Petitionary prayer service how to order. By initiative and venue

WHAT SERVICES SHOULD BE ORDERED IN THE CHURCH TO REMOVE NEGATIVITY.

The church should become one of the important assistants for a person who has the goal of getting rid of negativity or ridding his loved ones of the problems caused.

If a person suspects the presence of negativity (More details...spoilage - the view of a bioenergetics specialist) or it has been identified in a person by a competent specialist, then it is more than advisable to contact the temple, ordering a number of services and visiting a number of services. If there is damage or a love spell in a person, the following services should be ordered in the temple for this person:
-Sorokaust about health,
-Prayer to Panteleimon the Healer,
-Prayer to Cyprian and Justina,
-Prayer to Nicholas the Wonderworker.
If there is a love spell or damage to break a couple-family, then this married couple should order additional Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos for the well-being of the family.
Akathists and prayers are read in some churches Hieromartyr Cyprian and Martyr Justina. The services to these Holy Martyrs are precisely aimed at delivering a person from witchcraft.
There are also a number of other church services that are used for other, specialized occasions. For example, a prayer service before Icon of the Mother of God “Seven Arrows”- for protection from evil people and ill-wishers. Prayer service before the icon of the Mother of God “Inexhaustible Chalice”- to get rid of alcoholism.
About services that are desirable, and in certain cases, necessary to attend in the temple.
This is confession and communion, as well as oil extraction.
If it is determined that the problem comes from already deceased relatives, then order magpies for the repose these relatives.
But the block of services, which includes the magpie for health, the Prayer to Nicholas the Wonderworker, the Prayer to Cyprian and Justina, and the Prayer to Panteleimon the Healer should be mandatory when getting rid of such negativity as damage, the evil eye and curse.

HOW TO CORRECTLY SUBMIT NOTES “ON HEALTH” AND “ON REST OF REST”

It would seem so easy to submit a note. Take a piece of paper and write the names of your loved ones. But often questions arise at this step. But as? How to write correctly? These questions are asked quite often. And not only those who came to the temple for the first time, but fortunately also those who finally thought about the meaning of this habitual action.

The Lord endowed the apostles not only with rights, but also assigned responsibilities and powers to them. The apostles handed over to the successors they appointed: bishops and presbyters, bequeathing to them power, right, and indispensable duty, first of all...

“make prayers, petitions, supplications, and thanksgivings for all people” (1 Tim. 2:1).

The Holy Apostle James says to all Christians: “Is any of you sick, let him call the elders of the Church, and let them pray over him” (James 5:14).

Of course, you can and should pray at home, but home prayer does not have the same grace-filled power as public, general prayer, that is, the prayer of the Church. Church prayer is the kind of prayer about which the Lord himself said: “Truly I also say to you that if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven, for where there are two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:19-20). Christian believers gather in the church to pray. God Himself mysteriously dwells in the temple. The temple is the house of God. In the temple, the priests offer the Most Holy Bloodless Sacrifice.

And you and I want the priests, who have been given the right and power to do this, to pray for our loved ones in the same way by the Lord himself. We submit memorial notes for commemoration during the Divine Liturgy. We can conclude that a note written in sloppy, illegible handwriting indicates a lack of understanding of the sacred importance and high purpose of recording the names of the living and deceased for their commemoration. Be careful and try to avoid fussiness and negligence where it is unacceptable.

How to submit a note

1. It is best to submit notes of remembrance in the evening or early in the morning, before the start of the service.

2. The number of names is not limited, but it is better if there are no more than ten of them in one note. If you want to remember many of your family and friends, send a few notes.

3. Names must be written legibly (preferably in block letters), in the genitive case (answer the question “who?”).

4. The names of bishops and priests are indicated first, and their rank is clearly indicated. For example, "about health" Archbishop Panteleimon, Abbot Macarius, Archpriest Valery, Priest Alexander, then write your name, your family and friends. Abbreviation "arch." is perceived in the Church as “archbishop”, and “archim.” as “archimandrite.” It is incorrect to call priests or monastics “fathers” and “elders” in notes.

5. All names must be in church spelling and in full (for example, Alexander, Nikolai, but not Sasha, Kolya) with whom he was baptized in the Orthodox Church.

6. The notes do not indicate last names, patronymics, ranks and titles, or degrees of relationship.

7. Child before 7 years the note mentions as baby, before 14 years- How youth (youth).

8. In health notes, before the name you can mention “sick”, “warrior”, “travelling”, “prisoner”. They don’t write in the notes – “blessed”, “suffering”, “embarrassed”, “needy”, “lost”. In the notes "about Repose" deceased within 40 days after death it is called “newly deceased.” Allowed in notes "about Repose" before the name write “killed”, “warrior”.

9. The names of canonized, that is, saints glorified by the Church, should not be included in the note of repose.

10. All notes submitted to the Church are read by the servants of the Temple, and some of the names are pronounced by them in a low voice. Notes are submitted for the following services: Liturgy (Mass), Prayer Service, Memorial Service, as well as Sorokoust, Annual or Semi-Annual Commemoration.

The following notes can be submitted for the Liturgy (only about members of the Orthodox Church) - for proskomedia - the first part of the Liturgy, when for each name indicated in the note, particles are taken out of prosphoras (special bread), which are subsequently dipped into the Blood of Christ with a prayer for the forgiveness of sins those commemorated - at mass - as the people call the Liturgy. Usually, after commemoration at the proskomedia, such notes are read by the clergy at the Liturgy before the Holy See.

A prayer service is a church service that concludes with a prayer of gratitude or supplication addressed to God, the Mother of God or the Saints. Notes about health are given at the prayer service. A memorial service is a funeral service at which the remembrance of deceased Orthodox Christians is performed. Notes of repose are submitted at the memorial service.

Sorokoust is a prayer where Orthodox Christians are commemorated for forty days. On the 40th birthday, notes are given both about health and repose.

On the commemoration of suicides and the unbaptized
The Church leaves the posthumous fate of suicides to the Court of God. Therefore, you can only pray for those who have taken their own lives in private, and not in the general church( You cannot perform a funeral service or submit notes for the Liturgy or memorial service.).
If suicide was committed by a person who had a proven mental disorder, in this case it is necessary to submit a petition to the bishop for permission to perform a church-wide commemoration.
Venerable Leo of Optina, not allowing church prayer for those who died outside the Church (suicides, unbaptized, heretics), he commanded to pray for them privately like this: “Seek, Lord, the lost soul (name): if it is possible, have mercy. Do not make this my prayer a sin, but Thy holy will be done.”
In the same way, you need to pray for the unbaptized living only in private, asking the Lord to lead them to faith and salvation.

