A Prayer For Doctors, Nurses, and First Responders
O Lord Jesus Christ our God, Lover of Mankind, Physician of our souls and bodies, who did bear the pain of our infirmities, and by whose wounds we are healed; Who gave sight to the man born blind; Who straightened the woman who was bent over for 18 years; Who gave speech and sight to the mute demoniac; Who not only forgave the paralytic his sins, but healed him to walk; Who restored the withered hand of a troubled man; Who stopped the flow of blood of her who bled for 12 years; Who raised Jairus’ daughter to life; And brought the 4-day-dead Lazarus to life; And who heals every infirmity under the sun:
Do now, O Lord, grant Thy grace to all those who have labored and studied hour upon hour, to go into all the world, and also to heal by the talent You have given to each of them. Strengthen them, by Your strength, to fear no evil or disease. Enlighten them to do no evil by the works of their hands, and preserve them and those they serve in peace, for You are our God, and we know no other, and to You we ascribe glory together with Your Father who is from everlasting, and Your most Holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
A Prayer For Those who are Ailing
O Lord Almighty, healer of our souls and bodies, Who puts down and raises up, Who chastises and heals also; now, in Your great mercy, visit our brothers and sisters who are sick. Stretch forth Your hand that is full of healing and health, and raise them up, and cure them of their illness. Put away from them the spirit of disease and of every malady, pain and fever to which they are bound. And if they have sins and transgressions, grant to them remission and forgiveness, for You love humankind. Yes, O Lord my God, have pity on Your creation, through the compassions of Your only-begotten Son, together with Your all-holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, with whom You art blessed, both now and ever, and to ages of ages.
Prayer to the Theotokos for Healing
Where bitter sorrows overcome us, there will Patience and Rest be revealed. Where the torment of despair dwells in the soul, there will shine the ineffable Light of Divinity! Console the fainthearted, strengthen the weak, bestow softening and enlightenment upon embittered hearts. Heal Your ailing people, O All-merciful Queen! Bless the minds and hands of our physicians, that they might serve as instruments of the All-powerful Physician, Christ our Saviour. We pray before Your Icon, that You might truly live with us, O Sovereign Lady! Stretch out Your hands, filled with healing and cures, O Joy of the sorrowful, Consolation in afflictions, that having speedily received miraculous help, we may glorify the Life-creating and Undivided Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, unto the ages of ages. Amen.