As performed the consecration of the apartment (house)

The Holy Orthodox Church is called to sanctification of the human person. The participation in the sacraments gives man the possibility of initiation of divine grace, the strengthening of the spiritual life. In addition, the Church sanctifies and the world and human life through different succession.

In Orthodox Christian practice, there is a special rite, called in the Missal the blessing of a new home. In everyday life, it is called the sanctification of the apartment (or other principal place of residence).

What does the name of the successor at the consecration of the housing

The very name indicates the essence of the rite is the blessing of a new home (apartment) to live in it. It should be understood that it is not a mystical rite, "updating" the power house, but the consecration of the home through the invocation of the Lord and appeal to Him to get the blessing of a godly life. It is important to remember that in itself a sanctification of housing does not benefit the person, it is also necessary to try to grow in spiritual life, and strive to the main ideal of Holiness – the Lord Jesus Christ.

The service for the consecration of the apartment (house)

The sanctification of the home takes about forty minutes time. Depending on the circumstances it may vary. Before the consecration of the apartment (house) prepared the table on which the priest put the gospel, the cross, a container of oil, kropia, a bowl of Holy water.

Before the consecration of the apartments on four load-bearing walls (to the cardinal)are applied to image cross. Under the signs of crosses are placed and candles.

The beginning of the rite of consecration of the apartment usually. At the exclamation of the elder sung (read) "King of heaven", followed by reading Trovatore on the Lord's prayer, "o Come, let us worship" and the 90th Psalm. During these readings performed the censing of the apartment (house). After that, a special troparion is sung, which is called peace and God's blessing on the home, just as the house of the tax collector Zacchaeus the publican was sanctified by the visit of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Then the priest reads a prayer in which he asks God to save the occupants from all evil, bless them and shelter. Read another secret prayer by the presbyter, in which he requested God's blessing on life in a particular place and multiply all the best that are useful to man, in the house of SEM.

In chenopodiacee consecration of the house and contains a special prayer at the consecration of the oil, the reading of which is sprinkling the house with Holy water followed by the anointing of the image of the cross on the walls already consecrated oil. After the anointing of the walls lit candles affixed stickers with the crucifixion.

During the sprinkling of Holy water flat is sung the stanza, in which he requested God's blessing on this house, and useful for the occupants of the worldly and spiritual benefits.

Next, they read a passage from the gospel of Luke, which describes the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the house to mitaru Zacchaeus. After the Scripture is read the hundredth Psalm and augmented litany is pronounced, which commemorated the names of the tenants and their relatives and friends, a frequent visitor to this apartment.

At the end of the litany, pronounced the dismissal, and the rite of blessing of a new home ends.