Consecration of an apartment or house - why do we do this? How to properly sanctify and clean an apartment, house, office, office, workplace, car, store with holy water? Prayer for the consecration of an apartment, house, car with holy water.

How to consecrate an apartment yourself? Of course, this issue becomes relevant after moving from one place of residence to another and in the case when a family has purchased housing in a new building. For what reasons does the above need arise? There are a lot of them: for example, the previous owners of the living space were quarrelsome people and constantly quarreled; it is possible that they had a lot of sinful vices. That is why, after moving to the purchased apartment, the new owners may experience a deterioration in their health, a loss of strength, or a depressive state. What could this mean? Only that the apartment is charged with negative energy due to regular scandals, abuse, swearing, and assault that previously took place here. What to do in this case? There is only one thing left: with the help of holy prayer, cleanse the room of “filth.” However, this ritual must be performed by a priest, but there are times when it is not possible to invite a representative of the church to perform the ritual. Then you should be dedicated yourself. But how can you consecrate an apartment yourself when you have no experience of conducting such rituals? Let's consider this issue in more detail.

Sanctification - what is it?

For those who do not know how to consecrate an apartment on their own, it will be useful to learn about what this church ritual is.

From point of view Orthodox religion Through sanctification, God's grace descends upon man. Church rituals help to increase the significance of the moral principles of human existence.

In other words, it is assumed that after completing the ritual, moving into new mansions, their owners will begin a righteous life, in accordance with Christian commandments.

Is it necessary to perform a ritual at all?

Before learning how to consecrate an apartment on your own, everyone should understand for themselves that the procedure of performing the ritual will not get rid of family and everyday troubles: it is aimed at ensuring that a person does not make sinful mistakes. To be with God or to live according to one’s own wishes - everyone decides for himself. If a family adheres to Christian principles of existence, then its internal and external device must prove this, therefore, the ritual of consecration should not be ignored.

What is needed to perform the ritual

You cannot perform a ritual in an uncleaned home, especially when repairs have not been completed. At home, set aside a special place to lay out items for consecration: holy water and a container for it, a lamp with vegetable oil(oil), icon, Bible (prayer book), candles.

Naturally, make sure in advance that the above church attributes are available.

Method No. 1

So, many are interested in the question of how to consecrate an apartment yourself with candles?

This ritual is recommended to be performed next Thursday. Buy in advance at church shop several candles: 3 for the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and 2-3 candles for the house. When placing candles in front of the image, you need to cross yourself and say a prayer: “Wonderworker Nicholas, bless me to cleanse the apartment and drive out demonic power from it. Let it be so. Amen".

Upon returning home, you need to light one candle and take it to right hand and walk with her to all corners of the rooms, while talking the following words: “I clean the corner, I clean the floor, I clean the ceiling and walls. I drive away demons, I drive away envy. I burn a candle to illness, illness and misfortune. Amen". At the same time, do not forget to place the sign of the cross on the corners and walls of the room.

Perform the ritual for three Thursdays in a row, with the obligatory trip to church, to obtain the blessing of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker to perform the ritual yourself.

After a month, you will be able to feel how comfortable you feel in your new apartment.

Method No. 2

Don’t know how to bless your apartment with a candle yourself? Some recommend doing the following: you need to take a candle in your right hand and go to the right doorframe of the entrance to the room - this place will be the starting point. Then you should light a candle, clench your free hand into a fist and, saying prayers out loud from memory, move along the walls of the room. In the corners you need to make stops and make the sign of the cross with a burning candle, clearing the corner of negative energy. It is very important to follow the signs that the candle gives you. If it begins to burn intensely with a crash, then this is the place that first of all needs to be cleansed: read the entire set of prayers known to you until the flame calms down. At the end of the “sacred rite,” you should again approach the starting point and leave the candle there to burn out. As soon as it has smoldered, you need to say: “My place must be clean, not smelly, and not leave the enemies.

I illuminate it with a candle, empower it and keep it that way. Amen!". Only after this can the ritual be considered completed. Now you know how to consecrate an apartment yourself with a candle. However, there are other ways to perform the above ritual.

Method No. 3

A huge number of people are interested in the question of how to sanctify an apartment themselves with holy water?