GREAT IS THE POWER OF PRAYER!!!

A prayer service is a service in which God, the Mother of God, saints or angels are asked for help in various everyday needs. In essence, a prayer service is a special prayer of a believer with a specific request. Thus, prayers can be ordered for the sick before going on a trip. There are special thanksgiving prayers, prayers for help in studies, family affairs, and assistance in trade. The list is by no means exhaustive.

You can pray to both the Lord and the saints or the Mother of God. In this case, it is necessary to indicate to whom exactly the prayer service is ordered so that the choir sings certain troparia, and the clergyman pronounces the prayer chants.

Before ordering a prayer service, it is useful to know what time it takes place. In small parishes (where services are held on Saturdays, Sundays and great holidays), prayer services are most often served in the morning after the end of the liturgy. In large cathedrals, prayer services may well be performed daily, except for a few days established by the charter (for example, Holy Week or funeral Saturdays).

In order to order a prayer service, you must contact the temple employee who accepts church notes. Just as a person orders a commemoration at a liturgy, or the recording of names for a prayer service is carried out. It is worth remembering that prayer services can be ordered for living baptized people. There are no prayers for repose in the Orthodox Church (for this, the charter requires the performance of memorial services).

If a person orders a prayer service for any saint, then the temple employee who receives the notes should tell which ascetic. The same applies to the practice of praying to the Lord or the Mother of God. Names for prayer services are written in the genitive case.

You can order a prayer service in the church at any time when the House of God is open to believers. In this case, the names will be remembered at the upcoming prayer service. In addition, a prayer service is ordered directly on the day it is performed, for example, before the Divine Liturgy.

An Orthodox person must especially understand that the mere recording of names for a prayer service is not some kind of mystical act akin to a conspiracy. This is why prayer services are held in churches, so that believers can pray for their relatives and loved ones during this church service. Therefore, when ordering a prayer service, it is good to attend the service yourself. True, there is a tradition of ordering prayer services during pilgrimage trips: in monasteries or holy places. In this case, the person himself cannot attend prayer services held in a specific place. However, this should not justify the absence of glue prayer or prayer in the temple for people at other times and in other places.

Sometimes it is worth ordering a prayer service in advance. For example, in cases where it is known that a shrine (an icon or relics) resides in the parish. Usually a lot of people flock to such prayer services, so immediately before the start of the service, you may not have time to write down names and stand in line for the entire service. Therefore, it is worth ordering a prayer service in advance on the eve of the event or coming to the temple in advance before the start of the service so that during the prayer service itself you will no longer be distracted from the church service itself.

Instructions

A prayer service, in its essence, is a shortened Matins. It consists of the following main parts: canon, troparion, litany, reading of the Gospel. The Book of Prayer Songs and the Trebnik contain rites. The thanksgiving prayer differs from others in that it is in gratitude for what God has given through your prayer: cure from illness, help in business, etc.

To order a thanksgiving prayer in any church, you need to go to the candle box and submit a note with the names of those people from whom (or for whom) it will be performed; your name, if you are giving thanks for what was sent down for you, must also be indicated. You can turn to Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and the saints in the Prayer Service. Prayers of thanksgiving serve exclusively the Lord.

While performing the Thanksgiving prayer, the priest, after the end of the Liturgy, proclaims the beginning before the Throne, followed by a peaceful litany with the mention of those thanking and the addition of special petitions, then follows the reading of the Gospel, the Apostle and a special litany, during which the names of those thanking are mentioned, then a thanksgiving to the Lord and the singing of the Doxology or “We praise God to you...”. The prayer service ends with the blessing of those thanking, anointing with consecrated oil and sprinkling.

In various everyday circumstances, it is customary to turn to certain Mother of God or saints of God. Thus, prayers for health are ordered by the healer and great martyr Panteleimon, and in order to get rid of alcohol addiction, they turn to the Mother of God “Inexhaustible Chalice” and to the martyr Boniface.

Prayer services can be performed not only in the temple, but also in houses, in the fields, etc., and are sometimes combined with the blessing of water. Some prayer services are served in times of need or at the request of individuals, while others related to public worship are performed at a specially established time or during.

You need to order prayer services before the Liturgy, otherwise it indicates a misunderstanding of the essence of the Eucharist.

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Why do they order a prayer service?

A prayer service is a short-term service during which believers turn to God with prayers about their private concerns and problems.

Helpful advice

The “Sorokoust” service (daily prayer for the repose of the dead and the health of the living for forty days) is ordered in several churches at once - this way you can get rid of the evil eye and damage. In order to order this prayer service, you need to write on a piece of paper the names of the people you want to pray for and pass the note to the altar.

In the Orthodox Church, a believer has the opportunity not only to pray for someone on his own, but also to have the name of a loved one mentioned during the prayer service. To do this, you need to write a special note, which must be properly formatted.

Instructions

Go to the church and find the minister who is in charge of accepting notes asking for a prayer mention. Usually you can buy candles from him. In some cases, the church may have a box in which you must place the note yourself. There will be an explanatory inscription on it. If you cannot figure out where to submit notes, contact one of the parishioners who is not currently reading a prayer, or a free clergyman.

Indicate on what occasion you need to mention a person close to you in the prayer service. Most often they pray “For health” for the living and “For repose” for the dead. However, the wording can be more specific, for example, “On successful childbirth” for a pregnant woman or “On maintaining faith” for those who are overcome by religious doubts.

If you want the prayer to be offered to the Mother of God or to a specific saint, you should write down his name. Such an opportunity exists during the ascension of the prayer service.

Below, write down the names of those whom you ask to be mentioned in this prayer service. There can be several names, for example, in the “About Health” card you can indicate all your living family members and friends. For a more personal theme of the prayer service, the name can be one. In this case, you only need to indicate the proper names adopted at baptism. People's last and middle names are not needed.

Give the form to the church minister responsible for collecting them. Pay the required donation amount. It may depend on the number of briefs submitted or the number of names mentioned. If you wish, you can specify the time of reading the prayer service in order to attend it yourself.

