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Righteous FILARET THE MERCY, Paphlagagonian (†792)

“Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy” (Matthew 5:7)

Righteous Philaret the Merciful was born in the city of Paphlagonia in Asia Minor (now Turkish territory) and lived in the 8th century. His father Georgy the Armenian was a noble man, originally from Eastern Armenia, but later left his native places and settled in Paphlagonia.

Paphlagonia on the map of the historical regions of Turkey

Philaret's mother's name was Anna. From an early age, his pious parents instilled in him love for God and compassion for people, and he retained these good qualities until old age. Filaret inherited great wealth from his father. He had many cattle, estates, slaves and lands, in each of which a mountain spring beat, irrigating everything around. His wife Theozva was also noble and God-fearing, and brought him considerable wealth. They had children: a son, Joat, and daughters, Hypatia and Evanthia. They were very good-looking and overshadowed everyone in those days with their beauty.

With all his wealth and prosperity, he did not harden, as many people in his position. On the contrary, he pitied the suffering and cared for them, remembering that faith without good deeds is dead. Many local beggars, widows and orphans knew him as an affectionate person and a generous benefactor. Like the stranger Abraham and the glorious Jacob, he dressed the undressed, and when a person asked him for something, he gave it with joy and, having first fed at his table, sent him on his way.

So many years have passed. But behold, it was pleasing to God that St. Philaret be afflicted by a trial, like the once righteous Job the Long-suffering. Suddenly, the area where St. Philaret lived was attacked by the Arabs (Ismaelites) and devastated it. His slaves were taken captive, his flocks were captured, and his fields were taken over. All he had left was his house with a small field and a pair of oxen. He did not grieve, did not blaspheme, did not get annoyed, but, on the contrary, was glad that he had thrown off the heavy burden of wealth. Filaret meekly accepted his misfortune, saying, as Job once did: "God gave, God took. May his name be blessed."

Once he was plowing his field, a man came to him and complained that one ox had fallen in his yoke, and that with one ox he could not plow. Filaret unharnessed one of his oxen and gave it to him. He also gave his last horse to someone, as he was called with a horse to war. He also gave away the calf from the last cow, and when he heard the cow lowing pitifully about her calf, he called out to that man and gave a cow in addition to the calf. When the bread ran out, he distributed honey to those in need. The honey also ran out, there was nothing to give away - the righteous Filaret took off his outer clothes and gave it to the beggar who knocked on his door. And the elderly Filaret was left without food in an empty house.

Philaret's wife reproached him that he was more sorry for others than his own family. Steadfastly and meekly he endured the reproaches of his wife and the ridicule of his children. "I have in secrets, unknown to you, such riches and such treasures,- he answered his relatives, - which you will get, even if you live a hundred years without labor and without worrying about anything.

Soon a friend of the righteous Filaret sent forty measures of wheat to the starving family. At the request of his wife, Filaret separated 35 measures to feed the family and return the debt. He gave his share of five measures of grain to the poor within two days. The wife became angry and began to eat with the children separately, secretly from him. One day, Blessed Filaret accidentally found the family at dinner and said: "Children, accept me to dine with you, not as your father, but as a guest and wanderer."

But the merciful God, who does not allow the righteous to be tested beyond his strength, decided to put an end to the saint's trials and reward Philaret for his patience and kind heart. It happened like this.

While Byzantine Empress Irene was looking for a bride for her son - co-ruler Constantine Porphyrogenitus (780-797) . She sent ambassadors throughout the empire to find a beautiful, virtuous and noble girl. Having been everywhere, but not finding a worthy girl, the royal ambassadors came to the village where Philaret the Merciful lived. From afar, seeing the beautiful and tall house of Filaret, whose beauty surpassed all others, they thought that some noble and wealthy owner of that area lives there. The ambassadors sent their servants there to prepare a room and a meal there. However, the villagers told the ambassadors: "Don't go, a beggar old man lives there." But the royal messengers did not believe and went.

In great joy Filaret came out to them, taking his staff, hugged them and invited them in. Zhenya said: Prepare a good dinner, mistress, so that we do not have to blush before these nobles. She replied: “You managed so much that we didn’t even have a single chicken left in the house. Boil wild vegetables and treat your friends.” He told her to make a fire and prepare a dining room, and God will arrange the rest. And indeed, unexpectedly, from the back door, the first people of the village came to the servant of God and brought him rams, and lambs, and hens, and doves, and bread, and old wine, and other food. And his wife prepared food.

Explaining the reason for their arrival, the royal envoys inquired about Filaret's family. It turned out that, in addition to his son and daughters, he had three more young beautiful granddaughters. Seeing them, the guests were so struck by the beauty and modesty of one of them, Mary, that they forced Saint Philaret to agree to go with his family to Tsargrad for the royal bride. Together with them went ten more girls chosen in other places, among whom was the beautiful, but arrogant daughter of a certain noble dignitary Gerontius. She considered herself superior to everyone in terms of noble birth, and in wealth, and in beauty, and in intelligence, and, therefore, the only one worthy of being the wife of the king.

Upon arrival in Constantinople, the daughter of Gerontius was first introduced to the favorite of the emperors, Stavriky. Her pride did not hide from the keen gaze of an experienced courtier, and he said to her: “You are good and beautiful, girl, but you cannot be the wife of a king.” Having generously bestowed, he let her go home.

After all, the granddaughter of the righteous Filaret, Maria, was introduced. Everyone was amazed by her beauty, kindness and decency. The king liked her very much, and he betrothed her to his bride.

After the wedding, the emperor, rejoicing at the concluded union and admiring the beauty of his wife's relatives, at parting with the marvelous Philaret's family, granted money, clothes, gold, jewelry, studded with expensive stones and pearls, and large houses in the neighborhood of the palace, to everyone from the oldest to the infant, and released their. The elder asked to arrange a special dinner and told his relatives that the Tsar himself and the nobles would come to the feast. When everything was ready, blessed Philaret invited to his house about 200 beggars, the blind, the lame, the old and the helpless. The relatives understood who the righteous Filaret was waiting for, believing that in the form of the poor, the Lord Himself would visit his house.

Righteous Filaret settled in the palace and led a virtuous and holy life. But, as before, the holy poor-lover generously distributed alms and arranged meals for the poor, and himself served them during these meals. He ordered the servant to make three identical-looking boxes and fill them separately with gold, silver and copper coins: from the first, the completely poor received alms, from the second, those who lost money, and from the third, those who hypocritically defrauded money. He entrusted the supervision of them to his faithful servant Callistus. When the servant asked from which box he should help the one asking, the saint answered him: “From what God commands you, for God knows the need of everyone, poor and rich.”

Every four years, blessed Philaret came to the royal palace to visit his granddaughter, the queen, but he never dressed here in purple clothes, with a golden belt: “Is it not enough honor for me to be called the queen’s grandfather? And that's enough for me." And the blessed one was in such humility that he did not even want to use any rank or title, simply calling himself Philaret of Amnia.

Thus, in humility and love of poverty, the blessed elder reached 90 years of age. Anticipating his death, he went to the Rodolphia Monastery of Constantinople, distributed there everything that he had with him for monastic needs and the poor, asking the abbess for a coffin, where after death his remains were to be laid down. He told his servant not to tell anyone about it.

Soon Filaret fell ill in that monastery and took to his bed. On the ninth day, having called relatives, he blessed them and left the order to adhere to God and the Law of God. And with a perspicacious spirit, as the Forefather Jacob once, he predicted to everyone what would happen to them in life. Then with the words: "Thy will be done"- Saint Philaret gave his righteous soul to God ( in 792) Although Filaret was already a deep old man, neither his teeth, nor his face, nor his gums were touched by time: he was fresh, blooming and bright in face, like an apple or a rose.

The king and queen, nobles, many nobles and beggars accompanied his body with weeping to the burial place in the Constantinople monastery of the Rodolphe Court. The holiness of the righteous Filaret was confirmed by a miracle that appeared after his death. When the body of the saint was being carried to the burial place, one man, possessed by a demon, grabbed the coffin and followed with the funeral procession. At the cemetery, the demoniac was healed: the demon knocked the man to the ground, and he himself came out of him. Many other miracles and healings took place at the tomb of the saint.

Later, one of Philaret's close friends, a God-fearing and pious man, told how one night he was raptured. Someone in sparkling clothes showed him the torments of sinners and a fiery river flowing in that place, and beyond this river a wonderful flowering garden, overgrown with grass and saturating the earth with incense. Blessed Filaret also appeared to his eyes in a sparkling robe, sitting in the canopy of trees on a golden throne adorned with precious stones, holding a golden staff in his hands (he was surrounded by newly baptized babies and a crowd of beggars in white robes, who crowded each other to get closer to the throne of the elder) . And it was said: "This is Filaret the Merciful - the second Abraham."

After the death of Saint Philaret the Merciful, his wife Theozva returned to Paphlagonia. She used her fortune to renew and build new churches, monasteries, hospices and hospitals for the poor. Then she returned to Constantinople, trying to please God for the rest of her life on earth, and died peacefully. She was buried next to her righteous husband.

Veneration of Philaret the Merciful in Rus'

In ancient Rus', the life of Philaret the Merciful enjoyed great respect and was repeatedly translated into Russian from various Greek editions. The Russian Orthodox person especially liked this ancient story; he was firmly known and told to each other even by illiterate village simpletons.

