The Feast of the Intercession was established back in the tenth century in memory of the miraculous events in Constantinople. In Christian tradition, it embodies the patronage and maternal care of the Mother of God over all believers.
Prayers to the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos
for protection:
O Most Holy Mother of God, you have covered the Christian people with your honest omophorion! Cover us also from all evil visible and invisible. Be our mother and intercessor in life and at the hour of death. Pray to your Son, Christ our God, to grant us forgiveness of sins, peace for our souls and salvation. To you, O All-God, we resort with faith and hope, and to your motherly intercession we give our lives now and ever, and for ever and ever. Amen.
Prayer for Marriage:
O Blessed Virgin Mary, accept this prayer from me, your unworthy servant, and lift it up to the Throne of your son God, that he may be merciful to our requests. I appeal to Thee as to our Advocate: hear us who pray to Thee, cover us with Thy covering, and ask of God Thy Son for us all blessings: to spouses love and harmony, to children obedience, to the offended patience, to those who mourn complacency, to all of us the spirit of reason and piety, the spirit of mercy and gentleness, the spirit of purity and truth.
Keep me from pride and self-love, and give me a willingness to work and bless my labours. As the Law of the Lord our God commands people to live in an honest couple, bring me, Mother of God, to him, not to please my desire, but to fulfil the purpose of our Holy Father, for he himself said: it is not good for a man to be alone, and having created a woman to help him, he blessed them to grow, multiply and populate the earth. Amen
Most Holy Mother of God, hear this humble prayer from the depths of my maidenly heart: give me a husband who is honest and pious, so that in love and harmony we may glorify You, merciful God: Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
On Defence:
Remember us in thy prayers, O Lady Devo Theotokos, that we may not perish for the multiplication of our sins, cover us from all evil and fierce attacks; on thee, for we hope and, Thy Protection we holily honour, Thee we magnify.
Prayer to the Intercession:
Remember, O Most Merciful Virgin Mary, that from time immemorial it has not been heard that one who comes under Thy heavenly protection has not been listened to by Thee, O Queen. In that need I also come to Thee, O Lady of tender, merciful, most charming holiness in heaven and on earth, flame of love of the Immaculate Heart, Universal Mother, Virgin above all Virgins, and Mother of God’s Unceasing Help. I nag before Thee and, repenting from all the sins of my earthly life, through Thy Immaculate Heart I beseech Thee: Mother of Thy Holy Word, Mother of Holy Truth, tireless Advocate of the feast, accept my sincere pleas, do not be proud of them, but listen to them, I beseech Thee, and accept them to Thy motherly heart. Amen.