This ritual should be performed on Sunday. At the same time, do not forget to clean all the rooms on Saturday so that there is no dirt. Stock up on holy water in advance. On the day of the sacred ceremony, pour it into a bowl, dip three fingers (thumb, index and middle) in the “healing composition”, having previously folded them into a pinch. Then start spraying the room with them, starting from the red corner with the images, moving clockwise. At the same time, say the following prayer out loud: “In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, by sprinkling the sacred water, let every evil demonic action be turned to flight.” Amen!".

Of course, before performing the consecration ritual, it is advisable to receive a blessing from your spiritual mentor.

What to do after the ceremony

Naturally, every believer must live according to the “laws of God” and after the consecration of a house or apartment, within its walls one cannot swear, quarrel, raise one’s voice at family members and commit other sinful acts. This is the meaning of the ritual. Please note that the ritual cannot be performed again, with some exceptions. Remember also that the ritual of illumination must be performed in humility and peace.

The consecration of the house is performed by a priest according to a special rite, containing prayers calling upon the house and those living in it the blessing of God. At the same time, an image of a cross is applied to the walls, they are anointed with blessed oil, and the entire home is sprinkled with holy water.
The church word “consecration” in this case has a different meaning than the consecration of water or an icon. In relation to this rite, the word “blessing” is more appropriate: when performing them, we prayerfully call upon God’s blessing on the house and those living in it for their Christian life and good deeds. Therefore, such sanctification is not some kind of automatic action: its effectiveness directly depends on the extent to which those asking for the Church’s blessing with their lives themselves correspond to the holiness of the grace of God given by the Church.

To consecrate the house, it is necessary to bring the house into proper shape: it is necessary to remove or remove, or better yet, throw away all pagan things (for example, “Turkish eyes” amulets brought from Turkey, various images and figures of the Zodiac signs, and so on). If these things are in the house, then you will most likely be denied consecration. You should also prepare holy water and special stickers with crosses, which the priest will paste on all four sides of the house to be blessed (such crosses can be bought at the church store). It is necessary that there be a table, preferably covered with a clean tablecloth, where the priest can put holy objects. It is necessary to have icons in the house; an icon of the Savior is required.

You need to explain to your family the essence of what is happening, set them up for reverent behavior, that upon the priest’s arrival you should take his blessing, as well as after the rite of consecration, venerate the cross.

The priest in front of the icons will invite you to pray with him. Pray with him, if you know the icons and chants, then sing along and make the sign of the cross.

After the exclamation “Blessed is our God...” and the initial prayers, the ninetieth psalm is read. It was written by the prophet David on the occasion of his deliverance from a three-day pestilence. In the Greek Psalter it has a title indicating both the author and the character of this psalm: “The Song of Praise of David.” The main theme of the psalm: God is the Protector and reliable Refuge of all those who trust in Him. The ninetieth psalm has been tested by many generations of Christians as a powerful weapon against demons.

Then the troparion is sung or read. The priest prays to the Lord Savior: “Just as with Your entrance salvation came to the house of Zacchaeus, so now, with the entrance of Your priests and with them Your holy angels, send Your peace to this house and graciously bless it, saving and enlightening all who want to live in it " Having taught “peace to all,” the priest calls on all those present to bow their heads to listen to the words of the prayer. Turning to the Lord, who blessed the house of Laban with the settlement of Jacob in it and the house of Potiphar with the settlement of Joseph in it, who blessed the house of Abeddar by bringing the Ark of the Covenant into it and who granted salvation to the house of Zacchaeus in the days of the coming in the flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ, the priest asks: “You yourself bless and protect this house and protect those who want to live in it with Your fear, and preserve those who oppose them unharmed, and send down Your blessing from the height of Your dwelling to them, and bless and multiply all that is good in this house.”
Next, the priest reads a prayer for the consecration of the oil with which the images of crosses on the walls will be anointed (often the priest already brings the consecrated oil with him). According to Holy Scripture, oil is a symbol of the Holy Spirit (see: Zech. 4; 2 Cor. 1: 21 et seq.; 1 John 2: 27). The abundance of oil was perceived as God's blessing (see: Deut. 7:13). Orthodox Church perceived the biblical meaning of oil as a symbol of light (see: Matt. 25: 1–13), mercy, healing (see: Luke 10: 34) and blessing.

