Or a friend's operation? How to support him in difficult times? Only prayerfully, how could it be otherwise?
And who should we pray to? And how? Is there prayer for the patient during surgery? There is no specific one to indicate that it is read during the operation. But there are prayers that are read for those who are sick in any situation. We will talk about them in detail.
A story from life
What to do if a loved one is about to undergo surgery? Run to the temple and light candles to the icons?
You can do it this way. But what is the point of buying the most expensive candles and “stuffing” them among all the temple candlesticks, without asking for help from God, the Mother of God and the saints?
You know, in the book "Unholy Saints" there was an excellent story on this topic. It was in the USSR. The country of the Soviets was famous for its intransigence towards Christian religion. Somehow it happened that the authorities allowed the icon of the Mother of God “Vladimir” to be brought to one of the monasteries in Moscow. It was a miraculous icon.
Naturally, it could not have happened without accompanying high police officials. And when they were asked to venerate the image, no one dared, except one general. He risked his shoulder straps, because there were bosses nearby who were much higher in rank than himself. But there was no other way out.
The general's older sister had an accident. Both legs were crushed. There was an operation ahead. But the sister was very old, and the doctors honestly warned that her heart might not be able to withstand it. It was then that the general asked the Mother of God for help.
A miracle happened. No surgery was required. At night, my sister somehow turned around successfully, and the bones stood up the way they should have been. All the doctors had to do was apply a plaster cast and that was it.
This is what faith means. Albeit out of despair, without any candles or prayers, but the general turned to the Mother of God with all his heart. Without fearing for his position, that is, “he laid down his life for his neighbors.”
What is this for? Besides, you can read a good dozen akathists, but it’s soulless. Or you can, like this general, ask for help from the bottom of your heart without any prayers. This does not mean that you should not pray. Prayer for a patient during surgery is a necessary thing if it comes from the heart.
Who should I pray to?
This main question. Who should I contact? To the Lord God, first of all. To the Mother of God - our Intercessor. To the saints: the healer Panteleimon, Luke of Crimea, Spyridon of Trimifuntsky, John of Kronstadt, Job of Pochaev. Let's talk in more detail about prayer during surgery for the patient (to every saint).
How to prepare?
Let's touch on this topic. We cannot remain silent about preparing the patient for surgery. Just don’t be afraid of it, this preparation. Many people think: yeah, since we are talking about confession and communion, it means death awaits me. It's a lie. If all those who go to church died after communion, then there would be no believers left.
How to prepare:
- Firstly, be sure to wear a cross. And go for neck surgery with him, unless the doctor forbids it.
- Secondly, confess and receive communion. And also ask the priest for blessings for the operation.
- Thirdly, read akathists to the Lord, the Mother of God and the Guardian Angel. These are in any prayer book. As a rule, they are located after the three canons and, accordingly, before the communion.
Order a prayer service and magpie for health at the church. If you have the opportunity, read the akathist to Luke of Crimea.
Prayer to the Lord, compiled by Luka Krymsky
Relatives can read a prayer during surgery for the patient from Luke Krymsky. This saint was a surgeon during his lifetime. He also had to undergo complex operations. For example, on the skull. And at the same time, Saint Luke was a very religious man.
Master Almighty, holy King, punish and do not kill, strengthen those who fall and raise up those who are cast down, correct people’s bodily afflictions, we pray to Thee, our God, thy servant (name), who is weak, visit with Thy mercy. Forgive him for every sin, voluntary and involuntary.
To her, Lord, Thy healing power was sent down from heaven, to guide the mind and hand of Thy servant, the doctor (name), and to carry out the necessary surgery safely, so that the bodily ailment of Thy servant (name) would be completely healed, and every hostile invasion would be driven far away from him. . Raise him from his sick bed, and grant him health in soul and body, pleasing and doing Your will.
For it is Yours to have mercy and save us, our God, and to You we send glory, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Is there a prayer for the patient before the operation of Luka Krymsky? It’s better to read the akathist to him, it will be much more useful for helping the sick person.
Prayer to Job the Long-Suffering
This saint suffered a lot during his life. The Lord tested him. And Saint Job endured everything with dignity, without grumbling. Who else but him knows what pain and suffering are?
Prayer for a patient undergoing surgery to Job the Long-Suffering:
Prayer for the successful outcome of the operation of the Mother of God of All Healers, St. Luke.Troparion, tone 2: In memory of Your righteous Job, O Lord, we celebrate, so we pray to You: deliver us from the slander and snares of the evil devil and save our souls, as a Lover of mankind.
Kontakion, tone 8: For you are true and righteous, God-honored and blameless, and sanctified, O all-glorious, true servant of God, you have enlightened the world through your patience, most patient and kind. All the same, God-wise, we glorify your memory.
Stichera, tone 6: Thou hast given us an image of patience and courage, O Most Good Lord, of Thy saint Job, in all the misfortunes that befell him, having sinned nothing before Thee, below his lips, and not giving madness to Thee, our God. Through your prayers, make us conquerors of many different temptations and save our souls, as a Lover of Mankind.
Prayer: Holy God and rest in the saints, glorified by the thrice-holy voice in heaven from the angels, praised on earth by man in His saints, giving grace to each by Thy Holy Spirit according to the bestowal of Christ, and by that ordaining to Thy Holy Church two apostles, two prophets, two but the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, whose word of preaching, to You Himself acting all in all, accomplished many saints in every generation and generation, having pleased You with various benefactors, and to You, having left us the image of your good deeds, having passed away in joy, prepare, In it, you yourself were tempted to help us who are being fed. Remembering all these saints and the holy righteous Job, and praising their godly lives, I praise You Himself, who acted in them, and believing in Your goodness, I diligently pray to You, Holy of Holies, to grant me a sinner to follow their teaching, life, love, faith , longsuffering, and their prayerful help, and moreover, by Your all-effective grace, the heavenly ones with them were honored with glory, praising the Most Holy your name, Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever. Amen.
