Various Prayers to the Theotokos

 

When offended

At all times try to silently endure reproaches… Pray:

"O Queen of Heaven, save us sinners, and suffer us not to fall into the abyss. I know, O Lady, that all these sorrows are profitable unto our soul. But, O Lady, Thou seest how feeble we are, and how greatly we have attached unto the life that is earthly. Grant unto us patience to bear our cross, and forsake us not, sinners, of Thy heavenly consolation."

And thus, if you act in this way throughout your entire temporal life on earth, the Lord will not forsake you together with His Mother, and at times will give you such inner consolations as no earthly pleasure or comfort can be compared with…

 

Prayer of Venerable Macarius of Optina, read during carnal warfare

O Mother of the Lord, my Creator! Thou art the root of virginity and the unfading flower of purity. O Bearer of God! Help me, who am weak from carnal passion and in affliction, for in Thee alone, and through Thee in Thy Son and God, I have protection. Amen.

 

Prayer for neighbors

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, by prayers of the Theotokos and of all the saints, send peace, well-being, and blessings to Thy servants: [names].

 

Prayers to the Most Holy Theotokos for our neighbors or the people around us whom we wish to help

Some people of high spiritual life, when they wished to help a person met on their life’s path but, due to various circumstances, could not do so, prayed thus:

“Most Holy Lady our Theotokos, take Thou this soul (name or names), and do with it what Thou willest, what I would wish to do with it, but cannot. I entrust him (or them – names) to Thy maternal care and protection.”

Prayer 1

O Most Holy Lady Theotokos! Raise us, the servants of God (names), from the depths of sin and deliver us from sudden death and from every evil. Grant, O Lady, unto us peace and health, and enlighten our mind and the eyes of our heart unto salvation, and make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God; for His dominion is blessed with the Father and His Most Holy Spirit.

Prayer 2

Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord, show upon me, the poor one, and the servants of God (names) Thy former mercies: send down the spirit of understanding and piety, the spirit of mercy and meekness, the spirit of purity and righteousness. Yea, O Most Pure Lady! Be merciful to me here and at the Dread Judgment. For Thou art, O Lady, the glory of the heavenly and the hope of the earthly. Amen.

Prayer 3

O Most Holy Lady Theotokos! Look down from the height of Thy holiness upon us, the servants of God (names), and help us who are weak; calm our sorrows, guide us on the right path; heal our afflicted hearts, grant us to spend the remaining time of our life in peace and repentance; grant a Christian end, and at the Dread Judgment of Thy Son appear to us as an intercessor of mercy, that we may always glorify Thee with all who have pleased God unto the ages of ages.

 

 

Source: Сборник редких молитв ко Пресвятой Богородице [Collection of Rare Prayers to the Most Holy Theotokos], published by Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra, 2013.

Online: https://azbyka.ru/otechnik/molitva/sbornik-redkih-molitv-ko-presvjatoj-bogoroditse/