In our everyday life, the name Filaret is purely ecclesiastical. Fyodor Nikitich, father of the first Russian Tsar from the Romanov dynasty, became Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Filaret. The most glorious of the Russian Filarets was Metropolitan Filaret (Drozdov) of Moscow, who headed the Moscow cathedra for 41 years longer than anyone else. A magnificent preacher, who was nicknamed "Moscow Chrysostom". Adviser of the tsars - Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander P. Author of the manifesto of 1861 on the liberation of the peasants from serfdom. The saint always turned with great prayerful zeal to his heavenly patron - the holy righteous Philaret the Merciful.

This veneration of St. Philaret the Merciful was also perceived by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy I, who greatly honored him and established in the Moscow Theological Schools the day of memory of St. Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, and together with him - and his patron saint.

Few people know that in Rus' we had our own Filaret the Merciful - Lukyan Stepanovich Streshnev (d. 1650) - an impoverished boyar, the father of Tsarina Evdokia Lukyanovna, who, with the help of several serfs, cultivated his land with his own hands. For his virtues, the Lord blessed him with exactly the same happiness as Philaret the Merciful, and he, a poor nobleman and farmer, was honored to be the father-in-law of the great sovereign Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov.

After the death of the first wife Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich (1596-1645), according to the custom of that time, wished to choose a bride from the ancient princely and boyar families. Up to 60 noble ladies were collected; with each of them was another friend-the same age. Among them, he liked a poor girl who served a noble hawthorn. She turned out to be Evdokia Lukyanovna Streshneva (1608 - August 18, 1645) - daughter of a poor nobleman Lukyan Stepanovich Streshnev. After the death of her mother, her father, going to military affairs, gave her to be raised by a distant relative. The modest and virtuous girl bore much grief from this proud lady, with whose daughter she came to Moscow. The heart of Sovereign Mikhail Feodorovich was touched, and on the very next day Evdokia Lukyanovna was publicly declared the royal bride.

Ambassadors were sent to the bride's father Lukyan Stepanovich Streshnev in the remote Meshchovsky district (Kaluga province) with rich gifts and a royal letter of notification. The arriving ambassadors were shown Streshnev's house - a poor thatched hut. The owner himself was in the field. Arriving there, the ambassadors saw a venerable old man plowing a field; he was dressed in a caftan of austere home linen; his hair, white as down, and a bushy gray beard inspired an involuntary respect for him. The envoys approached him with respect and announced that his daughter was named the royal bride. Streshnev did not believe them. And only after reading the letter, he became thoughtful, and, having ordered the servant to finish his work, he led the ambassadors to his hut. Here he placed the letter under the image, made three bows to the earth, and, kneeling down with tears, said: "God Almighty! You raise me from poverty to abundance! Strengthen me with Your right hand, so that I will not become corrupt among the honors and riches that You, perhaps, send me to temptation!" The next day, having served a prayer service in the church, taking the blessing of his spiritual father, he went to Moscow.

In Moscow, Lukyan Stepanovich, as the father of the young queen, was greeted with great honors. The king himself came out to meet him, not allowing him to bow to the ground. As a wedding gift, the father gave his daughter a chest containing: his austere linen caftan, in which he plowed his field, and the towel with which he wiped himself when he worked in the sweat of his face... "Do not forget,- the happy old man told her - don't forget whose daughter you are; the more often you see these gifts of mine, the sooner you will be the mother of the people."

On February 5, 1626, the marriage of his daughter Evdokia with Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich took place, after which Lukyan Stepanovich was granted the boyars, an estate and a house in Moscow.

Over time, Streshnev became one of the richest people in the Muscovite state: he had estates in seven districts, and he ranked ninth among landowners in terms of the number of lands. In addition to estates, he owned a vast courtyard in the Moscow Kremlin. It is curious that the famous Tsaritsyno estate near Moscow is also associated with the name of Lukyan Stepanovich Streshnev. (in 1775, Empress Catherine II bought the territory of the Black Dirt estate, which once belonged to the Streshnevs).

Despite his wealth, Lukyan Stepanovich had "the nobility of soul to keep in the closet, throughout his life, his modest attire of a farmer, so that, as he said, he would not fall into pride." In an old leather prayer book, where morning and evening prayers were written with his hand, he added at the end: "Lukyan! Remember that you were!"

Lukyan Stepanovich has always been the tsar's protector of all the poor and helpless, a faithful servant to the tsar and the fatherland, and the famous daughter Evdokia Lukyanovna, being the mother of the children of the first tsar from the Romanov family, became the ancestor of the dynasty (mother of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich).

Material prepared by Sergey SHULYAK

for the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on Sparrow Hills

Troparion, tone 4:
Imitating Abraham in faith, following Job in patience, Father Philarete, you shared the good land with the poor, and you suffered the deprivation of these courageously. For this sake, the ascetic Christ our God is crowned with a bright crown, pray to Him that our souls be saved.

Kontakion, tone 3:
Truly, your worthy purchase is seen, and being wise is judged by all those who are wise: you have given away the valley and short-term, seeking the heavenly and eternal. The same and worthily acquired eternal glory, merciful Filarete.

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This akathist to St. Philaret the Gracious, written by His Eminence Metropolitan Nikodim of Kharkov and Bogodukhovsky.

Kondak 1

Chosen by the wonderworker and divine servant of Christ Filareta! We bring you laudatory, Abraham’s hospitable imitator, you are more merciful about people, the hands of the poor, you loved God to give to each other, the same to you, enriched by the love of God and daring to Him who acquired, falling down, we pray: do not leave us, who come to you in need and with affection calling:

Ikos 1

An angel of joy and a man of joy be your life, Filarete the Gracious. You are for the forefather Abraham in the faith, but following Job with patience, like a father who loves children: feeding the hungry, accepting the strange with joy, kindly reposed them, and so your house has made you a refuge of joy. Sitsa, seeing thee the will of God in the works of Mercy, we bring thee such praises:
Rejoice, luminous lamp of the Paphlagonian country.
Rejoice, most glorious image of humanity.
Rejoice, for in your life you love God with all your heart.
Rejoice, wisely wasting the wealth of virtues with the burning of love for Him.
Rejoice, for you are inflamed with mercy, richly acquiring the grace of the Holy Spirit.
Rejoice, rich in God's love, never impoverished.
Rejoice, Gracious Philarete, who adorns the Church of Christ with your life.

Kondak 2

Seeing you near and far, I am inflamed with compassion, and diligently doing service to people like the Lord Himself, I flow to you in needs and sorrows, and you consoled them with the oil of mercy in the name of Christ. But we, your mercy, the human mind that surpasses sight, cry for you to the All-Generous God: Alleluia.

Ikos 2

You truly acquired the mind of the Wise One, all-blessed Filarete, as if good and evil, life and death, poverty and wealth from the Lord are, for the sake of the word of the Lord: “Because you create one of my smaller brothers, create Me” - more than honey and a honeycomb to your heart . It is merciful to you about such, we bring this laudable:
Rejoice, divine receptacle of the divine mind.
Rejoice, most diligent preacher of God's goodness.
Rejoice, never run out of the oil of mercy in your house.
Rejoice, as in Sarepta of Sidon, the torment of your virtue has not diminished in any way.
Rejoice, generous entertainment of God-loving souls.
Rejoice, grace-filled strength in the sorrows of those who are discouraged.
Rejoice, Gracious Philarete, who adorns the Church of Christ with your life.

Kondak 3

By the power of the Holy Spirit, your soul has acquired it, your spirit has not wavered, blessed Filarete, when God, who loves mankind, as if sometimes on his pleaser Job, let the hordes of the Ismailites come upon you, who with fire and sword devastated the villages, and the fields, and your gardens, and beat your household, in order to experience the gentleness of your soul. You, however, accepted all this with humility, bless God through the mouth of the righteous Job: naked I came out of my mother’s womb, naked and I will depart, the Lord has given - the Lord has been taken away, - loudly singing to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 3

In God, have hope, in poverty and adversity, you did not grieve, below you sinned with your lips before the face of the Most High, all-blessed, but as if about many riches, rejoicing in your poverty, according to the word of the Lord: in the sweat of your face, your eating bread, his but, like an excess, you shared with the poor. Satisfying such your hope with tenderness crying out to you:
Rejoice, thou who didst not attach thy heart to earthly treasure.
Rejoice, for you served your neighbor with reverence.
Rejoice, fragrant alms like precious myrrh in the church of Christ.
Rejoice, thou who feedst the widows and the orphans, and the poor with the bread of life.
Rejoice, unshakable pillar of piety, reaching heaven.
Rejoice, thou who angelically praises the love of God with thy virtues.
Rejoice, Gracious Philarete, who adorns the Church of Christ with your life.

Kondak 4

Thou, O God-loving Filarete, did not waver through a storm of trials and reproach from thy neighbors, when thou saw the ecu of a wretched farmer in distress, the husband of the only oxen in thy house, he gave it to him, evangelically urging his wife and children to look at the birds of heaven, as if they did not sow do not reap, do not gather into barns, and the Heavenly Father feeds them. So comforting to these, you sang to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 4

Seeing you, your God-loving friend fell into poverty, have mercy, and send enough wheat, so that you feed your house, blessed Filarete. You are this one, as if you received from the hands of God, and your household, and your neighbors, and clothed the poor brethren. The people of God, seeing you with mercy in abundance, pleasing you with such praises:
Rejoice, grace-filled affirmation of the home church.
Rejoice, generous blessing to the farmers in doing.
Rejoice, hungry and thirsty good bread-giver.
Rejoice, quick intercessor in troubles and sorrows.
Rejoice, virtuous zealot.
Rejoice, humble-wise teacher of kindness.
Rejoice, Gracious Philarete, who adorns the Church of Christ with your life.