Having blessed the oil, the priest sprinkles the entire house with holy water, saying: “In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, by sprinkling this holy water, may all evil demonic activity be put to flight. Amen". This has a spiritually cleansing value. Both the balcony and the sanitary facilities are sprinkled.

Then the priest anoints the walls of the house with oil on four sides, where the crosses were drawn or pasted before the start of the prayer service. Anointing, he says: “This house is blessed by the anointing of this holy oil, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen". This is the most important part of the rite of blessing the house. The crosses depicted on the walls corresponding to the four cardinal directions are, as it were, the spiritual guardians of the home. These crosses must be preserved even when the apartment is being renovated.
After the anointing, the Gospel of Luke is read. At the same time, he can lay the Gospel on your bowed heads, as at a prayer service with water. The story of the Savior’s visit to the house of the publican Zacchaeus is very edifying. Every Christian should strive to have the Lord visit his home. To be worthy of this joy, you must correct your life and strive to live according to the Gospel commandments. Then the priest will sprinkle the residents with holy water and let them kiss his pectoral cross. First for men, then for women.
After reading the Gospel, incense is performed for the entire house (but not always). It has more than just symbolic meaning. Chopping is a real cleansing action. The consecration of the house is not repeated. God blessed the house. The desire to receive a repeated blessing will be a manifestation of our lack of faith.

In Rus' there was a pious custom of burning incense at one's home. In this case, it is necessary to use not the censer used by the clergy, but a katsei - a censer with a handle. Now this custom is being revived. Walking around the rooms in the house and making the sign of the cross with a censer, they usually recite the twofold and hundredth psalms, and also read the prayers “Our Father”, “Heavenly King”, “Virgin Mother of God, Rejoice”, “To the chosen victorious Voivode”, “May God rise again”. Those living in the house can regularly sprinkle the home with holy water.

At the end of the prayer service, the priest prays to God to send to each of those living in the house “His merciful angel, observing and preserving them from all evil and instructing them to do all the virtues and to fulfill the holy commandments of Christ.” Afterwards the priest will bless the living: first the men, then the women. You need to ask for blessings.
There will be considerable spiritual benefit for you and your family if you invite the priest to stay for a cup of tea. Remember that a priest’s visit to your home is an excellent opportunity for the whole family to resolve some spiritual issues, to make important step in spiritual life, which they may not dare to undertake in a different environment. Therefore, spare no effort in preparing your loved ones, do not allow the performance of religious services to turn into an exotic “event” for your household.

You can consecrate the apartment on any day, at any time, when it is convenient for you and the priest. Go to the temple, explain your desire to the servant at the candle box. They will tell you when it is convenient to talk to the priest. You can leave your phone number behind the box in the church to give to the priest. You can simply approach the priest personally, for example, the one who confesses you. The duration of the rite of consecration is about thirty minutes, sometimes less. As for the payment, the services are generally performed free of charge, the money is your donation to God, as well as gratitude to the priest for spending his time on you. The donation amount also depends on your welfare. It’s a shame for a rich family to give the priest a hundred rubles, but for a poor family even a hundred is too rich a gift.

Lighting expels demons from the house, which are called “barabashki”, “brownies”. Those who have all sorts of otherworldly phenomena occurring at home must definitely consecrate the house.

Even among churchgoers there is an opinion that sanctification is not necessary. Many believers try to replace it by going around the house with an Easter candle, sprinkling holy water on Epiphany, burning incense, lighting lamps and candles, and placing icons in all rooms. These, of course, are pious and necessary customs, but they do not replace the rite of consecration.

May God bless your homes!

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What is the meaning of sanctification

Orthodox Christians call sanctification the rituals that are introduced by the Church into the temple and personal life a person, so that through these rituals the blessing of God would descend on his life, on all his activities and on the entire environment of his life.
The basis of the diverse church prayers is the desire to spiritualize human activity, to do it with God’s help and His blessing. We ask the Lord to direct our affairs in such a way that they are pleasing to Him and benefit our neighbors, the Church, the Fatherland and ourselves; bless our relationships with people so that peace and love prevail in them, etc. And therefore we ask that our home, things that belong to us, vegetables grown in our garden, water from the well, through the blessing of God that has descended on them, help us in this , defended, strengthened our strength.
The consecration of a house, apartment, car or any other thing is evidence, first of all, of our trust in God, our faith that nothing happens to us without His holy will.

