Akathist to the Pochaev Mother of God. Icon of the Mother of God "Pochaevskaya". Most Holy Theotokos in honor of the icon of Her Pochaevskaya
Kontakion 1
In the chosen Voivode of the Christian clans and of our country, the most famous Deliverer, let us bring songs of praise, faithfully, gathered on Her holy mountain; But You, who have unspeakable mercy, about the Lady Theotokos, do not reject our prayer, which is offered up before Your miraculous image, but in the tenderness of our hearts we call to You:
Ikos 1
And the angel Gabriel first said “Rejoice!” brought to you, O Lady, when the conception of the Son of God was preached to you, after your glorious Dormition all the heavenly powers continually bring you praise in Heaven; Why should we, sinners, dare to unite our voices with the voices of the Bodiless? Moreover, remembering Your mercy to all who repent, we open our lips with fear and love, saying:
Rejoice, abyss of mercy; Rejoice, inexhaustible sea of love.
Rejoice, good Representative of the Christian race; Rejoice, unbreakable wall of the Pochaev monastery.
Rejoice, you who attract Orthodox people to Mount Pochaev with bonds of love; Rejoice, you who drive away all sadness from their souls.
Rejoice, even the miraculous image, like a star, guides us from Mount Pochaevsky; Rejoice, Passionate prayers offered to her are soon reflected.
Rejoice, you who consoled people with Your appearance on this mountain; Rejoice, you who left the footprint of Your foot on it for us.
Rejoice, everlasting boldness of the faithful; Rejoice, those who doubt the good statement.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 2
While the hermit was gone, the simpleton John the Barefoot felt the Most Holy Theotokos appearing on the rock in a pillar of fire, kissing the footprint of Her foot and sprinkling the water that flowed from the stone, crying out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 2
The misunderstood mind about Your appearance, O Lady, seeking, in the blue hope is affirmed, as first from the Hagarians, after from the heretics, you deigned to establish the stronghold of Orthodoxy on the Mount of Hope, for this reason, coming to Your holy temple, we fill our hearts with warm faith, saying:
Rejoice, confirmation of the true faith; Rejoice, clear reproof of evil.
Rejoice, thou who was known of old in the burning bush of Sinai; Rejoice, you who appeared here as a Christian in the pillar of fire.
Rejoice, for in the burning cave, with the dew of salvation, the youths of Abraham foretold Thee; Rejoice, for through the water of Your footsteps You preached Your healing grace.
Rejoice, our land, devastated in ancient times by the Hagarians, who was then comforted by Your appearance; Rejoice, and now you encourage those praying here with many signs.
Rejoice, those who repent will soon be heard; Rejoice, help and refuge for those who strive.
Rejoice, and admonition of the ignorant; Rejoice, and strengthening of the faint-hearted.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 3
You showed the power of deep grace, O Lady, on Mount Pochaevstey, when you enriched the place of Your appearance in three hundred years with Your miraculous icon, and by the hand of St. Neophytos Hellenus, who came from Moscow, you first bestowed it on the boyar Anna, then from her to the Pochaev monastery You received people rejoicing and singing to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 3
And having seen Thy icon in her house, Lady, the noblewoman Anna, and having seen the healing from it of her brother Philip, who was born blind, was struck by the spirit of zeal for Thy glory, and the monastery of stone in the name of Thy most honorable Dormition is built by the hermit of Pochaev, in which they worship Thy miraculous image. calls out to her:
Rejoice, you who taught us the rich treasure in Your holy icon; Rejoice, having sanctified our land by the hand of the saint given by Thy image.
Rejoice, turning away our souls from earthly wealth; Rejoice, you who teach us to sing the Glory of God.
Rejoice, for Thy miracles are visible, we admire our hearts to Heaven; Rejoice, for in Your abode, as if on the threshold of paradise, we find ourselves.
Rejoice, Orthodox people who have consoled you with Your icon; Rejoice, you who call praying people from all countries to the Pochaev monastery.
Rejoice, for Her faith increases; Rejoice, for her despondency will be driven away.
Rejoice, everlasting Joy of the Pochaev monks; Rejoice, shameless Hope of the worldly people.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 4
In a storm of heretical fury, rushing towards Your holy monastery, O Lady, the holy icon by Your hand captured the evil iconoclasts and incited them to blaspheme, soon the wrath of God restrained them, while the invisible force of the freely feasting blasphemers, like Artaxerxes and Herod, cast them into slack and into illness, over those who mocked Thy holiness and did not pay attention to the song: Alleluia.
Ikos 4
From hearing the monks and all the Orthodox people, the holy icon of Yours, after seventy years of heretical captivity, returns to the holy monastery from the shamed blasphemers, Abi came out to meet it and turned its lament into joy, crying out to You:
Rejoice, refuge for Christians; Rejoice, denunciation of heretics.
Rejoice, the Pochaev monastery has not completely deprived you of Your icon; Rejoice, you who have put to shame the blasphemy of the iconoclasts.
Rejoice, for you teach us not to lose heart in troubles; Rejoice, for you commanded us to believe in the justice of God.
Rejoice, Who has established Orthodoxy in our country; Rejoice, You have been worthy to receive the embodied Truth and the whole universe.
Rejoice, imitator of God’s long-suffering; Rejoice, Your people are strengthened in patience.
Rejoice, for those who are humble receive consolation from You; Rejoice, for those who are proud are humbled by You.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 5
Thou hast appeared to those seeking salvation, O Lady, the godly star, leading them to the Sun of Truth, just as in Thy earthly life for the people the intercessor to Thy Son in Cana of Galilee appeared, so also after Thy glorious departure to Heaven prayers for the faithful, brought from the ends of the earth , to Thy Son you exalt and here, on the Mount of Pochaevs, you give many different healings from Him to people who cry out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 5
As people went to Mount Pochaev, as in ancient times, as in the last years, many healings were given by You, in the desire for the salvation of my soul I affirmed and offered warm repentance for my sins, crying out to You:
Rejoice, recovery of sight for the blind and healing for the lame; Rejoice, deliverance of demons from demons.
Rejoice, Thou who miraculously returned the captive monk to Thy abode in the air; Rejoice, you who resurrected baby Simeon through the prayer of the old woman.
Rejoice, for in these signs the power of Your ancient miracles has again appeared to the people; Rejoice, for healing from Your holy icon will not fail in the last days.
Rejoice, you who provide a source of healing throughout the whole world from Your holy icons; Rejoice, you enrich those who pray with spiritual gifts even more than these.
Rejoice, who have given birth to Orthodoxy; Rejoice, to Him help and lack of faith flow.
Rejoice, earthly hope; Rejoice, joy of the heavenly ranks.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 6
The preacher of glory, the Most Pure Virgin, appeared to the Hagarians at the Pochaev monastery, having found and visions of the Most Pure Mother of God with the Monk Job, having not first understood; When the arrows fired from them again rushed at her, having realized the power of the Lady and brought repentance for her madness, she cried out in faith: Alleluia.
Ikos 6
In Ozsia, Thy vision, Lady, on Mount Pochaevsteya, when the brethren of the monastery were heavily besieged by the Hagarians, with a great cry of prayer before Thy holy icon and before the shrine of the Venerable Job, they lifted up; I sing to You with joy:
Rejoice, our Redeemer and salvation; Rejoice, everlasting help of the Christian race.
Rejoice, thou who drove away the wicked enemies from Thy shrine; Rejoice, you who bring them to repentance.
Rejoice, even the invisible enemy of our salvation trembles; Rejoice, the Holy Angels and the departed righteous women worship in Heaven.
Rejoice, you who received the Venerable Job with You in prayer; Rejoice, you who brought the Hagarians to Holy Baptism with your vision.
Rejoice, for by Your return the fear of death has been put aside to the end; Rejoice, for for Your sake there were no God-fearing foreigners from the Hagarians who appeared here.
Rejoice, everlasting manifestation of truth; Rejoice, good admonition to those who go astray.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 7
Having fulfilled the desire of the eternal life to kindle in the hearts of Christians, the Most Holy Theotokos heals the sick with Her miracles, casts out demons, frees the captives, raises the dead, so that we all, having understood the earthly power of God, will hate and take care of our souls, constantly crying out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 7
The monastery of Pochaev suffered new and grave misfortunes, when, together with the entire country, it was torn away from Orthodoxy by flattery into the possession of heretics, but in the past hundred and ten summers it was given back to Orthodox Christians, in the nuze of Orthodoxy the foreigners came and the holy relics of the Venerable Job came from under the bushel. I went out and fell to the miraculous image of the Lady, saying:
Rejoice, defender of Orthodoxy; Rejoice, accuser of heretics.
Rejoice, you who did not completely leave Your abode; Rejoice, you who teach us the fear of God.
Rejoice, for through Your intercession the Volyn country has returned to Orthodoxy; Rejoice, for from the ancient years many heretics have been corrected by Your admonition.
Rejoice, thou who once again calls Thy faithful to prayer to Thy holy Lavra; Rejoice, teaching the infidels here to worship the more Orthodox shrine.
Rejoice, even the righteous and the righteous sing unceasingly; Rejoice, those who have fallen will flock to Neizha in repentance.
Rejoice, return of apostates to the faith; Rejoice, raising those who are led to the light of truth.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 8
We see a strange miracle about You, Mother of God, since the physical illness of Your holy icons is healed by kissing and sprinkling Pochaev water, so the passions of the soul are taken away by the vision of Your shrine, faith is confirmed and our hearts are filled with tenderness, singing to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 8
I am filled with sins, unworthy, and given over to worldly dispersion and neglecting my soul, but looking at Thy holy icon, Lady, and the enlightenment from it to the countless people who come here, seeing, I again rush to the path of salvation and in the joy of my heart I sing to thee. :
Rejoice, treasure of purity; Rejoice, abyss of mercies.
Rejoice, you who bring prayers to Your Son for the faithful; Rejoice, you who do not reject the prayers of sinners.
Rejoice, for through You I have escaped much of the despair of sin; Rejoice, for those who call on Your name from the fall of the strange riser.
Rejoice, the iconoclastic heresy has been put to shame in the universe; Rejoice, the true faith of the Volyn country has returned.
Rejoice, you who lead souls to the feat of chastity; Rejoice, teaching to forgive those who offend.
Rejoice, tenderness of our hearts; Rejoice, hope of our souls.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 9
In all apostasy and heretical wanderings, You have released the repentant people of the land of Volyn, O Lady, and again You have revealed the source of healing from Your miraculous icon, from the footprint of Your foot on Mount Pochaevstei in Your Orthodox Lavra, only if they bring repentance for their sins to God and, oh Without hesitating your help, they will cry out to Him: Alleluia.
Ikos 9
In the manifestation of Thy glory, O Lady, the healing of Thy icons appeared, blind and chromic, returned to the Orthodox people, who received, like a heretical wife of a certain sick woman, to call upon Thee for help and, after healing, to confess and kiss the true faith, but we cry out to Thee:
Rejoice, supplication of the Heavenly King; Rejoice, earthly intercession.
Rejoice, you who turned away a certain woman from Luther’s errors with healing; Rejoice, all people who have believed in the truth of Orthodoxy.
Rejoice, for for You, for the sake of Orthodoxy, people have overcome the deception of the Hagarians so many times; Rejoice, for for Your sake and seduction from the Latins you have again embraced the Orthodox faith.
Rejoice, all who live lift up their eyes to Neizha in prayer; Rejoice, O South, and those praying for the repose of the dead call for help.
Rejoice, and taking away from the needs of life those that flow to You; Rejoice, for you bestow strength on those who endure all kinds of need.
Rejoice, help to the Christ-loving army in battle; Rejoice, good instruction for demons who are militant.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 10
The Most Pure Mother of God wants to take from her mouth a certain simple old woman, who was blinded by Latin and has little grandson, already enlightened by Orthodoxy, but blinded by her bodily hairs, and thus gives both of them a good desire to venerate Her miraculous image on Mount Pochaevstey, whereby Abi miraculously heals the blind young woman and the old woman teaches the Orthodox faith to confess, crying out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 10
From the shadow of the indestructible true faith You appeared, O Lady, like the wicked heretics from glorifying You, like the True Mother of God, stubbornly rejecting, so Orthodoxy remained in Your faith in the firmament and from the prayers constantly offered to You, they will no longer turn away, and for these sake They will not dare to accept heretical verbs into their own ears, but with a grateful heart they will not stop praising You, saying:
Rejoice, joy and consolation for Christians; Rejoice, glory and worship to the angelic order.
Rejoice, thou who turns us away from the flattering and heretical; Rejoice, thou who liftest our minds to God by the remembrance of Thy mercies.
Rejoice, holy Apostles who called upon the clouds of the air for Your Dormition; Rejoice, and sinners who gather on that day to Mount Pochaev in thousands and thousands for every summer.
Rejoice, even for the sake of Christians the difficulty of the path, like sweet repose, is lifted up; Rejoice, even for the sake of laziness they strive to imitate them.
Rejoice, for the monk to forget the sweetness of the world through Your grace; Rejoice, you who look back at the terrible and terrifying dreams.
Rejoice, best diadimo to the Church of Christ; Rejoice, invincible shield of our country.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 11
Singing of gratitude about Your, Lady, good deeds throughout the world from Christians, ascended like incense, constantly ascending to Heaven, thinking, and our wretched praise does not turn away from You, we also ask You to grant Thee the grace of repentance, singing with hope to God: Alleluia .
Ikos 11
From the light of temporal life and eternal life, hope appeared to you, O Lady, to a certain person in Bessarabia who was about to die, but suddenly, after tasting water from the Pochaev shrine, the former health, hedgehog his relatives saw him, with fear and tenderness she cried out to you:
Rejoice, healing of the sick; Rejoice, hearing of those who mourn.
Rejoice, for through You you drove away the death that came; Rejoice, for You have given us unfailing faith.
Rejoice, for Gabriel’s prophecy is coming true before our eyes; Rejoice, for from all generations, according to Your word, now and ever you are blessed.
Rejoice, Mount Pochaev, for you have sanctified your place of residence; Rejoice, like the second Nazareth who revealed this.
Rejoice, Thou who has turned away no one’s hope; Rejoice, warmly accepting all prayers.
Rejoice, you who give us health; Rejoice, you who lead us to salvation.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 12
The grace of healing and tenderness of prayer from Thy, Lady, flows from the icon, so that our souls will not be in vain, even if for the sake of sin we fall into petrified insensibility, both as if you have the power to resurrect the dead, awaken our spiritual deadness and illumine our hearts with a better thought, Yes, having hated the delusion of sin, let us sing to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 12
After Your miracles manifested in the monastery of the Holy Ones, we pray to You, Lady, not to turn Your face away from our country, but to all who come to Your holy mountain and seek mercy from You, fulfill their good request, so that everyone will sing to You:
Rejoice, propitiation of the all-righteous God; Rejoice, Christians have boldness towards Christ.
