

Therefore, I, Thy servant, Merciful Father, in my sorrow I commit myself into Thy hands and pray that You look with an eye of mercy on me and save all suffering.

Send us, my dear husband and me, joy, the joy of every Lord.

So that at the sight of Your blessing, we worship You from the heart of everything and serve You with a joyful spirit.

I do not want to be withdrawn from what You imposed on our entire family, commanding children to be born in illnesses.

But I humbly ask you to help me endure suffering and send a prosperous outcome.

And if you hear this prayer of ours, and send us a good and healthy child, we swear to bring him to you again, and dedicate him to you,

so that for our seed and us you remain a Father and a merciful God, so we, together with our child, swear to be faithful servants to you always.

Merciful God, hear Thy servants prayer, fulfill our hearts prayer, for the sake of our Savior Jesus Christ, who was incarnated for us and reigns in eternity.

Prayer for the health of the pregnant Blessed Virgin Mary

To whom shall I call, Lady;

to whom I will resort in my sorrow;

to whom I bring my tears and sighs, if not to You, the Queen of Heaven and earth.

Who will tear me out of the mud of sins and iniquities, if not You, O Mother of the Belly, Intercessor and Refuge of the human race.

Hear my groaning, console me and have mercy on my sorrow, protect me in troubles and misfortunes, deliver me from bitterness and sorrows and all sorts of ailments and diseases,

from enemies visible and invisible, pacify the enmity of those who torment me, so that I will be delivered from human slander and malice;

so free me from your own flesh of vile customs.

Cover me under the shade of Your mercy, may I find peace and joy and cleansing from sins.

I entrust myself to your Maternal intercession:

wake me Mother and Hope, Protection and Help and Intercession, joy and consolation and an ambulance in everything.

Oh wonderful mistress!

Everyone who flows to You, does not depart without Your almighty help:

for this sake, and I am unworthy of you, I resort to you, so that I will be delivered from sudden and fierce death, gnashing of teeth and eternal torment.

I will receive the Kingdom of Heaven, and I will be honored with You in the tenderness of the heart of the river:

Rejoice, Mother of God, our zealous Intercessor and Intercessor, forever and ever.

Prayer before the icon of the Theotokos "Quick Hearing" for the health of the woman in labor

Blessed to the Lady, Ever-Virgin Mother of God, God the Word more than any word for our salvation gave birth, and His grace more abundantly received than all,

a sea of divine gifts and miracles, an ever-flowing river, pouring out goodness to all who, with faith, resort to You!

We bow down to Your miraculous image, we pray to You, the all-generous Mother of the Human-loving Lord:

Surprise us with Thy rich mercy, and our petitions, brought to You, quick to hearken, speed up the fulfillment, everything, hedgehog for the benefit of consolation and salvation to anyone who arranges.

Visit, Blessing, Thy servants of Thy grace, give the ailing healing and perfect health, overwhelmed silence, captive freedom and various images of the suffering consolation, deliver, all-merciful Lady, every city and country from gladness, ulcers, coward, flood, fire, sword and other temporal and eternal executions, with your motherly boldness, averting the wrath of God:

and spiritual relaxation, overwhelmed by passions and falls, the freedom of Thy servant, as if unstumblingly in all piety lived in this world, and in the future of eternal blessings we will be vouchsafed to the grace and love of mankind of Thy Son and God, All glory, honor and worship befit Him, with His Beginningless Father and the Holy Spirit, now and forever, and forever and ever.

Oh, Blessed Virgin, Mother of the Lord Most High, Quickly Obedient Intercessor of all who resort to You with faith!

Look from the height of Your heavenly majesty on me indecent, crouching to Your icon, hear soon the humble prayer of me a sinner and bring it to Your Son:

implore Him to illuminate my gloomy soul with the light of His Divine grace and cleanse my mind of vain thoughts, soothe my suffering heart and heal its wounds,

may he enlighten me to good deeds and strengthen me to work with fear, may he forgive all the evil I have done, may he deliver eternal torment and not deprive him of His heavenly Kingdom.

About Blessed Mother of God:

Thou hast deigned to be called in Thy form, the quick to hearken, commanding all to come to Thee with faith:

therefore do not look down on me who is mournful and do not let me perish in the abyss of my sins.

On Thee, according to Bose, all my hope and hope of salvation, and I entrust Your protection and intercession to myself forever.

