Prayer against desecration. Rule against desecration in a dream: when to read Prayer after night desecration

Desecration in Orthodoxy is a purely male sin, implying ejaculation (“expiration”) in a dream or sexual intercourse with a woman outside of marriage. Orthodox Christians who have expired in a dream are assigned by their confessor a prayer against desecration, which they read in accordance with certain rules and instructions.

Modern clergy define desecration as any discharge in a dream, including during the copulation of spouses. But church canons, in particular, the Rules of Athanasius the Great, do not consider expiration in marital relations to be sinful (except during times of strict fasting). Moreover, it is clarified that it is not the seed itself that is desecrated, but the desires that provoke its eruption.

Reasons for desecration

There are 6 reasons leading to expiration, of which three are not sinful:

• from carnal thoughts and lust
• from arrogance and pride
• from gluttony and alcohol abuse
• natural ejaculation (in a dream)
• from weakness and illness
• from demonic envy

The first three reasons are considered the embodiment of sin, therefore, the ejaculation caused by them is defilement. The flow of sin is most condemned among the sacred brethren. There are even separate prayers of repentance for them.

It is difficult to abstain at a young age, when monks come to serve the Lord. It takes long and hard work to tame human flesh and not give in to temptation. The devil makes every effort to make young souls show weakness, and tries to get novices to leave the chosen righteous path.

Confessor appointments

Prayers against desecration are divided into prayers for parishioners and prayers for church ministers.

Men who have sinned, as a result of carnal thoughts, should get up and first read a prayer of worship to the Heavenly King, then read Psalm No. 50 and sing troparia (tone 7). Finish by saying the words “Lord, have mercy” 40 times and making 50 deep bows, asking God for forgiveness.

Prayer to the King of Heaven

“Heavenly King, Comforter of the Soul of Truth, who is everywhere and fulfills everything, Treasure of good things and Giver of life, come and dwell in us, and cleanse us from all filth, and save our blessed souls.”
sheep, and humble their evil hearts, and crush them like dust in the face of the wind. Oh, Lord the Great Archangel Michael! Six-winged first Prince and Governor of the Heavenly forces - Cherubim and Seraphim, be our helper in all troubles, sorrows, sorrows, a quiet refuge in the desert and on the seas. O Lord the Great Archangel Michael! Deliver us from all the charms of the devil, when You hear us, sinners, praying to You, calling on Your Holy name. Hasten to our aid and overcome all who oppose us, by the power of the Honest and Life-giving Cross of the Lord, the prayers of the Most Holy Theotokos, the prayers of the holy Apostles, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Andrew, for Christ's sake, the holy fool, the holy prophet Elijah and all the holy great martyrs: holy martyrs Nikita and Eustus -fiy, and all our reverend fathers, who have pleased God from the ages, and all the holy Heavenly Powers.”

Then prayers to St. Basil (known as the Archbishop of Caesarea) are necessarily read. Saint Basil described fasting as deliverance from sins, imaginable and inconceivable. He condemned drunkenness as a product of the devil, leading to sinful acts.

Prayer to Basil the Great

“Much merciful, incorruptible, undefiled, sinless Lord, cleanse me, Thy unworthy servant, from all filthiness of the flesh and soul, and from my inattention and despondency the uncleanness that has come to me, along with all my other iniquities, and show me undefiled, Master, for the goodness of Christ Yours, and sanctify
me by the invasion of Your Most Holy Spirit: for having awakened from the darkness of the unclean ghosts of the devil and all filth, I was deemed worthy with a clear conscience to open my unclean and unclean lips, and sing Thy all-holy name, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and forever forever and ever. Amen."

The confessor can also assign a layman the reading of prayers, with an appeal to the Most Holy Theotokos or to John Chrysostom. In the texts, the prayer asks for patience, humility, generosity and meekness, and protection from passions.

