Like the Most Bright Star, Your holy image, O Healer, shines with Divine miracles. Grant us, Mother of God Mary, healing of mental and physical ailments, salvation and great mercy.
Accept, O All-Blessed and All-Powerful Lady the Virgin Mary, these prayers, now brought to You with tears from us, Your unworthy servants, to Your celibate in the image of the singing of those who send out with tenderness, as You yourself are here and hearken to our prayer.
You fulfill every request, alleviate sorrow, give health to the weak, heal the weakened and sick, drive away demons from demons, and drive away those who are offended by insults. you deliver, you cleanse lepers, and you have mercy on little children; also, Lady Lady Theotokos, you free from bonds and prisons and heal all manifold passions: for all things are possible through Your intercession to Your Son, Christ God ours.
O All-Singing Mother, Most Holy Theotokos! Do not cease to pray for us, Your unworthy servants, who glorify You and honor You, and who worship Your Most Pure Image with tenderness, and who have irrevocable hope and faith I have no doubt towards You, the Ever-Virgin, Most Glorious and Immaculate, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
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To the Mother of God, as a companion in troubles, / and to Her holy icon, let us now fall, / calling with faith from the depths of the soul: / soon hear our prayer, O Virgin, / as Quick to Hear, / For Your servants are in need, / Ready Assistant to the Imam.
In the sea of life we are overwhelmed,/ we fall into the anxiety of passions and temptations./ Give us, O Lady, a helping hand, like Petrov your Son,/ and hasten to deliver us from troubles, let us call Ty: // Rejoice, all-merciful Quick Hearer.
Blessed Lady, Ever-Virgin Mother of God, Who gave birth to the God of the Word more than any word for our salvation, and Who received His grace more abundantly than all others! The sea of Divine gifts and the ever-flowing river of miracles, pouring out goodness to all who come running to You with faith!
To Your miraculous image, we pray to You, the all-generous Mother of the Humane-loving Lord: surprise us with Your rich mercy, and our petitions, brought to You, Quick to Hear, hasten to fulfill everything, even for the benefit of consolation and salvation for someone. Visit, O Blessing, Thy servants with Thy grace, and grant to the sick healing and perfect health, to those overwhelmed by silence, to those captivated by freedom and various images of the suffering consolation.
Deliver, O All-Merciful Lady, every city and country from famine, plague, cowardice, flood, fire, sword and other temporary and eternal punishments. Let Your swearing by your boldness turn away the wrath of God, and free Your servant from spiritual relaxation, the overwhelm of passions and the fall of sin, as if she lived in this without stumbling in all piety ultimately, and in the future of eternal blessings we will be made worthy of the grace and love for mankind of Your Son and God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, together with His Beginning Father and the Most Holy Spirit, now and forever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.
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Accept, Lady Theotokos, the tearful prayers of Your servants who flow to You. We see You on the holy icon in your womb, bearing Your Son and our God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Even though you gave birth to Him painlessly, even though the mother bears the weight of sorrow and infirmity of the sons and daughters of men, zrishi.
With the same warmth falling upon Thy whole-hearted image and tenderly kissing this, we pray to Thee, All-Merciful Lady: we, sinners, condemned to give birth in illnesses and nourish children in sorrows ours, mercifully spare and compassionately intercede. Deliver our babies, as well as those who gave birth to them, from a serious illness and bitter sorrow; Grant them health and well-being, and their nourishment will increase from strength to strength, and those who feed them will be filled with joy and consolation, as even now through Your intercession from the mouth of a baby and those who piss The Lord will perfect His praise.
Oh, Mother of the Son of God! Have mercy on the mother of the sons of men and on Your weak people: quickly heal the illnesses that befall us, quench the sorrows and sorrows that are upon us, and do not despise the tears and sighs of the servants Yours. Hear us on the day of sorrow, falling before Your icon, and on the day of joy and deliverance, accept the grateful praise of our hearts.
Offer our prayers to the Throne of Your Son and our God, that He may be merciful to our sin and weakness and add His mercy to those who know His name, as we and our children do ours, let us glorify Thee, the Merciful Intercessor and the true Hope of our race, forever and ever. Amen.