After the reading of the psalm, a litany is said. In it, in addition to the usual petitions, there are also petitions for the blessing of the house. All those present pray to the Lord of our life to send a Guardian Angel, a guardian of the new home, preserving everyone “who wants to live piously in it,” from all evil and instructing them to do virtues, to fulfill the commandments of Christ. They also ask that the Lord save them all from hunger and all deadly wounds and grant them health and long life.

Try to drink holy water more often, especially Epiphany water, and sprinkle your homes with this water, but before that you need to wash and clean everything in the house. Once a year, on the night of January 18-19, the Lord sanctifies the entire earth, all the water in all rivers and lakes is sanctified. In the old days in Rus', ice holes were always cut on rivers and lakes on this night, and at exactly midnight people went to swim and collect Epiphany water. I happened to be in Siberia once. There is not a single temple there for several hundred kilometers, but people in Epiphany night, at 12 o’clock they go to the river and collect Epiphany water, storing it in closed buckets and flasks all year round. They take this water every morning on an empty stomach and illuminate their body and soul with it, and consecrate their homes with sprinkling. This water never spoils if no one swears or does bad things in the house. When the water runs out, they take ordinary water, pour it into a bucket and add a few drops of Epiphany water three times, saying the prayer: “In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen,” and that’s it, the water is sanctified again and can be used again. The power of this water is great, demons fear it more than the fire of hell, because it burns and expels everything unclean, heals spiritual and physical illnesses, and adds strength to a person.

Epiphany water HEALS - all diseases, inflammatory processes, tumors, cleanses human blood, liver, treats stomach ulcers, heals kidneys, treats the heart, lungs, nerves, diabetes, glaucoma and generally returns vision if you constantly instill this water in your eyes. When a person falls ill with a serious illness, it is even necessary to drink a tablespoon of Epiphany water every hour, crossing himself with the prayer: “Lord Bless me to drink Epiphany water and heal me. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen,” so that the sick body gains strength to fight the disease and then the person quickly recovers.

All our houses and apartments need to be LIGHTED, this is VERY IMPORTANT! Especially when people move and start living in houses and apartments that people have already lived in before them. Many people simply do not know that it turns out that our houses remember everyone who lived in them and there are happy and unhappy apartments and houses. That is, the energy of the atmosphere of people living in houses and apartments is superimposed and imprinted on these houses and apartments, and remains in them. This can be compared, for example, with how they record this or that music on a blank tape cassette; you can record a melody by Mozart or Beethoven, or you can record hard rock or criminal swearing songs. So it is here. If the house or apartment you are moving to has good and calm people, if they also lived as believing Orthodox Christians, then the energy of the atmosphere of the house will be positive and peaceful - because God blesses this house, so the new residents will live calmly and well if they are normal people.

We must know that if the previous residents drank, drank moonshine, used drugs, swore, swore, fought, engaged in debauchery, rock music was played in the house, there were pornographic magazines, newspapers, videotapes in the house - then such a house or apartment is DEFAMATED .

In such houses, demons settled and were deposited negative energy, therefore, if such a house or apartment is NOT SANCTIFYED, then no one in this house WILL HAVE goodness and a good life. Everyone who would not live in such a house or apartment will also swear, quarrels will begin, various troubles and problems, and even misfortunes. And if in this house lived people who studied and practiced magic, astrology, extrasensory perception, cast spells, bewitched and told fortunes, or sectarians lived in the house, or Jews, Muslims or Buddhists and Hare Krishnas - then this house is CURSE by God and therefore the new residents will not be happy , evil spirits who settled in this house will not give them any quiet life.

It happens that someone was killed in a house, or someone committed suicide, then there will be nothing good in this house either, often people cannot live in such houses and apartments, also when someone dies of old age or from illnesses - all such houses must be LIGHTED by inviting a priest to the house. Moreover, it is better to throw away the beds and sofas on which a person died; even in hospitals, doctors and nurses know this well, that if a patient is put on a bed on which someone died before him, then the person immediately becomes much worse. The fact is that clothes, shoes, bed linen, beds and sofas on which people sleep - all these things seem to remember their owners and are imbued with their spirit, which is why you CANNOT dress or wear other people's clothes and shoes, especially you can't dress them in them children.

