Prayer for a Spouse
O All-good Lord, I know that my great happiness depends on me loving You with all my soul and with all my heart, and so that I can fulfill Your holy will in everything.
Direct, O my God, my soul and fill my heart: I want to please you alone, for You are the Creator and my God.
Save me from pride and selfishness: let Your mind, modesty and chastity adorn me. Idleness is contrary to You and gives rise to vices, but give me a desire for diligence and bless my labors. For Your law therefore commands men to live in an honest marriage, then bring me, O Holy One, to this calling You sanctified, not to please my lust, but to fulfill Your purpose for You Yourself said it was not good for a man to be alone and made him a wife as an assistant, blessed them to grow, multiply and inhabit the earth.
Hear my humble prayer, give me an honest and pious spouse, so that in love with him and in harmony we glorify You, the merciful God: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever. Amen.
Archpriest Fedor Borodin
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