Prayer for the godparents for the godparents

The first prayer of the godson is the Symbol of Faith, which the recipient or recipient reads during the sacrament of baptism. When an adult is baptized, he himself reads this prayer. The receiver, as it were, replaces his future spiritual son or spiritual daughter, is entrusted to God for him. Therefore, it is especially important to comprehend every spoken word. The responsibility is great, the moment is unique. An error or a frivolous attitude will adversely affect the child's subsequent life, perhaps, in his eternal life.

Symbol of faith

A person who has been churched knows the text of the Creed by heart, the one who came to the temple for the performance of the rite of the baby, is obliged to learn it. It is advisable to try to disassemble every word, if difficulties arise, you need to turn to the priest for help. It is necessary to try to remember the correct arrangement of stresses. Yes, it does not matter to the Lord whether we have correctly pronounced all the words, but the mistake can cause confusion in the priest performing the sacrament, and those present. This can have a bad effect on the general mood and bring down the priest, especially the inexperienced. But the most important thing is to put in every sound the whole heart, all the faith that a person has. It is necessary to try to join the spirit with the child and read the Creed as if with it.

The godparents pray for their godchildren all their lives

After the performance of the sacrament of baptism, the recipient or the recipient begin their work aimed at the correct spiritual education of their ward. The spiritual parent will need help in this difficult work. Behind her, he turns to God. Since the kid can not yet pray himself, it is the direct duty of his followers to do this instead of him until he can communicate with the Lord on his own. But even after the child began his first attempts to turn to God, the spiritual parents pray for him. It is their duty to the end of life, their own or the little man entrusted to them by God. There are several specially composed prayers for godchildren, but you can read for them any others. It is advisable to remember your spiritual child during personal prayer morning and evening. Perhaps, for someone, the duty to pray for a godson will be an incentive for establishing one's own communication with God.

Morning Prayer of the Optina Elders

If services in the Church are in the Church Slavonic language, then houses for those who do not know him well enough, it is appropriate to pray for a godson in Russian. Many Orthodox Christians include in their morning rule the famous prayer of the Optina elders. It will be great if spiritual parents read it and for their wards. When you say the words of any prayers for yourself, you can mentally remember your loved ones, relatives, spiritual children. This, too, can be considered a commemoration.

Psalm 90

Prayer for the godson should include a request for blessing, help and protection for them for every day. It will not be superfluous, and reading the psalm 90 before going out of the house, remember the name of the spiritual son or daughter. This psalm is known for numerous instances of miraculous help in deadly danger. Many mothers stitched a leaf with the text of this prayer in children's clothes. It is good to have a habit of reading it with the belief that it will protect everyone who is mentioned in it, from all evil acting on the soul and threatening bodily health. The person thus tunes to a peaceful way, feels protected, calm for himself and his close people. It is necessary to help the child gradually learn a few prayers, including this one. For a very small person it is complex, and in 9-10 years you can try to pronounce the words of the psalm together. If the child has interest and desire, you need to help him memorize his text by heart.

Special Prayers

Some of our saints and elders wrote their own prayers for parents and godparents about children. If there is time and a special desire to invoke God's blessing on the spiritual son or daughter, then it is good to read them at least once a day. Particularly well-known prayer about the children and godchildren of Father John Krestyankin and prayers written by the Monk Ambrose Optina. You can and need to talk to God in your own words, but prayers written by holy people are a model of how to express your feelings and thoughts before the Lord. It's about personal prayer. If a person does not know the words by heart, but only remembers the general meaning - it's not a crime to convey it with words that come to mind and heart.

Prayer in own words

Prayer for the godson for health should contain a request for giving him health not only bodily, but also spiritual. When composing it, it is necessary to remember that it is desirable to begin with words of praise to God, to continue with words of gratitude and then to make requests. Most people ask God for earthly blessings, success in school, healing from disease. But this approach is fundamentally wrong. The fact is that we do not know what is useful to a particular person, and very often we ask for children what will hurt them.

What to pray about

Prayer for the godson must necessarily contain a request for spiritual health and the increase of the wards, instruction in the faith, help in studying the Word of God, fighting the passions. You can not ask for a good job for them, a rich husband or a new apartment. But it is possible and necessary to ask God to help the child get rid of laziness or from being addicted to sweets. There is one instructive story about this.

One couple prayed fervently for the gift of the child. But since they were both ugly, to ugliness, they asked for a beautiful baby. The Lord at last gave himself up and sent them a baby, beautiful uncommonly ... but blind. Since then, they have asked God only for one thing: "You alone, have mercy on us." It's not that God is cruel, but that we just have to trust Him completely. We ask for happiness on earth, and He wants to save us. And only He knows what will serve to save a particular person.

Why God Does not Pray

You can not expect miracles from your prayers. Someone benefits wealth, someone has poverty, someone has health, and another person is helpful to cheer, etc. Not everyone can reasonably manage wealth, and the same Ambrose Optina, being healthy, suffered because he was drawn to Into a noisy society, where he only scattered. When God sent him sickness, his character became much calmer, which helped him to pay more attention to people. The illness did not allow him to attend church services, but he always spent time on spiritual support for pilgrims, who flocked to him for thousands of advice and help. Most likely, here it was more useful than in the altar.

Praying for another person is an expression of love

The prayer of the godfather for his godson may contain requests for the gift of wisdom, strength of spirit and other positive masculine qualities. Correctly on the part of the recipient, he will closely monitor the spiritual son and notice where he has weak points, but not to reprimand, but to cope with the problem. It's about problems and spiritual problems. You can ask God, the Mother of God or the Guardian Angel to have a godson's desire to visit the temple more often, to study the New Testament.

Regular prayer for the godparents supports and develops in the recipients a sense of love for the spiritual child and responsibility for the little man before God. Any sincere words, uttered with love, are useful primarily to the worshiper. They open the heart of man to God and sanctify him. The prayer of the godmother for his godson should be filled with maternal tenderness and concern for the ward. It is especially good for the recipient to address to the Theotokos or the saint - the heavenly patron of the baby.

We must not forget about the ecclesiastical prayer. Visiting the temple, it would be superfluous to file a note with the name of the godson for commemoration of the proskomedia. During its fulfillment it is necessary to pray for the spiritual son or daughter. When clergymen list the names of people who are remembered for health, one must mentally pronounce the names of their loved ones, including their godson. The prayer of the godparents about their godchildren is an indispensable condition for the fulfillment of duties voluntarily assumed at the time of the Sacrament of Baptism over the infant. But this is also one of the talents given to man by God for his own salvation, as well as other duties of the recipients in relation to spiritual children. The next step with the baby is a joint appeal to the Lord.