Prayer to Job Pochaevsky
This saint is a long-liver. He lived a little over a hundred years. At the age of ten he entered a monastery, and became a monk at eleven. At the age of just over thirty he was tonsured into the schema. He was the governor of the Pochaev monastery for almost fifty years. That is, this saint’s life was saturated with God.
What prayer should be read for a patient during surgery? This one:
Troparion, tone 4: Lay the yoke of Christ on this from your youth, O Reverend Father Job, for many years you labored holyly in the field of piety in the Ugornitskaya monastery and on the island of Dubenstem, and came to Mount Pochaev, marked by the celibate foot of the Most Holy Theotokos, in a narrow stone cave For the sake of God-thinking and prayer, you have repeatedly concluded, and, strengthened by the grace of God, you have courageously worked for the benefit of your monastery, and also against the enemies of Orthodoxy and Christian piety. And having instructed the monastic militia, you presented those victors to your Master and God. Pray to him for the salvation of our souls.
Kontakion, tone 8: The incorruptible treasure of your relics has arisen from the depths of the earth, O servant of God, for having lived piously in the faith of Christ our God, you have achieved the virtues of perfection, and, leaving the sweetness of a transitory life, in the cave of Mount Pochaev in fasting, prayers and You labored holyly, and with these you withered your body. Now, having come to God in serene and eternal peace, pray for everyone who comes running to you with faith. Rejoice, Job, glorious servant of God and decoration of the Pochaev monastery.
Prayer: Oh, all-holy and glorious servant of God, reverend our father Job, close to the Lord for us and a warm intercessor for our souls, we now flow to you with all compassion, and remembering your deeds and miracles that you have done and are doing on earth, we ask and we pray for your goodness: as you have labored firmly and unchangeably in the faith of Christ our God, and have preserved this to the end in yourself and in all your relatives safe and sound from all attacks of the enemy and pernicious heresies, strengthen us in Orthodoxy and unanimity, driving away through your prayers remove all darkness of unbelief and unrighteousness from our hearts and thoughts; Having served the Lord and your God with good deeds and ineffable self-sacrifice in labor, vigils and fasting, guide us on the path of all virtues and goodness, delivering us from temptations and sins that remove us from God and plunge our entire life into the abyss of evil; sometimes appeared with the Most Pure Virgin Mother of God at the top of Mount Pochaev to save your monastery from the invasion and taxation of the Agarians, and now speed up to the aid of all our Orthodox and God-loving power against all our enemies external and internal, establishing peace and silence in our land, and with your prayers and through intercession we will live a quiet and silent life in all piety and purity; and to all who flow to you, and who fall to the race of your honest and multi-healing relics and your help and intercession, who require endless mercy, give unenviably, do not leave us, the orphaned and helpless, who pray to you, delivering us from all sorrow, anger and need, from hunger , destruction, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, foreign invasion and internecine warfare. To her, servant of God, look mercifully from the Throne of the King of Glory, to whom you now stand with the archangels and angels and with all the saints, at your monastery of Pochaev, which you wisely ruled in ancient times, making it all-praiseworthy and wondrous in your life, and preserving it with your prayers yours, and every city, and country, and everyone from everywhere, on the sea and on the land, in the deserts and in the many misfortunes calling you, from all evils, visible and invisible, yes, so with your help and intercession we are saved, in this time and after the end Let us be worthy to glorify and sing together with you the All-Honorable Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer to John of Kronstadt
One of the most revered saints in St. Petersburg. And not only there, throughout Russia. How to pray to him? In the following way:
Troparion, tone 1: Champion of the Orthodox faith, saddener of the Russian land, rule as a shepherd and a faithful figure, preacher of repentance and life in Christ, reverent servant of the Divine Mysteries and daring prayer book for people, righteous Father John, healer and wonderful miracle worker, praise to the city of Kronstadt and adornment of our Church, pray to the All-Good God to pacify the world and save our souls.
Kontakion, voice 3: Today the Shepherd of Kronstadt stands before the Throne of God and earnestly prays for the faithful of Christ the Chief Shepherd, who gave the promise: “I will build My Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”
Prayer: Oh, great servant of Christ, holy righteous Father John of Kronstadt, wondrous shepherd, quick helper and merciful representative! Raising praise to the Triune God, you prayerfully cried out: “Your name is Love: do not reject me, who am erring; Your name is Strength: strengthen me, weak and falling; Your name is Light: enlighten my soul, darkened by worldly passions; Your name is Peace: pacify my restless soul. Your name is Mercy: do not cease to have mercy on me.” Now, grateful to your intercession, the all-Russian flock prays to you: Christ-named and righteous servant of God! With your love, illuminate us, sinners and weaklings, grant us the ability to bear worthy fruits of repentance and to partake without condemnation of the Holy Mysteries of Christ. With your power, strengthen our faith in us, support us in prayer, heal ailments and illnesses, heal us from misfortunes, enemies visible and invisible: With the light of your servants’ face and incite the heads of the Altar of Christ to holy deeds of pastoral work, grant education to infants, instruct youth, support old age, illuminate the shrines of churches and holy monasteries; die, most miraculous and visionary of all, the peoples of our country, by the grace and gift of the Holy Spirit, deliver from internecine warfare, gather the scattered, convert the corrupt and unite the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church; By your grace, preserve marriage in peace and unanimity, grant prosperity and blessings to monastics in good deeds, give comfort to the faint-hearted, freedom to those suffering from unclean spirits, have mercy in the needs and circumstances of our lives, and guide us all on the path of salvation. Living in Christ, Our Father John! Lead us to the unevening light of eternal life, so that with you we may be worthy of eternal bliss, praising and exalting God forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer to Spyridon of Trimifuntsky
During the operation, it is necessary to pray for the patient. Feel free to turn to Saint Spyridon for help. His relics recently visited Russia; the saint of God is famous for his miracles and worn out shoes. There is a belief among Christians that a saint walks the earth and helps people. That's why his shoes are worn out.