Kondak 5

You have become more like a stream of honey, O God-blessed Filareta, when the daily bread is not in your temple, both, when you come to your house, but do not despise this, let go below, you took away the honey from the bees, and so the soul of the servant of Christ amused you. But we, who have not acquired this mercy in our life, but even the Lord has given us, insanely wasting, as we bring praise to God who has mercy on us, if not for you, we cry out to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 5

Hearing and seeing, as if mercy and truth were met, the truth and peace in your deeds were found, who does not please your deeds, truly Merciful Filarete, or who is not surprised at your love of poverty - you are in extreme poverty: having hope in God, Psalmically confessed You: If I go in the midst of trouble, the Lord gives me life, and His right hand will save me. To the acquisition of this God-wisdom move us, crying out to you like this:
Rejoice, flame of faith of divine burning.
Rejoice, incense of fragrant incense before God.
Rejoice, storehouse of inexhaustible mercy.
Rejoice, stranger than the unclosable chamber.
Rejoice, zealous imitator of righteous Job.
Rejoice, friend of Christ, and faithful intercessor for us before Him.
Rejoice, Gracious Philarete, who adorns the Church of Christ with your life.

Kondak 6

The preacher of mercy and philanthropy of Christ appeared to you with your well-behaved life, holy Filaret, and so another Abraham showed you the world God. Therefore, for the sake of the Lord, look at your humility and from extreme poverty to the royal family, lift up your inheritance, but see the sons and daughters of your family, like a new planting of olive oil, around your meal all the days of your stomach, and we will know about you how the Lord cares about those who trust in Him, and with love we cry to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 6

Thou hast shone, as if the radiant burning of thy love for the Lord shone, and thy heart is established on the stone of faith, wise to the worker of the grapes of Christ, and, like a multi-colored cranium, with a feat of faith, thou hast flourished with thy children, and with thy long-suffering to trust in God thou hast taught. They, understanding the sin of their murmuring, and, contrite in heart, bless God, who has done mercy. With them, we also fall down to you and tenderly cry out:
Rejoice, thou who didst create an honest marriage and an undefiled life pleasing before God.
Rejoice, God-wisely affirming the home church on the rock of faith.
Rejoice, firm protection of marital fidelity.
Rejoice, grace-filled fortification in this feat of the exhausted.
Rejoice, showing the image of Christian life to the young spouse.
Rejoice, prayer before God in their needs helping them.
Rejoice, Gracious Philarete, who adorns the Church of Christ with your life.

Kondak 7

If you would like to give thanks to God, for even granting you an inexpressible good, you said to your wife with your children: let us make a feast and implore our King with the nobles to come to us. What was prepared for them by them, you flowed, all-blessed, on the hail and crossroads, and you found the fir tree the poor, and the blind and the lame, and the weakened, in your house you prepared a royal meal, and with your household, like the King of kings, you served . With them, as with friends of Christ, you teach us to cry out in the Trinity to the sung God: Alleluia.

Ikos 7

A new lamp, shining in merciful deeds, found the Church of Christ, merciful Filarete, so that your heart did not cling to the earthly treasure, lower than the royal alms and bounties, you imputed nothing to them, and all that I brought to you, the poor and suffering richly squandered you. Listen to us, O all-blessed one, but by your prayers of spiritual and bodily harm, you are spared, by your generosity you are vulnerable, bringing you this praise:
Rejoice, imitator of our father and forefather in faith.
Rejoice, wise acquirer of the treasures of Heaven.
Rejoice, for you teach us chastity and the fear of God with your benevolence.
Rejoice, for you heal those who are ill with cruelty of heart with generosity.
Rejoice, thou who didst love the poverty of Christ more than royal honors.
Rejoice, thou who didst teach us to seek the Kingdom of Christ more than earthly reds.
Rejoice, Gracious Philarete, who adorns the Church of Christ with your life.

Kondak 8

Strange and glorious was your life, most blessed Filarete, in a hedgehog to marvel at many, how I honored you with royal honors, having loved spiritual poverty more than the wealth of this world, in fasting and prayer you acquired the wealth that was not stolen by your soul. Who else can utter your illnesses and struggles, even if you endured Christ for the sake of Christ, if you don’t ignite divine love, in a hedgehog with a pure heart, incessantly cry out to the Lord: You are my hope, my part is on the land of the living, Alleluia.

Ikos 8

All in the highest, righteous Philaret, when the Holy Spirit proclaims your life to the end, and, as if of old, Patriarch Jacob, called you your children and the children of your children, by him, prophetically, everything, even if by the will of God to be accomplished, you foreshadowed. And, thus blessing them, as if the sun shone with your face, and psalmically called out to God: Mercy and judgment I will sing to You, Lord, when You come to me; and, I pray, you have betrayed your spirit in the hands of God. They, lamenting, crying with sobs:
Rejoice, merciful and meek Father, teaching us the love of Christ.
Rejoice, coming like a real one who tells us.
Rejoice, three of your grandchildren on the feat of the monastic prophetically blessed.
Rejoice, thou who taught them obedience, chastity and poverty of Christ.
Rejoice, pleasing God with compassion and love of poverty.
Rejoice, having inherited the Kingdom of God by alms.
Rejoice, Gracious Philarete, who adorns the Church of Christ with your life.

Kondak 9

Every tribe of the earth: kings and nobles, wanderers and wretched people, from cities and villages, like scum flocking to your tomb, blessed Filarete, crowding each other and crying out with tears: Oh, Lord our God! Why did you deprive us of our father and our feeder? Who will feed the hungry now, clothe the naked, bring strangers into his house? Who, then, will betray our brethren, who have died and on the stognas, to the grave? But we tremble in heart and soul, as if we had done nothing good for such, but we cry out with them a song of praise to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 9

The Vetii of multicasting are perplexed: with which words to praise according to the property in the conjugal feat, your immaculate service to God, God-loving Filareta, below is the confession of all your glorious miracles, with them and after death in sorrow you consoled those who flowed to you. This is a man suffering from the spirit of evil for many years, when you fall down to your grave, free yourself from this tormenting machinations, praise the greatness of God. The people, having witnessed the miracle of this, blessing God, with fear and tenderness, bring you this:
Rejoice, as the Archangel of God cast down Satan to the bottom.
Rejoice, having reached the bosom of Abraham with your mercy.
Rejoice, good and faithful servant of the Heavenly Household Lord.
Rejoice, shameless prayer for us at the Throne of God.
Rejoice, for your love the holy love of the King of Heaven was worthy.
Rejoice, having labored evangelically on earth, having been honored with cohabitation with an angel.
Rejoice, Gracious Philarete, who adorns the Church of Christ with your life.

Kondak 10

Thou hast gloriously reached the saving haven and the sweetness of paradise with thy humility, venerable Filarete, and the fiery river, the wickedness that scorches, has passed unscathed, even with the chosen of God, the crown of glory is unfading, in it I see a righteous man, and from the Angel of the Lord I hear: behold Philaret of Amnia is, even with his great love for the poor, mercy and his pure life, the second Abraham was. Taco, seeing you in God rejoicing, humbly and we cry out: Alleluia.

Ikos 10

You are a wall and a reliable refuge, merciful Filarete, to all those who flow to your intercession, but for them, as if about your children, you intercede before God in prayer. The same to us, who fall to you with love, and ask for your intercession before God, be an insurmountable wall and fence, and irresistible deliverance from all the machinations of the enemy, but with your prayers we will reach the haven of paradise and, rejoicing in God, cry joyfully:
Rejoice, thou who art gloriously exalted from contemplation to divinity.
Rejoice, thinking about God, adorned with the beauty of immortality.
Rejoice, grieving for the poor, at the gates of your house in the morning.
Rejoice, taco morning, acquiring the love of God.
Rejoice, marvelous speaker of Christian piety.
Rejoice, merciful intercessor for us before God.
Rejoice, Gracious Philarete, who adorns the Church of Christ with your life.

Kondak 11

We bring the praises of all-praise to you, venerable Filareta, and we cry out in a psalm way: Blessed is the man, fear the Lord, in His commandments he will greatly delight. Spread, give to the poor: his righteousness endures forever. Taco, O all-blessed, you have shown with your life, like monks and secularists, priests and nobles, riches and wretchedness, call the essence to enter into the joy of your Lord, if they understand that the Lord has mercy, and much deliverance from Him, and in good deeds they will praise the Trisagion name Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 11

You appeared as a luminous servant of mercy and philanthropy to the throne of the Most High Lord and Lord of Forces, all-blessed Filarete, from there with the Divine rays of the Three-Sun Light you shine us, wandering in the darkness of sinfulness, on the bright path of repentance and good deeds you instruct: do not hide treasures on earth, where the worm and aphid smolder , and where tatia is undermined and stolen. But we, this sweet announcement of Christ in obedience accepting, joyfully call to you:
Rejoice, thou who created the sunrise from the earthly to the heavenly with the chariot of virtues.
Rejoice, thou who hast put to shame all the intrigues of the enemy with mercy towards the people.
Rejoice, praise and adornment of the holy Church.
Rejoice, in the midst of the temptations of this world, undefiled service to God in marriage.
Rejoice, for the salvation of your heavenly faces rejoice.
Rejoice, for all the earthly people boast about your name rejoicingly.
Rejoice, Gracious Philarete, who adorns the Church of Christ with your life.