Rejoice, you who demonstrate the triumph of faith in Your Lavra; Rejoice, you who inflame the hearts of men with love.
Rejoice, for by ancient miracles people have been vouchsafed to see something like this here; Rejoice, for this mountain, like the second Sinai, has become glorified in Christian countries.
Rejoice, O God, who appeared on earth, and carried Him in Your womb; Rejoice, you who lift up people to God through Your prayer.
Rejoice, O Thy icon, for having left Thy icon of salvation in Thy monastery; Rejoice, the footprint of Your foot, filled with healing water, glorifying miracles.
Rejoice, looking down upon Your servants from the heavenly heights; Rejoice, thou who instruct the faithful in good deeds.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 13
O All-sung Mother of Christ God, who has adopted all the Christian generations with love, who are worthy of praise and praise You, we, sinners, are perplexed, however, overcome by Your love and lifting up our eyes to Your miraculous image, we pray to You: in our struggles and needs, do not abandon Your children, intercession To Your warmth of those who believe and to Your Son, crying out: Alleluia.
This kontakion is read three times, then the 1st ikos “Archangel Gabriel...” and the 1st kontakion “To the Chosen Voivode...”.
Prayer
To You, O Mother of God, we prayerfully flow, sinners, Your miracles, revealed in the Holy Lavra of the Most Holy Lavra, in remembrance of our own contrite sins. We, Lady, we know, as it is not fitting for us sinners to ask anything, except for the Righteous Judge to leave our iniquities to us. All that we have endured in life, sorrows, needs, and illnesses, like the fruits of our falls, have languished us, I allow this to God for our correction. Moreover, the Lord brought all this truth and judgment to His sinful servants, who in their sorrows came to Your intercession, the Most Pure One, and in the tenderness of their hearts they cry out to You: Our sins and iniquities, O Good One, do not remember, but rather lift up Your all-honorable hand , stand before Your Son and God, so that the evil we have done may be forgiven us, and for our many unfulfilled promises, He will not turn His face away from His servants, and may not take His grace, which contributes to our salvation, from our souls. To her, Lady, be the Intercessor for our salvation and, not disdaining our cowardice, look upon our groans, even in our troubles and sorrows we lift up before Your miraculous image. Enlighten our minds with tender thoughts, strengthen our faith, confirm our hope, grant us the sweetest gift of love to accept us. By these gifts, Most Pure One, and not by illnesses and sorrows, may our belly be elevated to salvation, but by protecting our souls from despondency and despair, deliver us, the weak, from the troubles and needs that come upon us, and human slander, and unbearable diseases . Grant peace and prosperity to the Christian life through Your intercession, O Lady, establish the Orthodox faith in our country and throughout the world. Do not betray the Apostolic and Catholic Church to disparagement, preserve the statutes of the saints forever, unshakable, and save all who come to You from the perishing pit. Also, bring the heresy of our deceived brethren or the saving faith in sinful passions who destroyed them again to true faith and repentance, and together with us, who worship Your miraculous image, they will confess Your intercession. Vouchsafe us, O Most Holy Lady Theotokos, to see in this belly the victory of truth through Your intercession, vouchsafe us grace-filled joy before the end of our perception, just as the inhabitants of Pochaev of old, by Your appearance, showed the victors and enlighteners of the Hagarians, so that we may all have a grateful heart, together with the Angels, and prophets, and apostles, and with all the saints, glorifying Your mercy, let us give glory, honor and worship in the Trinity to the sung God the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.
Troparion, tone 5
Before Your holy icon, Lady, those who pray are honored with healing, accept the knowledge of true faith and repel the Hagarian invasions. Likewise, for us who fall before You, ask for remission of sins, enlighten the thoughts of piety in our hearts, and offer up a prayer to Your Son for the salvation of our souls.
Kontakion, tone 1
And the source of healings and Orthodox faith, the affirmation of Your Pochaev icon, the Mother of God, appeared, and we, who flow to her, also freed from troubles and temptations, preserve Your Lavra unharmed, establish Orthodoxy in the surrounding countries and resolve the sins of Your prayer book: as much as you willed, you can.
Akathist. The history of the emergence and veneration of the icon of the Mother of God. Ancient and miraculous icons and modern images...
Commemoration of the Pochaevskaya Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos: July 23 / August 5 and September 8 / 21
Icon of the Mother of God "Pochaevskaya". Historical reference
The Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God is one of the most revered shrines of the Russian Church. She is known throughout the Slavic world: she is revered in Russia, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria and other places. Along with the Orthodox, Christians of other confessions also come to venerate the miraculous image of the Most Holy Theotokos. In the Pochaev Lavra, the ancient stronghold of Orthodoxy, the miraculous icon has remained for about 400 years. (Information about the transfer of the icon to the Pochaev monastery was posted on September 8). The miracles that flow from the holy icon are numerous and are attested in monastic books by the records of believers who prayed for deliverance from incurable illnesses, liberation from captivity and the admonition of sinners.
The celebration in honor of the Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God on July 23 was established in memory of the deliverance of the Assumption Pochaev Lavra from the Turkish siege on July 20–23, 1675.
In the summer of 1675, during the Zbarazh War with the Turks, during the reign of the Polish king Jan Sobieski (1674–1696), regiments consisting of Tatars, led by Khan Nurredin, approached the Pochaev monastery through Vishnevets, surrounding it on three sides. The weak monastery fence, like several stone buildings of the monastery, did not provide any protection for the besieged. Hegumen Joseph of Dobromir convinced the brethren and laity to turn to heavenly intercessors: the Most Holy Theotokos and St. Job of Pochaev (October 28). The monks and laity prayed fervently, falling before the miraculous image of the Mother of God and the shrine containing the relics of St. Job. On the morning of July 23, at sunrise, the Tatars held their final advice about storming the monastery, and the abbot ordered the singing of an akathist to the Mother of God. With the first words to the “Charred Voivode,” the Most Pure Mother of God herself suddenly appeared above the temple, “blooming a white-shining omophorion,” with heavenly angels holding drawn swords. The Monk Job was near the Mother of God, bowing to Her and praying for the protection of the monastery. The Tatars mistook the heavenly army for a ghost, and in confusion began to shoot at the Most Holy Theotokos and the Monk Job, but the arrows returned and wounded those who fired them. Horror gripped the enemy. In a panicked flight, without distinguishing their own, they killed each other. The defenders of the monastery gave chase and captured many. Some prisoners subsequently accepted the Christian faith and remained in the monastery forever.
In 1721, Pochaev was occupied by the Uniates. However, even during this difficult time for the Lavra, the monastery chronicle recorded 539 miracles from the famous Orthodox shrine. During the reign of the Uniates, in the second half of the 18th century, for example, the Uniate count Nikolai Pototsky became a benefactor of the Pochaev Lavra due to the following miraculous circumstance. Blaming his coachman for the mad horses overturning the carriage, the count took out a pistol to kill him. The coachman, turning to the Pochaevskaya mountain, raised his hands up and exclaimed: “Mother of God, revealed in the Pochaevskaya icon, save me!” Pototsky tried several times to fire the pistol, which never failed him, but the weapon misfired. The coachman remained alive. Pototsky immediately went to the miraculous icon and decided to devote himself and all his property to building the monastery. The Assumption Cathedral and the fraternal building were built with his funds.
Pochaev’s return to the fold of Orthodoxy in 1832 was marked by the miraculous healing of the blind girl Anna Akimchukova, who came to worship the shrines with her seventy-year-old grandmother 200 miles from Kremenets-Podolsk. In memory of these events, the Archbishop of Volyn, Holy Archimandrite of the Lavra Innocent (1832–1840), established a weekly reading of the cathedral akathist on Saturdays in front of the miraculous icon. During the administration of the Lavra, Holy Archimandrite Agafangel, Archbishop of Volyn (1866–1876), a special chapel was built in the choir of the Holy Trinity Church in memory of the victory over the Tatars, consecrated on July 23, 1875.
Orthodox church calendar
Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos before Her Pochaev Icon
Kontakion 1
To the chosen Governor of the Christian clans and our country, the most famous Deliverer, let us bring songs of praise, faithfully, gathered on Her holy mountain; But You, who have unspeakable mercy, about the Lady Theotokos, do not reject our prayer, which is offered up before Your miraculous image, but in the tenderness of our hearts we call to You:
Ikos 1
Archangel Gabriel says "Rejoice!" brought to you, O Lady, when the conception of the Son of God was preached to you, after your glorious Dormition all the heavenly powers continually bring you praise in Heaven; Why should we, sinners, dare to unite our voices with the voices of the Bodiless? Moreover, remembering Your mercy to all who repent, we open our lips with fear and love, saying:
Rejoice, abyss of mercy.
Rejoice, inexhaustible sea of love.
Rejoice, good Representative of the Christian race.
Rejoice, unbreakable wall of the Pochaev monastery.
Rejoice, you who attract Orthodox people to Mount Pochaev with bonds of love.
Rejoice, you who drive away all sadness from their souls.
Rejoice, even the miraculous image, like a star, guides us from Mount Pochaev.
Rejoice, passionate prayers offered to her are soon reflected.
Rejoice, you who consoled people with your appearance on this mountain.
Rejoice, you who left the footprint of Your foot on it for us.
Rejoice, everlasting boldness of the faithful.
Rejoice, you who doubt the good statement.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 2
Seeing the hermit and the simple John the Barefoot, the Most Holy Theotokos appeared on the rock in a pillar of fire, kissing the footprint of Her foot and sprinkling the water that flowed from the stone, crying out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 2
The misunderstood mind about Your appearance, O Lady, seeking, in the blue hope is affirmed, as first from the Hagarians, after from the heretics, you deigned to establish the stronghold of Orthodoxy on the Mount of Hope, for this reason, coming to Your holy temple, we fill our hearts with warm faith, saying:
Rejoice, confirmation of the true faith.
Rejoice, evil faith has been clearly exposed.
Rejoice, thou who was known of ancient times in the burning bush of Sinai.
Rejoice, you who appeared here as a Christian in the pillar of fire.
Rejoice, for in the burning cave, with the dew of salvation, the youths of Abraham foretold Thee.
Rejoice, for through the water of Your footsteps You preached Your healing grace.
Rejoice, our land, devastated in ancient times by the Hagarians, who was then comforted by Your appearance.
Rejoice, and now you encourage those praying here with many signs.
Rejoice, those who repent will soon be heard.
Rejoice, help and refuge for those who strive.
Rejoice, and admonition of the ignorant.
Rejoice, and strengthening of the faint-hearted.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 3
You showed the power of deep grace, O Lady, on Mount Pochaevstey, when you enriched the place of Your appearance in three hundred years with Your miraculous icon, and by the hand of St. Neophytos Hellenes, who came from Moscow, you first bestowed it on the boyar Anna, then from her you received it to the monastery of Pochaevskaya Thou art the people who rejoice and sing to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 3
Having in her house your icon, Lady, the noblewoman Anna and having seen the healing from it of her brother Philip who was born blind, was struck by the spirit of jealousy for your glory, and was inflamed with a monastery of stone in the name of your most honorable Assumption by the hermit of Pochaev, in which the worshipers cry out to your miraculous image. sitse:
Rejoice, you who taught us the rich treasure in Your holy icon.
Rejoice, having sanctified our land with the hand of Thy gifted image.
Rejoice, turning away our souls from earthly wealth.
Rejoice, you who teach us to sing the Glory of God.
Rejoice, for Thy miracles are visible, we admire our hearts to Heaven.
Rejoice, for in Your abode, as if on the threshold of paradise, we find ourselves.
Rejoice, Orthodox people who have consoled you with Your icon.
Rejoice, you who call praying people from all countries to the Pochaev monastery.
Rejoice, Your faith is increasing.
Rejoice, for Her despondency will be driven away.
Rejoice, everlasting Joy of the Pochaev monks.
Rejoice, shameless Hope of the worldly people.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 4
A storm of heretical fury rushed towards Your holy monastery, O Lady, the holy icon by Your hand, captivating the evil iconoclasts and inciting them to blaspheme, soon the wrath of God restrained the speed, while the invisible force of the blasphemers who feasted without cold, like Artaxerxes and Herod, was cast into slack and into illness, over the holy now Those who cursed and did not take away your song: Alleluia.
Ikos 4
Hearing that the monks and all the Orthodox people heard that Your holy icon, after seventy years of heretical captivity, returned to the holy monastery from the shamed blasphemers, Abiy came out to meet it and turned its cry into joy, I cried out to You:
Rejoice, refuge for Christians.
Rejoice, denunciation of heretics.
Rejoice, the Pochaev monastery has not completely deprived you of Your icon.
Rejoice, you who have put to shame the blasphemy of the iconoclasts.
Rejoice, for you have taught us not to lose heart in troubles.
Rejoice, for you commanded us to believe in the justice of God.
Rejoice, for Orthodoxy to be established in our country.
Rejoice, You have been worthy to receive the embodied Truth and the whole universe.
Rejoice, imitator of God’s long-suffering.
Rejoice, Your people are strengthened in patience.
Rejoice, for those who are humble receive consolation from You.
Rejoice, for those who are proud are humbled by You.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Icon of the Mother of God "Pochaevskaya", XIX century
Kontakion 5
The God-bearing star appeared to those seeking salvation, O Lady, leading them to the Sun of Truth, just as in Your earthly life for people the intercessor to Your Son in Cana of Galilee appeared, so also after Your glorious departure to Heaven, prayers for the faithful were brought from the ends of the earth, Thou didst ascend to Thy Son, and here, on Mount Pochaevstya, He gave manifold healings to the people who cried out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 5
Seeing people, on Mount Pochaevskaya, as in ancient times, as in recent years, many healings are given by You, in the desire for the salvation of my soul I affirm and offer warm repentance for my sins, crying out to You:
Rejoice, recovery of sight for the blind and healing for the lame.
Rejoice, deliverance of demons from demons.
Rejoice, Thou who miraculously returned the captive monk to Thy abode in the air.
Rejoice, you who resurrected baby Simeon through the prayer of the old woman.
Rejoice, for in these signs the power of Your ancient miracles has again appeared to the people.
Rejoice, for healing from Your holy icon will not be lacking in the last days.
Rejoice, you who provide a source of healing throughout the whole world from Your holy icons.
Rejoice, you who enrich those who pray with spiritual gifts even more than these.
Rejoice, for those who gave birth to Orthodoxy they boast.
Rejoice, to Him help and lack of faith flow.
Rejoice, earthly hope.
Rejoice, joy of the heavenly ranks.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 6
The preachers of the glory of the Most Pure Virgin appeared to the Hagarians at the Pochaev monastery, having found and visioned the Most Pure Mother of God with the Venerable Job, but they did not first understand; When the arrows shot from them again rushed at her, having realized the power of the Lady and brought repentance for her madness, she cried out in faith: Alleluia.