The first prayer to Jesus Christ for the health of the woman in labor

Master, Lord Christ, our God, Source of life and immortality, I thank You that in my marriage you have made me a partaker of Your blessing, as You Himself commanded: “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.”

I thank You and pray: Bless this fruit of my body, given by You, bless it and inspire it with Your Holy Spirit and increase its healthy and immaculate body with the blessing of childbirth.

Sanctify his body, mind, heart, womb and womb and grant this born baby a rational soul, instill your fear in him.

An angel - the faithful guardian of his soul and body - assign him!

Cover, keep, strengthen and keep the baby in my womb until delivery.

Hide him in your mother's womb, for your hands have prepared him!

You gave him life and breath, O Lord Jesus Christ, I entrust my baby to Your Almighty paternal hands.

Lay on him the hand of Thy grace, and by Thy Holy Spirit renew him to eternal life, and let him be a partaker of Thy Kingdom.

The second prayer to Jesus Christ for the health of the pregnant woman

Oh, All-Merciful Jesus Christ, our God, look down and save me, Thy servant (name) from the fear and evil of spirits trying to destroy the works of Thy hands.

And when my hour and time come, loose me by Thy grace.

Look with the eye of Thy mercy and deliver Thy servant from torment.

Relieve my illnesses while wearing mine and grant me strength and strength for birth and help me in childbirth with Your Almighty help!

For this is Your wonderful work, the power of Your Omnipotence, the work of Your grace and mercy.

Prayer for the health of the pregnant Matrona of Moscow

Oh, blessed mother Matrona, we resort to your intercession and we tearfully pray to you.

As if you have great boldness in the Lord, pour out a warm prayer for your servants, who are in sorrow of the soul and ask for help from you.

For the word of the Lord is true:

ask, and it is given to you and packs: as if you are counseling two of you, on earth about every thing, even if you ask, it will be from My Father who is in Heaven.

Hear our sighing and bring the Lord to the throne, and even if you stand before us, as the prayer of the righteous can do much before God.

May the Lord not completely forget us, but look from the heights of heaven on the sorrow of His servants and bestow the fruit of the womb on useful things.

Truly, God desires, so do the Lord to Abraham and Sarah, Zechariah and Elisabeth, Joachim and Anna, pray with him.

May the Lord God do this to us also by His mercy and inexpressible love of mankind.

May the name of the Lord be blessed from now and forever.

Prayer to Nicholas the Wonderworker for a woman in labor

Oh, our good shepherd, and God-wise mentor, St. Nicholas of Christ!

Hear us, Honored by believers all over the world, St. Nicholas, he is also Nicholas the Wonderworker, Mirliki miracle worker, sinners who pray to you and call for your speedy intercession;

see us weak, caught from everywhere, deprived of every good and darkened by the mind from cowardice;

rush, servant of God, do not leave us in the sinful captivity of being, let us not be our enemy in joy and die in our evil deeds.

Pray for us, our unworthy Sodetel and Lord, and you stand before him with incorporeal faces:

merciful to us, create our God in this life and in the future, let it not reward us according to our deeds and according to the impurity of our hearts, but according to your goodness, reward us.

We rely on your intercession, we boast of your intercession, we call on your intercession for help, and we fall to your holy image, we ask for help:

deliver us, saint of Christ, from the evils that are upon us, and tame the waves of passions and troubles that rise up against us,

Yes, for the sake of your holy prayers, we will not be attacked and we will not be mired in the abyss of sin and in the mud of our passions.

Moth, to St. Nicholas of Christ, Christ our God, give us a peaceful life and the remission of sins, but salvation and great mercy to our souls, now and ever and forever and ever.

Prayer for the health of the mother Xenia of Petersburg

Oh, holy all-blessed mother Xenia!

Under the shelter of the Almighty, who lived, led and strengthened by the Mother of God, hunger and thirst, cold and heat, suffered reproach and persecution, you received the gift of clairvoyance and miracles from God and rest under the shadow of the Almighty.

Now the holy Church, like a fragrant flower, glorifies you.

Coming at the place of your burial, in front of your holy image, as if you live with us, we pray to you:

accept our petitions and bring as if to the throne of the Merciful Heavenly Father, as if you have boldness towards Him, ask those who flow to you eternal salvation,

for our good deeds and undertakings, a generous blessing, deliverance from all troubles and sorrows.