At the first council, you appeared as a champion and wonderworker, God-bearing Spyridon, our father. In the same way, you cried out to the dead in the grave, and you turned the serpent into gold, and you always sang holy prayers to you, and you had angels co-serving with you, most sacred one. Glory to Him who gave you strength, glory to Him who crowned you, glory to Him who heals you all.
Kontakion, voice 2: Having been wounded by the love of Christ, O most sacred one, having fixed your mind on the dawn of the Spirit, with your diligent vision you have found your deed, O God-pleasing altar, having become, asking for the Divine radiance to all.
Prayer: Oh, great and wonderful saint of Christ and wonderworker Spyridon, Kerkyra praise, bright luminary of the whole universe, warm prayer book to God and to all who come running to you and pray with faith, quick intercessor! You gloriously expounded the Orthodox faith at the Nicene Council among the Fathers, you showed the unity of the Holy Trinity with miraculous power, and you completely put the heretics to shame. Hear, O Saint of Christ, us sinners praying to you, and through your strong intercession with the Lord, deliver us from every evil situation: from famine, flood, fire and deadly plagues. For in your temporal life you delivered your people from all these disasters: you saved your country from the invasion of the Hagarians and from famine, you delivered the king from an incurable illness, and you brought many sinners to repentance, and for the holiness of your life you invisibly sang angels in the church and you had fellow servants with you. Sitsa, therefore, glorify you, His faithful servant, Lord Christ, for you have the gift of understanding all the secret human deeds and denouncing those who live unrighteously. You diligently helped many who lived in poverty and lack, you nourished the poor people abundantly during famine, and you created many other signs through the power of the living Spirit of God in you. Do not forsake us either, Saint of Christ, remember us, your children, at the Throne of the Almighty, and beg the Lord to grant forgiveness of many of our sins, grant us a comfortable and peaceful life, a shameless and peaceful death, and eternal bliss in the future vouchsafe us, so that we may continually send glory and thanksgiving to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen
Prayer to healer Panteleimon
Finally, we got to the prayers to Panteleimon for the patient during the operation. This saint was a healer during his lifetime. He accepted a martyr's death, but posthumously did not stop helping people. You just need to pray to receive this help.
Holy great martyr and healer Panteleimon, merciful imitator of God! Look with mercy and hear us, sinners, praying earnestly before your holy icon. Ask us from the Lord God, Who stands with the Angels in heaven, for the forgiveness of our sins and transgressions: heal the mental and physical illnesses of the servants of God, now remembered, those present here and all Orthodox Christians who flow to your intercession: Behold we, by our sin We are fiercely possessed by many ailments and are not imams of help and consolation: we resort to you, for you have given the grace to pray for us and heal every ailment and every disease; Grant therefore to all of us, through your holy prayers, health and well-being of souls and bodies, advancement of faith and piety, and everything necessary for temporary life and salvation, for, having been granted great and rich mercies by you, let us glorify you and the Giver of all good things, wondrous in the saints, God ours, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O great saint of Christ, passion-bearer and merciful physician, Panteleimon! Have mercy on me, a sinful slave, hear my groaning and cry, propitiate the heavenly, supreme Physician of our souls and bodies, Christ our God, may He grant me healing from the illness that oppresses me. Accept the unworthy prayer of the most sinful man above all, visit me with a gracious visit, do not disdain my sinful wounds, anoint me with the oil of your mercy and heal me; Yes, healthy in soul and body, I will be able to spend the rest of my days, by the grace of God, in repentance and pleasing God and will be worthy to receive a good end to my life. Hey, servant of God! Pray to Christ God, that through your intercession he may grant me health to my body and salvation to my soul. Amen.
Prayers to the Lord
Master, Almighty, Holy King, punish and do not kill, strengthen those who fall and raise up the overthrown, correct bodily sorrows of people, we pray to Thee, our God, Thy servant ( name) visit the weak with Your mercy, forgive him every sin, voluntary and involuntary. Hey, Lord, send down Your healing power from Heaven, touch the body, extinguish the fire, tame passion and all lurking infirmities, be the doctor of Your servant (name), raise him up from sickness This and from the bed of bitterness is whole and all-perfect, grant it to Thy Church, pleasing and doing Your will. For it is Yours to have mercy and save us, our God, and to You we send glory, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
And one more prayer to the Lord, read for the sick:
Lord Almighty, Physician of our souls and bodies, humble and exalt, punish and yet again heal! Visit your infirm servant (name) and heal him, raising him from his bed and infirmity. Rebuke the spirit of infirmity, leave from it every ulcer, every disease, even if there is sin or lawlessness in it, weaken, forsake, forgive Yours for the sake of humanity. By her, Lord, have mercy on Thy creation in Christ Jesus our Lord, with Him art thou blessed, and with Thy Most Holy, and Good, and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages ́v. Amen.
Let's not forget about the Mother of God
What about the Mother of God? This is who our zealous Helper and Intercessor is! Do you need to say a prayer before surgery for a sick child? Let us fall before the Mother of God. She is a Mother and will understand asking parents.