Ikos 6
Thy vision appeared, O Lady, on Mount Pochaevstey, when the brethren of the monastery, heavily besieged by the Hagarians, with a great cry of prayer before Thy holy icon and before the shrine of the Venerable Job, lifted up, while the brethren of the Hagarians, dismayed by this vision and fleeing, saw, abby with joy sing to Your face:
Rejoice, our Redeemer and salvation.
Rejoice, everlasting help of the Christian race.
Rejoice, having driven away the wicked enemies from Your shrine.
Rejoice, you who bring them to repentance.
Rejoice, even the invisible enemy of our salvation trembles.
Rejoice, the Holy Angels and the departed righteous women worship Her in Heaven.
Rejoice, you who received the Venerable Job with You in prayer.
Rejoice, you who brought the Hagarites to Holy Baptism with your vision.
Rejoice, for by Your return the fear of death has been put aside to the end.
Rejoice, for for Your sake there were no God-fearing foreigners from the Hagarians who appeared here.
Rejoice, everlasting manifestation of truth.
Rejoice, good admonition to those who go astray.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 7
Wanting to kindle the desire for eternal life in the hearts of Christians, the Most Holy Theotokos heals the sick with Her miracles, casts out demons, frees the captives, raises the dead, so that we all, having understood the power of God, will hate the earthly power and take care of our souls, constantly crying out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 7
The Pochaev monastery suffered new and grave misfortunes, when, together with the entire country, it was torn away from Orthodoxy by flattery into the possession of heretics, but in the past hundred and ten summers it was quickly given over to Orthodox Christians; foreigners came and took away the holy relics of the Venerable Job from under the bushel. , fell to the miraculous image of the Lady, saying:
Rejoice, defender of Orthodoxy.
Rejoice, accuser of heretics.
Rejoice, you who did not completely leave Your abode.
Rejoice, you who teach us the fear of God.
Rejoice, for through Your intercession the Volyn country has returned to Orthodoxy.
Rejoice, for from the ancient years many heretics have been corrected by Your admonition.
Rejoice, thou who once again calls Thy faithful to prayer to Thy holy Lavra.
Rejoice, teaching the infidels here to worship the more Orthodox shrine.
Rejoice, even the righteous and the righteous sing unceasingly.
Rejoice, those who have fallen will flock to Neizha in repentance.
Rejoice, the apostates have returned to the faith.
Rejoice, you who have led those who are led to the light of truth.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 8
We see a strange miracle about You, Mother of God, since the physical health of Your holy icons is healed by kissing and sprinkling Pochaev water, so the passions of the soul are taken away by the vision of Your shrine, faith is confirmed and the tenderness of our hearts is filled, singing to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 8
All unworthy, I have been filled with sins, given over to worldly dispersion and neglecting my soul, both looking at Thy holy icon, Lady, and the enlightenment from it to the countless people who come here, seeing, I am rushing again on the path of salvation and in the joy of my heart I sing to Thee:
Rejoice, treasure of purity.
Rejoice, abyss of mercies.
Rejoice, you who bring prayers to Your Son for the faithful.
Rejoice, you who do not reject the prayers of sinners.
Rejoice, for through You you have escaped much of the despair of sin.
Rejoice, for those who call on Your name from the fall of the strange riser.
Rejoice, this iconoclastic heresy has been put to shame in the universe.
Rejoice, the true faith of the Volyn country has returned.
Rejoice, you who lead souls to the feat of chastity.
Rejoice, you who teach those who offend to forgive those who offend.
Rejoice, tenderness of our hearts.
Rejoice, hope of our souls.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 9
You have forgiven all apostasies and heretical wanderings to the repentant people of the land of Volyn, O Lady, and again you have opened the source of healing from Your miraculous icon, from the footprint of Your foot on Mount Pochaevstei in Your Orthodox Lavra, only if they bring repentance for their sins to God and, about Your Without hesitation, they will cry out to Him: Alleluia.
Ikos 9
The vigor of Thy glory appeared, O Lady, to the blind and chromium, healing from Thy icon, returned to the Orthodox people, who received, like a heretical wife of a certain sick woman, to call upon Thee for help and, after healing, to confess the true faith and kiss, and we cry out to Thee:
Rejoice, supplication of the Heavenly King.
Rejoice, earthly intercession.
Rejoice, you who turned away a certain woman from Luther’s errors with healing.
Rejoice, all people who have become convinced of the truth of Orthodoxy.
Rejoice, for for You, for the sake of Orthodoxy, people have overcome the Hagaryan deception so many times.
Rejoice, for for Your sake and seduction from the Latins you have again embraced the Orthodox faith.
Rejoice, all who live lift up their eyes to Neizha in prayer.
Rejoice, O South, and those praying for the repose of the dead call for help.
Rejoice, and taking away from the needs of life those that flow to You.
Rejoice, for you bestow strength on those who endure all kinds of need.
Rejoice, help to the Christ-loving army in battle.
Rejoice, good instruction for demons who are militant.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 10
Wanting to save the Most Pure Mother of God, a certain simple old woman, who was blinded by Latin and had little grandson, already enlightened by Orthodoxy, but blinded by her bodily hairs, she gives both of them a good desire to venerate Her miraculous image on Mount Pochaevstey, where she miraculously heals the blind young woman and the Orthodox old woman teaches to confess faith, crying out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 10
The indestructible wall of true faith appeared to you, Lady, like the wicked heretics from glorifying You, like the True Mother of God, stubbornly rejecting, so Orthodoxy remained in Your faith in the firmament and from the prayers constantly offered to You, they will no longer turn away from glorifying You, and these for the sake of heretics They do not dare to take the verb into their own ears, but with a grateful heart they will not stop praising You, saying:
Rejoice, you give joy and consolation to Christians.
Rejoice, glory and worship to the angelic order.
Rejoice, thou who turns us away from the flattering and heretical.
Rejoice, thou who liftest our minds to God by the remembrance of Thy mercies.
Rejoice, O holy Apostles who called upon the clouds of the air for Your Dormition.
Rejoice, and sinners gathered on that day to Mount Pochaev in thousands and thousands for every summer.
Rejoice, even for the sake of Christians the difficulty of the path, like sweet repose, is lifted up.
Rejoice, even for the sake of laziness they strive to imitate them.
Rejoice, the monk has forgotten the sweetness of the world through Your grace.
Rejoice, you who look back at the terrible and terrifying dreams.
Rejoice, best diadimo to the Church of Christ.
Rejoice, invincible shield of our country.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 11
Singing of gratitude about Your, Lady, good deeds from Christians all over the world, ascended like incense, constantly ascending to Heaven, thinking, and we ask You not to turn away our wretched praise, and we also ask You to grant Thee the grace of repentance, singing with hope to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 11
The light of the temporary life and the hope of eternal life appeared to you, Lady, to a certain person in Bessarabia who had to die, but suddenly, after tasting the water from the Pochaev shrine, the former health, hedgehog his relatives saw, with fear and tenderness she cried out to you:
Rejoice, healing of the sick.
Rejoice, hearing of those who mourn.
Rejoice, for through You you drove away the death that came.
Rejoice, for You have given us infallible faith.
Rejoice, for Gabriel’s prophecy is coming true before our eyes.
Rejoice, for from all generations, according to Your word, now and ever you are blessed.
Rejoice, Mount Pochaev, for you have sanctified Your place of residence.
Rejoice, like the second Nazareth who revealed this.
Rejoice, you who have turned away no one’s hope.
Rejoice, you who warmly accept all prayers.
Rejoice, you who give us health.
Rejoice, you who lead us to salvation.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 12
The grace of healing and tenderness of prayer from Thy, Lady, is exuded from the icon, so that our souls will not be in vain, even if for the sake of sin we fall into petrified insensibility, both as if you have the power to resurrect the dead, awaken our spiritual deadness and illumine our hearts with a better thought, yes Having hated the delusion of sin, let us sing to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 12
Having sung Your miracles manifested in the monastery of the Holy Ones, we pray to You, Lady, not to turn Your face away from our country, but to all who come to Your holy mountain and seek mercy from You, fulfill their good request, so that everyone will sing to You:
Rejoice, propitiation of the all-righteous God.
Rejoice, Christians have boldness towards Christ.
Rejoice, you who demonstrate the triumph of faith in Your Lavra.
Rejoice, you who inflame the hearts of men with love.
Rejoice, for by ancient miracles people have been honored to see something like this here.
Rejoice, for this mountain, like the second Sinai, has become glorified in Christian countries.
Rejoice, O God, who appeared on earth, and carried Him in Your womb.
Rejoice, you who lift up people to God through Your prayer.
Rejoice, O Thy icon, who left Thy icon as a preacher of salvation in Thy monastery.
Rejoice, O Thy footprint, filled with healing water, Who glorified miracles.
Rejoice, you who look down upon your servants from the heavenly heights.
Rejoice, thou who instruct the faithful in good deeds.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Kontakion 13
O All-sung Mother of Christ God, who has adopted all the Christian generations with love, who are worthy of praise and praise You, we, sinners, are perplexed, however, overcome by Your love and lifting up our eyes to Your miraculous image, we pray to You: in our struggles and needs, do not abandon Your children, intercession To Your warmth of those who believe and to Your Son, crying out: Alleluia.
This kontakion is read three times, then the 1st ikos “Archangel Gabriel...” and the 1st kontakion “To the Chosen Voivode...”.
Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos before Her Pochaev Icon
To You, O Mother of God, we prayerfully flow, sinners, Your miracles, revealed in the Holy Lavra of the Most Holy Lavra, in remembrance of our own contrite sins. We, Lady, we know, as it is not fitting for us sinners to ask anything, except for the Righteous Judge to leave our iniquities to us. All that we have endured in life, sorrows, needs, and illnesses, like the fruits of our falls, have languished us, I allow this to God for our correction. Moreover, the Lord brought all this truth and judgment to His sinful servants, who in their sorrows came to Your intercession, the Most Pure One, and in the tenderness of their hearts they cry out to You: Our sins and iniquities, O Good One, do not remember, but rather lift up Your all-honorable hand , stand before Your Son and God, so that the evil we have done may be forgiven us, and for our many unfulfilled promises, He will not turn His face away from His servants, and may not take His grace, which contributes to our salvation, from our souls. To her, Lady, be the Intercessor for our salvation and, not disdaining our cowardice, look upon our groans, even in our troubles and sorrows we lift up before Your miraculous image. Enlighten our minds with tender thoughts, strengthen our faith, confirm our hope, grant us the sweetest gift of love to accept us. By these gifts, Most Pure One, and not by illnesses and sorrows, may our belly be elevated to salvation, but by protecting our souls from despondency and despair, deliver us, the weak, from the troubles and needs that come upon us, and human slander, and unbearable diseases . Grant peace and prosperity to the Christian life through Your intercession, O Lady, establish the Orthodox faith in our country and throughout the world. Do not betray the Apostolic and Catholic Church to disparagement, preserve the statutes of the saints forever, unshakable, and save all who come to You from the perishing pit. Also, bring the heresy of our deceived brethren or the saving faith in sinful passions who destroyed them again to true faith and repentance, and together with us, who worship Your miraculous image, they will confess Your intercession. Vouchsafe us, O Most Holy Lady Theotokos, to see in this belly the victory of truth through Your intercession, vouchsafe us grace-filled joy before the end of our perception, just as the inhabitants of Pochaev of old, by Your appearance, showed the victors and enlighteners of the Hagarians, so that we may all have a grateful heart, together with the Angels, and prophets, and apostles, and with all the saints, glorifying Your mercy, let us give glory, honor and worship in the Trinity to the sung God the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.
Troparion to the Most Holy Theotokos before Her Pochaev Icon, tone 5
Before Your holy icon, Lady, those who pray are honored with healing, accept the knowledge of true faith and repel the Hagarian invasions. Likewise, for us who fall before You, ask for remission of sins, enlighten the thoughts of piety in our hearts, and offer up a prayer to Your Son for the salvation of our souls.
Kontakion to the Most Holy Theotokos before Her Pochaev Icon, tone 1
The source of healings and faith of the Orthodox affirmation of the Pochaevskaya icon, the Mother of God, appeared, and we, who flow to her, also free from troubles and temptations, keep Your Lavra unharmed, establish Orthodoxy in the surrounding countries and resolve the sins of Your prayer book: for if you willed, you could .
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The Orthodox world considers the icon of the Pochaev Mother of God to be a real shrine, so the significance of this image for Orthodox believers is difficult to underestimate. The image is kept in the Ukrainian city of Pochaev in the monastery of monks. It was received in the 16th century, and from that time the holy face became known among believers as miraculous.
Miracles icons
The icon of Our Lady of Pochaev is known among people for its miracles. This is one of the few miraculous icons that have been preserved in the bosom of the church. The image is painted with oil paints on a linden board. It was originally decorated with a silver stripe, but over time it was lost and replaced with a pearl robe. The setting resembles a star, whose rays are rich in stones. There is evidence of miracles that occurred thanks to the icon, here are just a few of them:
- sinners repented and came to God;
- captives were miraculously released;
- the sick received healing even from incurable diseases;
- homeless people found a home.
One of the most famous miracles is the salvation of the monastery from the Turkish army. This happened in 1975, when the Turkish army burned the city, took all the young people captive and destroyed all the Orthodox shrines. People did not believe in salvation, because the threat was serious. The monks sang an akathist to the Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God day and night, asking for protection and salvation. When the Turks began to besiege the monastery, the Mother of God herself appeared before their eyes. She rose above the monastery along with a host of saints and silently looked at the Turks. Even the most desperate warriors were horrified by this picture and the army hastily left the holy place.
Since then, people have come to ask for protection and protection from the Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God. The Mother of God often grants miracles through the prayers of believers at the images.
Every year thousands of pilgrims come to the Lavra to perform a prayer service and defend the service. The celebration takes place in spring (03.31), summer (07.23) and autumn (09.08).
Icon of Our Lady of Pochaev
Prayers to the Mother of God
First prayer
Oh, All-Merciful Lady, Queen and Lady, chosen from all generations, and blessed by all generations, heavenly and earthly! Look mercifully at this people standing before Thy holy icon and earnestly praying to You, and make Your intercession and intercession with Thy Son and our God, so that no one will come from here empty-handed and put to shame in his hope, but may everyone receive everything from You, according to the good will of your heart and according to your need and desire, for the salvation of the soul and the health of the body. Look with mercy, O All-Sung Theotokos, and upon this monastery, which bears Your name, You have loved it since ancient times, having chosen it as your property, and endlessly flowing currents of healing from Your miraculous icon and from the ever-flowing source, in the footprint of Your foot, revealed to us, and preserve it from every excuse and slander of the enemy, as in ancient times you preserved it, by Your appearance, intact and undamaged from the fierce invasion of the Hagarians, so that the Most Holy Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and Your glorious Dormition, will be sung and glorified in it forever and ever. Amen.