Prayer to John Chrysostom

“O great saint John Chrysostom! You received many and varied gifts from the Lord and, as a good and faithful servant, you multiplied all the talents given to you for good, for this reason you were truly a universal teacher, as every age and every rank learns from you. You are the image of obedience to the youth,
a luminary of chastity, a teacher of hard work for husbands, a teacher of kindness for the elderly, a rule of abstinence for monks, a leader inspired by God for those who pray, an enlightener of mind for those seeking wisdom, an inexhaustible source of living words for those who seek good words, a star of mercy for those who do good, a wise image for those in authority. , a zealot of truth is an inspirer of boldness, a teacher of patience to those who are persecuted, you were a guide to everyone, and you saved everyone. Over all of these you have acquired love, which is the bond of perfection, and with that, as if by the power of the Divine, you have united all the gifts in your one person, and here you have shared the reconciling love, in the interpretation of the words of the apostles, you preached to all the faithful. We, sinners, each of us have our own talent, we are not imams of unity of spirit in the union of peace, we are vainglorious, irritating each other, envious of each other, for this sake of our gift we are divided not into peace and salvation, but into enmity and condemnation. Moreover, we fall to you, the saint of God, overwhelmed by discord, and in contrition of heart we ask: with your prayers drive away from our hearts all pride and envy that divides us, so that in many places there will be one church body, so that, according to your prayerful words, we will love each other and with one mind we confess the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, Consubstantial and Indivisible, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen."

The priests read a special prayer of repentance to the Lord God.

Prayer “For Priests”

“Lord our God, the only Good and Lover of mankind, the only Holy One and resting on the saints, who appeared in vision to Your supreme Apostle Peter, nothing foul or unclean to behold, from You created for food and for the enjoyment of man, and Your chosen vessel, the Apostle Paul, all clean clean
Commanded: You Yourself, the Most Holy Master, by invoking Your terrible and most pure Name, and by the sign of the terrible and Life-giving Cross, bless and cleanse me Your servant (name), who has been defiled from every unclean spirit, from every dream and poisonous reptile, from all lawlessness and from all flattery, from every kind of indulgence, and every kind of evil, and from every nasty evil deed of the devil. And now Thy servant (name) who is unworthy of me: grant, through Thy mercy, to serve Thy most pure Mysteries. And first cleanse my soul and body from all filth, and forsake every sin, voluntary and involuntary, that I have sinned all the days of my life, in deed, word and thought, in days and in nights, and until this hour. And grant to me, Lord, this terrible service of the heavenly Orders, and the communion of Thy Most Pure Mysteries, not for judgment or condemnation, but for the forgiveness of sins, and the coming of the Holy Spirit, and the life of ever-present joy, which Thou hast prepared for Thy true minister. Save me, Lord Almighty, from all sin and malice, keep me undefiled and blameless from all leprosy of the opposite devil: and grant me, Lord, to serve You in honor and righteousness until the last day and hour and my end: for You are the One who blesses and sanctifies all things. “O Christ our God, we send up glory to You, with Your Originless Father, and with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages, Amen.”

Deacons and hieromonks talk about the need to perform the sacrament of communion after desecration has occurred:
“If a layman has been tempted by Satan, then it is imperative to receive communion, so that the devil will no longer seduce him into weak flesh. If he has been subjected to the lust of his wife, then he should not receive communion.”

In all cases, men who have experienced a discharge in a dream must, after reading the obligatory common prayer, turn to their spiritual fathers for repentance and forgiveness. There is no need to be shy, because human weaknesses are visible and understandable to the Heavenly Father, and his love for his children is limitless.

Rule against desecration
Whenever someone is tempted in a dream by the work of the devil, he gets up from his bed and bows, saying:

God, be merciful to me, a sinner.
The same beginning is usual: Our Father... Lord, have mercy (12) . Glory, even now. Come, let's worship... (three times) Have mercy on me, God...