In Christian liturgical practice, prayers are called services in which a holy person is addressed in order to receive a specific petition. There are several types of prayers, in which a believer can make a request to the Lord, the Mother of God, a saint or angels.

In church tradition, there are many prayer services before icons of the Mother of God. For example, in front of the Kazan or Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God. They ask the Mother of God for help in their studies in front of the “Increasing Mind” icon, and for those who suffer from illness, they ask for help in front of the “Inexhaustible Chalice” icon. There are many other icons of the Virgin Mary that can be used in certain prayer services.

Often in Christian practice they turn to holy people in prayer singing. They pray to Panteleimon for the sick, Nicholas the Wonderworker is a helper in all needs and sorrows, prayer to Saint Moses Murin helps to get rid of drunkenness.

In addition to the holy saints of God, prayers can also be addressed to angelic powers. There are prayers to the highest angels and guardian angels.

With all the variety of prayer chants, it is necessary to realize that help is provided from a specific person, to whom you can turn in any good need. And the practice of making a specific request to one or another saint is only a pious tradition.

Orthodox worship is very diverse. In addition to the main church liturgy service, churches hold services for the various needs of believers. These services include prayer services.

There are several types of prayer services in the Orthodox Church. For example, general prayers to the Lord, the Mother of God, angelic powers and saints. In addition, each person can order a specific prayer service for his petition (request). Thus, prayers for travelers, for the sick, for help in family life, trade, and so on are common in the Church. At some prayer services they pray for help in learning, at others - for deliverance from the disease of drunkenness or drug addiction.

Most often, prayer services are performed in Orthodox churches on Sunday after the end of the Divine Liturgy. Sometimes holiday prayer services are served (in this case, the latter are sent after the liturgy on a holiday).

In order to order a prayer service in an Orthodox church, you must come to the House of God in advance and write down the names of those for whom the prayer service is being ordered (or your own) at the box office or church shop. It must be taken into account that only baptized people are remembered at prayer services.

If a person wishes to order a prayer service on Sunday, it is necessary to come to the temple in advance on this day (before the end of the Divine Liturgy) and write down the names. Most often, the liturgy on Sundays is celebrated at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, and prayer services on weekends begin at approximately 10:00 or 11:00 (times may vary in different parishes). It is best to come on Sunday to pray at the liturgy, having previously ordered names for the prayer service, and after the end of the main service, still remain in the church for prayer singing.

It is worth noting that prayer services in Orthodox churches can be ordered in advance. For example, it is known that a person is going on a trip next week. On any day when the church is open, you can come to the church shop and write down names for commemoration.

Some believers who often attend services book prayer services immediately for the next week and holiday. This practice is also quite appropriate and justified, because you can order a thanksgiving prayer service, for example, at any time and on any day.

Thus, ordering a prayer service in an Orthodox church is very simple. You just need to come to the House of God and write down the names of your relatives and friends who have been honored with holy baptism.

It is best not to limit yourself to the formal recording of names in . This is why they order prayer services so that together with the priest they can offer their prayers to God, the Mother of God, angels or saints, and for this it is desirable to be personally present and pray at the prayer service.

How to correctly submit notes “On health”, or “On repose”,

What is a memorial and church note?

The church note given “On health”, or “On repose” is a relatively recent phenomenon.
In those families where the traditions of Orthodox piety are respected, there is a commemoration book, a special book in which the names of the living and the dead are written and which is presented during the service for remembrance. Memorial books can still be purchased in churches or Orthodox book stores.

A commemoration is a record as a keepsake for posterity about the ancestors who lived on earth, which makes the commemoration a book that is important for every Christian and forces them to treat it with respect. Memorials are kept clean and tidy, near household icons.
A church note, in essence, is a one-time commemoration and requires the same respect.

A note submitted without an image of a cross, written in sloppy, illegible handwriting, with many names, indicates a lack of understanding of the sacred importance and high purpose of recording the names of the living and deceased for their commemoration.

Meanwhile, memorials and notes, both in their appearance and in their use, can be called liturgical books: after all, the Holy Cross is depicted on them, they are brought into the altar, and read during the Divine Liturgy before the Holy Altar.

What is the advantage of praying for our family and friends in church?

Home prayer, as a rule, does not have such grace-filled power as general, corporate prayer, that is, the prayer of the Church.
Church prayer is the prayer about which the Lord said: “Truly I also say to you that if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven, for where there are two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:19-20).
Believers gather in the temple for joint prayer. God Himself mysteriously dwells in the temple. The temple is the house of God. In the temple, the priests offer the Most Holy Bloodless Sacrifice.
Even in Old Testament times, prayers were accompanied by the sacrifice of animals to cleanse sins and appease God.
In the Church of the New Testament, animal sacrifice does not exist, for “Christ died for our sins” (1 Cor. 15:3). “He is the propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for the sins of the whole world” (1 John 2:2).
He sacrificed His Most Pure Blood and Flesh for everyone and established at the Last Supper to perform, in remembrance of Him, the offering under the guise of bloodless gifts - bread and wine - His Most Pure Flesh and Blood for the remission of sins, which is performed in churches on the Divine liturgy.
Just as in the Old Testament sacrifices were added to prayers, so now in churches, in addition to prayer, the Most Holy Bloodless Sacrifice is offered - Holy Communion.

Church prayer has special power also because it is offered by a priest specially appointed to perform sacred rites and offer prayers and sacrifices to God for people.

“I chose you and appointed you,” says the Savior to His Apostles, “so that... Whatever you ask from the Father in My name, He has given you” (John 15:16).
They transferred the rights given from the Lord to the apostles and the duties and powers assigned to them to the successors they appointed: bishops and presbyters, bequeathing to them both power and law, and an indispensable duty above all. “to make prayers, petitions, supplications, thanksgivings for all people,”(1 Tim. 2:1).
That is why the holy Apostle James says to Christians: “Is any of you sick, let him call the elders of the Church, and let them pray over him” (James 5:14).
The holy righteous John of Kronstadt recalled how, while still a young priest, an unfamiliar woman asked him to pray for the success of one of her affairs.
“I don’t know how to pray,” Father John humbly answered.
“Pray,” the woman continued to ask. - I believe that through your prayers the Lord will help me.
Father John, seeing that she had such high hopes for his prayer, became even more embarrassed, again claiming that he did not know how to pray, but the woman said:
- You, father, just pray, I ask you, as best you can, and I believe that the Lord will hear.
Father John began to remember this woman during the liturgy. After some time, the priest met her again, and she said:
- So you, father, just prayed for me, and the Lord sent me, through your prayers, what I asked.
This incident influenced the young priest so much that he understood the power of priestly prayer.

