Throughout life, a person encounters different people who cause a huge range of feelings . We can be loved, appreciated, hated, protected, offended, etc. Not only psychologists, but also believing people believe that you can not accumulate a negative on your soul, since it leads only to the abyss. There is a special prayer for offending and hating us, reading which a person can purify himself from the negative and achieve perfection. Clergymen say that when a person ripens to pray for his enemies, this indicates his willingness to enter into God's Kingdom.
You can make prayer appeals both at home and in the church. Of special importance is the place. If you want to go to confession, then in front of her, you need to pray for enemies to clear yourself of the negativity.
Why read a prayer for those who hate and offend us?
To understand this issue, we suggest turning to religious sources. While Jesus was crucified on the cross, he turned to God and asked him to forgive the soldiers involved in the execution and the people who watched what was happening and did nothing. The Christian religion has always been considered "forgiving", since in the Old Testament the feeling of revenge is included in the list of terrible sins. There is even such a commandment that very clearly describes the principle of forgiveness: "if you were hit on one cheek, then substitute another." I washed this expression much deeper than, it seems, because it helps a person to distinguish accident from malicious intent. Believers believe that praying for hateful enemies helps to cleanse one's own soul and come closer to God.
Practically in every religion there are certain taboos, the list of which includes the desire for revenge. In Christianity it is believed that a person who often resents, hates others and wants revenge, simply blackens his soul. It is necessary to read prayers regularly, and do it solely with a pure heart and with good intentions. Before God it is necessary to open only in this way, it will be possible to receive the blessing and support from the Higher Forces.
Prayer to forgive those who hate and offend me Ignaty Bryanchaninov
This prayer is more thankful, because the saint asks to send God to the enemies of various blessings. This he explains by the fact that it is the enemies that allow a person to become closer to God, teaching humility and realizing existing sins.
The text of the prayer for those who hate and offend us:
"Thank You, Lord and my God, for all that has been accomplished is over me! I thank You for all the sorrows and temptations that You sent me for the purification of those who were defiled by sins, for the healing of ulcerated sins, my soul and body! Have mercy and save those instruments that You used for my healing: those people who insulted me. Bless them in this and the next century! Give them in virtue what they did for me! Assign them from your eternal treasures abundant rewards. What did I bring to You? What pleasing sacrifices? I brought only sins, some violations of Your divine commandments. Forgive me, Lord, forgive the guilty before you and before men! Forgive meek and unrequited! Grant me to be sure and sincerely admit that I am a sinner! Grant me to reject sly excuses! Grant me repentance! Grant me a broken heart! Grant me meekness and humility! Grant love to your neighbors, love the blameless, the same to all, and comfort and insult me! Grant me patience in all my sorrows! Die me for peace! Wash my sinful will from me, and plant your holy will in my heart, and make it one and work, and words and thoughts, and my feelings. "
There are other prayers for those who hate and offend us.
Troparion, Tone 4:
"The Lord of love, who prayed for those who crucified you, and to your disciples about the enemies who prayed commanded! Those who hate and offend us, forgive, and turn from all evil and deceit to brotherly and virtuous life, humblely pleading to Thee: let us glorify You, the one Humano, in consonance with one mind. "
Kontakion, Tone 5th:
"As the first martyr Your Stefan prayed for those who killed him, Lord, and we, falling to You, pray: hate everyone and offend us, forgive, so that not one of them because of us is lost, but all were saved by your grace, God is all-merciful" .