Second prayer
Our Most Blessed Queen, Most Blessed Lady, Our Mother of God of Hope! We now flow to You with tenderness, and with a contrite soul and a humble heart we pray to You, the All-Singing One, before Your Most Pure Image: remember Your ancient generosity, even from You that was here, and how sometimes You appeared on the rock of Chayev, in a pillar of fire, from the stone, healing water flowing forth, appear before us now, O Mother of many powers, and with the warmth of the Mother of God, Thy love, warm our stony hearts, tears of love and unrepentant repentance flowing from our eyes. For You are our only God-given Intercessor: We pray to You, deliver from all troubles, from all adversity, illness and sorrow, Thy servants, through the intercession of Thy great intercessor and prayer book for us, our all-blessed father Job, Thy saint Pochaevsky, whose prayer I manifestly listened to Thou art sometimes in the air, when by Thy all-glorious and terrible appearance Thou hast delivered Thy monastery from the invasion and taxation of the Hagarians. Look with mercy, O All-Singing One, with the charity of Thy merciful intercession, pour out Thy rich mercies upon all our kingdom and country, and upon all the people: gather together those who are scattered, and guide the unfaithful and other faiths in our countries on the true path, having fallen away from the pious faith of our fathers. return and associate them with the Holy Saints of Your Orthodox and Catholic Church; Establish peace in our families, support old age, mentor the young, raise babies, stand up for the orphans and widows, heal the captives of freedom, heal the sick, remember those who live in judgment and in prison, and in captivity, and in the bitter labors, protect us from death, visit and comfort currents of miracles and signs of many different kinds, which You continually pour out to everyone from Your holy, celibate icon. Grant, O All-Blessed One, the fertility of the earth, the goodness of the air, and all the gifts that are timely and beneficial for our benefit, through the prayers of Your chosen saints, Your gracious face on the holy icon of Your surroundings: Elijah the God-speaking, the holy Archdeacon Stephen the First-Suffering, the Venerable Abraham the All-Blessed, and the God-Music Mina a martyr of many names, and with them a number of saints and righteous wives: the most praised Paraskeva, the blessed Irene and the long-suffering Saint Catherine the Great, and all the saints. When our departure from this life and resettlement to eternity is ripe, appear before us, O Most Blessed One, just as You sometimes brought Your monastery to safety for salvation during the Battle of Zbarazh, and by Your warm intercession grant us the Christian death of our life, painless, shameless, peaceful and the Holy Mysteries involved; so that in this life, now and in the future, we will all be worthy, through Your prayers, of endless heavenly life in the Kingdom of Your beloved Son, the Lord God and our Savior, Jesus Christ, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer three
Oh, Most Holy Virgin, Lady Theotokos! I thank You with all my heart, for You have vouchsafed me, Your sinful and unworthy servant, to appear here and worship on Your holy mountain. Oh, how many blessings have I, such a great sinner, been rewarded with Your mercy. I see, O Most Pure One, and I am horrified and my spirit melts away, in vain with my own eyes this multi-healing source of Thy grace, which Thou hast ineffably revealed since ancient times in the footsteps of Thy holy foot, and we all reverently bow down in the place where Thy virginal nose stands, I pray to Thee, blessed Hope and Salvation souls and bodies of ours: wash me with Your wholesome water from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, quench with Your grace-filled streams all the passions of my heart, heal with drops from Your ever-flowing source all my bodily ailments, yes, instructed, healed and delivered by You, I sing to You with all diligence: Rejoice, source of unceasing joy, rejoice, source of unspeakable kindness. Rejoice, drowning of unclean lusts, Rejoice, washing away of all kinds of defilements. Rejoice, the most luminous stream for the health of the faithful from the mountain-shaded thicket, bestowing the grace of healing; Rejoice, heavenly dew, sending down currents of wisdom from above to those who thirst for true knowledge. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, save us who pray to You, our hope and consolation. Amen.
Prayer four
To You, O Mother of God, we, sinners, prayerfully flow to You, Your miracles in the Holy Lavra of Pochayev, revealed with humility and for our lamenting sins. We, Lady, we know, as it is not fitting for us sinners to ask anything, except for the Righteous Judge to leave our iniquities to us. All that we have endured in life, sorrows, needs, and illnesses, like the fruits of our falls, have languished for us, and I allow this to God for our correction. Moreover, the Lord brought all this truth and judgment to His sinful servants, who in their sorrows came to Your intercession, the Most Pure One, and in the tenderness of their hearts they cry out to You: our sins and iniquities, O Good One, do not remember, but rather raised Your all-honorable hand Stand before Your Son and God, so that the cruelty we have committed may be forgiven us, and for our many unfulfilled promises, He will not turn His face away from His servants, and He will not take His grace, which contributes to our salvation, from our souls. To her, Lady, be the Intercessor for our salvation and, not disdaining our cowardice, look upon our groans, even in our troubles and sorrows we lift up before Your miraculous image. Enlighten our minds with tender thoughts, strengthen our faith, confirm our hope, grant us the sweetest gift of love to accept us. By these gifts, Most Pure One, and not by illnesses and sorrows, may our belly be elevated to salvation, but protect our souls from despondency and despair, deliver us who are weak from the troubles and needs that come upon us, and human slander and unbearable diseases. Grant peace and prosperity to the Christian life through Your intercession, O Lady, establish the Orthodox faith in our country, throughout the world. Do not betray the Apostolic and Catholic Church to disparagement, preserve the statutes of the saints forever, unshakable, save all who come to You from the perishing ditch. Also, bring the heresy of our deceived brethren or the saving faith of those who have been destroyed by sinful passions to true faith and repentance, so that together with us those who worship Your miraculous image will confess Your intercession. Vouchsafe us, O Most Pure Lady Theotokos, even in this belly the victory of truth by Your intercession to behold, vouchsafe us grace-filled joy before the end of our perception, just as the ancient inhabitants of ancient times were shown by Your appearance to the victors and enlighteners of the Hagarians, so that we all have a grateful heart, together with the angels, and prophets, and apostles, and with all the saints, glorifying Your mercy, let us give glory, honor and worship in the Trinity to the sung God the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
History of the image
The history of the face begins in Pochaev in the 16th century, when Metropolitan Neophytos rode past the city and was met by the Goysky nobles. The Metropolitan was touched by the care and warmth of the nobles, and as a memory of himself, he left them an image of the Mother of God. Since then, it has become a symbol of the city and its shrine. The Metropolitan soon became a patriarch, and the face of the Mother of God began to work miracles among people.
Initially, the Pochaev Icon was kept in the house of nobles (about 20-30 years) and only then it healed the sick person for the first time. After the miracle, the owner of the house, Anna Goyskaya, decided that her house was not worthy of such a shrine and she should not own it alone, and the shrine was transferred for safekeeping to the monastery, where every believer could bow to it and ask for a miracle. However, after the death of the pious Christian woman, her descendants decided to regain power and took the image back.
However, the image demanded a reverent attitude towards itself, which the new owners did not give it, and punishment came to their family - the wife of the owner of the estate became possessed and was freed only after the monk advised the image to be returned to the monastery.
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In 1721, the icon was transferred to Catholics, who occupied the monastery as a result of Poland's seizure of right-bank Ukraine. They realized the significance of the image and treated her with reverence. The image of the Mother of God was placed in a golden chasuble, which was decorated with small crowns. Only 100 years later, in 1821, the monastery returned to the Orthodox Church, and the icon became the property of believers. The monastery today has become a Lavra and is under the leadership of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Important! Every week on Saturday an akathist is read to the Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God.
Pochaev Lavra
In the church of the same name, the Pochaev Icon is placed above the royal doors, and after midnight prayer and the singing of troparions it is lowered to a height accessible to parishioners. The image is placed on silk ribbons, and a monk is always next to her. Everyone who comes to the service approaches the face of the Mother of God, keeping a queue and in silence.
The temple in Pochaev has been the center of the Orthodox Church in Western Ukraine for several centuries. In addition to the holy image, the temple is famous for other miraculous phenomena. Each parishioner can ask the monks for life-giving water from a source that was opened thanks to the Mother of God. The water is distributed by the novice, who collects it from a spring outside the monastery fence. At this holy place, lamps burn around the clock. The relics of Saint Job, the famous prayer book, who died here as a 100-year-old man, are also kept on the territory of the temple.
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Services were performed in the church constantly and did not stop either during the First World War or during the Great Patriotic War. The monastery was still operating and even the German Gestapo could not close the monastery. Even during the Soviet oppression of the church, prayer to the Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God sounded within these walls, services did not stop. The monks asked the Pochaev Mother of God for protection, and she did not leave them.
Icon of Our Lady of Pochaev
How does the akathist help the Mother of God of Pochaev
The holy image of the Mother of God can not only strengthen a person’s weakened spirit and faith, but also direct him to the true path, the path of knowing the Creator and serving Him.
Our Lady of Pochaev answers prayers:
- about protection;
- about healing;
- about help and intercession;
- about the return of vision;
- about saving the family from quarrels and scandals;
- about returning loved ones to the true path.
Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos of Pochaev in front of her image
To the chosen Governor of the Christian clans and our country, the most famous Deliverer, let us bring songs of praise, faithfully, gathered on Her holy mountain; But You, who have unspeakable mercy, about the Lady Theotokos, do not reject our prayer, which is offered up before Your miraculous image, but in the tenderness of our hearts we call to You:
Archangel Gabriel says “Rejoice!” brought to you, O Lady, when the conception of the Son of God was preached to you, after your glorious Dormition all the heavenly powers continually bring you praise in Heaven; Why should we, sinners, dare to unite our voices with the voices of the Bodiless? Moreover, remembering Your mercy to all who repent, we open our lips with fear and love, saying:
Rejoice, abyss of mercy; Rejoice, inexhaustible sea of love.
Rejoice, good Representative of the Christian race; Rejoice, unbreakable wall of the Pochaev monastery.
Rejoice, you who attract Orthodox people to Mount Pochaev with bonds of love; Rejoice, you who drive away all sadness from their souls.
Rejoice, even the miraculous image, like a star, guides us from Mount Pochaevsky; Rejoice, Passionate prayers offered to her are soon reflected.
Rejoice, you who consoled people with Your appearance on this mountain; Rejoice, you who left the footprint of Your foot on it for us.
Rejoice, everlasting boldness of the faithful; Rejoice, those who doubt the good statement.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Seeing the hermit and the simple John the Barefoot, the Most Holy Theotokos appeared on the rock in a pillar of fire, kissing the footprint of Her foot and sprinkling the water that flowed from the stone, crying out to God: Alleluia.
The misunderstood mind about Your appearance, O Lady, seeking, in the blue hope is affirmed, as first from the Hagarians, after from the heretics, you deigned to establish the stronghold of Orthodoxy on the Mount of Hope, for this reason, coming to Your holy temple, we fill our hearts with warm faith, saying:
Rejoice, confirmation of the true faith; Rejoice, clear reproof of evil.
Rejoice, thou who was known of old in the burning bush of Sinai; Rejoice, you who appeared here as a Christian in the pillar of fire.
Rejoice, for in the burning cave, with the dew of salvation, the youths of Abraham foretold Thee; Rejoice, for through the water of Your footsteps You preached Your healing grace.
Rejoice, our land, devastated in ancient times by the Hagarians, who was then comforted by Your appearance; Rejoice, and now you encourage those praying here with many signs.
Rejoice, those who repent will soon be heard; Rejoice, help and refuge for those who strive.
Rejoice, and admonition of the ignorant; Rejoice, and strengthening of the faint-hearted.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
You showed the power of deep grace, O Lady, on Mount Pochaevstey, when you enriched the place of Your appearance in three hundred years with Your miraculous icon, and by the hand of St. Neophytos Hellenes, who came from Moscow, you first bestowed it on the boyar Anna, then from her you received it to the monastery of Pochaevskaya Thou art the people who rejoice and sing to God: Alleluia.
Having in her house your icon, Lady, the noblewoman Anna and having seen the healing from it of her brother Philip who was born blind, was struck by the spirit of jealousy for your glory, and was inflamed with a monastery of stone in the name of your most honorable Assumption by the hermit of Pochaev, in which the worshipers cry out to your miraculous image. sitse:
Rejoice, you who taught us the rich treasure in Your holy icon; Rejoice, having sanctified our land by the hand of the saint given by Thy image.
Rejoice, turning away our souls from earthly wealth; Rejoice, you who teach us to sing the Glory of God.
Rejoice, for Thy miracles are visible, we admire our hearts to Heaven; Rejoice, for in Your abode, as if on the threshold of paradise, we find ourselves.
Rejoice, Orthodox people who have consoled you with Your icon; Rejoice, you who call praying people from all countries to the Pochaev monastery.
Rejoice, for Her faith increases; Rejoice, for her despondency will be driven away.
Rejoice, everlasting Joy of the Pochaev monks; Rejoice, shameless Hope of the worldly people.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
A storm of heretical fury rushed towards Your holy monastery, O Lady, the holy icon by Your hand, captivating the evil iconoclasts and inciting them to blaspheme, soon the wrath of God restrained the speed, while the invisible force of the blasphemers who feasted without cold, like Artaxerxes and Herod, was cast into slack and into illness, over the holy now Those who cursed and did not take away your song: Alleluia.
Hearing that the monks and all the Orthodox people heard that Your holy icon, after seventy years of heretical captivity, returned to the holy monastery from the shamed blasphemers, Abiy came out to meet it and turned its cry into joy, I cried out to You:
Rejoice, refuge for Christians; Rejoice, denunciation of heretics.
Rejoice, the Pochaev monastery has not completely deprived you of Your icon; Rejoice, you who have put to shame the blasphemy of the iconoclasts.
Rejoice, for you teach us not to lose heart in troubles; Rejoice, for you commanded us to believe in the justice of God.
Rejoice, Who has established Orthodoxy in our country; Rejoice, You have been worthy to receive the embodied Truth and the whole universe.
Rejoice, imitator of God’s long-suffering; Rejoice, Your people are strengthened in patience.
Rejoice, for those who are humble receive consolation from You; Rejoice, for those who are proud are humbled by You.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
The God-bearing star appeared to those seeking salvation, O Lady, leading them to the Sun of Truth, just as in Your earthly life for people the intercessor to Your Son in Cana of Galilee appeared, so also after Your glorious departure to Heaven, prayers for the faithful were brought from the ends of the earth, Thou didst ascend to Thy Son, and here, on Mount Pochaevstya, He gave manifold healings to the people who cried out to God: Alleluia.
Seeing people, on Mount Pochaevskaya, as in ancient times, as in recent years, many healings are given by You, in the desire for the salvation of my soul I affirm and offer warm repentance for my sins, crying out to You:
Rejoice, recovery of sight for the blind and healing for the lame; Rejoice, deliverance of demons from demons.
Rejoice, Thou who miraculously returned the captive monk to Thy abode in the air; Rejoice, you who resurrected baby Simeon through the prayer of the old woman.
Rejoice, for in these signs the power of Your ancient miracles has again appeared to the people; Rejoice, for healing from Your holy icon will not fail in the last days.
Rejoice, you who provide a source of healing throughout the whole world from Your holy icons; Rejoice, you enrich those who pray with spiritual gifts even more than these.