Even if you take your child the clothes of the children of your relatives or friends and acquaintances, then if their children were capricious, aggressive and disobedient - you absolutely CANNOT take these clothes and dress your children in them, they will also begin to behave BADLY. You need to wash these clothes first and then sprinkle them Epiphany water.

Therefore, you must not allow strangers onto your bed, you must not even allow strangers to sit on your bed, you must NOT dress or carry other people’s things, only as a last resort if you have nothing to wear, but at the same time you need to read a prayer for the consecration of things and sprinkle them with holy water . All things and goods that you buy for your home must be ILLUMINATED yourself, reading a prayer for the consecration of things and sprinkling them with holy water - then these things will serve us for a long time for our benefit, and you thank the Lord for this mercy.

Prayer for the sanctification of every thing. (in order for the things that we have or have bought to serve us for a long time, they need to be illuminated.) To the Creator and Maker of the human race, the Giver of spiritual Grace, the Giver of eternal salvation, Himself, Lord, send Your Holy Spirit with the highest Blessing to this thing ( to name things), as if armed with the power of heavenly intercession for those who want to use it (names), it will be helpful for bodily salvation and intercession and help, in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen. (And they sprinkle things with holy water - three times)

That is why, for example, when we are traveling on a train and receive bed linen on which we are going to sleep, then this linen needs to be crossed with the Sign of the Cross three times with the prayer “Lord, cleanse these things from all filth, from all bad things. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Also, when we have to stay in a hotel, we also need to read prayers in the room, cross everything with the Sign of the Cross, including the bed on which you will sleep.

It is necessary to LIGHT all the houses and apartments in which you are going to live, especially those houses and apartments in which people have already LIVED before you - otherwise all sorts of problems and troubles may begin. When houses and apartments are consecrated, in a special prayer the priest asks that God cleanse this house or apartment from all filth and bless the house and everyone living in it. If the people who live in this house are good and calm people in themselves: they don’t quarrel with each other, don’t get drunk, don’t engage in debauchery, don’t steal - then the Lord blesses this house and the people living in it. And then people begin to live well. That is why it is necessary to illuminate all houses and apartments so that the people who will live in them can live kindly. Understand all this is very important, if only people knew - how many good families quarreled and fell apart, only because they did not believe in God and did not consider it necessary to illuminate their home, how many children got out of hand, became disobedient, stopped studying, how many children's destinies were spoiled. How many misfortunes happened to the people who lived in these desecrated and God-cursed houses. In the old days, people knew this well and, having invited a priest, they served a special prayer service already at the foundation of a new house, and then after the completion of construction they consecrated new house, that’s why our ancestors lived peacefully and amicably.

I will give an example of how IMPORTANT it is to serve a prayer service when laying the foundation of a house and to illuminate the site itself on which a new house will be built. In one house in the center of the city there lived a witch who constantly cast spells, I found out about this completely by accident. The house was old, built by the Tsars, but since it was in the center of the city, the time had come to demolish it and build a big one in its place. apartment house. Once construction began, the residents of this house were relocated and the house was quickly demolished. And then something incomprehensible began, the construction manager told me about this, all sorts of problems began, starting with financial, supply of building materials and ending with personnel, general construction the new house froze and did not move a single step, and time passed. Then, after suffering for more than six months, the construction manager invited a priest, who served a prayer service and blessed the entire construction site. Only after the consecration did the construction of the house get off the ground, turn around and begin to boil with redoubled force. The house was built quickly, in a few months, and now it adorns the city center.

