Prayer for the believer is not easyformality. Prayer is a living conversation with God and the saints. There are so-called prayer rules, but this is only a collection of prayers recommended at different times of the day. More often than not, they are used, but quite often something is added to such a rule from themselves about the situation. This could be thanksgiving to God for successfully resolving a spiritual or material situation, asking for health or for the rest of relatives.
Prayer for different needs
There is even a tradition to pray to a certain saint.with a request to solve this or that problem. For example, the Mother of God especially pray for children. This is understandable, because She herself had a child, a woman would turn to her personally, with Her life, the concerns and anxieties about children would be close and clear to her. So any woman is ready to make a plea for her child to another Mother.
Святителю Николаю Чудотворцу молятся часто в traveling. A case is known from his life, as he saved a sinking ship, so any Orthodox traveler always has the icon of St. Nicholas with him.
Help from the saint
Spiridon Trimifuntsky's prayer sounds in manyhomes. This is an amazing saint! He helps in the most difficult life situations, which are seen as absolutely hopeless. And often it seems that no miracle happens - just a lucky coincidence. And only believers know that the prayer to Spyridon of Trimifunts actually helped.
In Orthodoxy, it is believed that spiritual problemsmuch more important than material. They pray for the problems of this world only when real trouble sets in. This may be war, famine or plague, that is, an epidemic. Against this background, a request for a new apartment, a salary increase or a safe exam seems completely frivolous.
But the prayer to Spiridon Trimifuntsky helps inall these purely material cases. Whole families pray to this saint about getting an apartment, and after the housewarming they give the icons to their friends, so that they too would pray. There is even a tradition to resort precisely to this saint in case of problems with housing. Spiridon Trimifuntsky's prayer for marriage is often heard and performed in the best way.
Amazing power
The relics of the saint are on the island of Corfu inGreece Modern people regard miracles with great skepticism, but Spiridon Trimifuntsky is revered. His crayfish is decorated with many gold lamps, which are a gift from grateful believers. But the most amazing facts can tell the guardians of crabs. The relics of the saint have the temperature of the human body. And the most interesting is that the saint regularly wears clothes. It seems that the prayer to Spiridon Trimyfuntsky about health or other help makes him personally visit the needy. It seems that he is not constantly in cancer, but walks around the island, and maybe around the world, to help all who pray to him.
Prayer to Spiridon Trimifuntsky - effectivemeans, however, one should not forget about the gratitude if it was possible to get the requested. In this case, you must go to the temple and order a prayer of thanksgiving. True, it is customary not to give thanks to all the good deeds of the saints, but of God Himself.
Father St. Spyridon, pray to God for us!