Stand as saints with your prayers before our All-Merciful Savior for us, unworthy and sinners.

Help, holy blessed mother Xenia, illuminate the babies with the light of holy Baptism and seal the gift of the Holy Spirit, educate the youths and maidens in faith, honesty, God-fearing and grant them success in teaching;

Heal those who are sick and ill, send down family love and consent, honor those who are monastic with a good feat and protect them from reproach,

affirm the shepherds in the fortress of the Holy Spirit, preserve our people and country in peace and serenity, pray for those deprived of communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ at the dying hour.

You are our hope and hope, quick hearing and deliverance, we send thanks to you and with you.

We praise the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever.

Prayer for the health of the pregnant Simeon Myrrh-streaming

O holy and righteous Simeon, with your pure soul in the heavenly abodes in the person of the saints, settle down, and rest incorruptibly on the earth with your body!

According to this grace from the Lord, pray for us, graciously look at us many sinners, even if we are unworthy, both with faith and hope to your holy and wholesome icon flowing,

and ask us from God for the forgiveness of our sins, in which we fall into a multiplicity during all the days of our life, and as before, from the eyes of the green disease, it is not enough to see the healing of the eyes, while the healing of the eyes was close to death, and to others many other glorious good deeds gave thou;

save us from spiritual and bodily ailments and from all sorrow and sorrow, and ask the Lord for all that is good for our present life and eternal salvation, usable for us,

yes, with your intercession and prayers, we have acquired everything that is useful to us, even if we are unworthy, gratefully praising you, let us glorify God, marvelous in His saints, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever.

Prayer to Paraskeva Pyatnitsa for the health of the woman in labor

O holy and blessed martyr of Christ Paraskevo, virginal beauty, praise of the martyrs, wise surprise, the Christian guardian of faith, accuser of idol flattery,

The gospel of the Divine champion, the commandments of the Lord, the zealot, who was able to come to the haven of eternal rest and in the chamber of your Bridegroom Christ God, lightly rejoicing, adorned with a special crown of virginity and martyrdom!

We pray to you, holy martyr: wake up for us (names) sadness to Christ God, with His most blessed sight always rejoice;

kindle with your holy prayers the darkness that has come from our sins:

ask the God of lights for the light of grace with our spiritual and bodily eyes:

Enlighten us, darkened by sins, with the light of God's grace, and for the sake of your holy prayers, sweet sight will be given to the innocent.

O great servant of God!

O most courageous girl!

O strong martyr, Saint Paraskevo!

With your holy prayers, be our sinful helper, intercede and pray for the accursed and negligent sinners, hasten to help us, for we are very weak;

pray to the Lord, pure maiden, pray to the Merciful, holy martyr, pray to your Bridegroom, immaculate bride of Christ,

yes, help with your prayers, but the darkness of sin is gone, in the light of true faith and divine deeds, we will enter into the light of the eternal day of the evening, into the city of joy forever,

in it you now shine brightly with glory and endless joy, glorify and sing with all heavenly powers the tri-radiant one Deity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever.

It is rare to find a completely balanced and calm expectant mother. As a rule, if there are no concerns about the medical part, the pregnant woman is able to invent non-existent pathologies herself. And if there are really serious complications - how to overcome panic and fear, tune in to the good in order to fight for the life and health of your child? For believing mothers, the answer is obvious - you need to turn to God.

What can a future mother give a sincere prayer for the preservation of pregnancy? First of all, a woman must understand that she is not alone, that the Lord God and the saints protect her. In addition, her unborn baby angel prays with her.

To find peace of mind and get rid of feelings of anxiety, it is worth visiting the temple at least once a week, putting candles to the Mother of God, the patroness of all mothers, confessing and taking communion. So you will strengthen not only faith in a successful outcome, but also lay the spiritual immunity of the baby.

What icons to pray for

It is also necessary to pray at home, especially if, for health reasons, you cannot stand the service in the church. It is necessary to pray in the morning (on an empty stomach) and in the evening (after dinner). To do this, it is better to purchase the icons of the Most Holy Theotokos "Quick to Hear" (helps you quickly find what you want) and "Healer" (to cure diseases).

If you are afraid for the safety of your pregnancy, pray to the Most Holy Theotokos in front of Her icon "Quick to Hear".