Prayer before the “Healer” icon:
Accept, O All-Blessed and All-Powerful Lady Theotokos Virgin, these prayers, now brought to You with tears from us, Your unworthy servants, to Your celibate image of singing sending out with tenderness, as if You yourself are here and hearken to our prayer. For every request you fulfill, you alleviate sorrow, you give health to the weak, you heal the weakened and sick, you drive away demons from demons, you deliver the offended from their grievances, cleanse yourselves and your little children; Moreover, O Lady, Lady Theotokos, you free us from bonds and prisons and heal all manifold passions: for all things are possible through Your intercession to Your Son, Christ our God. Oh, All-Singing Mother, Most Holy Theotokos! Do not cease to pray for us, Your unworthy servants, who glorify You and honor You, and who worship Your Most Pure Image with tenderness, and who have irrevocable hope and undoubted faith in You, Ever-Virgin, Most Glorious and Immaculate, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Prayer before the icon "The Queen of All". You can read the first or second. Or you can do both at once:
Oh, All-Good, Most Worshipful Mother of God Pantanassa, the All-Tsarina! I am not worthy, but come under my roof, but like the merciful Mother of God, say the word, may my soul be healed and my weak body strengthened. For Imashi is an invincible power, and every word of You will not fail, O Queen of All! You beg for me, You beg for me, that I may glorify Your glorious name always, now and forever. Amen.
Prayer 2
Oh, Most Pure Mother of God, All-Tsarina! Hear our much-painful sigh before Your miraculous icon, brought from the inheritance of Athos to Russia, look upon Your children, the incurable ailments of those suffering, to Your holy image those who fall with faith! Just as the winged bird covers its chicks, so You, now an ever-living being, cover us with Your multi-healing omophorion. There, where hope disappears, be with undoubted Hope. There, where fierce tribulations prevail, appear with patience and weakness. There, where the darkness of despair has settled in the soul, let the ineffable light of the Divine shine! Comfort the faint-hearted, strengthen the weak, grant softening and enlightenment to hardened hearts. Heal Your sick people, O All-Merciful Queen! Bless the minds and hands of those who heal us, may they serve as an instrument of the Almighty Physician Christ our Savior. As You are alive, existing with us, we pray before Your icon, O Lady! Extend Your hand, filled with healing and healing, to bring joy to those who mourn, to bring consolation to those in sorrow, and having soon received miraculous help, we glorify the Life-Giving and Indivisible Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer to the holy doctors
How can you talk about prayer for a patient during surgery and not remember the holy healers? Contact them, ask for help and intercession:
Oh, great saints of Christ and miracle workers Panteleimon, Cosmas and Damian, Cyrus and John, Hermolai, Diomedes, Photios and Anikitos! Hear us praying to you (names). You know our sorrows and illnesses, hear the sighs of the many who come to you. For this reason, we call you as our quick helper and warm prayer book: do not leave us with your intercession with God. We constantly err from the path of salvation, guide us, O merciful mentor. We are weak in faith, strengthen us, teachers of Orthodoxy. We are very fortunate to do good deeds, enrich us, treasures of mercy. We are constantly attacked by enemies, visible and invisible, and embittered, help us, helpless intercessors. Turn away the righteous wrath against us for our iniquities by your intercession at the throne of the Judge of God, to whom you will stand in Heaven, holy and righteous. Hear us, great saints of Christ, calling you with faith, and with your prayers ask the Heavenly Father for forgiveness of our sins and deliverance from troubles. You are helpers, intercessors and prayer makers, and for you we send glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Operation was successfully completed
Are there prayers after surgery for the patient’s recovery (it would be more correct to say, for recovery). We bring to your attention a prayer composed by Saint John of Kronstadt:
Glory to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the beginningless Father, who alone heals every ailment and every illness among people, for you have had mercy on me as a sinner and delivered me from my illness, not allowing it to develop and kill me according to my sins. Grant me from now on, Master, the strength to firmly do Your will for the salvation of my damned soul and for Your glory with Your beginningless Father and Your consubstantial Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Who else to thank
Is this not possible because the patient is not getting up yet? Then the path reads the prayer “Our Father”, “Rejoice to the Virgin Mary” or simply thanks the Lord, the Mother of God and the holy saints in your own words. After all, mentally saying the phrase “thank you, Lord” is not at all difficult.
What should relatives do?
We found out who to contact during the operation. And the texts of the prayers are given in the article. It’s just not clear where to pray. In the temple or at home?
Prayer at home
What is the benefit of praying at home for a patient undergoing surgery? With your concentration. Relatives pray fervently, there are no extraneous noises or irritants. You can pray out loud, on your knees, with tears - as your soul asks, so do it.
Light a candle or lamp in front of the icons.
Women wear headscarves, men do not cover their heads.
Clothes must be decent. No mini-bikinis or dresses with slits.
Read prayer text thoughtfully. Take your time. Our goal is not to develop reading speed, but to help a relative who is currently undergoing surgery.
Do you feel like crying during prayer? Don't be shy, cry. Tearful, sincere prayer reaches the Lord very quickly.
It would be better for everyone in the household to gather for a prayer rule. Remember the words of the Savior: “Where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst of them.”
- After you learn about the completion of the operation, thank the Lord for its outcome.
Prayer in the temple
What is the difference between temple prayer for a patient during surgery and home prayer:
In the temple your soul becomes calmer. There is a feeling of nervousness at home, and the person praying is worried and looks like a bundle of nerves. In the church this tension noticeably subsides.
You can order a prayer service for the health of the person being operated on, submit notes at the altar, and light candles. Prayer service and notes are given if you come to the service. If you just stopped by to pray, you will have to limit yourself to candles and a mental request.
Here, in the service, he goes common prayer. Not two or three people pray. You can say so or not, but the Lord is among those praying at this moment.
Is it possible to cry in church? Yes, you can. Naturally, without lamentations and howls. Old ladies love this very much.
How to pray in a hospital?
Often relatives are left to wait for the outcome of the operation within the hospital walls. Is it possible to pray in this case?
Many hospitals have churches. In order not to shake behind the doors of the operating room, losing all thoughts, go there. It will be much calmer, believe me.
If the patient wants to take communion
It also happens in life: before the operation a person did not have time to take communion. And the closer it is, the stronger the need for this arises. How can I help him?
Call a priest to the hospital. If there is a temple near her, then invite the priest from there. If not, then there is probably a priest on duty at a nearby temple. Call the city's churches and invite them.
Just first discuss this issue with your doctor.