Rejoice, who have given birth to Orthodoxy; Rejoice, to Him help and lack of faith flow.
Rejoice, earthly hope; Rejoice, joy of the heavenly ranks.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
The preachers of the glory of the Most Pure Virgin appeared to the Hagarians at the Pochaev monastery, having found and visioned the Most Pure Theotokos with the Monk Job without first understanding; When the arrows fired from them again rushed at her, having realized the power of the Lady and brought repentance for her madness, she cried out in faith: Alleluia.
Thy vision appeared, O Lady, on Mount Pochaevstey, when the brethren of the monastery, heavily besieged by the Hagarians, lifted up their prayers with a great cry before Thy holy icon and before the shrine of the Venerable Job, while the brethren of the Hagarians, dismayed by this vision and fleeing, saw it with joy. sing to Your face:
Rejoice, our Redeemer and salvation; Rejoice, everlasting help of the Christian race.
Rejoice, thou who drove away the wicked enemies from Thy shrine; Rejoice, you who bring them to repentance.
Rejoice, even the invisible enemy of our salvation trembles; Rejoice, the Holy Angels and the departed righteous women worship in Heaven.
Rejoice, you who received the Venerable Job with You in prayer; Rejoice, you who brought the Hagarians to Holy Baptism with your vision.
Rejoice, for by Your return the fear of death has been put aside to the end; Rejoice, for for Your sake there were no God-fearing foreigners from the Hagarians who appeared here.
Rejoice, everlasting manifestation of truth; Rejoice, good admonition to those who go astray.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Wanting to kindle the desire for eternal life in the hearts of Christians, the Most Holy Theotokos heals the sick with Her miracles, casts out demons, frees the captives, raises the dead, so that we all, having understood the power of God, will hate the earthly power and take care of our souls, constantly crying out to God: Alleluia.
The Pochaev monastery suffered new and grave misfortunes, when, together with the whole country, it was torn away from Orthodoxy by flattery into the possession of heretics, but in the past hundred and ten summers it was quickly given over to Orthodox Christians; foreigners came and took away the holy relics of the Venerable Job from under the bushel. , fell to the miraculous image of the Lady, saying:
Rejoice, defender of Orthodoxy; Rejoice, accuser of heretics.
Rejoice, you who did not completely leave Your abode; Rejoice, you who teach us the fear of God.
Rejoice, for through Your intercession the Volyn country has returned to Orthodoxy; Rejoice, for from the ancient years many heretics have been corrected by Your admonition.
Rejoice, thou who once again calls Thy faithful to prayer to Thy holy Lavra; Rejoice, teaching the infidels here to worship the more Orthodox shrine.
Rejoice, even the righteous and the righteous sing unceasingly; Rejoice, those who have fallen will flock to Neizha in repentance.
Rejoice, return of apostates to the faith; Rejoice, raising those who are led to the light of truth.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
We see a strange miracle about You, Mother of God, since the physical health of Your holy icons is healed by kissing and sprinkling Pochaev water, so the passions of the soul are taken away by the vision of Your shrine, faith is confirmed and the tenderness of our hearts is filled, singing to God: Alleluia.
All unworthy, I have been filled with sins, given over to worldly dispersion and neglecting my soul, both looking at Thy holy icon, Lady, and the enlightenment from it to the countless people who come here, seeing, I am rushing again on the path of salvation and in the joy of my heart I sing to Thee:
Rejoice, treasure of purity; Rejoice, abyss of mercies.
Rejoice, you who bring prayers to Your Son for the faithful; Rejoice, you who do not reject the prayers of sinners.
Rejoice, for through You I have escaped much of the despair of sin; Rejoice, for those who call on Your name from the fall of the strange riser.
Rejoice, the iconoclastic heresy has been put to shame in the universe; Rejoice, the true faith of the Volyn country has returned.
Rejoice, you who lead souls to the feat of chastity; Rejoice, teaching to forgive those who offend.
Rejoice, tenderness of our hearts; Rejoice, hope of our souls.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
You have forgiven all apostasies and heretical wanderings to the repentant people of the land of Volyn, O Lady, and again you have opened the source of healing from Your miraculous icon, from the footprint of Your foot on Mount Pochaevstei in Your Orthodox Lavra, only if they bring repentance for their sins to God and, about Your Without hesitation, they will cry out to Him: Alleluia.
The vigor of Thy glory appeared, O Lady, to the blind and chromium, healing from Thy icon, returned to the Orthodox people, who received, like a heretical wife of a certain sick woman, to call upon Thee for help and, after healing, to confess the true faith and kiss, and we cry out to Thee:
Rejoice, supplication of the Heavenly King; Rejoice, earthly intercession.
Rejoice, you who turned away a certain woman from Luther’s errors with healing; Rejoice, all people who have believed in the truth of Orthodoxy.
Rejoice, for for You, for the sake of Orthodoxy, people have overcome the deception of the Hagarians so many times; Rejoice, for for Your sake and seduction from the Latins you have again embraced the Orthodox faith.
Rejoice, all who live lift up their eyes to Neizha in prayer; Rejoice, O South, and those praying for the repose of the dead call for help.
Rejoice, and taking away from the needs of life those that flow to You; Rejoice, for you bestow strength on those who endure all kinds of need.
Rejoice, help to the Christ-loving army in battle; Rejoice, good instruction for demons who are militant.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Wanting to save the Most Pure Mother of God, a certain simple old woman, who was blinded by Latin and had little grandson, already enlightened by Orthodoxy, but blinded by her bodily hairs, she gives both of them a good desire to venerate Her miraculous image on Mount Pochaevstey, where she miraculously heals the blind young woman and the Orthodox old woman teaches to confess faith, crying out to God: Alleluia.
The indestructible wall of true faith appeared to you, Lady, like the wicked heretics from glorifying You, like the True Mother of God, stubbornly rejecting, so Orthodoxy remained in Your faith in the firmament and from the prayers constantly offered to You, they will no longer turn away from glorifying You, and these for the sake of heretics They do not dare to take the verb into their own ears, but with a grateful heart they will not stop praising You, saying:
Rejoice, joy and consolation for Christians; Rejoice, glory and worship to the angelic order.
Rejoice, thou who turns us away from the flattering and heretical; Rejoice, thou who liftest our minds to God by the remembrance of Thy mercies.
Rejoice, holy Apostles who called upon the clouds of the air for Your Dormition; Rejoice, and sinners who gather on that day to Mount Pochaev in thousands and thousands for every summer.
Rejoice, even for the sake of Christians the difficulty of the path, like sweet repose, is lifted up; Rejoice, even for the sake of laziness they strive to imitate them.
Rejoice, for the monk to forget the sweetness of the world through Your grace; Rejoice, you who look back at the terrible and terrifying dreams.
Rejoice, best diadimo to the Church of Christ; Rejoice, invincible shield of our country.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
Singing of gratitude about Your, Lady, good deeds from Christians all over the world, ascended like incense, constantly ascending to Heaven, thinking, and we ask You not to turn away our wretched praise, and we also ask You to grant Thee the grace of repentance, singing with hope to God: Alleluia.
The light of the temporary life and the hope of eternal life appeared to you, Lady, to a certain person in Bessarabia who had to die, but suddenly, after tasting the water from the Pochaev shrine, the former health, hedgehog his relatives saw, with fear and tenderness she cried out to you:
Rejoice, healing of the sick; Rejoice, hearing of those who mourn.
Rejoice, for through You you drove away the death that came; Rejoice, for You have given us unfailing faith.
Rejoice, for Gabriel’s prophecy is coming true before our eyes; Rejoice, for from all generations, according to Your word, now and ever you are blessed.
Rejoice, Mount Pochaev, for you have sanctified your place of residence; Rejoice, like the second Nazareth who revealed this.
Rejoice, Thou who has turned away no one’s hope; Rejoice, warmly accepting all prayers.
Rejoice, you who give us health; Rejoice, you who lead us to salvation.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
The grace of healing and tenderness of prayer from Thy, Lady, is exuded from the icon, so that our souls will not be in vain, even if for the sake of sin we fall into petrified insensibility, both as if you have the power to resurrect the dead, awaken our spiritual deadness and illumine our hearts with a better thought, yes Having hated the delusion of sin, let us sing to God: Alleluia.
Having sung Your miracles manifested in the monastery of the Holy Ones, we pray to You, Lady, not to turn Your face away from our country, but to all who come to Your holy mountain and seek mercy from You, fulfill their good request, so that everyone will sing to You:
Rejoice, propitiation of the all-righteous God; Rejoice, Christians have boldness towards Christ.
Rejoice, you who demonstrate the triumph of faith in Your Lavra; Rejoice, you who inflame the hearts of men with love.
Rejoice, for by ancient miracles people have been vouchsafed to see something like this here; Rejoice, for this mountain, like the second Sinai, has become glorified in Christian countries.
Rejoice, O God, who appeared on earth, and carried Him in Your womb; Rejoice, you who lift up people to God through Your prayer.
Rejoice, O Thy icon, for having left Thy icon of salvation in Thy monastery; Rejoice, the footprint of Your foot, filled with healing water, glorifying miracles.
Rejoice, looking down upon Your servants from the heavenly heights; Rejoice, thou who instruct the faithful in good deeds.
Rejoice, praise of Pochaev and the whole world, hope and consolation.
O All-sung Mother of Christ God, who has adopted all the Christian generations with love, who are worthy of praise and praise You, we, sinners, are perplexed, however, overcome by Your love and lifting up our eyes to Your miraculous image, we pray to You: in our struggles and needs, do not abandon Your children, intercession To Your warmth of those who believe and to Your Son, crying out: Alleluia.
This kontakion is read three times, then the 1st ikos “Archangel Gabriel...” and the 1st kontakion “To the Chosen Voivode...”.
To You, O Mother of God, we prayerfully flow, sinners, Your miracles, revealed in the Holy Lavra of the Most Holy Lavra, in remembrance of our own contrite sins. We, Lady, we know, as it is not fitting for us sinners to ask anything, except for the Righteous Judge to leave our iniquities to us. All that we have endured in life, sorrows, needs, and illnesses, like the fruits of our falls, have languished us, I allow this to God for our correction. Moreover, the Lord brought all this truth and judgment to His sinful servants, who in their sorrows came to Your intercession, the Most Pure One, and in the tenderness of their hearts they cry out to You: Our sins and iniquities, O Good One, do not remember, but rather lift up Your all-honorable hand , stand before Your Son and God, so that the evil we have done may be forgiven us, and for our many unfulfilled promises, He will not turn His face away from His servants, and may not take His grace, which contributes to our salvation, from our souls. To her, Lady, be the Intercessor for our salvation and, not disdaining our cowardice, look upon our groans, even in our troubles and sorrows we lift up before Your miraculous image. Enlighten our minds with tender thoughts, strengthen our faith, confirm our hope, grant us the sweetest gift of love to accept us. By these gifts, Most Pure One, and not by illnesses and sorrows, may our belly be elevated to salvation, but by protecting our souls from despondency and despair, deliver us, the weak, from the troubles and needs that come upon us, and human slander, and unbearable diseases . Grant peace and prosperity to the Christian life through Your intercession, O Lady, establish the Orthodox faith in our country and throughout the world. Do not betray the Apostolic and Catholic Church to disparagement, preserve the statutes of the saints forever, unshakable, and save all who come to You from the perishing pit. Also, bring the heresy of our deceived brethren or the saving faith in sinful passions who destroyed them again to true faith and repentance, and together with us, who worship Your miraculous image, they will confess Your intercession. Vouchsafe us, O Most Holy Lady Theotokos, to see in this belly the victory of truth through Your intercession, vouchsafe us grace-filled joy before the end of our perception, just as the inhabitants of Pochaev of old, by Your appearance, showed the victors and enlighteners of the Hagarians, so that we may all have a grateful heart, together with the Angels, and prophets, and apostles, and with all the saints, glorifying Your mercy, let us give glory, honor and worship in the Trinity to the sung God the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.
Troparion, tone 5
Before Your holy icon, Lady, those who pray are honored with healing, accept the knowledge of true faith and repel the Hagarian invasions. Likewise, for us who fall before You, ask for remission of sins, enlighten the thoughts of piety in our hearts, and offer up a prayer to Your Son for the salvation of our souls.
Kontakion, tone 1
The source of healings and faith of the Orthodox affirmation of the Pochaevskaya icon, the Mother of God, appeared, and we, who flow to her, also free from troubles and temptations, keep Your Lavra unharmed, establish Orthodoxy in the surrounding countries and resolve the sins of Your prayer book: for if you willed, you could .
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HOLY VIRGIN, SAVE US!
(sung in the Pochaev Lavra before the Celibate Foot of the Mother of God on the holiday in honor of Her icon called the “Life-Giving Source”, as well as on Sundays, at evening services, if there are no major holidays)
To the chosen Voivode, who chose Mount Pochaevskaya as the place of her settlement, let us sing praises to Thee, Thy servants, the Mother of God: for since ancient times Thou hast glorified this God-bearing place by the appearance of Thy celibate feet and Thy Divine image by miracles. Moreover, as sometimes you delivered Your monastery from the Hagarian invasion, set us free from all troubles and misfortunes, so that with Your help we are always delivered from the depths of our souls by crying out to You: Rejoice, praise of Pochaev, our hope and consolation.
All the angels and men were amazed at Your ineffable condescension, O Pure Virgin: just as the Lord of old appeared to Moses on Sinai, in a burning and unburnt bush, You appeared, O Wonderful Mother, on the rock of Pochaevste, standing in a pillar of fire, and the sign of Your foot on your right hand, filled with water , Thou hast depicted it in a more beneficial manner, and seeing all the miracles, we cry out to Thee: Rejoice, pure Mother of God, who watches over us from the heights of Thy heavenly dwelling. Rejoice, Good Hodegetria, reaching to the end of the earth for our salvation. Rejoice, for by Your luminous appearance on Mount Pochaevsty, You raised this mountain above many mountains, even in our countries. Rejoice, for in Your condescension you have prepared for the monastery of Pochaevs glory all over the world. Rejoice, ever-flowing spring, constantly filling Your Pochaev feet with healing water. Rejoice, God-wise teacher, teaching us to piously worship in the place where Thy Most Pure Nose stands. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, our hope and consolation.
Seeing, O Most Holy One, the infirmity of our nature and the illnesses that have ever taken hold of our souls and bodies, You have bestowed, O Most Pure One, on Thy stacked water on the rock of Chayevst, the healing power to heal every ailment and every disease in people: whose grace is greater than the ancient sheep font, that alone in the summer and only to those who first enter into health, you give health to the body, and this, ever sanctified by Your grace, unceasingly bestows mental and physical health to all who with faith draw from it, eat and drink from it, anoint themselves with it, and sing to God: Alleluia.