I will tell you one illustrative case related to the consecration of a house with ordinary Epiphany water. Once, when we came to visit some of our friends, we started talking about God, I had Epiphany water with me and I invited them to sprinkle them three-room apartment, at one time church employees showed and explained to me how to do this correctly if it is not possible to invite a priest. A new brush is taken for painting, with which no one has done anything - the brush must be washed with soap, a bowl or some vessel is taken, which must be crossed three times with the Sign of the Cross with the prayer “In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen,” and pour Epiphany water into it. Before sprinkling, you need to read the prayers: “Our Father”, “Rejoice to the Virgin Mary”, “May God rise again” and “King of Heaven” - three times each. After this, you need to sprinkle each room with Epiphany water in a cross pattern three times, each corner of the room in the indicated order: east - west, north - south, reading the prayer: “Lord, cleanse this room from all filth. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen". After sprinkling a house or apartment, you need to read aloud 12 chapters from the Gospel, it is best to read the Gospel of John. So, having sprinkled their apartment, I went home, and in the morning the excited owner of the apartment came to my work and told the following story. They moved into this apartment a year ago, and the whole family, husband, wife and two daughters, could not sleep in their new apartment, having difficulty falling asleep after three in the morning and then at a short time, naturally they were very tired from such incomprehensible insomnia. It turned out that there was a brothel in this apartment, the owner and her daughters took men to their place, drank and debauched, because of this the apartment was DESCRATED. And when I moved new family, despite the fact that the apartment was made good repair– living in it became uncomfortable and difficult; even flowers did not grow in the apartment. After I sprinkled Epiphany water, read the prayers and the Gospel, and, as it were, consecrated the apartment, the whole family fell asleep soundly at nine o’clock in the evening and in the morning everyone overslept, the parents were late for work, and the daughters were late for school. Insomnia disappeared, flowers began to grow.

There was another case in my practice. I was asked to help in one family, where six months ago a person was killed in one room, and after that no one could be in this room, not to mention living and sleeping in it - people felt bad in this room. When the room was sprinkled with Epiphany water, after reading prayers and the Gospel, everything PASSED and people were able to begin to live normally in this room. Of course, it is best, if possible, to invite a priest who will not only bless your home but also serve a special prayer service.

In the village there was a house in which all family members were sick, causeless quarrels and swearing constantly arose at home, chickens and geese died, cows and pigs died. Eventually, the owner of the house went to the local church and invited the priest to bless the house that they bought and moved into. The priest came, blessed the entire house, the entire yard and buildings, then gathered the whole family and talked with them about God, and asked that the whole family come to his service, confess and partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ. So they did. That's it, after that the quarrels stopped in the house and peace and quiet came, no one was sick with unknown diseases anymore, cows and pigs, chickens and geese stopped dying, and the owners began to zealously attend church.

I’ll also tell you how Epiphany water helps people. Once I was returning home by train, the ride was still long, about two hours. And then at one station a young couple entered the carriage, they had a Small child, who did not stop loudly, almost crying bitterly. The child’s crying was very strong and after almost half an hour of crying, I could not stand it and approached them, asking what happened to the child. A man, the child’s father, answered me and told me the following story. About two months ago they were visiting someone with their child, before that everything was fine, the child grew up practically healthy and calm, nothing foreshadowed trouble. Returning from visiting, they noticed that the child became restless and began to cry; that night, for the first time, the parents did not sleep due to the constant crying of the child. And now this child’s crying has been going on for more than two months, without stopping, the parents tried everything they could and went to the grandmothers, but nothing helped, the child’s mother was especially tired, she had no face, she was so exhausted. I tried to cross the child and read prayers for him, but nothing helped, and then I remembered that I had a bottle of Epiphany water with me and I decided to give the child this water to drink. Having poured Epiphany water into the bottle cap, my father and I began to try to give the child something to drink, and then the child flew up in his arms, began to scream loudly and twitch in different sides. With difficulty holding the child, we opened his mouth and poured Epiphany water into it. At that same second, a miracle happened: there was silence in the carriage, only the sound of wheels could be heard. The child lay back in his mother’s arms and immediately fell into a deep sleep and slept all the way to the city without waking up. Before parting with them, I told them that the next day they must bring the child to church and give him communion, and I told them not to forget about God, to constantly pray and go to church. Two days later, when I came to church, I met them again, they came to church to give communion to the child and when they saw me, they thanked me for my help, and said that for the first time their child slept all these nights in a deep, restful sleep and everything was fine with him. That's the power in Epiphany water. As far as I understand, someone simply jinxed their child very strongly.

Many people nowadays are very curious and want to know everything, and therefore, out of pure curiosity, they often buy and bring into their home books on magic, the occult, which are sold in all stores, they think that these are completely harmless books, just like everyone else other books, and therefore you can safely keep them at home and read them. I must tell you right away that this is far from the case. Not everything can and should be known to a person, and most importantly, not everything is useful, and there are things that pose a direct danger to their unscrupulous and overly curious owners.