And this troparia, tone 7
Good shepherd, who laid down your soul for us, aware of the hidden things that I have done, the only good one, save me with my erring mind, and snatch me from the wolf, Lamb of God, and have mercy on me. Weighed down by the sleep of despondency, I am darkened by the delusion of sin: but grant me the morning of repentance, enlightening the eyes of my mind, O Christ God, enlightenment of my soul, and save me. We weave the mind of my damned soul with the darkness of sin and the sweets of life, it gives birth to various passions, and the thought of tenderness does not come. But be generous, O Savior, with my humility, and give me a thought of compunction, so that we may save before the end I will cry out to Your compassion: Lord Christ my Savior, save me, desperate and unworthy. Just as I fell into the hands of robbers and was vulnerable, so I fell into many sins, and my soul is vulnerable. To whom shall I resort when guilty: only to You, the merciful Physician of souls: pour out Your great mercy on me, O God.

Glory: As the prodigal son came and I, Generous: receive me, Father, when I return, as one of Thy hired servant, O God, and have mercy on me.

And now: Theotokos

Deliver, O Mother of God, from the sins that hold us back: for the imams have no other hope of faith except You, and the Lord born of You.

Is the same: Lord have mercy. (40)

And 8 bows, with prayer: God, be merciful to me, and forgive me the prodigal for Your Holy Name.

First prayer, Saint Basil the Great
The packs were cursed by their minds and evil customs, working in sin. Paki, the prince of darkness and passionate sweets, the parent, has created me captivated, and like a humble slave, he forces me to work with desire and carnal desire. And what will I do, my Lord, both to the Deliverer and the Intercessor of those who trust in Thee, if not to Thee I will return and groan and ask for mercy for what I have done; but I am afraid and trembling, but not always confessing, and promising to retreat from the evil ones, and sinning every hour: and not having rendered my prayer to You, my God, I will raise Your long-suffering to indignation. And whoever endures Your wrath, O Lord; Knowing the multitude of Your bounty, and the abyss of Your love for mankind, I again turn myself to Your mercy, and I cry to You: forgive those who have sinned. Have mercy on me, fallen, give me a helping hand, immersed in the mud of sweets. Do not, Lord, leave Your creation to be corrupted by my iniquities and my sins: but by Your usual mercy and goodness we compel you to deliver from feces and bodily filth and passionate thoughts, which always defile my accursed soul: behold, Lord, as you see, there is no place in it she is clean, but she is all leprous, and her whole body is covered in ulcers. For yourself, O Lover of mankind, Physician of souls and bodies and source of mercy, cleanse the flow of my tears, pouring them out on me abundantly: pour out Your love for mankind on me, and give me healing and cleansing, and heal my contrition, and do not turn Your face away from me , but not like a thing, the fire of despair will engulf me: but as You said, Unfalse God, that there is great joy in heaven for one sinner who repents, do this also for me, a sinner, and do not close the ear of Your compassion in the prayer of my repentance; but open them, and like a censer, correct it before You: weigh the weakness of nature to the Creator, and make comfortable the creep of youth, and the heaviness of the body, and despise sins, and accept the repentance of those who call upon You with the truth. For Your Most Honorable and Magnificent Name, of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, is blessed and glorified, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Second prayer, Saint Basil the Great
Most merciful, imperishable, undefiled, sinless Lord, cleanse me, Thy indecent servant, from all filthiness of the flesh and soul, and from my inattention and despondency the uncleanness that has come to me, along with all my iniquities, and show me undefiled, O Master, for the goodness of Thy Christ , and sanctify me by the invasion of Your Most Holy Spirit: for having aroused from the darkness of the unclean ghosts of the devil, and all kinds of filth, I may be deemed worthy with a clear conscience to open my unclean and unclean lips, and sing Thy all-holy name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer three
Lord our God, who have sinned in these days in word, deed and thought, as He is Good and Lover of Mankind, forgive me. Grant me a peaceful and serene sleep. Send Your guardian angel, covering and keeping me from all evil, for You are the guardian of our souls and bodies, and we send glory to You, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Prayer Four of St. John Chrysostom
(24 prayers, according to the number of hours of the day and night)
1. Lord, do not deprive me of Your heavenly blessings.
2. Lord, deliver me from eternal torment.
3. Lord, whether I have sinned in mind or in thought, in word or in deed, forgive me.
4. Lord, deliver me from all ignorance and oblivion, and cowardice, and petrified insensibility.
5. Lord, deliver me from every temptation.
6. Lord, enlighten my heart, darken my evil lust.
7. Lord, as a man who has sinned, You, as a generous God, have mercy on me, seeing the weakness of my soul.
8. Lord, send Your grace to help me, that I may glorify Your Holy name.
9. Lord Jesus Christ, write me Your servant in the book of living things and grant me a good end.
10. Lord, my God, even if I have done nothing good before You, grant me, by Your grace, to make a good beginning.
11. Lord, sprinkle the dew of Your grace in my heart.
12. Lord of heaven and earth, remember me, Thy sinful servant, cold and unclean, in Thy Kingdom. Amen.