With a misunderstood mind, it is not possible for the blessed Anna, the builder of the Pochaevsky monastery, to understand at first, since great grace settled in her temple, when Neophyte in the name of the Greek Metropolitan, for the hospitality shown to him in her house, bestowed on her the blessing of Your Honest Image, Lady. But you yourself, Mother of the Almighty, did not hesitate to show His glory with many signs and wonders, and as if from a living source, from Your icon, enjoying many different benefits, crying out to You: Rejoice, Pure Virgin, God-chosen Intercessor of our salvation. Rejoice, O Sporuchnitsa given to the human race as our consolation. Rejoice, good Housebuilder, who organizes our life well. Rejoice, perspicacious Guide, guiding us to the Heavenly Fatherland. Rejoice, you who have provided the city of Constantinople with many graces from ancient times with your wondrous icons. Rejoice, one of these, like a bright star, from the Orthodox East to our Russian West, who bestowed our salvation. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, our hope and consolation.
The power of the Most High autumn, then blind from birth, the boyar Philip, always shed warm-hearted tears before Thy icon, the Mother of God: that by Thy mighty power, O Lady, she would grant him sight. And behold, I pray to him, and his eyes were opened, as if he were born blind of old from Christ, and looking with gratitude to Thy wondrous face, in the joy of his heart he cried out to God: Alleluia.
Blessed Anna has in her house your blessed icon, glorified by indescribable miracles, truly think in your heart that you are unworthy to eat, so that the great shrine remains hidden in her temple. In the same way, having called the monks and priests, and gathered a multitude of Orthodox people, with lights and reverent singing, bring this icon to Mount Pochaevskaya, where the monk living in the cave dedicated it for eternal safekeeping, so that You, Mother of God, who has done us good in it, may all cry out in gratitude: Rejoice, according to God and the King of our reigning Queen, Mother of God. Rejoice, according to the Lady and Lord of lords, Lady and Lady. Rejoice, having enlightened our native land with the appearance of Your miraculous icon. Rejoice, O Thou who art full of grace with the rays of Thy miracles, for our salvation, shining throughout the whole world. Rejoice, honest repository of God-enlightened reason, who discerns her chosen ones everywhere. Rejoice, through the warmth of the Mother of God of Your love, bringing us from earthly love to God’s heavenly love. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, our hope and consolation.
In the storm, in the midst of our country, raging from the power of the other faith, Your persecuted saint Job, Abbot of Dubensky, Mother of God, leave your monastery on the cross, and hide from the troubles of this charming world, with diligence ascend to Mount Pochaevskaya, and fall before Your wonderful image, placing all our hope in Thee: Mother of God, crying out, keep us under Thy roof, that through Thy help we may always be delivered, we sing to God our Savior: Alleluia.
Thy glory, Most Pure, was heard quickly in all near and far countries, when one Ismaili who found the monastery of Pochaev, one from the monks of this monastery, beheaded from a Tatar, took his cut off head, and like the second Areopagite, brought it to Thy icon, laid this before her, where he gave up his spirit in the hand of God, teaching everyone to call You: Rejoice, good Guardian of ours in bodily suffering. Rejoice, vigilant Guardian in spiritual sorrow. Rejoice, for through Your love, all who worship You with humility renounce the blessings of this world. Rejoice, for by following Your desire, Your choice of all blessings from above has been granted. Rejoice, refuge and protection of the faithful. Rejoice, bright and ineffable knowledge of God's grace. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, our hope and consolation.
Thy holy icon, the Lady, was likened to the godly star, shining in the darkness, when the lawless heir of the ever-memorable builder of Pochaevsky, commanded by force to steal Your image from the Pochaevsky monastery, and this, together with other things looted from the monastery, was imprisoned in his Kozinsky castle: otherwise, speech, I will take the miraculous icon for myself; foreigners will not be able to dwell in that place, not knowing the power of the Living God, nor even the only one who can sing: Alleluia.
Seeing the disgrace of Thy holy icon, Thou didst reveal, O Most Pure, great and glorious power in the house of the godless nobleman: when he, out of mad joy, not knowing what else to do, clothed in sacred vestments in the monastery of Pochaevsty his stolen wife, and together with her and with others many who were present at his supper began to blaspheme You, O Mother of God, in Your miraculous icon, they savaged the demon and shook the evil woman for her iniquity, with whom she was possessed, until Your holy icon of Pochaev was returned to its place with all honor and psalm song glorious: Rejoice, city of the Great King, unroofed on the top of the mountain of heaven. Rejoice, cover of the world, broadening the clouds, everywhere approaching our influx. Rejoice, immovable preservation of the Orthodox faith. Rejoice, the heretical regiments are quickly and irremediably defeated. Rejoice, for through You you overcome every heap imposed on the mind of God. Rejoice, for through Your condescension every mind is strengthened, captivating itself into the obedience of Christ. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, our hope and consolation.
Thy procession was seen, Queen of Heaven and earth, Thy procession was seen, Lady, in the appearance of Thy holy icon on Mount Pochaevste: as this reality Thou didst glorify in our countries in the time of temptation, which came upon us coupled with the generation of the ill-fated, so-called Berestya union May the confessor of the Orthodox faith and ancient paternal piety, the champion of heavenly piety, give your heavenly consolation, relief and consolation, in the manifestation of miracles and signs of many different kinds from your celibate image, in the face of your very enemy about your miracles to the Orthodox, sing to God: Alleluia.
The rising of the brightest sun on Mount Pochaevstey is so glorified and exalted, a wondrous icon of Thy, Lady: before it, with humility, we fall and pray, with gratitude we remember the countless strengths and blessings, by You, Most Pure, miraculously flowing from it, singing, crying and crying out to You joyfully : Rejoice, with the miraculous light from Thy holy icon the cave of Thy all-blessed saint and our Father Job of Pochaevsky, alone from nights I pray to him before it, illuminating with grace. Rejoice, many who are blind from physical darkness, but also spiritual ones, who have blessedly enlightened. Rejoice, you who resurrected the deceased husband and his wife through her prayer. Rejoice, thou who miraculously held the young man in the deep well of Pochaev, who miraculously held him on a rope in the middle. Rejoice, you who showed to a certain Jew a light greater than the sun from Your icon. Rejoice, you who have transformed his unbelief into the faith of Christ with this light of grace. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, our hope and consolation.
Although Christ the Lord and Your Son showed in You, Most Pure One, a new sign of His grace on Mount Pochaevstei, the heart of the eminent boyar Theodore and Eva the noble wife, who, with their support, created a new, great church in Your monastery of Pochaevstei, was filled with love for Your image, and this, like Solomon of old, satisfying and adorning with all sorts of needs, glorifying the only God glorified in their churches, and singing earnestly to Him: Alleluia.
A wondrous and glorious sight was seen of You, O Most Holy Virgin, in Your monastery during the Battle of Zbarazh, when You appeared at the top of Mount Pochaev, delivering the Pochaev Monastery from the invasion and taxation of the Hagaryans: and covering Your people with a white shining omophorion, You listened to the manifest prayers at Your right hand standing on the heavenly clouds of the glorious Job, the wonderworker of Pochaev, and so You drove back Your enemies, teaching all who gratefully remember this unspeakable phenomenon to call You: Rejoice, Intercessor of the human race, more steadfast than indestructible adamant. Rejoice, the most faithful Defender of the Orthodox people, more than anyone else, took away the invincible. Rejoice, thunderous lightning, ever striking with invisible arrows the enemies of the Christian faith. Rejoice, arrows of the Hagarians, directed at you in Pochaev from the Tatars, turning back their head. Rejoice, for for this reason, for the sake of many from them, you accepted the Christian faith, in obedience to the monastery in the monastery of the Pochaevs, even before your death. Rejoice, for the true faith, Your deliverance, the joyful song of praise and thanksgiving hastened to You. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, our hope and consolation.
It is strange and scary not to see You, Blessed Mother, then in the air, with the heavenly Angels, drawing swords holding in defense of the Orthodox people. For this reason, frightened by Thy appearance of wickedness, I quickly ran away from the monastery of Pochaev, singing to God with everything about You, Lady: Alleluia.
All of you are filled with fear and hope for You, Mother of many powers, Abbot Joseph of Pochaev and other monks and worldly people of that time, from the Tatars in the monastery, I cry out to You with all my heart, Mother of God: do not let us see the destruction of those who serve You and worship Your miraculous icon, but help us and free us from the hands of the Hagarians, just as you sometimes saved the reigning city of Constantinople from the Scythian governor, and you drowned his troops attacking this city. Save us too, we pray to Thee, Pure Virgin, from all evil and from all the machinations of our enemies, visible and invisible, and through Thy help we may be delivered with tenderness and call upon thee: Rejoice, Omnipotent Intercessor of our fatherland. Rejoice, invincible land of our birth, Voevodo. Rejoice, our Guardian in the temptation of faith from the enemies of orthodoxy. Rejoice, our most cheerful Companion in resistance to all alien power. Rejoice, ever present help to Orthodox Christians in all our affairs and paths. Rejoice, for the entire Russian state the stronghold has been taken away by the invincible. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, our hope and consolation.
Every nature was amazed at the indescribable action of Your power, Most Immaculate Lady, with whom You most powerfully rescued the monk of Pochaev from captivity, who was in captivity among the godless Hagarians. In that bondage, what came to mind was church singing and services, like the sweetest honey, on Mount Pochaevstei. And behold, I pray to him alone on the feast of Your Dormition, O Most Blessed One, having found yourself in the monastery of the Most Pochaevs, wearing the chains of captivity on your hands, and with tears confessing Your grace, which was upon you, and with grateful lips singing to God: Alleluia.
The slanderers of other faiths and alien powers in our countries who prophesy in many words are still perplexed, even now, even now, having revealed Your holy icon on Mount Pochaevstei, under the canopy of ancient piety, even if it had remained in the hands of the heterodox, betray and deign to betray, even so, this, by Your power, to the Orthodox Thou hast returned: we are amazed at Thy ineffable look, we believe and confess that Thou hast done this for our teaching, and also for the sake of glorifying Thy image. With the same golden diadems, even from Rome, You deigned to be crowned with that one, and from the east of the sun to the west, the ever-glorified name of Yours all cry out splendidly: Rejoice, dawn of the mysterious light of God. Rejoice, O Light, from the Divine flame of Eastern Orthodoxy, who inextinguishably warms us with the warmth of Your miracles. Rejoice, Voevodo Pochaevskaya, who wonderfully turned the heart of the noble count to yourself. Rejoice, thou who indescribably inspired the building of a new monastery for Thy one in Thy name on Mount Pochaevstey. Rejoice, for not only in the Russian countries, but also outside the borders of our fatherland, you have successfully helped those who call on You from Your holy mountain. Rejoice, for throughout the whole world grace from Your holy icon of Pochaev flows ineffably to the faithful. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, our hope and consolation.
To save those who trust in You, You saved Your monastery from the yoke of the other faith, O Mother of God, and together with it the God-given glory of Your most pure icon, when You most powerfully returned Mount Pochaev to the possession of the Orthodox: so that again, working miracles in us and being glorified by us, manifest to all unspeakably , as our holy Orthodox Church is truly one, and from it comes every source of the miraculous grace of God, watering everyone with the waters of orthodoxy and teaching the one and only God our Savior to sing correctly: Alleluia.
We truly confess the wall and the invincible intercession of Thee, the Virgin Mother, who always protects us in all needs and circumstances with her grace. If only You had not appeared, O Lady, praying for us, who would have delivered us from such troubles; who would have kept us free until now, in our power, in the bosom of the holy Orthodox Church, we also do not hide Your blessings, but gratefully glorify Your mercies, crying out to You from the fullness of our hearts: Rejoice, having anointed with water from Your celibate foot, you have granted insight to many. Rejoice, you who healed the young man from the poisonous scabs on his body. Rejoice, O child who died, who was placed before Thy icon by his parents with faith, who inexpressibly returned him to life. Rejoice, non-Orthodox doctor, who dared to blaspheme You in Your miraculous icon, punishing You with terrible madness. Rejoice, the charioteer of a nobleman enraged by the unwashed execution, through prayer to You, who indescribably delivered, Rejoice, and mother of Russian cities, Kyiv from the deadly plague by Your power, from Your mountain, successfully saved the saints. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, our hope and consolation.
All the families of earth and heaven sing to You, our Patroness, for all the countless blessings, signs and wonders that You have always shown to all who worship You and worship Your icon. In the same way, we, even if we are unworthy of existence, bring to You, Blessed Mother, a sincere tribute of praise and tenderness, and in the joy of our hearts before Your Most Pure Image we sing to God, who marvelously You create from Mount Pochaev: Alleluia.
We see a light-receiving candle for You, Most Holy Virgin, on Your holy icon, in the midst of the face of Your chosen saints, the rays of Divine grace indescribably shining. Since we were enlightened in the darkness of our sins and instructed on the bright path of virtue and salvation, we honor the title of You with these: Rejoice, through the prayers of the First Martyr Stephen, to the namesake crown, crowning us with a crown of joy in our sorrows. Rejoice, through the intercession of Abraham, a reclusive monk, delivering us from the vanity of this multi-rebellious world. Rejoice, with Elijah the Prophet and zealot for God, igniting the fire of indestructible zeal for faith in the temptation of unbelief and other faiths in us. Rejoice, thou who together with the martyr Mina conquered our passions in the struggles of the flesh. Rejoice, our consolation in all sorrows, through the intercession of the most praiseworthy Catherine the Great Martyr. Rejoice, hope for the faithful in adversity and sorrow, intercession of Irina the Most Honest and Paraskeva the Blessed Martyr. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, our hope and consolation.
With the grace given to Thee from Thy Son and Thy God, working miracles, O Most Pure One, on Thy holy mountain, Thou didst not abandon Thy servants, O Lady, even at this time, but as in the days of ancient times, even now, in our sight, Thou grantest ever health to the sick, enlightenment for the blind, consolation for the grieving, intercession for the offended, deliverance for the demonic from evil spirits, and for all those who are in troubles and various circumstances: from the burning of fire, from thieves and robbers and secret murderers, from the evil pestilence of destructive and deadly ulcers, and from grave wrecks along the way , in the sea and on land, I will deliver and preserve, having together for us the great intercessor and indefatigable prayer book, blessed Job, the abbot and wonderworker of Pochaev, so that by those who flow to You, we will receive all that is good and useful to our souls, glorifying God and that One, singing grateful: Alleluia.
Singing Thy mercy, Mother of God, and Thy miracles for our salvation, from Thy holy mountain of Pochaev, in Thy wholesome foot and Thy miraculous icon I take forth for us, we all praise Thee, as our steadfast Representative and irresistible Intercessor, and with tenderness we fall before Thy icon , we pray Your goodness: lift up Your hand to Your Son and our God, who is tenderly held in Your hand, so that in this life and after our death His mercy will not depart from us, but each one, according to the measure of faith and love, will receive from We have received from Him some kind of consolation, relief and consolation, and let us sing with gratitude to You who has been good to You and works miracles for our salvation forever and ever: Rejoice, through Your prayers saving the human race from Your holy mountain. Rejoice, intercessor of the entire universe with grace from Your icon. Rejoice, you who provide beneficial water from Your foot to everyone in every need and need. Rejoice, our life, through the prayers of Your saint Job of Pochaevsky, who arranges for good in all our needs and circumstances. Rejoice, peaceful end of our life in our repose, asking for it. Rejoice, and after our death you free everyone from the torments of hell and lead you into the eternal Kingdom of Your Son. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, our hope and consolation.