What are magic and books on the occult? These are books of the devil himself, therefore, when we buy them and bring them into the house, we thereby open the doors of our house and voluntarily invite EVIL spirits into our house. That's it, after that, Trouble loomed over the house and everyone who lived in it. I will give one of many cases that I knew personally.

Magic in the house is a TROUBLE, it is like a magnet - ATTRACTS UNHAPPINESS!

One woman bought it just out of curiosity big book magic of Papus and brought it to her home. She didn’t even read this book, she just looked at it a little, put it aside, and forgot about it. A little over a year has passed. I must say that the woman had an unusually good family, Kind loving husband, son, they lived amicably, they were also well off financially, the only thing was that although they were baptized, they were practically unbelievers, this is all around us in our time. Ordinary people like all. First they are robbed, then their husband is killed, right in the entrance of their house, she loses her job and to top it off, after some time an accident happens to her son, he becomes disabled. Yes, this woman eventually understood where and why so many misfortunes befell her, she burned the magic, invited a priest and consecrated her house, but unfortunately the misfortune had already happened and she could not return her husband, nor could she return the health of her son. There are a lot of such stories and all because people are very curious, they want to know even things that are not supposed to and are dangerous, without looking into them, they drag everything to their home.

You need to know that reading Magic, books on the Occult and bringing them into your home is very DANGEROUS. It is also dangerous to have images in the house evil spirits, pictures, posters, drawings on clothes, figurines of demons, video cassettes and DVDs with similar films, horror films - all this, like a magnet, attracts evil spirits into the house, which brings misfortune to everyone who lives in the house. Among our youth today it is very fashionable to wear T-shirts and T-shirts with images of evil spirits, skeletons, skulls, accompanied by corresponding inscriptions, they also like to hang similar posters at home - so, this is dangerous and often leads to deaths from their owners.

If in your house there are books on Magic, Occultism, Kaballah, Fortune telling or with Healing and Love Spells, posters, drawings depicting evil spirits, figurines of demons, horror films, or there is PORNOGRAPHY, pornographic magazines and films - then you need everything of this - to GET RID of it and destroy it all.

After this, the house MUST BE sanctified by inviting a priest. And if this is not yet possible, then you need to diligently SPRINKLE everything in the house with Epiphany water or Holy water - all the walls, ceiling, floor and doors, things and furniture and read the Gospel at least 12 chapters out loud in the house.

If you have read MAGIC and books on OCCULTISM, books by the Roerichs or on Buddhism and yoga, or Kaballah, or books by Castaneda, or books with conspiracies, watched horror films and pornographic films, then all this needs to be CONFESSED. If you have used healing spells, then you need to repent of this. Often printed before or together with conspiracies orthodox prayers Moreover, it is recommended to first read the prayers, and then read the conspiracy - so it is the devil who is trying to mix both the pure and the filthy into one heap.

You need to know that all CONSPIRACIES, no matter what they are and no matter how they are read with or without prayer, are from the devil and CAUSE great HARM to people.

It often happens that after the visit of unwanted or unfamiliar guests, the house suddenly becomes uncomfortable and bad, quarrels even begin - this is a sign that one of the guests has envied you and, as people say, has jinxed you. Unfortunately, there are still quite a lot of people on earth who have an evil, envious eye. Therefore, if you don’t like one of the guests, then immediately after they leave, you need to read prayers, read 3–7 chapters of the Gospel of John, and sprinkle the whole house with holy water, preferably Epiphany water. And it’s best not to invite people you don’t like, whom you don’t know what kind of people they are, to your home, and also don’t invite Bad people, gypsies, sorcerers and sectarians into your home. And you should not take anything and bring it into the house of people you are not sure that they really are. good people, even if these are your neighbors, and it’s better not to have any communication with bad neighbors, your life will be calmer.

Do not INVITE every person and bring them into your house - for there are many wiles treacherous person and he can cause Evil. Settle a STRANGER in your house and he will upset you with unrest and make you a STRANGER to your loved ones. / Bible. Book of Wisdom of Sirach./

We need to be careful in our time and know that any person whom we do not know well and are not sure that he good man– You CANNOT invite him to visit you, let alone live with him. Therefore, you CANNOT INVITE just anyone into your home, people you don’t know and aren’t sure about them - that they are good people. A lot of people HAVE SUFFERED because of this STUPID TRUST, so you need to be smarter and MORE CAREFUL.