1. Lord, accept me in repentance.
2. Lord, do not forsake me.
3. Lord, do not lead me into misfortune.
4. Lord, give me a good thought.
5. Lord, give me tears and mortal memory, and tenderness.
6. Lord, give me the thought of confessing my sins.
7. Lord, give me humility, chastity and obedience.
8. Lord, give me patience, generosity and meekness.
9. Lord, plant in me the root of good things, Thy fear in my heart.
10. Lord, grant me to love You with all my soul and thoughts and to do Your will in everything.
11. Lord, protect me from certain people, and demons, and passions, and from all other inappropriate things.
12. Lord, consider that you have done as You willed, that Your will be done in no sinner, for Thou art blessed forever. Amen.

Fifth prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos
My Most Holy Lady Theotokos, with Your saints and all-powerful prayers, take away from me, Your humble and cursed servant, despondency, oblivion, unreason, negligence, and all the nasty, evil and blasphemous thoughts from my cursed heart and from my darkened mind; and extinguish the flame of my passions, for I am poor and damned. And deliver me from many and cruel memories and enterprises, and free me from all evil actions. For Thou art blessed from all generations, and glorified is Thy Most Honorable Name forever and ever. Amen.

Is the same: Most honorable Cherub... Glory, even now. Lord have mercy. (three times) God bless.

And release: Lord Jesus Christ, our God, prayers for the sake of Your Most Pure Mother and all the saints, save me, a sinner.

Prayer from desecration
Lord our God, the only Good and Lover of mankind, the only Holy One and rest on the saints, Who was revealed in vision to Your supreme Apostle Peter, nothing foul or unclean to behold, from You created for food and for the enjoyment of man, and Your chosen vessel, the Apostle Paul is all pure commanded pure: You Yourself, the Most Holy Master, by invoking Your Terrible and Most Pure Name, and by the sign of the Honest and Life-giving Cross, bless and cleanse me, Your servant (name), defiled from every hostile spirit, from every dream and poisonous reptile, from every lawlessness and all flattery, from all indulgence and from all vanity, and from every illness, and from every kind of ulcer, and from every nasty villainy of the devil. And now, through Your mercy, grant Thy servant, unworthy of me, to serve Thy most pure Mysteries. And first cleanse my soul and body from all filth, and forsake every sin, voluntary and involuntary, that I have sinned all the days of my life, in deed, word and thought, in days and in nights, and until this hour. And grant me, Lord, this terrible service of the heavenly Orders, and the communion of Your Most Pure Mysteries, not for judgment or condemnation, but for the forgiveness of sins, and the coming of the Holy Spirit, and the life of ever-present joy, which You have prepared for Your true minister. Save me, Lord Almighty, from all sin and malice, keep me undefiled and blameless from all leprosy of the opposite devil: and grant me, Lord, to serve You in honor and righteousness until the last day and hour and my end: for You are the One who blesses and sanctifies all things. O Christ our God, we send up glory to You with Your Beginning Father and with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Then the prayer of St. Basil the Great