Who should and can be remembered in notes?

In notes submitted for commemoration, the names of only those who have been baptized in the Orthodox Church are written.

The first note we submit is
- "About health".

The concept of “health” includes not only the health and physical condition of a person, but also his spiritual condition and material well-being. And if we pray for the health of a person who has done a lot of evil, this does not mean that we are praying that he will continue to be in the same state - no, we pray to God that He will change his intentions and internal disorder, made sure that our ill-wisher or even enemy began to be in harmony with God, with the Church, with others.
This note should include everyone to whom we wish health, salvation and prosperity.
The Word of God teaches that everyone needs to pray not only for themselves, but also for others: “pray for one another” (James 5:16). The Church is built on this common prayer for each other.
In Imperial Russia, all prayer services began with the name of the Sovereign Emperor, from “health,” on which the fate of not only Russia, but also every family, every Orthodox Christian depended. Now we must first write the name of our Patriarch, and after him - the Archpastor, the Most Reverend Bishop, appointed by God as a spiritual ruler, caring for and offering prayers and sacrifices to the Lord for the flock entrusted to him.
Many Christians do this, as the Holy Scripture teaches: “First of all, I ask you to make prayers, petitions, intercessions, and thanksgivings for all people, for kings and for all those in authority, so that we may lead a quiet and serene life in all piety and purity, for this is good.” and it pleases God our Savior, Who wants all people to be saved and to attain the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:1-4).
Then the name of your spiritual father is written, the priest who instructs you, takes care of the salvation of your soul, prays to the Lord for you: “Remember your teachers” (Heb. 13:7).
Then write the names of your parents, your name, the names of your family members, loved ones and relatives. Everyone should pray for the health and well-being of their family. “If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those at home, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel” (1 Tim. 5:8).
For your family and relatives, write down the names of your benefactors. If they have done good to you, then you should wish and pray for good and blessings from the Lord for them, so as not to remain in debt to them: “give everyone their due.” Do not owe anyone anything except mutual love, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law” (Rom. 13:7-8).
Finally, if you have an ill-wisher, an offender, an envious person or even an enemy, write down his name for prayerful remembrance, according to the commandment of the Lord: (love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you and pray for those who offend you and persecute you."(Matt. 5:44).
Prayer for enemies, for those at war, is a great force for ending hostility and establishing peace. The Savior himself prayed for his enemies. There are many known cases when one of the warring parties wrote the name of his ill-wisher in the health note next to his name - and the hostility stopped, the former enemy became a well-wisher.

The second note submitted by us is "On repose".

In it we write the names of deceased relatives, acquaintances, teachers, well-wishers, everyone who is dear to us.
Just as we pray for the living, so we must pray for the dead - and not only for our closest relatives, but also for our entire family, for everyone who did good to us in earthly life, helped, taught.
The dead, although they have departed from us, although they remain flesh in the earth, but in soul with the Lord, have not disappeared, they continue to live a spiritual life invisible to us before the eyes of God, since the Lord Himself says in the Holy Gospel: “God is not God.” dead, but alive, for with Him all are alive” (Luke 20:38).
We believe that our deceased relatives, and we often do not know the names of many of them, pray for us, their descendants.
We, living on earth, with those who have departed from us, form one Church, one body, having One Head - the Lord Jesus Christ. “Whether we live, we live for the Lord; whether we die, we die for the Lord: and therefore, whether we live or die, - Always Lord's. For for this purpose Christ died, and rose again, and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living” (Rom. 14:8-9).
Our unity and communication with the dead is especially felt during fervent prayer for them. It produces an extremely deep effect and impression on the soul of the person praying, proving the real communication of the soul of the person praying with the souls of those for whom the prayer is offered.

How is the commemoration of the living and the dead performed at the proskomedia in the Church?

