Prayer for the Grace of Breastfeeding

(To the Most Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary before her icon, called the Nurse).
Receive, O Mother of God, the tearful prayers of Your children, who through You earnestly turn to the Savior.

We behold You on the holy icon, as You, 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 with compassion You behold the maternal sorrows and infirmities of the sons and daughters of mankind.

Therefore, with burning tears, falling at Your feet—by the power and blessing of the Lord—seeking the image of the Healer and, with trembling, kissing it, we pray to You, Most Merciful Lady: have mercy on us, sinners and condemned in the pangs of childbirth and in the sorrows of feeding our children; have compassionate intercession before the Lord; and we ask that our children, as well as those who have borne them, be delivered from grievous illness and bitter sorrow, that He may free them by His divine mercy and grace.

Through Your intercessory prayers we beseech that Christ the Savior grant us health and strength, that those who are fed may gain vigor, and that, feeding them, we may be filled with joyful delight, for now, through Your mediation, the mouths of infants who receive nourishment from their mothers' breasts proclaim the Lord's praise.

O Mother of the Son of God! Have mercy upon the mothers of mankind, upon the infirmities of Your children: we pray that by the incomprehensible love of Your Son He may heal the illnesses that pursue us, relieve our sorrows and griefs, and not reject the tears and sighs of God's servants and Your children. Hear us on the day of sorrow, when we fall before Your icon and call upon the Lord in prayer, and on the day of joy and deliverance receive the grateful praises of our hearts to the Creator.

Raise our prayers to the throne of Your Son and our God: may He be merciful toward our sins and infirmities and not limit His mercy for those who know His name, that we and our children may glorify the Lord and You, merciful Intercessor and faithful Heavenly Hope of our race, ever pleasing—forever and ever. Amen.

Source: kyrios.org.ua