Kondak 12

Thou hast received the grace of God abundantly, righteous Filarete, with it strengthened thy heart in love for Christ God, shining with longsuffering and faith, from your earthly life in the heavenly village with angelic faces settled, the mercy of God the preacher appeared to you. To Him, boldly coming forward, we pray warmly: sprinkle our hearts with the grace of the Holy Spirit, so that we will be imitators of your life, to the fulfillment of the commandments of Christ we diligently strive, crying out to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 12

Singing thy unspeakable virtues, for the sake of which you were an imitator of Christ's mercy, and like a creep, unfading among the earthly, the beauty of your mind flourished, merciful Filarete, the palace of Heaven to see and sing the glory of God, you were honored. Ask for this bliss for us, who honor your blessed memory with faith and love, so that by your intercession we will hear the Divine voice of the Coming One to judge the living and the dead: Come, bless my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world, yes we call you with gratitude:
Rejoice, having known the perishing world of this world with the height of your mind.
Rejoice, having acquired the love of Christ with the purity of your heart.
Rejoice, calling us with your virtues to the feast of the Lamb of God.
Rejoice, through your prayers you open the doors of the Kingdom of Christ to us.
Rejoice, angelic trumpet, proclaiming God's reward.
Rejoice, unspeakable love, through the river of fire into the heavenly chamber the faithful are introduced.
Rejoice, Gracious Philarete, who adorns the Church of Christ with your life.

Kondak 13

Oh, most gracious servant of God, Filarete the Merciful! Accept from us the wretched faith and long-suffering of your praise and, as if you have boldness towards the Lord and compassion for people, ask the Human-loving God for the Church of Christ unshakable well-being, but for us, a pious affirmation of faith, hope unfalse hope and brotherly love not hypocritical, may the truth of God not be diminished in our deeds, below we will be ashamed before our fathers and forefathers, when we sing to God, the Trisagion hymn: Alleluia.

This Kontakion is read three times, then Ikos 1 and Kontakion 1

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Oh, God's wondrous chosen one, Filarete the Merciful! Amnia, the most generous bread-giver, the lamp of Orthodoxy, the Lord God's servant, good and faithful! You followed the Gospel of Christ with all your heart and multiplied the talent given to you wisely: you clothe and nourish the orphans and the poor; bringing the strange and the poor into your house, comforting those who are in sorrows and sorrows, betraying the dead and on the stacks of the fallen tomb; serving everyone in every possible way, and taco showed your faith in deeds. To her, holy servant of God, do not despise us, tormented by the sorrows of life and overwhelmed by sinful passions. All the days despondency and cowardice shake our faith, hardness of heart and bitterness consume our hearts and cool our love; ambition and impatience corrupt our souls, and so, like beggars, in good deeds impoverished. But you, the Righteous Father, being merciful for us, implored Christ God to enrich our hearts with His Holy Spirit, heal our spiritual and bodily ailments, and, like a thirsty field, give us to drink the bounties of His philanthropy; let us imitate faith, long-suffering and mercy, in piety and purity all the days of our life. We also pray to you, most blessed, when our departure is in time, move us to unfeigned repentance, that we may partake of Christ our Savior through His holy Sacraments and become heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, even if in the joy of saints and angels we are honored and we bow down and sing the Trisagion Name: the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen!

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Prayer to the holy righteous Philaret the Merciful

Oh, God's wondrous chosen one, Filarete the Merciful! Amnia, the most generous bread-giver, the lamp of Orthodoxy, the Lord God's servant, good and faithful! You followed the Gospel of Christ with all your heart and multiplied the talent given to you wisely: you clothe and nourish the orphans and the poor; bringing the strange and the poor into your house, comforting those who are in sorrows and sorrows, betraying the dead and on the stacks of the fallen tomb; serving everyone in every possible way, and taco showed your faith in deeds. She, holy servant of God, do not despise us, tormented by the sorrows of life and overwhelmed by sinful passions. All the days despondency and cowardice shake our faith, hardness of heart and bitterness consume our hearts and cool our love; but ambition and impatience corrupt our souls, and so, like beggars, in good deeds we share. But you, the Righteous Father, being merciful for us, implored Christ God to enrich our hearts with His Holy Spirit, heal our spiritual and bodily ailments, and, like a thirsty field, give us to drink the bounties of His philanthropy; let us imitate faith, long-suffering and mercy, in piety and purity all the days of our life. We also pray to you, most blessed, when our departure is in time, move us to unfeigned repentance, that we may partake of Christ our Savior through His holy Sacraments and become heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, even if in the joy of saints and angels we are honored and we bow down and sing the Trisagion Name: the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen!

Second Prayer to Philaret the Merciful

Holy God and rest in the saints, with a three-holy voice in heaven from an angel hymned, on earth from a man praised in His saints, giving by Your Holy Spirit grace to whom according to the gift of Christ, and then setting up the Church of Your Holy Apostles, ov prophets, ov evangelizers , ov shepherds and teachers, by their word of preaching, to You Himself acting all in all, many have been made holy in every kind and kind, pleasing You with various benefactors, and to You, leaving us the image of their good deeds, having passed away in joy, prepare, in it tempt the former yourself, and help us who are being attacked. Remembering all these saints and the holy righteous Philaret and praising their God-pleasing life, I praise You Samago, who acted in them, I praise, and one of Your blessings of giving to be believing, diligently I pray Thee, Holy of Holies, give me to the sinner to follow their teaching, life, love, faith , longsuffering, and their prayerful help, more than Your all-powerful grace, heavenly glory with them, praising Your Most Holy Name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever. Amen.

Third Prayer to Philaret the Merciful

Oh, blessed saints of God, all the saints who stand before the Throne of the Most Holy Trinity and enjoy indescribable bliss! Now, on the day of your common triumph, graciously look down on us, your lesser brethren, bringing you this laudatory singing, and asking your intercession for mercy and remission of sins from the Most Good Lord; Vems are more, truly Vems, like everything, if you desire, you can ask Him. Moreover, we humbly pray to you, and to the holy righteous Philaret, pray to the Merciful Lord, may the spirit of your zeal for the preservation of His holy commandments give us, as if flowing in your footsteps, we will be able to pass the earthly field in a virtuous life without blemish, and in repentance achieve the most glorious villages of paradise, and there it is with you to glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen!

Prayer 4 to Philaret the Merciful

To you, all holy and holy righteous Philaret, as guiding lamps, with their deeds illuminating the path of heavenly sunrise, as a sinner, I humbly bow the knee of my heart and cry out from the depths of my soul: implore the Humanity God for me, may he not let me wander through the crossroads of sin , but may my mind and heart be enlightened with the light of His grace, as we illuminate and strengthen it, I will be able to other time of earthly life on the right path without fail and by your intercession to the Most Good Lord, I will become a little partaker of being your spiritual meal in the heavenly chamber of the King of Glory. To Him with His Beginningless Father and the Most Holy, Good and Life-Giving Spirit, be glory, honor and worship forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer 5 to Philaret the Merciful

Oh, the holy saint of God, the righteous Philarete, labored on earth with a good feat, received the crown of truth in heaven, which the Lord has prepared for all those who love Him; the same, looking at your holy icon, we rejoice in the glorious end of your residence and honor your holy memory. You, standing before the Throne of God, accept our prayers and bring to the All-Merciful God, to forgive us every sin and help us become against the wiles of the devil, and get rid of sorrows, illnesses, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, we will live piously and righteously in the present forever and we will be honored by your intercession, if not worthy of us, to see the good on the land of the living, glorifying the One in His saints glorifying God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen.

Troparion to the Holy Righteous Philaret the Merciful.

Troparion, tone 8:

John troparion, tone 4:
Imitating Abraham in faith, following Job in patience, Father Philarete, you shared the good land with the poor, and you suffered the deprivation of these courageously. For this sake, crowning the Ascetic Christ our God with a bright crown, pray to Him that our souls be saved.

Kontakion, tone 3:
Truly, your worthy purchase is seen, and being wise is judged by all those who are wise: you have given away the fair and short-term, seeking the Heavenly and Eternal. The same and worthily acquired eternal glory, merciful Filarete.

Stichira:

Akathist to the Holy Righteous Philaret the Merciful ...

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Great Martyr Catherine.

Righteous Philaret the Merciful.

Do good from God, says the Theologian, and you are from God, merciful Filaret. As if there is God, so is your work, hedgehog of good deeds, the latter by nature, yours by communion.

Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called.

Saint Nicholas, Wonderworker of Myra.

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O holy servant of God, righteous Filaret! Having labored on earth with a good feat, you received in Heaven the crown of truth, which the Lord has prepared for all those who love Him. The same, looking at your holy image, we rejoice in the glorious end of your residence and honor your holy memory. You, standing before the Throne of God, accept our prayers and bring to the All-Merciful God, to forgive us every sin and help us become against the wiles of the devil, and get rid of sorrows, illnesses, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, we will live piously and righteously in the present forever and we will be honored by your intercession, if not worthy of us, to see the good on the land of the living, glorifying the One in His saints glorifying God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen.