How is the offering of the Sacrifice performed in the temple according to our notes?
Preparation for Her begins during the proskomedia.
Proskomedia is a part of the liturgy during which bread and wine are prepared for the sacrament.
Translated from Greek, this word means “bringing” - the ancient Christians themselves brought bread and wine to the temple, necessary for the liturgy.
Proskomedia, symbolizing the birth of Jesus Christ, is performed in the altar secretly for the believers in the church - just as the birth of the Savior took place secretly, unknown to the world.
For proskomedia, five special prosphoras are used.
From the first prosphora, after special prayers, the priest cuts out the middle in the shape of a cube - this part of the prosphora is given the name Lamb. This “lamb” prosphora rests on a paten, a round dish on a stand, symbolizing the manger in which the Savior was born. The lamb prosphora is actually used for Communion.
From the second prosphora, the “Mother of God” prosphora, the priest takes out a portion in honor of the Mother of God. This particle is placed on the paten to the left of the Lamb.
From the third prosphora, “the nine-day prosphora,” nine particles are taken out - in honor of the saints: John the Baptist, prophets, apostles, saints, martyrs and saints, unmercenaries, Joachim and Anna, and the saint in whose name the liturgy is celebrated. These taken out particles are placed on the right side of the Lamb, three particles in a row.
After this, the clergyman proceeds to the fourth prosphora, from which they take out particles about the living - about the Patriarch, bishops, presbyters and deacons. From the fifth prosphora they take out particles about the deceased - Patriarchs, creators of churches, bishops, priests.
These removed particles are also placed on the paten - first for the living, below - for the dead.
Then the priest removes the particles from the prosphora served by the believers.
At this time, remembrances are read - notes, memorial books, which we submitted to the candle box for the proskomedia.
After reading each name indicated in the note, the clergyman takes out a piece of prosphora, saying: “Remember, Lord, (indicate the name we wrote)"
These particles, taken out according to our notes, are also placed on the paten along with the particles taken from the liturgical prosphora.
This is the first, invisible by those praying, commemoration of those whose names are written in the notes we submitted.
So, the particles taken out according to our notes lie on the paten, next to the particles taken from special liturgical prosphoras.
This is a great, holy place! The particles lying in this order on the paten symbolize the entire Church of Christ.
“At the proskomedia, the entire Church, heavenly and earthly, is figuratively presented gathered around the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world. What a close connection there is between the Lord and His saints, between Him and those who live piously on earth and those who died in faith and piety: remember what a close connection there is between us and the saints and those who died in Christ, and love everyone as members of the Lord and as your own members - writes Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt about the particles taken from the prosphora and placed on the paten. - How close to each other are the inhabitants of heaven and the inhabitants of earth, and the Mother of God and all the saints, and all of us, Orthodox Christians, when the divine, universal, transcendental, universal Liturgy is celebrated! My God! What a joyful, life-giving communication!”
Many believe that the particles offered for the living and the dead are a cleansing sacrifice for our sins.
It's a delusion. You can be cleansed from sin only by repentance, correction of life, mercy, and good deeds.
The particles taken out from the prosphora we serve are not consecrated into the body of the Lord; when they are removed, there is no remembrance of Christ’s suffering: during the ascension of the Holy Lamb, during the proclamation “Holy to the Holies,” these particles do not rise for the mysterious elevation to the cross with the flesh of the Savior. These particles are not given in communion with the Flesh of the Savior. Why are they brought? So that through them the believers, whose names are written in our notes, receive grace, sanctification and remission of sins from the cleansing sacrifice offered on the Throne.
A particle taken from our prosphora, reclining near the most pure Body of the Lord, being brought into the chalice, filled with Divine blood, is completely filled with sacred things and spiritual gifts and sends them down to the one whose name is lifted up. After all the communicants have partaken of the Holy Mysteries, the deacon places into the chalice the particles of the saints, the living and the dead, reclining on the paten.
This is done so that the saints, in their closest union with God, will rejoice in heaven, and the living and the dead, whose names are indicated in the notes, having been washed by the most pure blood of the Son of God, receive remission of sins and eternal life.
This is also evidenced by the words spoken by the priest: “Wash away, Lord, the sins of those remembered here.” "Thy Honest Blood."
That is why it is necessary to commemorate the living and the dead precisely in the Church, at the liturgy - after all, it is here that the cleansing of the sins we commit every day takes place through the Blood of Christ.
The sacrifice made by our Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary and offered daily during the liturgy on the Holy Throne is a complete and completely exhaustive payment for our debt to God - and only it, like fire, can burn away all of a person’s sins.

What is a registered note?

In some churches, in addition to the usual notes of health and repose, they accept custom notes.

Custom mass for health with prayer service differs from the usual commemoration of health in that, in addition to removing a particle from the prosphora (which occurs during a regular commemoration), the deacon publicly reads the names of those commemorated at the litanies, and then these names are repeated by the priest before the altar.
But even this is not the end of the commemoration according to the ordered note - after the end of the liturgy, a prayer is offered for them at a prayer service.

The same thing happens on custom-made mass of repose with requiem- and here, after removing the particles with the names of the deceased, the deacon publicly pronounces their names at the litany, then the names are repeated in front of the altar by the clergyman, and then the deceased are remembered at the memorial service, which takes place after the end of the liturgy.

Sorokousty is a prayer service that is performed by the Church daily for forty days. Every day during this period, particles are removed from the prosphora.
“Sorokousts,” writes St. Simeon of Thessalonica, - are performed in remembrance of the Ascension of the Lord, which happened on the fortieth day after the resurrection, - and with the purpose that he (the deceased), having risen from the grave, ascended to Candlemas(that is, towards - ed.). Judge, he was caught up into the clouds, and so he was always with the Lord.”
Sorokousts are ordered not only for repose, but also for health, especially for seriously ill people.

Prayer service- this is a special divine service in which they ask the Lord, the Mother of God, the saints to send mercy or thank God for receiving benefits. In the church, prayer services are performed before and after the liturgy, as well as after Matins and Vespers.
Public prayers are performed on temple holidays, on the New Year, before the beginning of the youth’s teaching, during natural disasters, during the invasion of foreigners, during epidemics, during rainlessness, etc.
Other prayer services belong to private worship and are performed at the requests and needs of individual believers. Often during these prayers there is a small blessing of water.
The note for the prayer service begins with an indication of which saint the prayer service is being offered, whether it is for health or repose. Then the names of those for whom the prayer song will be offered are listed.
When you submit a note for the prayer service, tell the minister whether you are ordering a water-blessing prayer service - in this case, a small blessing of water is performed, which is then distributed to the believers - or a regular one, without the blessing of water.
You can order commemoration of the living or deceased at month. on half year. on year .
Some churches and monasteries accept notes on eternal commemoration.
If you submitted a registered note, then the names written in the notes are pronounced at prayer shortly after the reading of the Gospel.
At the end of the Gospel, a special (that is, intensified) litany begins - a general cry to God, a threefold “Lord, have mercy!”
The deacon calls: “Recite (that is, let’s say, let’s pray, talk) with all our hearts, and with all our thoughts, recit!”
In two petitions, we strenuously ask the Lord to hear our prayer and have mercy on us: “Lord, Almighty, God of our Father, pray (that is, pray to You), hear and have mercy. - Have mercy on us, God. "
Everyone in the church asks for the Patriarch, for the bishop, for the priestly brotherhood (a parable of the church) and for all “our brethren in Christ,” for the authorities and the army.
The Church prays for mercy (so that the Lord would have mercy on us), for life, peace, health, salvation, visitation (that is, so that the Lord would visit and not leave with His mercies), forgiveness, forgiveness of the sins of the servants of God to the brethren of this holy temple.
In the last petition of the special litany, the deacon strongly calls for prayer for those who bear fruit and do good in this holy and all-honorable temple, those who work (for the temple), those who sing and those who stand before them, expecting great and rich mercies from God.
Those who bear fruit and do good are believers who bring to the temple everything necessary for Divine services (oil, incense, prosphora, etc.), who sacrifice money and things for the splendor of the temple and for the maintenance of those who work in it.
On certain days, the special litany is followed by a special litany for the dead, in which we pray for all our departed fathers and brothers, asking Christ, the immortal King and our God, to forgive them all their sins, voluntary and involuntary, to rest them in the villages of the righteous and, recognizing, that there is no person who has not sinned in his life, we beg the Lord to grant our departed the Kingdom of Heaven, where all the righteous rest.
During the litanies, the deacon pronounces the names of those indicated in the registered note and invokes God’s blessing on them, and the priest reads prayers.
Then the priest says a prayer before the Throne, loudly calling out the names from the notes.
The custom of reading notes with names during special litanies dates back to ancient, apostolic times - “the deacon commemorates diptychs, that is, the memorial of the departed.” Diptychs are two tablets made of paper or parchment, folded like the tablets of Moses. On one of them the names of the living were written for reading during the sacred rite, on the other - the names of the deceased.

