Prayers to Various Wonderworking Icons of the Theotokos

Prayer before the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Unexpected Joy” (prayed for healing from deafness)

Prayer before the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “The Inexhaustible Chalice” (against drunkenness and drug addiction)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos called Iveron (that is, Georgian) (prayed in time of plague and epidemics, and for healing of blindness and deafness)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “The Milk-Giver” (prayed by nursing mothers and mothers giving birth)

Prayer to the Vatopedi icon of the Theotokos “Consolation”, or “Comforter” (for healing from sicknesses)

Prayers to the Vladimir icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (at invasions by foreigners, for strengthening in the Orthodox faith, for deliverance from heresies and schisms, for the reconciliation of those at enmity, for the defence of the fatherland)

Prayers to the Tikhvin icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (for restoring sight to the blind, for casting out demons, in the illnesses of children, in weakness of the joints, paralysis and epilepsy, and at attacks by foreigners)

Prayers to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Bogolyubskaya” (prayed in time of plague and cholera epidemics)

Prayers to the Kazan icon of the Theotokos (prayed for restoring sight to the blind and for averting attacks by foreigners; she stands as intercessor in trials and blesses marriage)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “of the Passion” (prayed by the blind and the lame, and also in time of fire)

Prayer to the Tolga icon of the Theotokos (prayed in time of drought and lack of rain)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “It Is Truly Meet” (prayed in sicknesses of soul and body, and at the completion of any work)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “The Life-giving Spring” (prayed by those suffering from bodily illnesses, and by those held by passions and spiritual weakness)

Prayer to the Smolensk icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Hodegetria” (prayed by those preparing for a long journey; she helps in every good undertaking)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “The Caressing” (prayed for recovery from sicknesses)

Prayers to the Murom icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (prayed for the gift of a spirit of understanding, godliness, mercy, meekness, purity and righteousness, and for the protection of Christian lands and cities)

Prayers to the Ilyinsko-Chernigov icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (prayed for healing from paralysis, smallpox and pain in the legs, at attacks by evil powers, and for protection from sudden death)

Prayer to the icon of the Theotokos “Saviour of the Drowning” (addressed by those whose life is bound up with the waters)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “She Who Is Quick to Hear” (prayed in many infirmities — blindness, lameness, weakness — and also in captivity and shipwreck)

Prayer to the Feodorovskaya icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (prayed in difficult childbirth)

Prayer to the Albazin icon of the Theotokos “The Word Became Flesh” (prayed while awaiting the birth of a child and in difficult childbirth)

Prayer to the Kozelshchansk icon of the Theotokos (prayed in various bodily injuries and traumas)

Prayers to the Chernigov-Gethsemane icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (prayed for the possessed and for healing of diseases of the eyes)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Surety of Sinners” (prayed for souls held fast by sins, and in every despair, hopelessness and spiritual sorrow)

Prayers to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “The Victorious” (prayed for righteousness, joy of heart and sincere love for one another, and for the peace and protection of the fatherland)

Prayers to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Seeker of the Perishing” (prayed in headache and toothache, for healing of eye diseases, and for dying infants and those who have fallen away from Orthodoxy, for a God-pleasing marriage, and for those inclined to the sin of drunkenness)

Prayers to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Assuage My Sorrows” (prayed in bodily sicknesses and sorrows, and for the calming of hearts stirred by sinful passions)

Prayer to the Pochaev icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (prayed for protection from heresies and schisms, at invasions by foreigners, for healing of spiritual and bodily blindness, and for deliverance from captivity)

Prayer to the Don icon of the Most Holy Theotokos

Prayer to the Kaluga icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (prayed by those suffering from weakness, and from diseases of the ears and hearing)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “The Unburnt Bush” (a great helper in time of fire; on Mount Sinai, when a thunderstorm becomes dangerous, a moleben is served before this icon)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Giver of Understanding” (prayed for children of weak understanding, and for success in learning)

Prayers to the Kursk icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “of the Sign” (prayed for healing of blindness)

Prayers to the Novgorod icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “of the Sign” (prayed for deliverance from misfortunes and robbers)

Prayers to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “She Who Raises Up” (prayed for healing from various sicknesses)

Prayers to the icon of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos

Prayers to the Jerusalem icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (prayed in time of fire and epidemic, for the deliverance of livestock from pestilence, and for healing of blindness and paralysis)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “The Deliverer” (prayed for the healing of the possessed and of those afflicted with various sicknesses)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Joy of All Who Sorrow” (prayed by the oppressed, the poor and the tormented, and by those suffering from fits, weakness of the hands, diseases of the throat and tuberculosis)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Look Upon Our Lowliness” (prayed for healing of blindness)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Of the Three Joys” (prayed for the acquittal of the accused, for deliverance from captivity, and for the return of the lost)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Of the Seven Arrows” (prayed for healing of lameness and weakness, and for the reconciliation of those at enmity)

Prayer to the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “The Grace-filled Heaven” (prayed for guidance on the path that leads to salvation and the inheritance of the kingdom of heaven)