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Prayer of a girl for marriage

Oh, all-good Lord, I know that my great happiness depends on me loving You with all my soul and with all my heart, and on fulfilling Your holy will in everything. Govern yourself, O my God, my soul and fill my heart: I want to please You alone, for You are the Creator and my God. Save me from pride and pride: let reason, modesty and chastity adorn me. Idleness is contrary to You and gives rise to vices, give me a desire for industriousness and bless my labors. Since Your Law commands people to live in an honest marriage, then bring me, Holy Father, to this title sanctified by You, not to please my desire, but to fulfill Your purpose, for You Yourself said: it is not good for a man to be alone and, having created his wife as a helper, blessed them to grow, multiply and inhabit the earth. Hear my humble prayer, from the depths of a girl's heart sent to you; give me an honest and pious spouse, so that in love with him and in harmony we glorify You, the merciful God: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

Great Martyr Catherine

O Saint Catherine, virgin and martyr, true bride of Christ! We pray to you, as if it were a special grace, that your Bridegroom, the Sweetest Jesus, had already received you: as if you had put to shame the seductions of the tormentor with your wisdom, you defeated fifty winds, and having drunk them with heavenly teachings to the light of true faith, you instructed you, so ask us this God's wisdom, Yes, and we, all the intrigues of the hellish tormentor, have dissolved, and despised the temptations of the world and the flesh, we shall appear worthy of Divine glory, and to the expansion of our holy Orthodox faith we will become worthy vessels, and with you in the heavenly tabernacle of the Lord and Master of our Jesus Christ with the Father and the Holy Spirit praise and glorify forever and ever. Amen.

Righteous Philaret the Merciful

Imitating Abraham in faith, following Job in patience, Father Philarete, you divided the good land to the poor and endured the deprivation of these courageously. For this sake, crowning the Ascetic with a bright crown, Christ our God, pray to Him that our souls be saved.

Truly, your worthy purchase is seen and wise to be judged by all those who are wise: you have given away the valley and the short-term, seeking the heavenly and eternal. The same and worthily acquired eternal glory, merciful Filarete.

Do good from God, says the Theologian, and you are from God, merciful Filaret. As if there is God, so is your work, hedgehog of good deeds, the latter by nature, yours by communion.

Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called

First-Called Apostle of God and our Savior Jesus Christ, Supreme Follower of the Church, All-Praised Andrew! We glorify and magnify your apostolic labors, we sweetly remember your blessed coming to us, we bless your honest suffering, even if you suffered for Christ, we kiss your sacred relics, we honor your holy memory and we believe that the Lord lives, your soul is alive, and with you remain with him forever in heaven, even if you do not leave us with your love, as if you loved our fathers, when by the Holy Spirit you saw the conversion of our land to Christ. We believe, as if praying to God for us, in vain in the light of His all our needs. We confess this faith in your temple, and we pray to the Lord and God and our Savior Jesus Christ, that by your prayers we will be given all that is necessary for the salvation of us sinners: yes, even if you are abie to the voice of the Lord, leave your wounds, you followed Him unswervingly, and every one of us does not seek his own, but hedgehog for the creation of his neighbor, and thinks about the high rank. Having the same intercessor and intercessor for us, we hope that your prayer can do much before the Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ, He deserves all glory, honor and worship with the Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.

Saint Nicholas, Wonderworker of Myra

Oh, all-holy Nicholas, the servant of the most beautiful Lord, our warm intercessor and everywhere in sorrow a quick helper! Help me, a sinner and despondent in this life, beg the Lord God to grant me the remission of all my sins, who have sinned from my youth, in all my life, deed, word, thought and all my feelings; and at the end of my soul, help me, the damned one, implore the Lord God, all creatures of the Sodetel, to deliver me from air ordeals and eternal torment: may I always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.

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Prayer to Saint Philaret the Merciful for money and prosperity

“Oh, God’s most wondrous chosen one, Filarete the Merciful! Amnia, the most generous bread-giver, the lamp of Orthodoxy, the Lord God's servant, good and faithful! You followed the Gospel of Christ with all your heart and multiplied the talent given to you wisely: you clothe and nourish the orphans and the poor; bringing the strange and the poor into your house, comforting those who are in sorrows and sorrows, betraying the dead and on the stacks of the fallen tomb; serving everyone in every possible way, and taco showed your faith in deeds. She, holy servant of God, do not despise us, tormented by the sorrows of life and overwhelmed by sinful passions. All the days despondency and cowardice shake our faith, hardness of heart and bitterness consume our hearts and cool our love; but ambition and impatience corrupt our souls, and so, like beggars, in good deeds we share. But you, the Righteous Father, being merciful for us, implored Christ God to enrich our hearts with His Holy Spirit, heal our spiritual and bodily ailments, and, like a thirsty field, give us to drink the bounties of His philanthropy; let us imitate faith, long-suffering and mercy, in piety and purity all the days of our life. We also pray to you, most blessed, when our departure is in time, move us to unfeigned repentance, that we may partake of Christ our Savior through His holy Sacraments and become heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, even if in the joy of saints and angels we are honored and we bow down and sing the Trisagion Name: the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen!"

Prayer for the successful marriage of a daughter to the righteous Philaret the Merciful

“O holy servant of God, righteous Filaret! Having labored on earth with a good feat, you received in Heaven the crown of truth, which the Lord has prepared for all those who love Him. The same, looking at your holy image, we rejoice in the glorious end of your residence and honor your holy memory. You, standing before the Throne of God, accept our prayers and bring to the All-Merciful God, to forgive us every sin and help us become against the wiles of the devil, and get rid of sorrows, illnesses, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, we will live piously and righteously in the present forever and we will be honored by your intercession, if not worthy of us, to see the good on the land of the living, glorifying the One in His saints glorifying God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen."

Prayer to the righteous Filaret the Merciful from poverty

“Holy God and rest in the saints, with a three-holy voice in heaven from an angel sung, on earth from a man praised in His saints, giving grace to anyone with Your Holy Spirit according to the measure of the gift of Christ, and then setting up Your Holy Church, ov apostles, ov prophets, ov evangelizers, ov shepherds and teachers, by their word of preaching, to You Himself acting all in all, many are made holy in every kind and kind, by various benefactors pleasing You, and to You, leaving us the image of their good deeds, having passed away in joy, prepare, in tempt the former yourself, and help us who are being attacked. Remembering all these saints and the holy righteous Philaret and praising their God-pleasing life, I praise You Samago, who acted in them, I praise, and one of Your blessings of giving to be believing, diligently I pray Thee, Holy of Holies, give me to the sinner to follow their teaching, life, love, faith , longsuffering, and their prayerful help, more than Your all-powerful grace, heavenly glory with them, praising Your Most Holy Name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever. Amen."

Prayer to Saint Philaret the Merciful for strengthening the faith

“To you, all holy and holy righteous Filaret, as guiding lamps, with their deeds illuminating the path of heavenly sunrise, as a sinner, I humbly bow the knee of my heart and cry out from the depths of my soul: implore the Humanity God for me, may he not let me still wander through the crossroads sin, but may my mind and heart be enlightened with the light of His grace, as if we illuminate and strengthen it, I will be able to rest the rest of the time of earthly life on the right path without fail and by your intercession to the Most Good Lord, I will become a little partaker of being your spiritual meal in the heavenly chamber of the King of Glory. To Him with His Beginningless Father and the Most Holy, Good and Life-Giving Spirit, be glory, honor and worship forever and ever. Amen."

Thanksgiving Prayer to the Righteous Philaret the Merciful

“Oh, blessed saints of God, all the saints who stand before the Throne of the Most Holy Trinity and enjoy inexpressible bliss! Now, on the day of your common triumph, graciously look down on us, your lesser brethren, bringing you this laudatory singing, and asking your intercession for mercy and remission of sins from the Most Good Lord; Vems are more, truly Vems, like everything, if you desire, you can ask Him. Moreover, we humbly pray to you, and to the holy righteous Philaret, pray to the Merciful Lord, may the spirit of your zeal for the preservation of His holy commandments give us, as if flowing in your footsteps, we will be able to pass the earthly field in a virtuous life without blemish, and in repentance achieve the most glorious villages of paradise, and there it is with you to glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen!"

Prayer to the gracious Philaret for the marriage of his daughter

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Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

An old parent. . . On the night of the Uzeltsy, three gold lurking gave thou. With the help of these knots with gold, the daughters of a poor father were given in marriage.

Prayer one

O our good shepherd and God-wise mentor, St. Nicholas of Christ! Hear us sinners, praying to you and calling for your help, your speedy intercession; see us weak, caught from everywhere, deprived of every good and darkened by the mind from cowardice; rush, servant of God, do not leave us in the sinful captivity of being, let us not be our enemy in joy and die in our evil deeds. Pray for us, our unworthy Creator and Lord, and you stand before him with incorporeal faces: be merciful to us, create our God in this life and in the future, let him not reward us according to our deeds and according to the impurity of our hearts, but according to your goodness, reward us . We hope for your intercession, we boast of your intercession, we call on your intercession for help, and we fall down to your most holy image, we ask for help: deliver us, saint of Christ, from the evils that are upon us, and tame the waves of passions and troubles that rise against us, but for the sake of Your holy prayers will not attack us and we will not be mired in the abyss of sin and in the mud of our passions. Moth, to St. Nicholas of Christ, Christ our God, give us a peaceful life and the remission of sins, but salvation and great mercy to our souls, now and ever and forever and ever.