How to help a patient prepare for confession and communion? If he is able to read, give him a book as a clue. A very good book by Father John Krestyankin, “The Experience of Constructing a Confession.” Sold in church shops, costs about 100 rubles. Can't buy? Then purchase the simplest brochure with a list of the most common sins. Can't buy this too? Give the sick person paper and a pen, let him write what he wants to repent of.
Before communion, it is advisable to fast for three days. But for the sick, an exception is made, to the best of their ability. It is better to clarify this question with the priest. Suddenly the situation is urgent, the operation is scheduled for the very next day.
Prayerful preparation for communion will be of great help from loved ones. Read the canons and obedience next to the patient’s bed. Just don’t be indignant that this is impossible in the hospital. You can read in a whisper, without attracting the attention of other patients.
Actions of the patient after surgery
After a person leaves the hospital on his own two feet, he should also thank all those to whom he himself turned for help. This means the Lord, the Mother of God and the holy saints of God.
This is done simply. You go to the temple, order a thanksgiving prayer to the Lord. Place candles near the icons of the Mother of God and saints to whom you turned for help. And give thanks in your own words, from the bottom of your heart.
Why can’t you order thanksgiving prayers to the Mother of God and saints? The Lord gives healing through prayer. You can order a regular prayer service.
Conclusion
The power of prayer is great. When a mother prays for her child, or a child for her parents, there is nothing higher than such prayer. But this does not mean that appeals from other relatives are not heard.
God hears everything and everyone. There is no need to be afraid to turn to Him for help. And do not be afraid to ask His Most Pure Mother for help. Call upon the holy saints, read a prayer to Panteleimon for a patient undergoing surgery. Ask, believe that you have received and it will be given to you.
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Saint Nile of Sinai said that in illness, first of all, you need to turn to GOD in prayer.
---After your prayer, when you told the Lord:
"Thy will be done", The doctor's decision must be made as
God's Providence is about you and your health, and, first of all,
turn, about the salvation of your soul. Before the operation.
You must first prepare for confession (the sacrament of repentance),
take communion Holy Mysteries of Christ, take it from the priest
blessing for the upcoming treatment, ask for it
pray for a safe recovery.
---It would be very good if you or your loved ones ordered
magpie for health and served as a memorial, for the psalter,
you can read a prayer to your relatives at home
agreement (about the sick and suffering) it is in all prayer books.
Saint Theophan Recluse This is evidenced by this:
"God listens to prayer when one who is sick in soul prays. - Other
the case when you yourself are at a prayer service, or in church at a liturgy
pray during the service. Then your prayer is faster
ascends to the Throne of God...
If you are in the hospital.
Preparing yourself for a hospital stay except
It is advisable to take personal hygiene items from
yourself prayer book, folding book or icon depicting
Savior or Mother of God and your heavenly
patron. In the erroneous opinion, many, lying down in
hospital, they take off their pectoral cross. Don't do this
follows, since the Cross of Christ protects us and protects us from all
troubles, misfortunes and demonic temptations. Short prayer "Save and
save”, inscribed on the reverse side of the cross, recalls
each person, how and to whom he should contact
hospital bed.
---Icons (regardless of size) brought to the hospital,
it’s not good to hide in bedside tables, under pillows, as they do
some. Holy images should stand openly,
head of the bed, or on the windowsill. It is your right. PRAYER IN THE HOSPITAL
Upon entering the hospital, you should find out if it has
Orthodox house church, are prayer services held there?
and requirements. Hospital churches typically hold
special prayer songs for the sick and, participating in them,
by submitting a memorial note about health, you contribute
to your recovery.
---Some people find it difficult to do their morning and
evening prayer rules. To avoid difficulties,
you need to find out where the icons are located in the hospital and pray there.
You can also pray in the ward. And you shouldn't be embarrassed by your neighborhood
non-believing patients or patients from among those belonging to
other religious denominations (non-Orthodox). Standing up at
your bed in front of the Holy Image, the rule can be read
to yourself, and if your reading does not bother your roommates, then
it is better out loud, so that they, hearing the words addressed to the Lord and
to our Merciful Intercessor, we mentally prayed with you.
---Unfortunately, many people admitted to the hospital, being
people who have been formally baptized and are already in adulthood
their age, they don’t know a single prayer. Therefore you need to have
prayer book, which contains the most important prayers, as well as
prayer appeal to the holy great martyr and healer
Panteleimon, who is already over one and a half thousand years old
is the patron saint of doctors of all specialties and
patron and healer of all the sick.
---The Lord does not require prayer from a sick person
rules as if he were healthy. The complaint of the sick believers,
that they pray poorly and do not keep up the feat, the saint allowed
Tikhon Zadonsky , saying: “What prayer for a sick person? B
giving thanks and sighing." This replaces every feat.
--- Saint Theophan the Recluseteaches: "Pray for
there is no sin in recovery... But we must add “if you will
Lord!" (i.e. if you want, Lord).
Before surgery.
---The greatest suffering to the soul is brought by the news of the inevitability
surgical intervention. But everything from the hand of God is needed
accept with humility and gratitude. After all, without will
Not even a hair of God can fall from a man's head, so
says the Lord Himself. And then there's the whole operation. How to be?
---First you need to pray to the Lord to bless
surgery if He pleases. Orthodoxy has St. Luke!
They pray to him for a favorable outcome of the operation..
There is a little-known special prayer in the Serbian missals;
about surgical intervention (read by the priest).
If you don’t want it to be taken away or postponed until a better time, then
there is for the time when the operation will serve for good, for healing,
and not for evil, not for complication or destruction. --- Having prayed like this,
then everything must be accepted without complaint, for there is no prayer,
Not heard by the Lord. And if the outcome of the operation is not so good,
or not what you and the doctors expected, then God is pleased to give
and further bear you the cross of illness for further purification
your soul.