Again I was defeated, unfortunate, serving sin with my mind and evil custom. Once again, the prince of darkness and passionate pleasures, the father, has made me a captive, and as a submissive slave, he is forcing me to serve his will and the lusts of the flesh. And what should I do, my Lord, and Redeemer, and Protector of those who trust in You, if I do not return to You again, and groan, and ask for mercy for what I have done? But I am afraid and trembling, so that by always confessing and promising to deviate from evil, but sinning every hour and not fulfilling my vow to You, my God, I will not raise Your patience to indignation. And who will endure Your wrath, O Lord! But knowing Your great compassion and the depths of Your love for mankind, I again entrust myself to Your mercy and cry to You: What have I sinned, forgive me! Have mercy on me, fallen, give me a helping hand, mired in the mud of pleasures. Do not, O Lord, leave Your creation to be corrupted by my iniquities and my sins; but with Your usual mercy and goodness we urge you to deliver me from the dirt and filthiness of the body and passionate thoughts, which always defile my unfortunate soul. Behold, Lord, as You see, there is no clean place in her, but she is all leprous, and her whole body is covered with ulcers. So, O Lover of Mankind, physician of souls and bodies and source of mercy, cleanse her with the flow of my tears, pouring them out of my eyes abundantly; pour out Your love for mankind on me, and grant me healing and cleansing, and heal my wound, and do not turn Your face away from me, so that the fire of despair does not consume me like brushwood. But as You said, true God, that there is great joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, do so with me, a sinner, and do not close the ears of Your mercy to the prayer of my repentance, but open them, and direct it like incense before Your face. After all, You, the Creator, know the weakness of nature, and the ease of stumbling in youth, and the heaviness of the body; and You do not look at sins, and accept the repentance of those who call You in truth. For blessed and glorified is Thy revered and majestic name, of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and always, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

The life of every Christian consists not only of pious and pleasant actions: prayer, pilgrimage, reading about miracles, etc. But unfortunately, there are serious difficulties on the path of every believer, because the inner spiritual life is associated not only with ups, but also with downs.

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By turning to God, a Christian is sanctified, that is, made more holy, because he turns to the Holy Spirit. And, as you know, the Holy Spirit is the third hypostasis of God. When a man's spirit, his inner settings, as it were, he compares with the Spirit of God, becomes at least a little like his Heavenly Father, and He, as you know, is Love and the highest Good. Simply put, it’s good to be with Him, when He’s near, a person just feels good. A believer commits fewer actions that would sadden them and introduce disharmony into their already more or less established internal harmony.

Saints are saints because their inner world, through efforts and resistance to temptations, has become similar to that of the Angels. In Orthodoxy they speak of such people as “earthly angels and heavenly men.” By the way, Basil the Great himself, the author of the rule against desecration, is glorified among the saints.

A person begins to feel good when his inner world, as it were, becomes magnetized to God and begins to receive for himself the highest good for the human soul - the constant presence of God through His Spirit.

But the man sinned. Suddenly I decided to do something that goes completely against God and His structure. Harmony collapses, a person’s inner world is demagnetized, and the sinner begins to suffer. Because he allowed disharmony not just in his world, but in his relationship with Heavenly Father. It ceased to be the metal that could attract a magnet to itself, lost its properties, by its actions it placed itself on a par not with Angels, but with animals, and allowed filth into itself. And now it needs cleansing in order to restore interaction with God. After all, His Spirit does not interact with any spiritual defilement. That is, it does not enter into communication, does not become at least to some extent common.

But, as all Christians know, nothing is irreparable. Of course, wallowing in something nasty is not a pleasant pleasure. However, if this did happen and the filth touched the person’s soul, then the situation can be corrected through certain rules established by the holy fathers. This is called the rule against desecration. Its author is Basil the Great, one of the main teachers of the Church. People came to listen to his sermons from the farthest corners of the world.

What is the rule against desecration

The rule against desecration is a certain sequence of prayers.. It is composed of psalms and requests for restoration to their former dignity. The rule helps to express regret about one’s sinful nature, recognition of one’s damaged nature.

Rule against defilement read by men

Men resort to the rule against defilement if involuntary ejaculation occurs in a dream or at night. And even more so if it was arbitrary. A discharge in a dream or in reality that occurs due to marital relations or illness is not defilement.

Before the text itself, the rules usually publish a note about what men need to read and in what cases. It is also indicated that it is read with the blessing of a spiritual mentor.