Why should we pray for the dead?

Our relationships with our neighbors do not end after their death. Death interrupts only visible communication with them. But in the Kingdom of Christ there is no death, and what we call death is the transition from temporary life to eternal life.
Our prayers for the departed are a continuation of our relationships with our neighbors. We, who believe that our departed did not die, also believe that the Most Merciful Lord, through our prayer, will forgive souls who died, although in sins, but with faith and hope of salvation.
The Church is a living organism, in the words of the Apostle Paul, a Body, the Head of which is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
Not only believers living on earth belong to the Church, but also those who died in the right faith.
There must be a living, organic unity between the living and the deceased - after all, in a living organism, all members are connected with each other, each performs something for the life of the whole organism.
Our duty is to take care of those members of the Church who have ended their earthly existence, and through our prayer to alleviate the condition of the deceased.
Before their death, many did not have time to receive the sacrament of repentance and holy communion and died an unexpected or violent death. The deceased can no longer repent themselves or give alms. Only the offering of the Bloodless Sacrifice for them, the prayers of the Church, alms and charity for them can ease their fate after death.
The commemoration of the dead consists primarily of prayer for them - at home, and especially in church, combined with the offering of a bloodless sacrifice at the Divine Liturgy.
“When all the people and the sacred face stand with hands raised, and when a terrible sacrifice is presented, then how can we not beg God, asking for the dead?” writes St. John Chrysostom.
But in addition to praying for the departed, we must show mercy in every possible way and do good deeds, because “alms delivers from death and can cleanse all sin” (Tob. 12:9).
Saint John Chrysostom advises: “Almost dead through alms and good works: for alms serve to deliverance from eternal torment.”
St. Athanasia, having said that “if the souls of the departed are sinners, then for the good deeds of the living in their memory they receive remission of sins from God,” adds: “if they are righteous, then charity for them serves to save the benefactors themselves.”
Therefore, it is necessary that prayer and Bloodless Sacrifice be offered for our departed as often as possible.
Offering a Bloodless Sacrifice for the dead eases their fate, even if they were already in hell, for the Bloodless Gifts brought to the sacrifice are transformed into the Flesh and Blood of Christ, so that He Himself is sacrificed for the sake of our salvation.

How to properly remember the dead?

The custom of remembering the dead is already found in the Old Testament Church.
The Apostolic Constitutions mention the commemoration of the dead with particular clarity. In them we find both prayers for the departed during the celebration of the Eucharist, and an indication of the days on which it is especially necessary to remember the departed: third, ninth, fortieth, annual .
Thus, the commemoration of the dead is an apostolic institution, it is observed throughout the Church, and the liturgy for the dead, the offering of the Bloodless Sacrifice for their salvation, is the most powerful and effective means of asking the departed for the mercy of God.
Church commemoration is performed only for those who were baptized in the Orthodox faith.

Memorial services for suicides, as well as for those not baptized in the Orthodox faith, are not celebrated. Moreover, these persons cannot be commemorated at the liturgy. The Holy Church offers unceasing prayers for our departed fathers and brothers at every divine service and especially at the liturgy.
But besides this, the Holy Church creates at certain times a special commemoration of all fathers and brothers in faith who have passed away from time immemorial, who have been worthy of Christian death, as well as those who, having been caught by sudden death, were not guided into the afterlife by the prayers of the Church. The memorial services performed at this time are called ecumenical.

On Meat Saturday, before Cheese Week, On the eve of the remembrance of the Last Judgment, we pray to the Lord that He will show His mercy to all the departed on the day when the Last Judgment comes.
On this Saturday, the Orthodox Church prays for all those who have died in the Orthodox faith, whenever and wherever they lived on earth, whoever they were in terms of their social origin and position in earthly life.
Prayers are offered for people “from Adam to this day who have fallen asleep in piety and right faith.”

Three Saturdays of Great Lent - Saturdays of the second, third, fourth weeks of Great Lent- established because during the presanctified liturgy there is no such commemoration as is performed at any other time of the year. In order not to deprive the dead of the saving intercession of the Church, these parental Saturdays were established. During Great Lent, the Church intercedes for the departed, so that the Lord forgives their sins and resurrects them into eternal life.

On Radonitsa - Tuesday of the second week of Easter- with the departed they share the joy of the Resurrection of the Lord, in the hope of the resurrection of our departed. The Savior Himself descended into hell to preach victory over death and brought from there the souls of the Old Testament righteous. Because of this great spiritual joy, the day of this remembrance is called “Radinitsa”, or “Radonitsa”.

Trinity Parents' Saturday- on this day (Saturday before Trinity Day - A.L.) The Holy Church calls upon us to commemorate the dead, so that the saving grace of the Holy Spirit may cleanse the sins of the souls of all our forefathers, fathers and brothers who have departed from time immemorial, and, interceding for the gathering of all into the Kingdom of Christ, praying for the redemption of the living, for the return of the captivity of their souls, asks " , to rest the souls of those who have previously departed in a place of cooling, as if the dead will not praise Thee, Lord, those who exist below in hell dare to bring confessions to Thee: but we, the living, bless Thee and pray, and we offer purifying prayers and sacrifices to Thee for our souls.”

Dimitrievskaya Parents' Saturday- on this day, commemoration is made of all Orthodox slain soldiers. It was established by the holy noble prince Demetrius Donskoy at the inspiration and blessing of St. Sergius of Radonezh in 1380, when he won a glorious, famous victory over the Tatars on the Kulikovo Field. The commemoration takes place on the Saturday before Demetrius Day (October 26, old style (November 8, new style - A.L.)). Subsequently, on this Saturday, Orthodox Christians began to commemorate not only the soldiers who laid down their lives on the battlefield for their faith and fatherland, but along with them, for all Orthodox Christians.