Prayer two

O great intercessor, the bishop of God, blessed Nicholas, who shines miracles like a sunflower, who calls upon you as a quick hearer, you always anticipate and save, and deliver, and take away all kinds of troubles, from God given to you miracles and gifts of grace! Hear me unworthy, calling you with faith and bringing prayer to you singing; I offer you an intercessor for supplication to Christ. O notorious in miracles, high saint! as if you have boldness, soon stand before the Lord, and reverence your hands in prayer to Him, stretch out for me a sinner, and from Him give bounties of goodness, and accept me as your intercession, and deliver me from all troubles and evils, from the invasion of enemies visible and invisible freeing, and destroying all those slanders and malice, and reflecting those who fight me in my whole life; ask for forgiveness by my sin, and present me to Christ and save the Kingdom of Heaven for the multitude of that philanthropy, he deserves all glory, honor and worship, with his Father without beginning, and with the Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and forever and forever centuries.

Prayer three

O all-praised, great wonderworker, Saint of Christ, Father Nicholas! We pray to you, wake up the hope of all Christians, faithful protectors, hungry feeders, crying joy, sick doctors, floating rulers on the sea, feeders of the poor and orphans and an early helper and patron to everyone, let us live a peaceful life here and let us be able to see the glory of God's chosen ones in heaven and with them unceasingly sing of the One in the Trinity worshiped God forever and ever.

Prayer Four

O all-holy Nicholas, the Lord's most beautiful servant, our warm intercessor, and everywhere in sorrow a quick helper! Help me, sinful and sad, in; in this present life, beseech the Lord God to grant me the remission of all my sins, having sinned from my youth, in all my life, deed, word, thought and all my feelings; and at the end of my soul, help me, the damned one, implore the Lord God, all creatures of the Sodetel, to deliver me from air ordeals and eternal torment, may I always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and your merciful intercession, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer Five

Oh, all-good Father Nicholas, shepherd and teacher of all who by faith flow to your intercession and call you with warm prayer! Quickly rush and deliver the flock of Christ from the wolves that destroy it; and protect every Christian country and save with your holy prayers, from worldly rebellion, coward, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, from famine, flood, fire and unnecessary death; and as if you had mercy on three men sitting in prison and delivered them from the king’s wrath and the cutting of the sword, so have mercy on me, mind, word and deed in the darkness of sins, deliver me the wrath of God and eternal punishment, as if by your intercession and help. By His own mercy and grace, Christ God will give us a quiet and sinless life to live in this world and save me from standing, and will share the right hand with all the saints. Amen.

Prayer six

Righteous Philaret the Merciful

Filaret became impoverished, and three adult granddaughters were left in his arms. For faith and mercy, one of them was chosen as a bride for the king.

Prayer one

Holy God and rest in the saints, with a three-holy voice in heaven from an angel hymned, on earth from a man praised in His saints, giving by Your Holy Spirit grace to whom according to the gift of Christ, and then setting up the Church of Your Holy Apostles, ov prophets, ov evangelizers , ov shepherds and teachers, their own word of preaching, to You Himself acting all in all, made many, saints in every kind and kind, pleasing You with various benefactors, and to You, leaving us the image of your good deeds, in the joy of the past, prepare, in it is the temptations of the former themselves, and help us who are being attacked. Remembering all these saints and (the name of the saint) and praising their charitable life, I praise You Samago, who acted in them, I praise, and one of Your blessings to be believing, I diligently pray to Thee, Holy of Holies, let the sinner follow their teaching, life, love, faith, longsuffering, and their prayerful help, more than Thy omnipotent grace, heavenly glory with them, praising Thy Most Holy Name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever. Amen.

Prayer two

O blessedness of the saints of God, all the saints who stand before the Throne of the Most Holy Trinity and enjoy indescribable bliss! Now, on the day of your common celebration, graciously look upon us, your lesser brethren, who bring you this laudatory singing and intercession with your asking for mercy and remission of sins from the Most Good Lord: we are more, truly we are, as if everything, if you desire, ask Him you can. Moreover, we humbly pray to you, and (name of the saint) pray to the merciful Master, may the spirit of your zeal for the preservation of His holy commandments give us, as if flowing in your footsteps, we will be able to go on earth in a virtuous life without blemish and in repentance reach the glorious villages of paradise , and there it is with you to glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer three

To you, about all the saints and (the name of the saint), as guiding lamps, with their deeds illuminating the path of heavenly sunrise, as a sinner, I humbly bow the knee of my heart and cry out from the depths of my soul: implore the Humanity God for me, may he not let me wander through the crossroads sin, but may my mind and heart be enlightened with the light of His grace, as if we illuminate and strengthen it, I will be able to rest the rest of my earthly life on the right path without stumbling and by your intercession to the Most Good Lord, I will become a little partaker of being your spiritual meal in the heavenly chamber of the King of Glory. To Him with His Beginningless Father and the Most Holy, Good and Life-Giving Spirit, be glory, honor and worship forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer Four

Oh, the holy servant of God (name), having labored a good feat on earth, received the crown of truth in heaven, which the Lord has prepared for all those who love Him; the same, looking at your holy image, we rejoice in the glorious end of your residence and honor your holy memory. You, standing before the Throne of God, accept our prayers and bring to the All-Merciful God, to forgive us every sin and help us become against the wiles of the devil, and get rid of sorrows, illnesses, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, we will live piously and righteously in the present forever and we will be honored by your intercession, if not worthy of us, to see the good on the land of the living, glorifying the One in His saints glorifying God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen.

Troparion, tone 8

In your patience, you acquired your reward, righteous, and lived perfectly in the commandments of the Lord, loved the poor and satisfied them, but praying to Christ God, blessed, be saved to our souls.

John troparion, tone 4

Imitating Abraham in faith, following Job in patience, Father Philarete, you divided the good land to the poor and endured the deprivation of these courageously. For this sake, crowning the Ascetic with a bright crown, Christ our God, pray to Him that our souls be saved.

Kontakion, tone 3

Truly, your worthy purchase is seen and wise to be judged by all those who are wise: you have given away the fair and short-term, seeking the Heavenly and Eternal. The same and worthily acquired eternal glory, merciful Filarete.

Do good from God, says the Theologian, and you are from God, merciful Filaret. As if there is God, so is your work, hedgehog of good deeds, the latter by nature, yours by communion.

Apostle Andrew the First-Called

The Apostle Andrew was the first who followed Christ, and then brought his own brother Peter to Him. He preached the word of God. passing from Asia Minor to the place where Kyiv now stands. Climbing the Kyiv mountains, he blessed them and erected a cross. He is prayed for good suitors.

First-Called Apostle of God and Savior Jesus Christ to the Church, supreme follower, all-mighty Andrew, we glorify and magnify your apostolic labors, we sweetly remember your blessed coming to us, we bless your honest suffering, even for Christ you suffered, we kiss your sacred relics, we honor your holy memory and we believe that the Lord lives, your soul lives, and with Him you are forever in Heaven, even if you love us with the same love, with which you loved us, when by the Holy Spirit you saw our conversion to Christ, and you love not exactly, but and pray to God for us, in vain in His Light all our needs. This is how we believe and this is how we confess our faith in the temple, even in your name, Saint Andrew, gloriously created, where your holy relics rest; believing, we ask and pray to the Lord and God and our Savior Jesus Christ, that by your prayers, even if he always listens and accepts, he will give us all that is necessary for the salvation of us sinners; yes, as if you were abie according to the voice of the Lord, leave your nether, you followed him steadily, so that everyone from us is looking not for his own, but for the creation of his neighbor and for the high calling, let him think. Having thee an intercessor and a prayer book for us, we hope that my prayer can do much before the Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ, He deserves all glory, honor and worship with the Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.

Troparion, tone 4

Like the Apostles, the first-called and supreme brother, the Lord of all, Andrew, pray, grant peace to the universe and great mercy to our souls.

Great Martyr Catherine

Catherine announced that she would marry someone who would surpass her in nobility, wealth, beauty and wisdom. The image of the Bridegroom of Heavenly Jesus Christ gave birth in the soul of the virgin to an ardent desire to see Him. After Holy Baptism, she had a vision of the Mother of God with the Infant Jesus, Who tenderly looked at Catherine and gave her a ring, betrothing her to Himself. When the vision ended, Catherine saw a ring on her hand.