Rule against defilement read by women

There is no special rule against defilement for women. Women can also have night dreams and various bad things about sleep and reality, ending in the same way as an act with a man. Yes, people are far from alien to carnal desires, however, they should be satisfied with the husband, in a legal, ideally church marriage. If a woman is alone, not married, then she must fight her passions, pray and, if there was temptation, then she must repent, including during confession. If you constantly do everything correctly, then soon the desires will decrease and it will be much easier to cope with them.

What can provoke a situation in which a rule against desecration is needed?

The main provocateurs may be:

From the history of the human body and its sinfulness

A person does not always defile by his own personal choice:

• it could be some kind of accident,
• disease,
• completely natural, logical processes over which man has no control.

For example, male representatives cannot always control the ejaculation of semen at night. However, defilement occurs, even if it is not spiritual, but only physical, but nevertheless.

There shouldn't be any shame about it. However, shame nevertheless often touches the human soul. And this is natural. The fact is that our modern bodies are in so many ways identical to the bodies of animals.

But this was not always the case, although many people do not know about this simply because they rarely or inattentively read the pages of the Holy Scriptures (the Bible). Before his fall, man had a body of a completely different nature. It was not so dense, it was capable of passing through material objects, disappearing in one place and instantly materializing in another. Yes, that sounds fantastic. However this is true.

Let's turn to the pages of Holy Scripture. When Adam and Eve sinned, they had a conversation with God, in which He gave them the opportunity to repent, admit their mistakes and take responsibility for them. But Adam and Eve, who disobeyed their Creator and ate the then forbidden fruits of one of the trees in the Garden of Eden, refused to repent. They only shifted the blame for what happened either onto each other or onto God himself. Adam told his creator that these fruits that He ate were given to him by Eve. And then he added that He, God, gave this woman to him.

That is, it turns out that it is generally God who is to blame for everything. Adam himself, in his own interpretation, turned out to be just a victim. This is why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden. However, before finally settling them on Earth, according to what is written in ancient biblical texts, God “dressed them in leather garments.” This is one of the important fragments in the entire book about the history of mankind.

In the era of atheism, when literally everything connected with God, holy books, and spiritual life was changed, people who taught relevant academic subjects in educational institutions especially laughed at this place in the Bible. They interpreted it as if He caught several of His creatures - animals - killed them, took off the skin and put it on the first people.

Now this is, of course, funny. And this laughter through the tears. The Perfect Creator, who created everything around for love and peace, suddenly turns out to be almost the first murderer, in order for some reason to dress the first people in the skins of other creatures.

Of course, everything was completely wrong. By leather vestments is meant the compaction of the spiritual bodies of the first people to a state that is characteristic of the bodies of animals. Man, through these new, incomparably worse bodies, which were sick, which can be damaged, destroyed, which are especially sensitive to both frost and heat, etc., received the opposite properties instead of infinity, eternity and immortality:

• passion (predisposition to addiction),
• temporary,
• death.

That is why, precisely because of the properties of our imperfect bodies, which we now carry as a heavy burden, indicating to us that without God and His grace, on which He built everything, only such a life is possible. The body is a vessel of sin, this is an initially crippled (by us) instrument. That is why we sin so often, and sometimes involuntarily. Therefore, on the one hand, desecration is, in general, a common occurrence since the Fall of man. On the other hand, this is nevertheless not the norm for us, people called to life with God in his Kingdom.

Flesh without sin and without blemish

However, for the past 2000 years everything has been so sad. God the Savior has already come, suffered for us, and already in the future changed our nature, making it the same as it was before the first sin. Yes, now we continue to be the same. However, the Lord Jesus has already conquered death by His great Resurrection, has already transformed our bodies in His glorious body. Through Baptism into Him, through His body and blood, which occurs every week in the temple, we touch the sacrament of illumination, prepare our soul, our flesh for the glorious transformation on the day of the General Resurrection.