The commemoration of deceased soldiers is performed by the Orthodox Church April 26 (May 9, new style), the holiday of victory over Nazi Germany, and August 29 (September 11, new style - A.L.), on the day of the Beheading of John the Baptist.

It is imperative to remember the deceased on the day of his death, birth and name day .
Days of remembrance must be spent decorously, reverently, in prayer, doing good to the poor and loved ones, in thinking about our death and future life.
The rules for submitting notes “On repose” are the same as notes “On health.”
“At the litanies, the newly deceased or significant builders of the monastery are remembered more, and then no more than one or two names. But proskomedia is the most important commemoration, for the parts taken out for the departed are immersed in the blood of Christ and sins are cleansed by this great sacrifice, and when there is a memory of one of the relatives, you can submit a note and remember it for the litanies,” wrote the Monk Macarius of Optina in one of his letters.

How often should memorial notes be submitted?

The prayer of the Church and the Most Holy Sacrifice attract the mercy of the Lord to us, purifying and saving us.
We always, both during life and after death, need God's mercy towards us.
Therefore, it is necessary to be worthy of the prayers of the Church and the offering of the sacrifice of the Holy Gifts for us or our loved ones, living and deceased, as often as possible, and necessarily on those days that have special meaning: on birthdays, baptism days, name days of both one’s own and members of your family.
Honoring the memory of the saint whose name we bear, we thereby call upon our patron to pray and intercede before God, because, as the Holy Scripture says, The fervent prayer of the righteous can accomplish much(James 5:16).
It is imperative to submit a note of remembrance on your child’s birthdays and baptisms.
Mothers must carefully monitor this, for caring for the child is a sacred duty. .
Whether sin attracts us to itself, whether some passion takes possession of us, whether the devil tempts us, whether despair or inconsolable sorrow befalls us, whether trouble, need, illness have visited us - in such cases, the prayer of the Church with the offering of the Bloodless Sacrifice serves as the surest means of deliverance, strengthening and consolation.

REMINDER
for those wishing to submit a note
about the living and the dead

1. Notes must be submitted before the start of the liturgy. It is best to submit memorial notes in the evening or early in the morning, before the start of the service.
2. When entering the names of the living and the deceased, remember them in the process of writing with a sincere desire for their good, from the bottom of your heart, trying to remember the one whose name you are writing - this is already a prayer .
3. The note should contain no more than five to ten names. If you want to remember many of your family and friends, send a few notes.
4. Names must be written in the genitive case (answer the question “who?”).
The names of bishops and priests are indicated first, and their rank is indicated - for example, “about health”, Bishop Tikhon, Abbot Tikhon, Priest Yaroslav, then write your name, your family and friends.
5. The same applies to notes “about the repose” - for example, Metropolitan John, Archpriest Michael, Alexandra, John, Anthony, Elijah, etc.
6. All names must be given in church spelling (for example, George, not Yuri) and in full (for example, Alexander, Nikolai, but not Sasha, Kolya),
7. The notes do not indicate surnames, patronymics, ranks and titles, or degrees of relationship.
8. A child under 7 years old is referred to in the note as an infant - baby John.
9. If you want, in health notes you can mention “sick”, “warrior”, “traveling”, “prisoner” before the name. They don’t write in notes - “suffering”, “embarrassed”, “needy”, “lost”.
10. In the notes “On Repose”, the deceased is referred to as “newly deceased” within 40 days after death. It is allowed in notes “On repose” to write before the name “killed”, “warrior”, “of ever-memorable” (day of death, name day of the deceased).
Notes for a prayer service or memorial service, which take place after the end of the liturgy, are submitted separately.

Notes "On health"

Notes “about health” are served at the church kiosk for the Orthodox (Unbaptized - not born for God!). In addition to the name, you can indicate a holy rank, a warrior (if this is a profession or the person is on active military service), an infant (if the child is under 7 years old), a youth (from 7 to 14 years old), a sick person.
All names are written legibly (preferably in block letters), in the genitive case (whom?). The number of names is not limited, but it is better if there are no more than ten. Names are written in canonical form. Your note should look something like this:

Priest Nicholas
Hieromonk Elijah
nun Alexandra
Victoria's baby
youth Elijah
Natalia
sick Maria
warrior Vasily
sick Varvaraand all relatives.

Before continuing the story, let's make a small digression. Probably everyone attending services heard the priest reading names from pieces of paper at prayer services. But many do not know that there are services at which names are not announced out loud. The priest remembers these names during prayer at the altar, performing the Sacrament of Proskomedia. To avoid any misunderstandings, below in the text we will clarify at which services names are announced and at which ones not.
Notes can be submitted for mass or Liturgy (read out), for Proskomedia (not read out), for six months (not read out), for a year or more (not read out).
It is better to submit a note about a sick person at the Liturgy (the same as mass) (read out), writing only one name, for example: the sick Kirill.
When submitting a note to the kiosk, you need to say which service you are submitting the note for or for how long (forty days - 40 days).
In addition to those listed above, you can order a health prayer (read out) or an akathist (read out). An akathist can be ordered to the Holy Trinity, the Mother of God, and saints. (Akathist is the name of special praise and thanksgiving chants).
There are prayers not only “For health,” but also for the beginning of any good, God-pleasing deed, and thanksgiving services at the end of the deed. A prayer of thanksgiving must be ordered to the Holy Trinity.
When leaving somewhere, order a prayer service for those traveling. You can order a prayer service to all saints or to one of the saints personally.
There are prayer services “for private needs.” This name is purely conditional, collective. You can turn to the archangels, saints and icons of the Mother of God for help in healing ailments, for guidance in teaching, for deliverance from wine drinking, for consolation in troubles, and the like.

Notes "On Repose"

Notes “about repose” are served at the church kiosk for the baptized, Orthodox, who died in a righteous spirit, i.e. those who died a natural or accidental death, but did not leave life at their own request (suicides). In addition to the name, you can indicate the holy rank, relationship to the army at the time of death, baby (if the child died before the age of seven), youth (from 7 to 14 years). All names must be written legibly, preferably in block letters, in the genitive case (whom?).

nun Olga
warrior John
Elijah
Maria
Vladimir
Catherine
Gabriel
baby George and all his relatives.

