In the life of every Orthodox person there are events that go far beyond the everyday joys and sorrows.These are the days when on him the sacrament of Holy Communion.They lie in a completely different plane of life.They bring joy, but the joy of a special kind, is not commensurate with the joy that gives us life on earth.These are the days of our union with God.
What is important for us Holy Communion?
great sacrament of the body and blood of the Lord makes our human nature akin to God.His body and blood are a part of us, an organic part of our soul and body.As a person inherits from their biological parents, some of which he has become by virtue of kinship by blood, certain, inherent quality and apprehended a body and blood of the Lord, we become heirs of his qualities.
Lord in his earthly life, bringing the ransom sacrifice, died and then resurrected in a completely different flesh.This flesh was endowed with properties inaccessible to man.But Holy Communion makes us - the creation of his hands - and the heirs of the flesh, and this immortality.Furthermore, Jesus Christ, the incarnate of the Virgin Mary, took all the human qualities but sinfulness.God is sinless.
reading prayers included in The Service of Holy Communion, we ask God to deliver us from the bondage of sin, gravitating over us since the fall of the first people - Adam and Eve.And our prayers are justified.After all, becoming partakers of the divine body and blood, we have to get rid of sinful bondage.For the great joy of spiritual renewal and gaining immortality, we thank the Lord God, raising his thanksgiving after communion.
Where and how to read these prayers?
Communion of the Holy Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Christ takes place in the church during the liturgy.At the end of the read on behalf of all who are vouchsafed in this day holy sacrament, the prayer of thanksgiving after Communion.Usually, it reads acolyte.But sometimes the parishioners returned home from the temple, open the prayer book and read for yourself.
text, which is a prayer of gratitude for the Lord's Supper, includes five separate prayers.This is followed by the famous words of St. Reverend Simeon, "Nunc Dimittis ..." - and then read the text troparion also, depending on the liturgy of the saint was accomplished on this day.All these prayers serves one purpose - to glorify the dignity and thank the Lord God for giving us a great favor.No wonder thanksgiving after communion preceded by words, are encouraged to read them warmly and sincerely.
first
Prayer This prayer begins with the words of gratitude to God for the fact that, in spite of our sinfulness, he did not reject us and revealed to be partakers of His holy mysteries.This is followed by a request that the body and blood of his served as spiritual healing and physical health.They helped to repel any enemy, visible and invisible, to enlighten the knowledge of the Divine Mysteries in the strengthening of faith and gave strength to meet the holy commandments of the Lord.This is the first prayer of thanksgiving after Communion ends with the words, expressed a desire to continue to dedicate his life to the service of God, and asking for the help of the grace of the way.This is followed by a prayer written in the IV century St. Basil the Great.
Prayer of St. Basil the Great
First of all you need to say a few words about this saint.Basil the Great was born in Caesarea in 303 AD.Having a child a good education, he continued his in Athens.Here he met with the other pillar of Christianity - Gregory the Theologian.Their friendship lasted a lifetime.In Athens, St. Basil entered the path of asceticism and knowledge of Christian doctrine.Soon he took holy orders.St. traveled.Gathering a circle of like-minded, he became their spiritual mentor.
He wrote many extant theological writings.Prayers of thanksgiving after Communion, written by St. Basil the Great, full of deep and sincere feelings.He begins it with words of gratitude for all the blessings bestowed upon him by God.Prelate asks the Lord to always keep his grace and divine power.Finally, he prays that the Lord has allowed it to preserve its unblemished conscience and always proceed to the holy sacraments to consciousness of his spiritual purity.
Prayer third
author it is the holy monk Simeon Metaphrastes, who lived in Greece at the turn of the IX-X centuries.He went down in history as an outstanding Christian theologian and historian.They created an extensive collection of Lives of the Saints, edited and supplied with comments.He wrote a prayer of thanksgiving after Communion is read a third in a row.From it, he likens the Lord God of fire, pozhigayuschemu all unworthy.Monk prays for his life, consumed sinful thorns nesting in it, and make it the abode of the Holy Spirit.Rev. surrenders to God's industry and relies on its defense.
very short, the fourth prayer
This small volume of prayer filled with a very deep meaning.It signed an appeal to God for the gift of eternal life - the main and the desired goal of every Christian.Then the words of the prayer call out to the Lord to send down mercy on the Day of Judgment, which will follow the Second Coming.
prayer of thanksgiving Virgin
Holy Mother of God enjoys great love and reverence for all Christians.To her very special relationship.His purity and holiness, it is superior to the angelic hosts.It can not compare even the cherubim and seraphim.Therefore, prayer is addressed to it, it begins with the words full of sincere love."Light pomrachёnnoy soul, cover, shelter, comfort and joy" - this epithet, which begins was brought her to thank for the fact that it was vouchsafed us to partake of the blood and the body of her Son.
In prayer, we are acknowledging himself put to death by sin, ask Pure revive us.For her, gave birth to the source of immortality, nothing is impossible.We ask to direct our thoughts to good deeds, and to fill the hearts of God's love.And like all the previous prayers, thanksgiving prayer asking the Virgin completes the granting us the opportunity to take the rest of my life sanctuary immaculate mysteries.
passage of the Gospel text and the subsequent troparia
After the prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary to read a short Bible text, including the words of the Holy Reverend Simeon uttered them when he saw the light of the Holy Spirit in the temple brought by the baby Jesus the incarnate God.His "Nunc Dimittis ..." concludes prayers of thanksgiving after Communion, which are described above.
But this is not the end of our thanksgiving.Then read and troparia kontakia, with which it depends on, the liturgy of the saint is.It could be a Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, and could have - John Chrysostom.In addition, if you serve the liturgy Prezhdeosvyaschёnnyh gifts, read the troparion to St. Gregory Dialogos and the corresponding kontakion.Thanksgiving prayer guardian angel in this list does not include prayers, but it is quite clear that we can not but thank the custodian of our body and soul, do not give him credit for all that we owe him, including for the grace of the Holy Communion.There is a lot of prayer to our guardian angel.You can read any of them.The main thing that it was from the heart.In preparation for Holy Communion, each reading a large number of prayers prescribed by the charter of the church.Among them is canon guardian angel.Very well read it and after the holy sacrament.
Our day after Holy Communion
But prayer of thanks for the Lord's Supper is not a complete range of our responsibilities associated with this important sacrament.Holy Church strongly recommends to dedicate this day the study of the word of God, thinking about God and concern for the preservation of spiritual purity.It is best that day to withdraw from all the leisure and devoid of spirituality.It is recommended to refrain from all kinds of entertainment.Even those who are not ordinary days condemned the church the day of communion may be misplaced.Also forbidden sexual relations and smoking.Usta, who took a body and blood of the Lord shall not defile anything.Therefore it is absolutely unacceptable use of swear words.
Lord has given us to talk to him a powerful and reliable tool - Orthodox prayers.Gratitude, pleading and repentance - they lift up our hearts and souls.No matter whether it is a church prayers read in church, or home - privately, of grace they become a subject of our deep faith and sincerity with which we pronounce them.And each time, starting to him, we must remember that at the moment are making great mystery of communion with God.