O All-Sung Mother, Queen of heaven and earth! Look with Your merciful eye on us standing before Your holy icon, and on all the people praying to You, and with Your Mother of God prayers, deliver us from all troubles, misfortunes and sorrows, so that we may live sinlessly, peacefully and piously in the present world, and in the future we will be honored all heavenly and eternal blessings from Our Lord and Savior and Judge, singing to Him who glorifies You on Your holy mountain, and by You from Your holy icon and Your foot glorified forever and ever: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
(This kontakion is read three times, then ikos 1 and kontakion 1)
Prayers before the Holy Foot of the Mother of God.
First prayer
O Most Holy Virgin, Lady Theotokos, I thank You with all my heart, for You have vouchsafed me, Your sinful and unworthy servant, to appear here and worship on Your holy mountain. Oh, how many blessings have I, such a great sinner, been rewarded with Your mercy! I see, O Most Pure One, and I am horrified and my spirit melts away, beholding with my own eyes this multi-healing source of Thy grace, which Thou hast ineffably revealed since ancient times in the footsteps of Thy Holy Foot, and reverently worshiping in the place where Thy Maidenhood stood, I pray to Thee, Blessed Hope and Salvation our souls and bodies, having washed me with Thy wholesome water from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, quench with Thy blessed streams all the passions of my heart, heal with drops from Thy ever-flowing source all my bodily ailments, so that being taught, healed and delivered by You, I sing to You with all diligence: Rejoice, source of unceasing joy: Rejoice, even of unspeakable kindness. Rejoice, drowning of unclean lusts: Rejoice, washing away of all filth. Rejoice, the most luminous stream for the health of the faithful from the mountain of the overshadowed cup, bestowing the grace of healing: Rejoice, heavenly dew from above, sending down currents of wisdom to those who thirst for true knowledge. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, save us who pray to You, Our Hope and Consolation. Amen.
Second prayer
O All-Merciful Lady, Queen and Lady, chosen from all generations, and blessed by all generations, heavenly and earthly! Look mercifully at this people standing before Your holy icon and earnestly praying to You, and through Your intercession and intercession with Your Son and Our God, may no one come from here with their hope empty and disgraced in their hope, but may each one receive from You everything the good will of your heart and according to your need and desire, for the salvation of the soul and the health of the body. Most of all, protect our faithful army with Your protection, Merciful Mother. Look with mercy, O All-Sung Theotokos, and upon this monastery, which is called by Your name, You have loved it since ancient times, choosing it as Your property, and endlessly flowing currents of healing from Your miraculous icon, and from the ever-flowing source, in the footprint of Your foot, revealed to us, and preserve it, as of old you preserved it by Your appearance, intact and undamaged from the fierce invasion of the Hagarians, from every pretext and slander of the enemy, so that the most holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and Your glorious Dormition, will be sung and glorified in it forever and ever. Amen.
Troparion of Pochaevsky, tone 4
The intercession of Christians is not shameful, the intercession to the Creator is immutable, You truly appeared, O Theotokos, in Your healing foot and in Your miraculous icon on Mount Pochaevste. Do not despise, O All-Singing One, the voices of sinful prayers, but precede Your Mother’s love to help us, who faithfully call You: hasten to prayer, just as You appeared in ancient times on the rock of Pochaevstya, in the pillar of fire. healing water from the stone, flowing for our salvation: strive for supplication, and cover us with Your goodness and keep us, as sometimes You successfully hurried Your monastery for salvation from the invasion of the Hagarians, who have ceased ever since, the Mother of God of those who honor Thee.
Second troparion in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God of Pochaev, tone 4
Let us now diligently approach the Mother of God with sinfulness and humility, and let us fall to the wondrous image of Her, which is also on Mount Pochaev: to him, looking tenderly and praying to the Queen Lady from the depths of our souls, we cry out: O Most Wonderful Virgin, Mother of the Lord Most High, who from ancient times chose the Pochaev monastery as a place His village! Establish our native land in Orthodoxy and peace, and save all those who stand and pray to You with a tender soul and a contrite heart, before Your Most Pure Image with tears. Do not turn away Thy servants' vanities: For Thee is the only Hope of the imami.
Greatnesses used in the Pochaev Lavra
In memory of the appearance of the Mother of God on the rock of Pochaevstey and the origin of the celibate foot, on the heel of Bright Week:
We magnify Thee, Most Holy Virgin, and honor Thy appearance on the rock of Pochaevste in the pillar of fire with a celibate foot.
We magnify Thee, Most Holy Virgin, and honor the hedgehog on the rock of Pochaev in the pillar of fire, from the stone Thy appearance poured forth healing water for us.
We magnify Thee, Most Holy Virgin, and venerate Thy venerable icon, which Thou hast glorified since ancient times on Mount Pochaev.
In memory of the appearance of the Mother of God over the Pochaev monastery on the day of her deliverance from the Tatars and Turks during the Battle of Zbarazh, July 23:
We magnify You, Most Holy Virgin, and honor Your honorable protection, with which You saved Your Pochaev monastery from the Hagarian invasion.
Kontakion 1
To the chosen Governor of the Christian clans and our country, the most famous Deliverer, let us bring songs of praise, faithfully, gathered on Her holy mountain; But You, who have indescribable mercy, O Lady Theotokos, do not reject our prayer before Your miraculous image, but in the tenderness of our hearts we call to You: Rejoice, Praise of Pochaev and the whole world, Hope and Consolation.
Ikos 1
Archangel Gabriel, first of all, rejoice in bringing you, O Lady, when the conception of the Son of God was preached to you, after your glorious Dormition, all the heavenly powers continually bring you praise in Heaven; Why should we, sinners, dare to unite our voices with the voices of the Bodiless? Moreover, we remember Your mercy to all who repent, we open our lips with fear and love, saying: Rejoice, abyss of mercy; Rejoice, inexhaustible sea of love. Rejoice, Good Representative of the Christian race; Rejoice, unbreakable wall of the Pochaev monastery. Rejoice, you who attract Orthodox people to Mount Pochaev with bonds of love; Rejoice, you who drive away all sadness from their souls. Rejoice, even the miraculous image, like a star, guides us from Mount Pochaevsky; Rejoice, passionate prayers offered to her are soon reflected. Rejoice, you who consoled people with Your appearance on this mountain; Rejoice, you who left the footprint of Your foot on it for us. Rejoice, everlasting boldness of the faithful; Rejoice, you who doubt the good statement. Rejoice, Praise of Pochaevskaya and the whole world, Hope and Consolation.
Kontakion 2
Seeing the hermit and the simple barefoot John the Most Holy Theotokos appearing on the rock in a pillar of fire, I kissed the footprint of Her foot and sprinkled myself with the water that flowed from the stone, crying out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 2
The misunderstood mind about Your appearance, O Lady, seeking, in the blue hope is affirmed, as first from the Hagarians, after from the heretics, you deigned to establish the stronghold of Orthodoxy on the Mount of Hope, for this reason, coming to Your holy temple, we fill our hearts with warm faith, saying: Rejoice, statement of true faith; Rejoice, evil faith has been clearly exposed. Rejoice, thou who was known of ancient times in the Neopalim Bush of Sinai; Rejoice, you who appeared here as a Christian in the pillar of fire. Rejoice, for in the burning cave, with the dew of salvation, the youths of Abraham foretold Thee; Rejoice, for through the water of Your footsteps You preached healing grace. Rejoice, our land, devastated in ancient times by the Hagarians, who was then comforted by Your appearance; Rejoice, and now you encourage those praying here with many signs. Rejoice, those who repent will soon be heard; Rejoice, help and refuge for those who strive. Rejoice, and admonition of the ignorant; Rejoice, and strengthening of the faint-hearted. Rejoice, Praise of Pochaevskaya and the whole world, Hope and Consolation.
Kontakion 3
You showed the power of intense grace, O Lady, on Mount Pochaevstey, when you enriched the place of Your appearance in three hundred years with Your miraculous icon, and by the hand of St. Neophytos the Greek, coming from Moscow, you first bestowed it on the boyar Anna, then from her you received it to the monastery of Pochaevskaya Thou art the people who rejoice and sing to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 3
Having in your house your icon, Lady, the boyar Anna, and having seen the healing from it of your blind brother Philip, who was struck by the spirit of jealousy for your glory, the monastery of the hermit of Pochaev is being built in stone in the name of your Most Honorable Dormition, in which they worship your miraculous image. cries out to the mother: Rejoice, thou who hast taught us the rich treasure in Thy holy icon; Rejoice, having sanctified our land with the hand of Thy gifted image. Rejoice, turning away our souls from earthly wealth; Rejoice, you who teach us to sing the Glory of God. Rejoice, for Thy miracles are visible, we admire our hearts to Heaven; Rejoice, for in Your abode, as if on the threshold of paradise, we find ourselves. Rejoice, Orthodox people who have consoled you with Your icon; Rejoice, you who call praying people from all countries to the Pochaev monastery. Rejoice, for by this faith increases; Rejoice, for this will drive away despondency. Rejoice, everlasting Joy of the Pochaev monks; Rejoice, shameless Hope of the worldly people. Rejoice, Praise of Pochaevskaya and the whole world, Hope and Consolation.
Kontakion 4
A storm of heretical fury rushed towards Your holy monastery, O Lady, the holy icon by Your hand, captivating the evil iconoclasts and inciting them to blaspheme, soon the wrath of God restrained the speed, while the invisible force of the blasphemers who feasted without cold, like Artaxerxes and Herod, was cast into slack and into illness, over the holy now Those who cursed and did not take away your song: Alleluia.
Ikos 4
Hearing that the monks and all the people of Orthodoxy heard that Your holy icon, after seventy years of heretical captivity, returned to the holy monastery from the shamed blasphemers, Abi came out to meet it and turned its weeping into joy, crying out to You: Rejoice, refuge for Christians; Rejoice, denunciation of heretics. Rejoice, the Pochaev monastery has not completely deprived you of Your icon; Rejoice, you who have put to shame the blasphemy of the iconoclasts. Rejoice, for you teach us not to lose heart in troubles; Rejoice, for you have commanded us to believe in the Justice of God. Rejoice, Who has established Orthodoxy in our country; Rejoice, You who and the entire universe have been honored to receive the embodied truth. Rejoice, imitator of God’s patience; Rejoice, Your people are strengthened in patience. Rejoice, for those who are humble receive consolation from You; Rejoice, for those who are proud are humbled by You. Rejoice, Praise of Pochaevskaya and the whole world, Hope and Consolation.
Kontakion 5
The God-bearing star appeared to those seeking salvation, O Lady, leading these to the Sun of Truth, just as in Your earthly life the Representative to Your Son in Cana of Galilee appeared to You, so after Your glorious departure to Heaven, prayers for the faithful from the ends of the earth were brought to Offer up Thy Son and here, on Mount Pochaevstya, He gives manifold healings to people who cry out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 5
Seeing people, on Mount Pochaevskaya, as in ancient times, as in recent years, many healings are given by You, in the desire for the salvation of my soul I affirm and offer warm repentance for my sins, crying out to You: Rejoice, sight for the blind and healing for the lame; Rejoice, deliverance of demons from demons. Rejoice, Thou who miraculously returned the captive monk to Thy abode in the air; Rejoice, you who resurrected baby Simeon through the prayer of the old woman. Rejoice, for in these signs the power of Your ancient miracles has again appeared to the people; Rejoice, for healing from Your holy icon will not be lacking in the last days. Rejoice, you who provide a source of healing throughout the whole world from Your holy icons; Rejoice, you who enrich those who pray with spiritual gifts even more than these. Rejoice, who have given birth to Orthodoxy; Rejoice, to Him help and lack of faith flow. Rejoice, earthly hope; Rejoice, joy of the heavenly ranks. Rejoice, Praise of Pochaevskaya and the whole world, Hope and Consolation.
Kontakion 6
The preachers of the glory of the Most Pure Virgin appeared to the Hagarians at the Pochaev monastery and found and did not understand the vision of the Most Pure Mother of God with the Monk Job; When the arrows fired from them again rushed at her, having realized the power of the Lady and brought repentance for her madness, she cried out in faith: Alleluia.
Ikos 6
Thy vision appeared, O Lady, on Mount Pochaevstei, when the brethren of the monastery were heavily besieged by the Hagarians, with a great cry of prayer before Thy holy icon and before the shrine of the Venerable Job, they lifted up their prayers, while the brethren of the Hagarians, dismayed by this vision and fleeing, saw it with joy I sang to You: Rejoice, our Redeemer and salvation; Rejoice, everlasting help of the Christian race. Rejoice, thou who drove away the wicked enemies from Thy shrine; Rejoice, you who bring them to repentance. Rejoice, even the invisible enemy of our salvation trembles; Rejoice, She is worshiped by the Holy Angels and the departed righteous in Heaven. Rejoice, you who received the Venerable Job with You in prayer; Rejoice, you who brought the Hagarites to Holy Baptism with your vision. Rejoice, for by Your return the fear of death has been put aside to the end; Rejoice, for for Your sake there were no God-fearing foreigners from the Hagarians who appeared here. Rejoice, everlasting manifestation of truth; Rejoice, good admonition to those who go astray. Rejoice, Praise of Pochaevskaya and the whole world, Hope and Consolation.
Kontakion 7
Wanting to kindle the desire of the Eternal Life in the hearts of Christians, the Most Holy Theotokos heals the sick with Her miracles, casts out demons, frees the captives, raises the dead, so that we all, having understood the power of God, will hate the earthly and take care of our souls, constantly crying out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 7
The Pochaev monastery suffered new and grave misfortunes, when, together with the whole country, it was torn away from Orthodoxy by flattery into the possession of heretics, but in the past hundred and ten summers it was quickly given over to Orthodox Christians; foreigners came and took away the holy relics of the Venerable Job from under the bushel. , fell to the miraculous image of the Lady, saying: Rejoice, defender of Orthodoxy; Rejoice, accuser of heretics. Rejoice, you who did not completely leave Your abode; Rejoice, you who teach us the fear of God. Rejoice, for through Your intercession the Volyn country has returned to Orthodoxy; Rejoice, for from the ancient years many heretics have been corrected by Your admonition. Rejoice, thou who once again calls Thy faithful to prayer to Thy holy Lavra; Rejoice, teaching the infidels here to worship the more Orthodox shrine. Rejoice, even the righteous and the righteous sing unceasingly; Rejoice, in Neizha the fallen also flow in repentance. Rejoice, return of apostates to the faith; Rejoice, you who have led those who are led to the light of truth. Rejoice, Praise of Pochaevskaya and the whole world, Hope and Consolation.