The number of names is not limited, but it is better if there are no more than ten. Names are written in canonical form. You need to submit notes before the start of the service, but it is better to do this in advance for a certain date or for a certain period: for forty days (forty day), for six months, for a year. In this case, your relatives will be remembered within the specified period at each funeral service or memorial service.
When submitting a note, it is advisable to make an offering to the church or support the poor.
At the kiosk there are books entitled “Remembrance”. You can buy them, fill them and serve them at the kiosk as needed. In the section “about repose” names are entered on the grounds indicated above, but with the condition: inveterate upon death in church. These deceased are remembered by the priest at the altar during his celebration of the Sacrament of Proskomedia. (In this case, the names are not announced aloud).

Each temple has its own nuances. Somewhere they just accept “custom” and “simple” ones, and don’t rack their brains anymore. Check with the kiosk that accepts notes on what is best for you to do.

S.Ch. Why does the Church require that only Orthodox names be indicated in notes on health and repose?

Alexy II: The Orthodox Church primarily prays for its children, living or deceased. There are different opinions about whether it is possible to pray for non-Orthodox Christians. There is probably no great sin in this, especially if a person belongs or belonged to one of the churches in which we recognize baptism as a sacrament. However, one must pray privately for the unbaptized living, asking the Lord to lead them to faith, and deceased non-Christians, even if we entrust their afterlife fate into the hands of God, cannot be remembered during worship. After all, a person who was not part of the Church on earth cannot enter the Heavenly Church.

You can't submit suicide notes. If this happened, then it is necessary to tell the priest about it in confession.
Including a living person's name on a memorial note does not harm that person in any way.

Previously, our ancestors knew all the church rules and led a God-fearing life in faith. Today, few people know what a prayer service is and how to order it. When my mother fell ill, I was advised to order a prayer service for health. I went to church and submitted a special note at the church shop, paying for the clergy’s service. Mom recovered very quickly, after which I ordered a thanksgiving prayer service in the same church. In the article I will tell you what kinds of prayer services there are, and which saints and archangels you can order them for.

Church prayer services

First of all, you need to know that prayer services are ordered for living people, and memorial services and magpies are ordered for the deceased. It is important to distinguish prayer services from magpies, masses and proskomedia: they are held during liturgies. A prayer service is a special service (treba), a request for the sending of God's grace. A prayer service is ordered for the Mother of God, the Savior, the holy saints and the archangels. Prayer services are divided into petitionary and thanksgiving. There are also akathist, water-blessing, simple and thanksgiving prayers.

Types of prayers:

about health;
about travelers;
about students;
for the consecration of an apartment and car;
for the consecration of icons and Orthodox symbols;
thanksgiving;
about receiving benefits;
water sanctified

Previously, prayers were served during the invasion of foreigners, during drought and crop failure, during epidemics and loss of livestock, during natural disasters and various public troubles. Nowadays, private prayer services asking for the needs of individuals are practiced, but public prayer services are also sometimes held.

Public prayer services include:

Great Blessing of Water for Epiphany;
on the first Sunday of Great Lent;
apple, honey, nut saved;
the beginning of the youths' teaching;
New Year (civil new year);
Christmas thanksgiving.

Simple prayer services are held on the day of veneration of the saints, at which the petitions submitted by the parishioners are pronounced. Simple prayer services are ordered for the sick or on the day of veneration of the patron saint. Akathist prayers are held in front of miraculous icons or on days of honoring saints. You can find out about the time of akathist prayers in the church or in the monastery.

At what time can I order a prayer service? It depends on the request: from one day to a year. For example, a prayer service for travelers can be ordered for the entire duration of the trip.

How is a church prayer service different from home prayer? Christ said that where two or three gather in his name, there he also dwells. Therefore, joint (congregational) prayers are much more effective than individual prayers. The Lord and the saints also hear home prayer, but it has much less power.

Where can you hold a prayer service? It is carried out in a church or at a place that needs to be consecrated - laying the foundation of a house, consecrating an office or other place.

Water-blessing prayers

This is a separate rite during which water is blessed. The water-blessing prayer service can be small or large (on the feast of Epiphany). The Small Blessing of Water is held on any day and under any circumstances.

During the water-blessing prayer, the water that is on the table is baptized. After blessing the water with prayers, a Christian can take it home. Sometimes quite a lot of water is blessed, so other believers can take it home.

At water-blessing prayers, crosses and icons can be blessed. Blessed water is drunk at home on an empty stomach and sprinkled on an apartment or property.

How and to whom to order a prayer service

What is a prayer service and how to order it correctly? To do this, they submit a church note in which they indicate the peculiarity of the prayer service: thanksgiving or petition. They also indicate who should order a prayer service - the Mother of God, saints, Lord or archangels. Below are the names of those asking in the genitive case (Vera, Lyubov, Vladimir).

You cannot order a prayer service for unbaptized people and people of other faiths.

You can also indicate in the note the status of a Christian: sick Sergei, baby Daniel. However, it is unacceptable to indicate such characteristics of a person as lost, blessed, etc.

Why can’t you order prayer services for unbaptized people? Because they are not members of the church. You can pray fervently for them at home, and also put candles in front of the icons. But at church memorials their names are not accepted.

Examples of prayers to the saints and the Mother of God:

Our Lady of Vladimir - in difficult life circumstances, with heaviness in the soul;
Our Lady “Healer” - for bodily ailments;
Our Lady “Unexpected Joy” - for hearing diseases;
Our Lady “Inexhaustible Chalice” - for problems with drug addiction and alcoholism;
Our Lady “Helper of Sinners” - for neurological ailments;
Our Lady of All Queens prays for the healing of cancer;
Our Lady “Hodegetria” is prayed for when there is sadness and depression;
Our Lady of Unfading Flower orders prayers for family well-being and marriage;
they pray to the icon of the noble princes Boris and Gleb for problems with the musculoskeletal system;
they pray to the blessed Matrona of Moscow in case of family troubles;
A prayer service is ordered for the holy martyrs Cyprian and Justinia against witchcraft and corruption.

This is not a complete list of possible prayers to the Mother of God and the saints. To find out more precisely about the prayer services being held, you need to make this request to a monastery or temple. You can also order a prayer service online by submitting an application to a monastery or church. Currently, you can order prayer services at the monastery on Mount Athos through their website on the Internet.

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