Prayer one

O Saint Catherine, virgin and martyr, the true bride of Christ! We implore you through special grace, already before you, your Bridegroom, the Sweetest Jesus: as if having put to shame the charms of the tormentor, with your wisdom you defeated fifty branches and, having drunk them with Heavenly teaching, instructed you to the light of true faith, so ask us this God's wisdom, so that we, having terminated all the machinations of the hellish tormentor and despising the world and the flesh of the temptations, we will be worthy of Divine glory and we will become worthy vessels for the expansion of our holy Orthodox faith, and with you in the Heavenly tabernacle of the Lord and Master of our Jesus Christ we praise and glorify forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer two

O holy virgin and martyr Catherine! We pray to you: look at the disasters of us, the sinful servant of God (names), make us wise on high, and not earthly. Hurry us with your prayers to conquer carnal lust, addiction to the world and the intrigues of evil spirits, viciously fighting against us; Yes, by your intercession in the days of this life, we will be free from their hostile attacks and at the end of their air tortures. Oh wise girl! Grant us everything for the benefit of petition, you can ask a lot from your Beloved Bridegroom, Christ our God. We know that the prayer of the righteous can do much, hurried by the goodness of the Merciful God, to Him be glory, honor and thanksgiving always, now and forever and forever and ever.

Prayer three

Oh, the holy Great Martyr Catherine, the chosen vessel of purity, the pillar of Orthodoxy, our reliable intercessor, who herself revealed to us the guilt of begging thee, a lawful ascetic, a saint on a holy mountain, holyly resting! We pray to you: bow down from above, listen to the voice of our prayer, look at the disaster of your servants, enlighten the obscurity of our mind, make us wise on high, and not earthly. Hurry us with your prayers to overcome carnal lusts, addictions to the world and the machinations of evil spirits that are viciously fighting against us: yes, by your intercession in the days of this life, we will be free from their hostile attacks and from their airy tortures. Oh, wise girl! Grant us everything, even for the benefit of petition: you can ask a lot from the beloved Bridegroom, Christ our God. We know that the prayer of the righteous can do much, hurried by the goodness of the merciful God, to Him be glory, honor and thanksgiving always, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

Great Martyr Paraskeva Pyatnitsa

Paraskeva, having matured, took a vow of celibacy, devoting herself to serving the Christian faith. She is also prayed for good suitors.

Prayer one

O holy and blessed martyr of Christ Paraskevo, beautifully virginal, praise of martyrs, purity of image, magnanimous mirror, wise surprise, Christian guardian of faith, accuser of idol flattery, champion of the Divine Gospel, zealot of the commandments of the Lord, worthy to come to the haven of eternal rest and in the devil of your Bridegroom Christ God lightly rejoicing, adorned with the crown of virginity and martyrdom! We pray to you, holy martyr, be sad for us to Christ God. With His most blessed vision, it is always rejoicing; pray to the All-Merciful, even with a word, open the eyes of the blind, may he save us from the disease of our eyes, both bodily and spiritual; kindle with your holy prayers the dark darkness that has come from our sins, ask the Father of Light for the light of grace with our spiritual and bodily eyes; Enlighten us, darkened by sins, with the light of God's grace, and for the sake of your holy prayers, sweet sight will be given to the innocent. O great saint of God! O most courageous girl! O strong martyr Saint Paraskevo! With your holy prayers, be our sinful helper, intercede and pray for the accursed and viciously negligent sinners, hasten to help us, for these are very weak. Pray to the Lord, pure maiden, pray to the Merciful, holy martyr, pray to your Bridegroom, immaculate bride of Christ, and help with your prayers, the darkness of sin is gone, in the light of true faith and deeds of the Divine, we will enter into the light of the eternal day of the never-ending, into the city of joy forever, into now you shine brightly with glory and endless joy, glorify and sing with all the Heavenly Forces the Trisagionary One Deity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.

December 14, the Orthodox Church celebrates
Day of St. Philaret the Merciful.

What is a holy person? This is a SPECIAL PERSON, special before God! Filaret's life is an example to all of us that each of us can become a saint, if he is SPECIAL, outside the sinful crowd. Being special and standing out is probably always difficult. It is always easier to live in the gray mass. The peculiarity is to stand out, to receive ridicule and discontent of the environment, but sometimes it's worth it to inherit the greatest reward, the Kingdom of Heaven.

Why are we given descriptions of the lives of the saints? So that we take an example and imitate them at least a little with our lives, at least take this feature from them just a little bit. after all, Saint Philaret during his lifetime did not at all dream that he would become a saint, as probably none of the saints dreamed about this. In addition, the saints are far from all those people who are inscribed in the calendar. These are only people known to the Church, but how many such righteous people are not glorified by the Church, but glorified by God, no one knows except God.

So, who was this Saint Philaret and what did he do that made him a saint?

Byzantine landowner of Armenian origin from the Asia Minor province of Paphlagonia lived in the 8th century. The Paphlagonians were known as a rude, superstitious and stupid people who had their own special language not understood by the Greeks, but they were excellent riders. Fishing, forestry and the development of rich copper mines enriched mainly the Greek colonists. During the Lydian and Persian domination in Paphlagonia, a local dynasty ruled, which around 400 BC. e. belonged to the northern part of Cappadocia. WITH the capital under this dynasty and the only important city in the interior was Gangra (now Kjankari). Filaret lived in these lands, among these people, on the territory of modern Turkey, in the village of Amnia, on the banks of the river of the same name.

His noble parents, George and Anna, raised him from childhood in piety and the fear of God, and his life was adorned with chastity and all sorts of other virtues. Having reached the age of majority, Filaret entered into marriage with a noble and rich maiden named Theosevoia, from whom he had three children: a son, John, and two daughters, Hypatia and Evanthia. God blessed the blessed Philaret, as in former times the righteous Job, with the multiplication of his property and abundant wealth. He also had numerous herds and villages, fruitful fields and abundance in everything; his treasuries were full of all earthly blessings, and a great multitude of male and female servants served at his house. And Filaret was known as one of the famous nobles of that country. Possessing such great wealth and seeing how at the same time many were in poverty from poverty and extreme poverty, he felt compassion for them and, in tenderness of the soul, said to himself: - Have I really received so many blessings from the hand of the Lord only for the sake of eating them myself and living in pleasure, pleasing my womb? Should I not share the great wealth God has given me with the poor, the widows, the orphans, the wanderers and the poor.

According to life distinguished by extraordinary kindness and responsiveness to the needs of others. His house was plundered during one of the Arab-Byzantine wars.Arab-Byzantine Wars- a series of military conflicts between the Arab Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire during the 7th-12th centuries. The beginning of the wars marked the invasion of the Arabs into Byzantium in the 630s and the beginning of the territorial seizures on their part. As a result of these wars, Byzantium lost a large number of its territories in the east and south: Palestine, Syria, Armenia, Egypt, North Africa, Cyprus, Crete, Sicily, parts of Asia Minor. Despite this, he distributed the remnants of his wealth, his livestock and his supplies to the poorest neighbors, who suffered more than he did. This caused the indignation of his wife and children., but invariably answered that the giver will be rewarded a hundredfold. As a result, Filaret's friends themselves began to help the old man out: his tax collector friend sent him forty sacks of grain, and the inhabitants of neighboring villages gave him rams.

Filaret became so famous for his mercy to people, even to his own poor, that the Empress Irina, at a bride show for her son Constantine VI, chose the humble Maria, his granddaughter. In fact, Filaret became the grandfather of the Empress and, of course, was able to get rich due to this and already help the poor while living in the imperial palace.

The fact that this is not fiction, Byzantine history knows all these characters.

In Venice, above the altar of the cathedral, where the relics of the holy apostle and Evangelist Mark are located, the Empress Irene of Byzantium is depicted, who lived in Constantinople at the end of the 8th - beginning of the 9th century. It was she who found the granddaughter of St. Philaret, Mary, as a wife to her son, Emperor Constantine the Fourth, nicknamed the Blind.

She became the wife of Emperor Leo IV Khazar in 768. It is known that Irina was very pious, but of a hot temper. From her marriage to Leo, on January 14, 771, Irina's only son, Constantine, was born, who became the last representative of the Isaurian dynasty. Emperor Leo was poisoned, and after the death of her husband, Irina was proclaimed regent for her 9-year-old son, Emperor Constantine VI.

Having concluded a forced peace with the Arabs in 781 and having won a victory over the Slavs in Greece the following year, Irina betrothed her minor son to Charlemagne's 8-year-old daughter Rotruda in 783. According to A. V. Kartashev, this was done in order to achieve religious peace with the West. The eunuch Elisius was assigned to Rotrude to teach the Frankish bride the Greek language and Byzantine customs.

In 788, the wedding of Constantine to the daughter of the Frankish king Charlemagne was upset, despite the fact that, according to Theophanes, he felt sympathy for her. The reasons for the cancellation of the wedding are not exactly known.

In 788, wanting to marry her son, Irina organized the so-called bride show, which was first introduced into the practice of the Byzantine court. Trusted officials were sent across the country with a set of requirements for the ideal bride, which included such parameters as height, foot length, head size and, of course, the attitude towards icons in the family. Of the 13 candidates presented to the court, Irina chose for her son a young, humble Armenian woman, a native of Paphlagonia, Maria of Amnesia, the granddaughter of St. Philaret the Merciful.

As for her granddaughter, St. Philaret, Mary, in marriage, Mary gave birth to two daughters - Euphrosyne and Irina. The marriage itself lasted about seven years. Constantine's mother started a campaign to remove her son from power. According to Feofan, Irina's main action to discredit her son was to support his love affair with Fedot, one of the court ladies. Konstantin, who did not love his wife, succumbed to the persuasion of his mother. First, the emperor asked Patriarch Tarasius to annul his marriage to Mary, claiming that she had attempted to poison him.
After the refusal of the patriarch, who declared that the only ground for divorce was proven adultery, in January 795 Constantine forced Mary to become a monk , And you married Fedot and even crowned her ( what Mary did not receive in her time). The event caused unrest among Christians, the monastery on Olympus even broke away from the Byzantine church, blaming Patriarch Tarasius for tonsuring Mary.