Kontakion 8
We see a strange miracle about You, Mother of God, since the physical health of Your holy icons is healed by kissing and sprinkling Pochaev water, so the passions of the soul are taken away by the vision of Your shrine, faith is confirmed and the tenderness of our hearts is filled, singing to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 8
All unworthy I have been filled with sins, given over to worldly distraction and neglecting my soul, both looking at Thy holy icon, Lady, and the enlightenment from her to the countless people who come here, seeing, I am rushing again on the path of salvation and in the joy of my heart I sing to Tisitsa: Rejoice, treasure of purity; Rejoice, abyss of mercies. Rejoice, you who bring prayers to Your Son for the faithful; Rejoice, you who do not reject the prayers of sinners. Rejoice, for through You I have escaped much of the despair of sin; Rejoice, for those who call on Your name from the fall of the strange rise. Rejoice, the iconoclastic heresy has been put to shame in the universe; Rejoice, the true faith of the Volyn country has returned. Rejoice, you who lead souls to the feat of chastity; Rejoice, you who teach those who offend to forgive those who offend. Rejoice, tenderness of our hearts; Rejoice, hope of our souls. Rejoice, Praise of Pochaevskaya and the whole world, Hope and Consolation.
Kontakion 9
You have forgiven all apostasies and heretical wanderings to the repentant people of the land of Volyn, O Lady, and again you have opened the source of healings from Your miraculous icon from the footprint of Your foot on Mount Pochaevstei in Your Orthodox Lavra to the people, only if they bring repentance for their sins to God and about Yours Without hesitation, they will cry out to him: Alleluia.
Ikos 9
The branch of Thy glory appeared, O Lady, to blindness and chromium healing from Thy icon, returned to the Orthodox people, who received, like a heretical wife of a certain sick woman, to call upon Thee for help and after healing to confess and kiss the true faith, we cry out to Thee: Rejoice, King Heavenly supplication: Rejoice, earthly intercession. Rejoice, you who turned away a certain woman from Luther’s errors with healing; Rejoice, all people who have become convinced of the truth of Orthodoxy. Rejoice, for for You, for the sake of Orthodoxy, people have overcome the deception of the Hagarians so many times; Rejoice, for for Your sake and seduction from the Latins you have again embraced the Orthodox faith. Rejoice, all who live lift up their eyes to Neizha in prayer; Rejoice, O South, and those praying for the repose of the dead call for help. Rejoice, and taking away from the needs of life those that flow to You; Rejoice, for you bestow strength on those who endure all kinds of need. Rejoice, help to the Christ-loving army in battle; Rejoice, good instruction for demons who are militant. Rejoice, Praise of Pochaevskaya and the whole world, Hope and Consolation.
Kontakion 10
You want to save, the Most Pure Mother of God, a simple old woman who was blinded by Latin and has little grandson, who is already enlightened by Orthodoxy, but is blinded by her bodily hairs, and at the same time she gives both of them a good desire to venerate Her miraculous image on Mount Pochaevstey, where Abi miraculously heals the blind girl and teaches the old woman to confess the Orthodox faith, crying out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 10
The indestructible wall of true faith appeared, O Lady, because the heretics, like the wickedness of the heretics, stubbornly rejected You from glorifying You, like the True Mother of God, so Orthodoxy remained in Your faith in the firmament, and from the prayers constantly offered to You, they will no longer turn away, and for these heretical sakes the verb in They do not dare to take their own blessings, but with a grateful heart they will not stop praising You, saying: Rejoice, for Christians are joy and consolation; Rejoice, glory and worship to the angelic order. Rejoice, thou who turns us away from the flattering and heretical; Rejoice, thou who liftest our minds to God by the remembrance of Thy mercies. Rejoice, holy apostles who called upon the clouds of the air for Your Dormition; Rejoice, and sinners gathered on that day to Mount Pochaev in thousands and thousands for every summer. Rejoice, even for the sake of Christians the difficulty of the path, like sweet repose, is lifted up; Rejoice, even for the sake of laziness they strive to imitate them. Rejoice, for the monk to forget the sweetness of the world through Your grace; Rejoice, you who look back at the terrible and terrifying dreams. Rejoice, best diadimo to the Church of Christ; Rejoice, invincible shield of our country. Rejoice, Praise of Pochaevskaya and the whole world, Hope and Consolation.
Kontakion 11
The singing of gratitude about Your, Lady, blessings throughout the world from Christians, ascending like incense to Heaven, constantly ascending in thought and our wretched praise, we ask You not to turn away, and we also pray to grant You the grace of repentance, singing with hope to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 11
The light of the life of temporary life and Eternal Life, the hope appeared to you, Lady, to a certain person in Bessarabia who had to die, but suddenly, after tasting the water from the Pochaev shrine, the former health, the hedgehog of his relatives saw him, with fear and tenderness she cried out to You: Rejoice, healing for the sick; Rejoice, hearing of those who mourn. Rejoice, for through You you drove away the death that came; Rejoice, for You have given us undoubted faith. Rejoice, for Gabriel’s prophecy is coming true before our eyes; Rejoice, for from all generations, according to Your word, now and ever you are blessed. Rejoice, Mount Pochaev, for you have sanctified your place of residence; Rejoice, like the second Nazareth who revealed this. Rejoice, you who have turned away the hope of no one; Rejoice, you who warmly accept all prayers. Rejoice, you who give us health; Rejoice, you who lead us to salvation. Rejoice, Praise of Pochaevskaya and the whole world, Hope and Consolation.
Kontakion 12
The grace of healing and tenderness of prayer from Thy, Lady, flows from the icon, so that it will not be in vain for our souls, even if for the sake of sin we fall into petrified insensibility; otherwise, as having the power to resurrect the dead, awaken our spiritual deadness, and illumine our hearts with the best thoughts, and having hated the delusion of sin, let us sing to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 12
Singing Your miracles revealed in the monastery of the Most Holy, we pray to You, Lady, not to turn Your face away from our country, but to all who come to Your holy mountain and seek mercy from You for a good request, so that everyone will sing to You: Rejoice, propitiation of the all-righteous God ; Rejoice, Christians have boldness towards Christ. Rejoice, you who demonstrate the triumph of faith in Your Lavra; Rejoice, you who inflame the hearts of men with love. Rejoice, for by ancient miracles people have been vouchsafed to see something like this here; Rejoice, for this mountain, like the second Sinai, has become glorified in Christian countries. Rejoice, thou who bore God on earth in Thy womb; Rejoice, you who lift up people to God through Your prayer. Rejoice, O Thy icon, for having left Thy icon of salvation in Thy monastery; Rejoice, O Thy footprint, filled with healing water, Who glorified miracles. Rejoice, looking down from the heavenly heights upon your servants; Rejoice, thou who instruct the faithful in good deeds. Rejoice, Praise of Pochaevskaya and the whole world, Hope and Consolation.
Kontakion 13
O all-sung Mother of Christ God, who has adopted all generations of Christian love into Herself worthy of praise, we are perplexed to sing to You, we sinners, both overcome by Your love and lifting up our eyes to Your miraculous image, we pray to You: in our struggles and needs, do not abandon Your children, Your intercession is warm believers and cry to Your Son: Alleluia.
(This kontakion is read three times, then ikos 1 and kontakion 1)
Prayers to the Most Holy Theotokos in front of Her icon, called “Pochaevskaya”
First prayer
Oh, All-Merciful Lady, Queen and Lady, chosen from all generations, and blessed by all generations, heavenly and earthly! Look mercifully at this people standing before Thy holy icon and earnestly praying to You, and make Your intercession and intercession with Thy Son and our God, so that no one will come from here empty-handed and put to shame in his hope, but may everyone receive everything from You, according to the good will of your heart and according to your need and desire, for the salvation of the soul and the health of the body. Look with mercy, O All-Sung Theotokos, and upon this monastery, which bears Your name, You have loved it since ancient times, having chosen it as your property, and endlessly flowing currents of healing from Your miraculous icon and from the ever-flowing source, in the footprint of Your foot, revealed to us, and preserve it from every excuse and slander of the enemy, as in ancient times you preserved it, by Your appearance, intact and undamaged from the fierce invasion of the Hagarians, so that the Most Holy Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and Your glorious Dormition, will be sung and glorified in it forever and ever. Amen.
Second prayer
Our Most Blessed Queen, Most Blessed Lady, Our Mother of God of Hope! We now flow to You with tenderness, and with a contrite soul and a humble heart we pray to You, the All-Singing One, before Your Most Pure Image: remember Your ancient generosity, even from You that was here, and how sometimes You appeared on the rock of Chayev, in a pillar of fire, from the stone, healing water flowing forth, appear before us now, O Mother of many powers, and with the warmth of the Mother of God, Thy love, warm our stony hearts, tears of love and unrepentant repentance flowing from our eyes. For You are our only God-given Intercessor: We pray to You, deliver from all troubles, from all adversity, illness and sorrow, Thy servants, through the intercession of Thy great intercessor and prayer book for us, our all-blessed father Job, Thy saint Pochaevsky, whose prayer I manifestly listened to Thou art sometimes in the air, when by Thy all-glorious and terrible appearance Thou hast delivered Thy monastery from the invasion and taxation of the Hagarians. Look with mercy, O All-Singing One, with the charity of Thy merciful intercession, pour out Thy rich mercies upon all our kingdom and country, and upon all the people: gather together those who are scattered, and guide the unfaithful and other faiths in our countries on the true path, having fallen away from the pious faith of our fathers. return and associate them with the Holy Saints of Your Orthodox and Catholic Church; Establish peace in our families, support old age, mentor the young, raise babies, stand up for the orphans and widows, heal the captives of freedom, heal the sick, remember those who live in judgment and in prison, and in captivity, and in the bitter labors, protect us from death, visit and comfort currents of miracles and signs of many different kinds, which You continually pour out to everyone from Your holy, celibate icon. Grant, O All-Blessed One, the fertility of the earth, the goodness of the air, and all the gifts that are timely and beneficial for our benefit, through the prayers of Your chosen saints, Your gracious face on the holy icon of Your surroundings: Elijah the God-speaking, the holy Archdeacon Stephen the First-Suffering, the Venerable Abraham the All-Blessed, and the God-Music Mina a martyr of many names, and with them a number of saints and righteous wives: the most praised Paraskeva, the blessed Irene and the long-suffering Saint Catherine the Great, and all the saints. When our departure from this life and resettlement to eternity is ripe, appear before us, O Most Blessed One, just as You sometimes brought Your monastery to safety for salvation during the Battle of Zbarazh, and by Your warm intercession grant us the Christian death of our life, painless, shameless, peaceful and the Holy Mysteries involved; so that in this life, now and in the future, we will all be worthy, through Your prayers, of endless heavenly life in the Kingdom of Your beloved Son, the Lord God and our Savior, Jesus Christ, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer three
Oh, Most Holy Virgin, Lady Theotokos! I thank You with all my heart, for You have vouchsafed me, Your sinful and unworthy servant, to appear here and worship on Your holy mountain. Oh, how many blessings have I, such a great sinner, been rewarded with Your mercy. I see, O Most Pure One, and I am horrified and my spirit melts away, in vain with my own eyes this multi-healing source of Thy grace, which Thou hast ineffably revealed since ancient times in the footsteps of Thy holy foot, and we all reverently bow down in the place where Thy virginal nose stands, I pray to Thee, blessed Hope and Salvation souls and bodies of ours: wash me with Your wholesome water from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, quench with Your grace-filled streams all the passions of my heart, heal with drops from Your ever-flowing source all my bodily ailments, yes, instructed, healed and delivered by You, I sing to You with all diligence: Rejoice, source of unceasing joy, rejoice, source of unspeakable kindness. Rejoice, drowning of unclean lusts, Rejoice, washing away of all kinds of defilements. Rejoice, the most luminous stream for the health of the faithful from the mountain-shaded thicket, bestowing the grace of healing; Rejoice, heavenly dew, sending down currents of wisdom from above to those who thirst for true knowledge. Rejoice, praise of Pochaevskaya, save us who pray to You, our hope and consolation. Amen.
Prayer four
To You, O Mother of God, we, sinners, prayerfully flow to You, Your miracles in the Holy Lavra of Pochayev, revealed with humility and for our lamenting sins. We, Lady, we know, as it is not fitting for us sinners to ask anything, except for the Righteous Judge to leave our iniquities to us. All that we have endured in life, sorrows, needs, and illnesses, like the fruits of our falls, have languished for us, and I allow this to God for our correction. Moreover, the Lord brought all this truth and judgment to His sinful servants, who in their sorrows came to Your intercession, the Most Pure One, and in the tenderness of their hearts they cry out to You: our sins and iniquities, O Good One, do not remember, but rather raised Your all-honorable hand Stand before Your Son and God, so that the cruelty we have committed may be forgiven us, and for our many unfulfilled promises, He will not turn His face away from His servants, and He will not take His grace, which contributes to our salvation, from our souls. To her, Lady, be the Intercessor for our salvation and, not disdaining our cowardice, look upon our groans, even in our troubles and sorrows we lift up before Your miraculous image. Enlighten our minds with tender thoughts, strengthen our faith, confirm our hope, grant us the sweetest gift of love to accept us. By these gifts, Most Pure One, and not by illnesses and sorrows, may our belly be elevated to salvation, but protect our souls from despondency and despair, deliver us who are weak from the troubles and needs that come upon us, and human slander and unbearable diseases. Grant peace and prosperity to the Christian life through Your intercession, O Lady, establish the Orthodox faith in our country, throughout the world. Do not betray the Apostolic and Catholic Church to disparagement, preserve the statutes of the saints forever, unshakable, save all who come to You from the perishing ditch. Also, bring the heresy of our deceived brethren or the saving faith of those who have been destroyed by sinful passions to true faith and repentance, so that together with us those who worship Your miraculous image will confess Your intercession. Vouchsafe us, O Most Pure Lady Theotokos, even in this belly the victory of truth by Your intercession to behold, vouchsafe us grace-filled joy before the end of our perception, just as the ancient inhabitants of ancient times were shown by Your appearance to the victors and enlighteners of the Hagarians, so that we all have a grateful heart, together with the angels, and prophets, and apostles, and with all the saints, glorifying Your mercy, let us give glory, honor and worship in the Trinity to the sung God the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
Troparion to the Most Holy Theotokos in front of Her icon, called “Pochaevskaya”
Troparion, tone 5
Before Your holy icon, Lady, those who pray are honored with healing, accept the knowledge of true faith and repel the Hagarian invasions. Likewise, for us who fall before You, ask for remission of sins, enlighten the thoughts of piety in our hearts, and offer a prayer to Your Son for the salvation of our souls.
Greatness
We magnify Thee, Most Holy Virgin, and venerate Thy venerable icon, which Thou hast glorified since ancient times on Mount Pochaev.