---The evening before the operation (if it is planned) you should
pray for all the doctors who will take part in the operation
(surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and others) so that the Lord
made them with my own hands, healing your body, read
evening prayer rule and go to bed.
---Read the morning rule in the morning. From the moment when
a gurney will be brought to take you to the operating room,
constant prayer is required. Prayers should be short
prayers: “Lord, have mercy! Lord, bless!” When you
will be taken to the operating room, don’t be embarrassed to put it on yourself
sign of the cross and cross the operating table.
---What to do with a pectoral cross?
Many anesthesiologists (doctors who provide anesthesia)
forced to remove the cross. This is explained by several
reasons.
The first is if the anesthesiologist is an unbeliever, the second is if
purely medical reasons, in case of an unexpected
situation and the need for resuscitation, the cross on the chain is not
tear off and cannot be cut with scissors, which creates practical
inconvenience for carrying out medical measures; third -
an expensive cross on a gold chain is a temptation for
dishonest people, and you will have to answer for his disappearance
a simple cross on an ordinary simple thread. If not
If you are allowed to have a cross on your neck, it can easily be woven into your hair
or tied to the hand or one of the fingers of the right hand.
There are cases when patients, for lack of any other option, drew a cross on their chest with a ballpoint pen or asked anesthesiologists to leave the cross on the anesthesia machine until the end of the operation.
---The most important thing is to “go into anesthesia” (fall asleep) with the prayer “Lord, have mercy!” or with the Jesus Prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner,” and with a prayerful petition to your guardian angel. There are known cases when persons who “fell asleep” without prayers, even priestly rank, were attacked in an anesthetized “sleep” evil spirits. Only preliminary prayer and the sign of the cross protect against such and other troubles of the same kind.
---What should be the first words or thoughts of someone who has recovered from anesthesia? Praise be to God and thanks to Him for preserving life and for the operation. "Glory to Thee, God! Glory to Thee, God! Glory to Thee, God!"
---It is very good if you ask the ministers of the home hospital church to light a candle at the approximate time of your operation. And having recovered from the operation and strengthened physically, thank God and the Mother of God yourself by lighting candles.
TIME OF STAY IN THE HOSPITAL
-You keep getting sick and sick, but there is no outcome in sight, one bodily sorrow led to another. Is this really a coincidence?.! The Lord, the Mother of God, the saints are near you, don’t they really see your suffering, and seeing it, why do they make you languish? If they are love and truth, why allow this? Saint Theophan answers like this: “Take for yourself what happens between a pie fried in the oven and between the hostess. Give the pie a feeling, a thought, a language... What would it say to the hostess?!: “Mother! You put me here and I’m frying... Not a single grain of me is left unfrying, everything is burning, to the point of intolerance... And the trouble is that I don’t see the outcome, and I don’t have an end to the tea. I turn to the right, I turn to the left, forward or backward or upward, it’s locked in from everywhere, and the heat carries me intolerably. What have I done to you?" Let the hostess understand the pie's speech. What would she answer him?! "What are you talking about, I only care about you. Be patient a little... and you will see what a handsome man you will turn out to be... And what aroma will you give off throughout the house?!... Be patient a little more and you will see joy.”
---Now apply this conversation to yourself and to the Lord. The Lord is only concerned that through the cramped conditions and heat of illness, prepare your soul to understand His will, to fulfill the Gospel commandments, that is, to qualitatively change its condition, so that a pie comes out of the dough, and not until your death you remain unusable chaff , test. Put yourself in God's hands and wait. Everything is in God’s hands, and you are still fussing, toiling, trying to outwit yourself. Stop doing this and lie quietly, complacently enduring what happened.”
---So are you: you’ve already visited doctors and consulted in full, wasted money and time. Now the most reasonable thing is to really lie down and endure, thanking God for everything. Another thing is to calmly think about strengthening your patience. How to do it?
---In your case, it is appropriate to invite a priest (from the hospital church, and if it is not
Patients are worried before surgery; many scenarios run through their heads about how the surgical intervention will end. Sometimes they worry to such an extent that they cannot sleep at night, which leads to a deterioration in their general condition. Prayer before surgery comes to the rescue.
The meaning and power of prayers during operations
The great and omnipotent God, who holds the Earth in his hands, controls every situation in our lives. No matter how complex the operation, and no matter how high professional qualification surgeon, the Almighty rules his hand. God wants us to trust Him in any situation and resort to His help and protection.
Prayer before surgery gives peace of mind and brings hope. You can often hear the following words from doctors: “We are not omnipotent, pray.” Many of them do the same before picking up a scalpel. Human body it is so complexly structured that any accident can put a person on the brink between life and death.
Before the operation, relatives worry about the person who is to be operated on, and his mood is of great importance for the outcome of the surgical intervention. The patient's heart must be full of faith and trust in God. Even the simplest operations expose a person to confusion. Anyone who lies down on the operating table does not exclude the possibility that the situation may get out of control. Therefore, people turn to the Lord for help.
In the Russian city of Krasnodar, a case was registered when doctors hesitated for a long time to perform an operation on an elderly person, since due to the state of his body he might not be able to undergo surgery. This man saw in a dream a saint who brought him medicine in a spoon and said that everything would be fine. The inspired old man, full of faith, boldly went into surgery the next day, which was successful.
A few days later he saw the icon of Panteleimon the Healer and recognized the night guest. This saint was at one time a doctor, and before performing any actions, he turned for help to the omnipotent and omniscient God, who gave him the gift of healing and resurrection from the dead.
Before the operation, you should turn to the Savior. It often happens that after a person repents and chooses the path of following the Lord, the disease leaves him.
You can pray to all the saints, but if it is just a mechanical appeal, then there will be no result. When turning your heart to the Lord in prayer, you should understand that the answer from Him will come by His grace and mercy, and the person turning to the Lord must have a heart full of faith. What prayer to read, everyone decides for themselves.
