#Prayer for someone sick how to#

We pray that you would grant them strength and courage as they face this difficult time. We ask that you would bring healing and restoration to their body, mind, and spirit. We come to you today with heavy hearts, as we lift up in prayer.

#Prayer for someone sick how to#

In these prayers for the sick, we ask for guidance on how to support our loved ones, the courage to face whatever comes our way, and the blessings of healing and recovery. Whether we are praying for ourselves or someone we love, the power of asking God can help us find the strength and resilience we need to face difficult times. Prayers for the sick can provide comfort and support to those who are suffering from illness or injury, and can help us hold onto hope that they will get well. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!” We hope these selections linked above can give you and your loved ones comfort and strength.On this page you’ll find a collection of prayers for the sick. Francis de Sales once wrote: “The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. And, as offerings to Jesus on the cross in atonement for sins, they can have enormous redemptive value. So, there are two valuable benefits from prayers for the sick: they can help those who are ill (and their loved ones) keep calm and patient in stressful or physically or emotionally unpleasant situations. Yet Jesus can work on healing our souls, if not our bodies, right away, in increasing our humility, our compassion, and our desire to love others, through our prayers. Thus through love of God suffering becomes sacrifice.” And, what’s more, as he said, “Once offered as a sacrifice, pain can liberate the soul and turn a curse into a blessing.”Īlthough we might wish our Lord would heal us of our afflictions as quickly (and miraculously!) as He did for so many while in His earthly ministry (such as is shown in this picture above), we might not get timely relief. One can say ‘I will accept this particular suffering in order to make reparation for my own faults’. This can have a powerful effect in saving souls!Īs Bishop Fulton Sheen put it “Love does not have the power to kill pain or to extinguish it, but it does have the power to diminish it. Also, uniting our sufferings in prayer with Christ’s on the Cross helps us make amends for our sins and those of others. Prayers for the sick, as with all prayers, can help our Lord ease our burdens by giving us His graces to deal with them so that we can bear our crosses with more equanimity and with more patience. He said, as we read in Matthew’s Gospel “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest….For my yoke is easy, and my burden light” (Matt 11:28-30). However, he also gave us hope in trusting in Him to help see us through our difficulties. Our Lord said that we would each have our crosses to bear in this life (Matt 10:38). We also have among our selections a moving prayer in time of sickness, a prayer for a cure, a prayer for grace in sickness, and a prayer for those undergoing medical tests. Illness is just one of many misfortunes people face in a world steeped in sin.Īmong our prayers for the sick we offer this short one below:Īlmighty and Everlasting God, the eternal salvation of those who believe in You, hear us on behalf of Your servants who are sick, for whom we humbly beg the help of your mercy, so that, being restored to health, they may render thanks to you in your Church. We often travel in this life through a “valley of tears,” as we say in the prayer Hail Holy Queen. Are you undergoing an illness of some sort? Or do you know someone who is? As we all know, while our Lord in His Passion opened up for us the gates of Heaven, He did not create Heaven on Earth. Prayers for the sick are a great way to ask God for His healing and to give you, or your loved ones, comfort and strength to deal with afflictions.