O Most Holy Lady, Lady Theotokos, who never leaves us in earthly life! To whom will I offer prayers, to whom will I bring tears and sighs, if not to You, consolation to all the faithful!
With fear, faith, love, Mother of the Belly, I pray: may the Lord give understanding to Orthodox people for salvation, may He give us children to You and Your Son to please, may He keep us pure humility, in the hope of salvation in Christ, and grants us all, in the cover of Thy grace, earthly consolation.
Keep us under the canopy of Your mercy, Most Pure One, help those who pray for childbirth, turn away evil slander, freedom, grave troubles, misfortunes and deaths.
Grant us grace-filled insight, a spirit of contrition for sins, grant us to see all the height and purity of Christ’s teaching given to us; keep us from disastrous alienation, so that we all, praising Thy greatness with gratitude, may be made worthy of Heavenly tranquility and there with Thy beloved, with all the saints, we will glorify in the Trinity One God: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
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To whom will I call, O Lady, to whom will I resort in my sorrow; to whom shall I bring my tears and sighs, if not to You, Queen of Heaven and earth. Who will pluck me out of the mire of sins and iniquities, if not You, O Mother of the Belly, Intercessor and Refuge of the human race.
Hear my groaning, comfort me and have mercy in my sorrow, protect me in troubles and misfortunes, deliver me from bitterness and sorrows and all sorts of ailments and illnesses, from visible enemies and invisible, pacify the enmity of those who oppress me, so that I will be delivered from slander and human malice; So, free me from my flesh and vile customs.
Cover me under the canopy of Your mercy, so that I may find peace and joy and cleansing from sins. I entrust myself to your maternal intercession; Give me Mother and hope, protection and help and intercession, joy and consolation and quick help in everything.
O wonderful Lady! Everyone who flows to You does not leave without Your all-powerful help: for this reason, even though I am unworthy, I come running to You, so that I will be delivered from sudden and cruel death, gnashing dental and eternal torment. I am honored to receive the Kingdom of Heaven, and in the tenderness of my heart I say to You: Rejoice, Mother of God, our zealous Representative and Intercessor, forever and ever. Amen.
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O Most Glorious Mother of God, have mercy on me, Your servant, and come to my aid during my illnesses and dangers, with which all the poor daughters of Eve give birth to children.
Remember, O Blessed One among women, with what joy and love You went hastily to the mountainous country to visit Your relative Elizabeth during her pregnancy, and what a miraculous effect the gracious visit had Yours in both mother and baby.
And according to Your inexhaustible mercy, grant me, Your most humble servant, to be safely relieved of my burden; Grant me this grace, so that the child who now rests under my heart, having come to his senses, with a joyful leap, like the holy baby John, will worship the Divine Lord The Savior, Who, out of love for us sinners, did not disdain to become a child Himself.
May the unspeakable joy with which Your virgin heart was filled at the sight of Your newborn Son and Lord, sweeten the sorrow that awaits me amid the pains of birth. May the life of the world, my Savior, born of You, 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 numbered among the elect God's.
Hear, Most Holy Queen of Heaven, my humble prayer and look upon me, a poor sinner, with the eye of Your grace; Do not shame my trust in Your great mercy and overshadow me.
Helper of Christians, Healer of illnesses, may I also be honored 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 who call You in times of sorrow and illness. Amen.
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In you, mother, it is known that you were saved in the image:/ having accepted the cross, you followed Christ,/ and in action you taught to despise the flesh, for it passes away,/ to be diligent about souls and things more immortal.// In the same way, Venerable Melania, your spirit will rejoice with the Angels.
Having loved the virginity of purity and admonished the betrothed to good things, / lavished abundance of wealth / on the sojourn of the monks, O God-blessed One, and erected abodes./ And also settled in the Heavenly abodes,// Remember us, all-honorable Milania.
1 Archpriest John Bukharev. Comfort to our hearts. 320 miraculous icons of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
2 Menaea common. The service is common to the most reverend wife.