Prayer to the Most Holy Mother of God before her miraculous icon “The Nurse”
Receive, O Holy Mother of God, the tearful prayers of God’s servants, and also of your children, who through you turn to the merciful Lord.
We see you in the icon, as you hold in your arms and with the milk of your breasts nourish your Son and our God — the Lord Jesus Christ.
You bore Him without pain, yet you look with sorrow upon the maternal sorrows and infirmities of human sons and daughters. Therefore, falling in hot tears before your image — with the Lord’s healing and restoring power and with a touching kiss, we pray to you, Most Gracious Lady: we, imperfect and sinful, often forced in suffering to bear and in grief to feed our children, mercifully have compassion with heavenly grace and intercede, that the Divine Son may deliver and heal our children and those who have borne them from grievous disease and bitter sorrow.
May He, by His incomprehensible divine mercy, grant us health and strength, that those who are fed may grow in strength, and those who nourish them may be filled with joy and delight, for even now — through your intercession — the Lord, by the mouths of infants who receive nourishment from their mother’s breasts, gives praise.
O Mother of the Son of God! Have mercy on the mothers of human sons, on the infirmities of His creatures and your children, that Christ by His grace may heal the illnesses that pursue them, relieve our sorrows and griefs and not reject the tears and sighs of God’s servants, and accordingly, of your beloved offspring. Hear us, on the day of sorrow before the Throne of the Most High, and on the day of joy and deliverance receive our grateful praises of Him and reverent veneration of you from the sincere hearts of ours. Raise our prayers to the Throne of your Son and our God, that He may be merciful to our sins and infirmities and not limit His mercy for those who know His Name, that we and our children may truly and joyfully glorify Him and honor you, merciful Intercessor and faithful — the God’s hope of our race forever and ever.
Amen.
We see you in the icon, as you hold in your arms and with the milk of your breasts nourish your Son and our God — the Lord Jesus Christ.
You bore Him without pain, yet you look with sorrow upon the maternal sorrows and infirmities of human sons and daughters. Therefore, falling in hot tears before your image — with the Lord’s healing and restoring power and with a touching kiss, we pray to you, Most Gracious Lady: we, imperfect and sinful, often forced in suffering to bear and in grief to feed our children, mercifully have compassion with heavenly grace and intercede, that the Divine Son may deliver and heal our children and those who have borne them from grievous disease and bitter sorrow.
May He, by His incomprehensible divine mercy, grant us health and strength, that those who are fed may grow in strength, and those who nourish them may be filled with joy and delight, for even now — through your intercession — the Lord, by the mouths of infants who receive nourishment from their mother’s breasts, gives praise.
O Mother of the Son of God! Have mercy on the mothers of human sons, on the infirmities of His creatures and your children, that Christ by His grace may heal the illnesses that pursue them, relieve our sorrows and griefs and not reject the tears and sighs of God’s servants, and accordingly, of your beloved offspring. Hear us, on the day of sorrow before the Throne of the Most High, and on the day of joy and deliverance receive our grateful praises of Him and reverent veneration of you from the sincere hearts of ours. Raise our prayers to the Throne of your Son and our God, that He may be merciful to our sins and infirmities and not limit His mercy for those who know His Name, that we and our children may truly and joyfully glorify Him and honor you, merciful Intercessor and faithful — the God’s hope of our race forever and ever.
Amen.
Source: kyrios.org.ua