Orthodox worship is very diverse. In addition to the main church service of the liturgy, services are held in churches for various needs of believers. These services include prayer services.
A prayer service is a service in which God, the Mother of God, saints or angels are asked for help in various everyday needs. In fact, the prayer following is a special prayer of a believer with a specific request. So, prayers can be ordered for the sick, before going on a trip. There are special thanksgiving prayers, prayers for help in studies, family matters, and help in trade. The list is by no means exhaustive.
You can pray at the prayer service both to the Lord and to the saints or the Mother of God. In this case, it is necessary to indicate to whom exactly the prayer is ordered so that the choir sings certain troparia, and the priest pronounces the prayer chants.
Before ordering a prayer service, it is useful to know at what time such a service is performed. In small parishes (where divine services are held on Saturdays, Sundays and great holidays), prayers are most often served in the morning at the end of the liturgy. In large cathedrals, prayers may well be performed daily, except for a few days established by the charter (for example, Holy Week or Sabbaths for the dead).
In order to order a prayer service, you need to contact the staff of the church who accepts church notes. Just as a person orders a commemoration at a liturgy or funeral service, the names are also recorded for the prayer sequence. It is worth remembering that prayers can be ordered for living baptized people. Prayers for repose in the Orthodox Church do not exist (for this, the charter presupposes the performance of requiems).
If a person orders a prayer service to some saint, then it is worthwhile for the staff of the church who receives the notes to tell which ascetic. The same applies to the practice of prayer to the Lord or the Mother of God. Names for prayer services are written in the genitive case.
You can order a prayer service in the church at any time when the House of God is open for believers. In this case, the names will be commemorated at the upcoming prayer singing. In addition, the prayer service is ordered directly on the day of its performance, for example, before the divine liturgy.
An Orthodox person should especially understand that the writing of names for a prayer service in itself is not some kind of mystical act akin to a conspiracy. Prayer services are performed in churches for this, so that believers pray for their relatives and loved ones during this church service. Therefore, when ordering a prayer service, it is good to be at the service yourself. True, there is a tradition to order prayers during pilgrimage trips: in monasteries or holy places. In this case, the person himself cannot be present at the prayer services performed in a specific place. However, this should not be an excuse for the absence of glue prayer or prayer in the temple for people at another time and in another place.
Sometimes it is worth ordering a prayer service in advance. For example, in those cases when it is known that a shrine (miraculous icon or relics) is in the parish. Usually a lot of people flock to such molebens, therefore, immediately before the start of the service, you may not have time to write down the names and stand in line for the entire service. Therefore, it is worth ordering a prayer service in advance on the eve of the event, or coming to the church in advance before the start of the service, so that during the prayer service itself you will no longer be distracted from the church service itself.
