A candle is a person’s voluntary sacrifice to God, expressing a willingness to obey and serve. It symbolizes warmth and love for the Lord, the Most Holy Mother of God and all the saints. To light a candle for health, you need to follow some church rules.
Instruction manual
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Come to the temple dressed modestly: women with their shoulders, chest, legs, head covered and preferably without makeup, men in trousers and a shirt, without a headdress.
2
To light a candle for health, you need to come to the church before or after the service: during the service, you cannot walk around the church or pass candles through other parishioners. If you don’t have time to stand in the service, select the hours during which liturgies are not held in the church.
3
According to the established tradition, candles are placed in this order: first, to the Feast or revered temple icon, which is located directly opposite the entrance to the altar, to the relics of the Holy, if they are in the temple, to the Holy icon, whose name you bear, and then for health. You can choose any of the candlesticks, with the exception of the one on which the candles are placed over the repose - a requiem rectangular table with a crucifix.
4
Health candles are placed on the Savior, the Mother of God, the healer Panteleimon and those Saints who, by the will of God, heal diseases and help in different situations. For example, infertile couples can put a candle on health to the Righteous Godfathers Joachim and Anna - the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and pregnant women - to the Theodore Icon of the Mother of God. With any ailments, people turn to the Matron of Moscow, Seraphim of Sarov and other revered Saints.
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Buy a few candles in the temple or its church shop. Their value may be different, but it does not matter: both a cheap and an expensive candle are equally pleasing to God, if delivered with sincere prayer.
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Go to the icon of the Savior, the Virgin or Saint, cross yourself twice, worship, light and light a candle, then cross again, worship and adore the image. In front of the Savior’s icon, read the prayer “Our Father”, and in front of the Saint you have chosen, mentally say: “Holy God’s Pleasure (name), pray God to me as a sinner (s) (or the name of the one you ask for).”
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If all the places are occupied on the candlestick, just put your candle on it or in the box next to it: the ministers of the church will put it themselves when others burn out.