Troparion, tone 4:

“To the Mother of God, the parishioner of being in trouble, and now let us fall down to Her holy icon, calling with faith from the depths of the soul: soon hear our prayer, Virgin, as if she was called a quick-abiding one, for the sake of Your servants, the imam’s ready assistant is in need.”

Kontakion, tone 8:

“In the sea of worldly overwhelm, anxiety, we fall into passions and temptations. Grant us, Lady, a helping hand, like Peter's Your Son, and speed up the deliverance of us from troubles, let us call Thee: rejoice, all-good Quick Listener.

Prayer:

“Blessed to the Lady, the Ever-Virgin Mother of God, God the Word, more than any word for our salvation, giving birth, and His grace more abundantly more than all received, a sea of divine gifts and miracles, an ever-flowing river, pouring out goodness to all who, with faith, come running to You! Falling down to Your miraculous image, we pray to You, the all-generous Mother of the philanthropic Master: surprise us with Your rich mercy and our petitions, brought to You, the quick-abiding One, hasten to fulfill everything, hedgehog for the benefit of consolation and salvation to whom you arrange. Visit, Blessing, Thy servants of Thy grace, give the ailing healing and perfect health, overwhelmed silence, captivated freedom, and various images of the suffering consolation. Deliver, All-Merciful Lady, every city and country from famine, ulcers, cowards, floods, fire, swords and other temporary and eternal punishments, with Your motherly boldness averting the wrath of God; and spiritual relaxation, overwhelmed by passions and falls, the freedom of Thy servant, as if unstumblingly in all piety lived in this world, and in the future of eternal blessings we will be merciful with the grace and love of mankind of Thy Son and God, He deserves all glory, honor and worship with His Beginning Father and Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen."

With a lack of milk, they also pray before the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Quick to Hear".

If you are being treated for a chronic illness during pregnancy, or other complications have arisen, help yourself with a prayer for the preservation of the pregnancy of the Matrona of Moscow, whose face should also be installed at home.

“O blessed mother Matrono, now hear and accept us, sinners, praying to you, having learned to receive and listen to all those who suffer and mourn in all your life, with faith and hope for your intercession and the help of those who come running, quick help and miraculous healing to everyone; may your mercy not fail now to us, the unworthy, restless in this many-fuss world and nowhere to find comfort and compassion in spiritual sorrows and help in bodily illnesses: heal our sicknesses, deliver from the temptations and torment of the devil, passionately fighting, help convey your worldly Cross, to endure all the hardships of life and not lose the image of God in it, keep the Orthodox faith until the end of our days, have strong hope and hope in God and unfeigned love for neighbors; help us, after departing from this life, reach the Kingdom of Heaven with all those who please God, glorifying the mercy and goodness of the Heavenly Father, in the Trinity of glory, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen."

We assume that if you have not been churched and have not yet read prayers in Old Slavonic, many words will be incomprehensible to you. To understand the meaning of the prayer and to correctly emphasize, talk with the priest, let him explain to you.

Prayer for childbirth

Future mothers who are afraid of childbirth will be helped by the prayer of pregnant women for a safe resolution:

“Oh, Glorious Mother of God, have mercy on me, Thy servant, and come to my aid during my illnesses and dangers, with which all the poor daughters of Eve give birth. Remember, O Blessed One in women, with what joy and love You went hastily to a mountainous country to visit Your relative Elizabeth during her pregnancy, and what a miraculous effect Your grace-filled visit had on both mother and baby. And according to Thy inexhaustible mercy, grant me, Thy humble servant, to be relieved of the burden safely; grant me this grace so that the child, now resting under my heart, having come to his senses, with joyful leaping, like the holy infant John, worships the Divine Lord the Savior, who, out of love for us sinners, did not disdain himself to become a Baby. The unexpressed joy that filled Your virgin heart when looking at Your newborn Son and Lord, may it alleviate the sorrow that is coming to me amid the illnesses of birth. May the life of the world, my Savior, born of Thee, save me from death, which cuts off the lives of many mothers at the hour of resolution, and may the fruit of my womb be counted among the elect of God. Hear, O Most Holy Queen of Heaven, my humble supplication and look upon me, a poor sinner, with Thy eye of grace; do not shame my hope in Your great mercy and fall on me. Helper of Christians, Healer of diseases, may I also be able to experience for myself that You are the Mother of Mercy, and may I always glorify Your grace, which has never rejected the prayers of the poor and delivers all those who call on You during times of sorrow and illness. Amen."