Prayer for the marriage of a girl

Of course, every girl wants to marry for love, by mutual consent. I want the connection with the half to be so deep, complete and inseparable that life without each other is not conceivable; To experience together its bitter, sorrowful and bright, beautiful moments.

No less, and maybe more than the girl herself, her mother worries about the question of a successful marriage. With this request, she can turn to St. Nicholas, the Apostle Andrew, the Great Martyr Catherine, Martyr Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, or Philaret the Merciful, who have become famous in one way or another, and be sure that the prayer for the daughter's marriage will be heard.

Paraskeva is known for being a virgin girl, she vowed to be celibate and dedicated herself to the ministry of Christ. She, like the apostle Andrew, is asked to send a good groom.

In prayer, "To the Old Man, the Parent ..." St. Nicholas the Wonder-worker recalled the poor father's daughters, who were married through three knots with gold.

Andrew the First-Called is known not only for being the first to follow Christ. He brought to Jesus Peter - his brother native. According to legend, he came with sermons to the place where Kiev was built, rose to the mountains of Kiev mountains and established there a cross with blessing and prophetic words that in the future there will be a large Orthodox city here. He is asked to send a kind groom.

Righteous Filaret the Most Gracious became famous when, after complete impoverishment, three small granddaughters remained in his arms, one of them was chosen for his faith and charity by the bride for the tsar. He is sent a small, but a strong prayer for marriage: "In your patience ..." After it, a prayer is read to the saints and to the powers of the ethereal heaven.

Often the mother's prayer for marriage is addressed to St. Catherine. According to legend, Catherine promised to marry only for someone who would be more noble, wealthy, handsome and wise than herself. There was a great desire in her soul to see the Bridegroom. After the Epiphany, Catherine had a vision in which the Infant Jesus, sitting in the arms of the Mother of God, turned to the girl with a gentle look and presented the ring, thereby betrothing her to Himself. When the vision ceased, the ring remained on the hand of Catherine.

By the girl herself, the prayer to be married can be addressed to her Guardian Angel, as a remembrance of Angel's help to find the bride of Tobiah; To the holy martyrs Chrysanthus and Darius, who, before their marriage, agreed to lead a holy life dedicated to God; To the holy apostle Simon (Zealot).

By the way, according to legend, he (Simon) was the bridegroom, at whose wedding in Galilee Cana, the Lord showed his first miracle to the world.

Concerning the happiness of marriage, they pray to Saint Trifon, who, from a young age, had the grace of God's blessing to heal illnesses, cast out demons, and help in everyday affairs.

And, of course, the maiden's prayer for marriage should be sent, first of all, to God Himself with a request to give her a pious, respectable spouse, with whom it will be possible to glorify the Creator. And also the Mother of God in remembrance of the day when the Virgin with her son Jesus Christ visited Galilee Cana at the wedding, where the Lord first manifested his miracle by transforming ordinary water into wine.

When it came to marriage, it was no longer a prayer for marriage, but a special prayer for the blessing of a new union.

On the blessing to marry, ask the pious Prince Peter, in the monasticism of David, and Princess Fevronia, in the monasticism of Euphrosyneus, the Murom Wonderworkers.

On the patronage of the wedding before the marriage pray to the miracle workers and the holy bessrebrenikam Cosme and Damian, brothers who studied the life of medical art and helped people.