When the Lord rose again , He appeared before the disciples who were sitting tightly locked in one of the houses. They were afraid that the Jews would find them and kill them. But suddenly Christ appeared between them right in the room. He passed locks, doors and walls. Thus, He, voluntarily or involuntarily, not on purpose, but demonstrated the capabilities of a new, or, more precisely, transformed to the state of the first grace of the human body.

When the disciples, after His crucifixion, traveled from one city to another and were in different places and in different cities, Jesus simultaneously accompanied some, talked with others and was with others. And all this being in a human body, similar to ours, but transformed. The bodies of Adam and Eve had the same properties. All this indicates that that when the Lord resurrects and transforms our bodies on the day of the general Resurrection, the onset of which every Christian confesses in the Creed, we will receive the same properties of the flesh.

Is it possible not to become defiled?

In the meantime, at a time when our bodies, as a result of the fall of our ancestors and confirmation by our personal sins, are still the bearer of sin, corruption and have the ability to instantly become dependent on everything convenient and pleasant, we need cleansing. This is why the rule against desecration was written. It is not difficult to find: you just need to search the Internet and download it.

You can protect yourself from desecration. First, you need to discuss this with your confessor or priest. It is not advisable to resort to this without permission.

Required:

• frequent or constant prayer,
• frequent confession
• regular Communion.

Why do I need a rule if I can already talk to God?

The question usually arises: why do we need any rule at all? Is it really impossible to just ask God for something, just to express your regret in your own words, why is all this necessary, why would it occur to some other people to interfere in the personal relationship between God and a specific person?

The fact is that the Church of Christ embraces literally all of humanity, every person. There are very, very many people who have come to Christ. And not every one of them is able to express their feelings in such a way as to:

• on the one hand, to be cleansed of filth,
• on the other hand, do not go into some inner jungle during your prayers.

For example, you can tell God that "I'm sorry." But then suddenly the thought comes to mind: “but I’m not so guilty, after all, I’m a bearer of sin, this is normal, this is natural...”. After which it turns out that the person does not repent at all, and that he has generally forgotten where he started. And will this be a conversation with God? No. Moreover, such a prayer will be more harmful than beneficial.

Rule against desecration, which can be read and listened to in recording, written by one of the greatest Christians, contains a feeling of repentance on the one hand, and on the other hand, keeps a person from unnecessary wanderings and philosophical reflections, which can very easily fall into a person who is not used to to prayer. The rule is the bottom of the ship of your prayer that will prevent it from sinking.

What is desecration? Is a person considered defiled after marital relations? If not, then I heard that there are still some prohibitions. Why does desecration occur? Is it possible to receive communion if there was desecration at night?

Hieromonk Job (Gumerov) answers:

In modern practice, any outflow that occurs in a dream is called defilement. However, according to church canons, only such an outflow in a dream that had sinful causes is recognized as desecration (see the 1st rule of St. Athanasius the Great). A person is not considered defiled if he has had a marital relationship.