You need to ask the Lord to bless the operation if it is in this moment is necessary and will be beneficial, if not, then let the Lord intervene and make His correction. After saying the prayer, firmly trust in the Lord, for He has heard, and you are under His protection - “Evil will not befall you and no plague will come near your dwelling” (Psalm 90).
On the eve of surgery, pray to God and ask for wisdom for the doctors to guide their hand. May He guide them and heal you with their hands.
On the way to the operating room, pray unceasingly, and upon arriving at the place, without any hesitation, bless the doctors’ hands and the operating table. It is important to turn to Jesus until the anesthesia takes effect.
After a successful outcome, thank the Lord, go to the temple and thank Him with all your heart.
Video “Prayer on the day of surgery”
In this video the clergyman will talk about miraculous power prayers before and after surgery.
Who to pray to
Great Martyr Barbara
Holy glorious and all-praised Great Martyr Varvaro! Gathered today in your Divine temple, people who worship the race of your relics and kiss with love, your suffering as a martyr, and in them the Passionate Christ Himself, who gave you not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him, with pleasing praises, we pray to you, the well-known desire of our intercessor: pray with us and for us, beseeching God from His mercy, that He may mercifully hear us asking for His goodness, and not leave us with all the necessary petitions for salvation and life, and grant a Christian death to our belly - painless, shameless, peace, I will partake of the Divine Mysteries, and to all, in every place, in every sorrow and situation, who require His love for mankind and help, He will give His great mercy, so that by the grace of God and your warm intercession, always abiding health in soul and body, we glorify God, wondrous in our saints Israel, who does not remove His help from us always, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.
Healer Panteleimon
Oh, great saint of Christ, passion-bearer and merciful physician Panteleimon! Have mercy on me, the sinful servant of God (name), hear my groaning and cry, have mercy on the Heavenly Physician of our souls and bodies, Christ our God, may He grant me healing from the cruel illness that oppresses me. Accept the unworthy prayer of the most sinful man above all. Visit me with a gracious visit. Do not disdain my sinful ulcers, anoint them with the oil of your mercy and heal me; May I be healthy in soul and body, and with the help of God’s grace, I can spend the rest of my days in repentance and pleasing God, and be worthy of receiving the good end of my life. Hey, servant of God! Pray to Christ God, that through your intercession he may grant me the health of my body and the salvation of my soul. Amen.
To the Almighty after surgery
O Lord, our Creator, I ask for Your help, grant full recovery God's servant (name), wash her blood with your rays. Only with Your help will healing come to her. Touch her with miraculous power and bless all her roads to the long-awaited salvation, healing, recovery.
Give her body health, her soul - blessed lightness, her heart - Your divine balm. The pain will forever recede and strength will return to it, the wounds will all heal and Thy holy help will come. Your rays from the blue Heavens will reach her, give her strong protection, bless her for deliverance from her illnesses, and strengthen her faith. May the Lord hear these words of mine. Glory to You. Amen.
The occurrence of the disease. Consultation with clinic doctors. The decision to hospitalize.
When you contact the doctors at the clinic for clarification about the illness that has arisen from you a prayer to God is required, asking the Lord to make them wise to make a correct diagnosis. Indeed, the success of treatment depends entirely on a correct diagnosis. Any doctor is a person more or less experienced in the art of medicine. But there are many factors that can make diagnosis difficult: the resolution of the equipment, the reliability and accuracy of the technique, the qualifications of the doctor, his experience and level of proficiency in diagnostic and treatment methods, his attentiveness and even his mood and state. And, of course, complete trust in the doctor on the part of the patient himself.
It is clear and natural that no one is immune from mistakes. Therefore, when you surrender yourself into the hands of a doctor, you must first surrender yourself into the hands of God. After prayer, when you told the Lord: “Thy will be done,” the doctor’s decision must be accepted as God’s Providence about you and your health, and, first of all, about the salvation of your soul. If after this you are offered hospitalization, treatment or surgery, your next step is to the temple of God.
On the eve of hospitalization
An Orthodox Christian must prepare himself for subsequent treatment in a hospital: he confesses (the sacrament of repentance), partakes of the Holy Mysteries of Christ, takes a blessing from the priest for the upcoming treatment, and asks for his prayers for himself. It is very godly if (if possible) a magpie for health is ordered, if relatives by agreement pray for the sick and suffering (prayer by agreement).
However, relatives should remember that church prayer for the sick is valid if accompanied by the prayer of those who ordered the service. Saint Theophan testifies to this as follows: “If no one sighs from the soul, then the prayer service will be crackled (it will be in vain). The same proskomedia... But do you yourself attend prayer services? If not, then your faith is silent... but, having given money so that others would pray, you yourself have thrown off all worries from your shoulders... It’s another matter when you yourself are at a prayer service, or in church at the liturgy, praying during the service... Then your illness is taken up by the prayer of the Church and quickly ascends to the Throne of God. .. and the very prayer of the Church makes it sick, although the servants are not sick... do you see what the power is?! Attend prayer services yourself, and ache with your soul for the sick." Commemoration at the liturgy, especially at the proskomedia and at the special litany, expresses our strongest faith and hope that the Lord will not abandon the sick with his help.
Prayer by agreement
“Lord our God, Jesus Christ, with Your most pure lips You told us: “If two of you on earth agree to ask for anything, then whatever they ask will be done for you by My Heavenly Father.” With deep faith in the immutability of Your words and Your immeasurable mercy, we ask You to hear Your servants (name the names of those asking), who have agreed to humbly ask You for Your needy (sick, lost, etc.) servant (name) - and grant him. make a request). However, not as we want, but as You, Lord; May Your holy will be done for everything. Amen."