Together with her daughters, Maria was exiled to a monastery on one of the Princes' Islands ( now it is Adlar Island, 9 islands near Istanbul in the Sea of ​​Marmara ), where she died as a nun in 821. One of the daughters of Mary Euphrosyne (great-granddaughter of St. Philaret) about 823 became wife of Emperor Michael Travl II. Mikhail himself was a poorly educated person, despite the fact that he was an emperor, and his marriage to Efrosinya made a lot of noise, since Efrosinya, like her mother and sister, was already a nun.
When the first wife of Michael Thekla died around 824, he married a second time, and this marriage caused a scandal among his subjects, since the choice of the emperor fell on a nun - Euphrosyne. Michael himself understood all this and went to this marriage only in order to betray the legitimacy of his position and intermarry with members of the former ruling dynasty. After all, even though Efrosinya was a nun, she was the daughter of Konstantin and the granddaughter of Irina.
Michael II died on October 2, 829 from kidney disease, and the throne was taken by his son from his first marriage, Theophilus, who had been co-ruler of his father since 821. There were no children with Efrosinya, and therefore the genealogy of the Holy Righteous Philaret breaks off on the great-granddaughter.
The fate of Filaret's second great-granddaughter, nun Irina, is unknown to history.

As for the later life of Konstantin and his mother Irina after Filaret's granddaughter Maria was sent to a monastery with her daughters. That second marriage of Konstantin ended with the fact that, on the orders of Irina, her son Konstantin was gouged out and blinded. And his wife Theodota, already pregnant, Irina sent to the monastery. Son Constantine soon died, and Irina was overthrown on October 31, 802 in the course of a conspiracy organized by the logothete Nicephorus, responsible for the finances of the empire (“ main counter»).
Irina was exiled to the Greek island of Lesbos. On August 9, 803, Irina died. Her body was transported to the monastery she built on the island of Principia, and later reburied in Constantinople in the Church of the Holy Apostles.

Irina, canonized by the Orthodox Church shortly after her death, as a zealot of piety and Orthodoxy, who " loving God and His truth more than her own son... ordered him to be blinded", and then accepting autocratic power" corrected everything that had fallen into disorder in the reign of her son". One of the main merits of Irina and the reason for the glorification of the saints was that in pagan times she preserved and defended icon veneration in Byzantium.

Church of Philaret the Merciful in the Mozhaisk region, Spasso of the Borodino Monastery.

It is also known that St. Filaret had the gift of prophecy. To all grandchildren and granddaughters, but Filaret had three grandsons and three granddaughters, he predicted the future for them before his death. that Filaret had a son John, and from him Filaret had four grandchildren. The middle grandson became a monk and lived in the monastery for 24 years until his death. The eldest grandson had a foreign rich wife, the story is silent about the younger grandson. From another interesting historical information about the genealogy of St. Philaret, it is known that Mary's sister, the second granddaughter of Philaret named Miranthia, was married to the patrician Constantinakius, and Mary's cousin, also Philaret's granddaughter named Hypatia, was married to the Lombard king Argus. But nothing is known about their lives.

Sergiev Pasad. The home church of St. Philaret the merciful in the Patriarch's quarters.

Saint Philaret died in 792. In the fourth year of the marriage of the granddaughter Maria.

Hearing about the repose of the saint, the tsar with the tsarina and with his nobles hastened to arrive at the monastery, and they kissed the holy face of Philaret and hands. And everyone wept over his death and gave generous alms to the poor in his memory.

Blessed Theoseva, wife of Saint Philaret, after the burial of her husband’s honest body, she returned from Constantinople to her fatherland, the country of Paphlagon, and there she used her wealth, received from the king and queen, to build and renew the temples of God, burned by the Persians in former times. She also furnished those temples with sacred vessels and garments. She also established monasteries there, hospices and shelters for the poor and sick, and then again went to Constantinople to her granddaughter, Empress Mary. Here, having spent the rest of her life in the service of God, she peacefully reposed in the Lord and was buried at the grave of her righteous husband.

Jerusalem. Olive Mountain. Church of Philaret the Merciful.

Troparion, tone 4:
Imitating Abraham in faith, following Job in patience, Father Philarete, you shared the good land with the poor, and you suffered the deprivation of these courageously. For this sake, the ascetic Christ our God is crowned with a bright crown, pray to Him that our souls be saved.

Kontakion, tone 3:
Truly, your worthy purchase is seen, and being wise is judged by all those who are wise: you have given away the valley and short-term, seeking the heavenly and eternal. The same and worthily acquired eternal glory, merciful Filarete.

5 strong prayers to the holy righteous Philaret the Merciful

Prayer to Saint Philaret the Merciful for money and prosperity

“Oh, God’s most wondrous chosen one, Filarete the Merciful! Amnia, the most generous bread-giver, the lamp of Orthodoxy, the Lord God's servant, good and faithful! You followed the Gospel of Christ with all your heart and multiplied the talent given to you wisely: you clothe and nourish the orphans and the poor; bringing the strange and the poor into your house, comforting those who are in sorrows and sorrows, betraying the dead and on the stacks of the fallen tomb; serving everyone in every possible way, and taco showed your faith in deeds. She, holy servant of God, do not despise us, tormented by the sorrows of life and overwhelmed by sinful passions. All the days despondency and cowardice shake our faith, hardness of heart and bitterness consume our hearts and cool our love; but ambition and impatience corrupt our souls, and so, like beggars, in good deeds we share. But you, the Righteous Father, being merciful for us, implored Christ God to enrich our hearts with His Holy Spirit, heal our spiritual and bodily ailments, and, like a thirsty field, give us to drink the bounties of His philanthropy; let us imitate faith, long-suffering and mercy, in piety and purity all the days of our life. We also pray to you, most blessed, when our departure is in time, move us to unfeigned repentance, that we may partake of Christ our Savior through His holy Sacraments and become heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, even if in the joy of saints and angels we are honored and we bow down and sing the Trisagion Name: the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen!"

Prayer for the successful marriage of a daughter to the righteous Philaret the Merciful

“O holy servant of God, righteous Filaret! Having labored on earth with a good feat, you received in Heaven the crown of truth, which the Lord has prepared for all those who love Him. The same, looking at your holy image, we rejoice in the glorious end of your residence and honor your holy memory. You, standing before the Throne of God, accept our prayers and bring to the All-Merciful God, to forgive us every sin and help us become against the wiles of the devil, and get rid of sorrows, illnesses, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, we will live piously and righteously in the present forever and we will be honored by your intercession, if not worthy of us, to see the good on the land of the living, glorifying the One in His saints glorifying God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen."

Prayer to the righteous Filaret the Merciful from poverty

“Holy God and rest in the saints, with a three-holy voice in heaven from an angel sung, on earth from a man praised in His saints, giving grace to anyone with Your Holy Spirit according to the measure of the gift of Christ, and then setting up Your Holy Church, ov apostles, ov prophets, ov evangelizers, ov shepherds and teachers, by their word of preaching, to You Himself acting all in all, many are made holy in every kind and kind, by various benefactors pleasing You, and to You, leaving us the image of their good deeds, having passed away in joy, prepare, in tempt the former yourself, and help us who are being attacked. Remembering all these saints and the holy righteous Philaret and praising their God-pleasing life, I praise You Samago, who acted in them, I praise, and one of Your blessings of giving to be believing, diligently I pray Thee, Holy of Holies, give me to the sinner to follow their teaching, life, love, faith , longsuffering, and their prayerful help, more than Your all-powerful grace, heavenly glory with them, praising Your Most Holy Name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever. Amen."

Prayer to Saint Philaret the Merciful for strengthening the faith

“To you, all holy and holy righteous Filaret, as guiding lamps, with their deeds illuminating the path of heavenly sunrise, as a sinner, I humbly bow the knee of my heart and cry out from the depths of my soul: implore the Humanity God for me, may he not let me still wander through the crossroads sin, but may my mind and heart be enlightened with the light of His grace, as if we illuminate and strengthen it, I will be able to rest the rest of the time of earthly life on the right path without fail and by your intercession to the Most Good Lord, I will become a little partaker of being your spiritual meal in the heavenly chamber of the King of Glory. To Him with His Beginningless Father and the Most Holy, Good and Life-Giving Spirit, be glory, honor and worship forever and ever. Amen."

Thanksgiving Prayer to the Righteous Philaret the Merciful

“Oh, blessed saints of God, all the saints who stand before the Throne of the Most Holy Trinity and enjoy inexpressible bliss! Now, on the day of your common triumph, graciously look down on us, your lesser brethren, bringing you this laudatory singing, and asking your intercession for mercy and remission of sins from the Most Good Lord; Vems are more, truly Vems, like everything, if you desire, you can ask Him. Moreover, we humbly pray to you, and to the holy righteous Philaret, pray to the Merciful Lord, may the spirit of your zeal for the preservation of His holy commandments give us, as if flowing in your footsteps, we will be able to pass the earthly field in a virtuous life without blemish, and in repentance achieve the most glorious villages of paradise, and there it is with you to glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen!"