That's why - you CANNOT show the baby to anyone except your close relatives, you need to cover the child and not let anyone look at him, neither neighbors, nor friends, nor girlfriends, nor acquaintances, etc. strangers- to no one. Little children under one year old are very SENSITIVE to envious and angry, unkind people, and if you DO NOT PROTECT the child, then they cry a lot, cannot sleep, get seriously ill, become nervous and restless. Therefore, you need to pray well for them and vigilantly protect them from all curious “well-wishers.”

We ourselves also need to remember this and protect ourselves from witchcraft and the evil eye, this is also why we, Orthodox Christians, read prayers every day in the morning and evening. In the morning, having read our prayers and crossed ourselves, we leave the house - and God, through our prayer, protects us all day, and if we also prayed for our loved ones and relatives, then God protects them too - from evil people and all sorts of misfortunes. In the evening, after reading prayers, God protects us all night until the morning.

Preparing for the consecration of the house

First of all, of course, it is necessary to invite a priest in advance to perform the ceremony, agree on the time for its performance, so that it is convenient for all its participants. The approximate duration of the consecration ceremony is half an hour. As a rule, to order a consecration ceremony, you must come to the temple for a personal meeting with the priest. If the clergyman is in this moment If you are not in the temple, you can ask for help from the temple employees who work behind the candle box, or from the temple elder. You can find out how a priest serves and when he can be found in a church using the schedule of services, which is available in every church and usually hangs at the entrance. Through the temple employees you can find out the priest’s phone number or leave your contacts for communication. Any Sacrament or ritual is performed by the Church free of charge, as the Lord Jesus Christ commanded His disciples give for nothing what they themselves received freely (see Matt. 10:8), that is, the power, the grace of God. However, at the same time, the Lord allowed His disciples to eat from the house of their host:

Stay in that house, eat and drink what they have, for the worker is worthy of reward for his labors (Luke 10:7). In this regard, our attitude towards paying a priest for performing this or that ritual is formed. On the one hand, a person is not forced to pay for performing this or that action. After all, as Archbishop Averky (Taushev) explains: “By commanding us to eat what is offered, the Lord prescribes to the disciples the undemanding and undemanding behavior that befits them...”. This means that the clergyman himself cannot set the amount of payment for his work. However, on the other hand, keeping in mind that that the priest eats from his labors, that is, receives a living from his service to people, it is advisable, of course, to pay for the priest to perform the rite of consecration of the home. At the same time, it is worth understanding that there is nothing contrary to the teachings of Christ and His Church, and this in no way affects the grace that the Lord sends to the house through the prayers of the priest. If a person who wants to consecrate his house is embarrassed to ask the priest himself about the possible payment, then this question can also be clarified with the employees working behind the candle box, since they know approximately how much people give for performing this or that requirement. You can also donate as much as a person can afford.

Before the actual consecration ceremony, it is necessary to put the apartment (or house) in proper condition, clean it, and also prepare everything that the priest will need. All premises should be checked for the presence of any pagan symbols - amulets, talismans, images - under no circumstances should they be in a Christian’s home, since all these are signs of worship of the enemy of the Lord God - the devil. Even under the most harmless guise (for example, with the wording “for beauty”) there should not be any pagan symbols in the house. At the same time, to perform the ritual, it is necessary to prepare the following items: holy water (for sprinkling the room), an aspirant, candles, oil (blessed oil), special stickers with the image of Golgotha ​​(the mountain on which the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified) and the cross, which the clergyman During the ritual, it will be pasted on the walls of the home, in accordance with the cardinal directions - on the eastern, western, northern and southern walls. It is also necessary to prepare a small table (can be a coffee table), cover it with a clean tablecloth or oilcloth. On this table the priest will place all the items he needs for the ceremony.

It is advisable that on the day of the consecration of the home, all family members who live in it are present at this action. It is necessary to prepare all your relatives for the ceremony, tell them about the meaning of this action, about its importance. It is also desirable that everyone who will be present at the ceremony, upon arriving at the clergyman’s house, take his blessing and, in general, take everything as seriously and consciously as possible.