Discharges can occur for various reasons. The main thing is sensual excitement and carnal thoughts. In addition, it can happen: “1) to judge a sincere person, that is, his brother, who is a sinner; 2) from arrogance and pride, and that is also sinful; 3) from overeating and drinking, also decently; 4) it pours out from nature without movement and without dreaming, just like other excesses; 5) from bodily weakness and certain illness; 6) from demonic envy” (Rule of prayer for those preparing for holy communion and daily evening and morning. M., 1893; reprint: M., 1993. P. 137). The reasons that caused the last three cases of expiration are not imputed to the person as sin. Saint Athanasius the Great calls only outflows caused by sin defilement. In a letter to the Egyptian ascetic monk Ammun, he writes: “All of God’s creations are good and pure. For the Word of God did not create anything unprofitable or unclean. The fragrance of Christ is in those who are being saved, according to the Apostle (2 Cor. 2:15)... I am amazed at the trick of the devil, that, being corruption and destruction, he apparently puts in thoughts of purity. But what he does is more of a slander or a temptation. For, as I said, in order to distract the ascetics from their usual and saving care, and in this, as he imagines, to defeat them, for this purpose he stirs up such rumors that do not bring any benefit to life, but only empty questions and vanity, which should be avoided must. For tell me, beloved and most reverent, what is sinful or unclean in any natural eruption, such as, for example, if someone wanted to blame the discharge of phlegm from the nostrils and spitting from the mouth... Also, if, according to Divine Scripture, we believe that a person is the work of God's hands, how could a desecrated work come about from pure power; and if we are the race of God, according to the Divine Scripture of the Apostolic Acts (17:28), then we have nothing unclean in ourselves. For only then do we become defiled when we commit sin, the worst of all stench. And when some natural involuntary eruption occurs, then we and others are subjected to this, as was said above, by natural necessity... Blessedly, someone can say in this case: some natural eruption will not lead us to punishment. Perhaps doctors (even though they will be convinced by external contradictions) will say in defense of this that the animal is given some necessary results for the deposition of excess moisture nourished in each of our members, which are the essence of the excess of the head, hair and moisture, separating from the head, and emanating from womb, as well as its excess in the seminal vessels. So, most God-loving elder, what sin is there before God, when the Lord Himself who created the animal wanted and created for these members to have such outcomes? But it is necessary to prevent the contradictions of the evil ones. For they can say: therefore, the use itself will not be a sin when the tools are created by the Creator. Let us silence such questions by saying: what use are you talking about? Is it about legal? whether about that which God allowed, saying: “grow and multiply, and fill the earth” (Gen. 1: 28), or about that which the Apostle allowed, saying: “marriage is honorable, and the bed is undefiled” (Heb. 13: 4), or about that which happens between people, but happens secretly and adulterously? (Rules of the Orthodox Church. M., 2001. P. 353-355).

Is it possible to receive communion if the leak occurred in a dream? Saint Timothy of Alexandria († 385) gives the following rule: “Question. If a layman who had an unclean dream asks a clergyman: should he be allowed to receive communion or not? Answer. If he is subject to the lust of his wife, he should not take communion; if Satan tempts him, so that for this reason he will be alienated from the communion of the Divine Mysteries, then he must receive communion. For otherwise the tempter will not cease to attack him at the time when he should partake” (canon 12).

In the “Alphabetical Syntagma” of Matthew Vlastar, the 28th chapter (“K”) is devoted to this issue: “St. Dionysius of Alexandria in the 4th rule of those who have had an involuntary discharge of semen at night, makes their own incorruptible conscience the judge of this case: for if the flow of semen happened involuntarily, without any previous passionate excitement, when nature singled it out as a surplus, then the one who has suffered this can freely proceed to Divine communion; and if it was preceded by some passionate thought, which, having established itself in the imagination, produced a vision at night, and this was followed by the ejaculation of semen, or if this happened as a result of drunkenness and overeating, such a person is not clean not because of the ejaculation of semen, for semen is not unclean, like the flesh, of which it is a surplus, but because of an evil desire that has defiled the thought. Therefore, he who doubts this in his conscience is deprived of boldness; How can one who is disposed in this way approach God, for according to the great Paul: if you have doubts, you are condemned (Rom. 14:23) ... And the Great Basil, in his essay on asceticism, having been asked whether someone who had been defiled in a dream should dare to begin communion, answered that to approach someone in uncleanness to the holy mysteries is such a thing, the Last Judgment for which we know from the Old Testament; and if there is more holiness here, then, obviously, the apostle will teach us even greater fear, saying: he who eats and drinks is unworthy; judgment eats and drinks (1 Cor. 11:29); and the holy father called uncleanness not the eruption of semen, which, I think [according to the opinion of Zonara, in his interpretation of the letter of St. Athanasius the Great to the monk Ammun], no one can completely avoid unless he is completely insensitive, but the bad desire about which the Lord said: “Everyone will look at his wife,” and so on (Matthew 5:8), due to which sin is committed in thought through the pleasure of lust, and thus there is dreamy copulation in a dream and the ejaculation of semen.”

If the reasons for the expiration were sinful, then you need to read the prayer of St. Basil the Great against desecration (available in the complete Prayer Books) or the “Rule against defilement,” which is found in the Canons, and then confess this sin in the sacrament of repentance.