This prayer is practiced based on this instruction in Holy Scripture: “Truly I also say to you that if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven, for where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matt. 18, 19-20), when, in some difficult situation: illness, misfortune, disaster, etc., two or more Christians agree together to pray intensely for the deliverance of someone from the misfortune that has befallen them. It is recommended to read it four times a day (morning, afternoon, evening and night), which you and those with whom you agreed to pray until, by the grace of the Lord, the request in prayer is fulfilled.
If only the prayer came from loving hearts and with with firm faith that the Lord hears her and, in His wisdom, will do what is best for the one or those for whom they are praying. Depending on the zeal of those praying and the condition of the one for whom they are praying, the frequency of saying prayers during the day is determined.
Hospitalization. Hospital stay
Preparing yourself for your stay in medical institution, in addition to personal hygiene items, it is advisable to take with you a prayer book, a folding book or an icon with the image of the Savior or the Mother of God and your namesake saint (your heavenly patron). If you feel the prayerful help of a saint (for example, St. Matrona), you can take this icon to feel more confident. Take holy oil and holy water in small vials. According to the erroneous opinion, many people, when going to the hospital, take off their pectoral cross. This should not be done (!), since the Cross of Christ protects us and protects us from all troubles, misfortunes and demonic temptations. It is not good to hide icons (regardless of size) brought to the hospital in bedside tables or under pillows, as some do. Holy images should stand openly, at the head of the bed or on the windowsill. It is your right.
Prayer in the hospital
Special prayer rule does not exist for the hospital. If a person has the opportunity to read morning and evening prayers in a ward or department, then he should read them. If the state of health does not allow it, then the person, due to his weakness, depending on his condition, the postoperative course of the disease, reads as many prayers as he can. There are many wonderful prayers for the sick on behalf of the sick and for the sick, and you can also read the canon about the sick. There are also no special prayers read for doctors. Address God in your own words, most importantly with faith that the prayer is heard.
Some people find it difficult to follow the morning and evening prayer rules. It is better to get up, but, in order not to irritate other patients, sit by your bed in front of the Holy Image. You can read the rule to yourself. In the end, you can go out into the corridor, or to any other place in the department: there are a lot of secluded corners, and calmly read the prayer rule.
Unfortunately, many who enter the hospital, being formally baptized people and already in adulthood, do not know a single prayer. That's why you should try to convince the patient to have and read the most important prayers , including a prayer appeal to the holy great martyr and healer Panteleimon, who for over one and a half thousand years has been the patron saint of doctors of all specialties and the patron and healer of all the sick. The Lord does not require the same prayer rule from a sick person as if he were healthy. St. Tikhon says: “What kind of prayer is there for the sick? Thanksgiving and sighing. This is what replaces every feat.” St. Theophan the Recluse: “There is no sin in praying for recovery... But we must add “if the Lord wills!” (i.e. if you want, Lord). Complete submission to the Lord, with obedient acceptance of what is sent as good from the good Lord, and gives peace to the soul... and appeases the Lord... And He will either heal you or provide you with consolation, despite the deplorability of the situation.”
On the eve of the operation
The greatest suffering of souls comes from the news of the inevitability surgical intervention. But everything from the hand of God must be accepted with humility and gratitude. After all, without the will of God, even a hair from a human head cannot fall, as the Lord Himself says. And then there's the whole operation. How to be? First you need to pray to the Lord to bless the operation, if He pleases; if you don’t want it to be taken away or postponed until a later time, that is, for the time when the operation will serve for good, for healing, and not for evil, not for complication or destruction. Having prayed like this, everything must then be accepted without complaint, for there is no prayer that is not heard by the Lord. And if the outcome of the operation is not so good, or not what you and the doctors expected, then God is pleased to allow you to continue to bear the cross of illness for the further purification of your soul. In the evening, on the eve of the operation (if it is planned), you should pray for all the doctors who will take part in the operation(surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and others) so that the Lord makes them His own hands, healing your body; read the evening rule and go to bed.
Read in the morning morning rule. From the moment the gurney arrives to take you to the operating room, constant prayer is required. You should pray with short prayers: “Lord, have mercy! Lord, bless!” When you are taken to the operating room, do not be embarrassed to make the sign of the cross and cross the operating table. What to do with a pectoral cross? Many anesthesiologists (doctors who provide anesthesia) force you to remove the cross. This is explained by several reasons. The first is if the anesthesiologist is an unbeliever; the second - for purely medical reasons: in the event of an unforeseen situation and the need for resuscitation, the cross on the chain cannot be torn off and cannot be cut with scissors, which creates practical inconvenience for the implementation of medical measures; the third - an expensive cross on a gold chain - a temptation for dishonest people, and the attending physician will have to answer for its loss. That's why, It is recommended to go into surgery with a simple cross on an ordinary simple thread. If you are not allowed to have a cross on your neck, then it can easily be woven into your hair or tied to your hand or one of the fingers of your right hand.
There are cases when patients, for lack of any other option, drew a cross on their chest with a ballpoint pen (or iodine) or asked anesthesiologists to leave the cross on the anesthesia machine until the end of the operation. The most important thing is to “go into anesthesia” (fall asleep) with the prayer “Lord, have mercy!” or with the Jesus Prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner,” and with a prayerful petition to your guardian angel (Holy Angel of God, my holy guardian, pray to God for me, a sinner). There are known cases when persons who “fell asleep” without prayers, even priestly rank, were attacked by evil spirits in an anesthetized “sleep”. There is separate evidence of charming, “coding” of patients during anesthesia sleep by some doctors who have occult knowledge that is prohibited Orthodox Church. Only preliminary prayer and the sign of the cross protect against such and other troubles of the same kind. What should be the first words or thoughts of someone who has recovered from anesthesia? Praise be to God and thank Him for preserving life and for the operation: “Glory to Thee, God! Glory to Thee, God! Glory to Thee, God!” It is very helpful if you ask someone in the church to light a candle at the approximate time of your operation. And having recovered from the operation and strengthened physically, thank God and the Mother of God yourself by lighting candles.
Prayer before surgery
Master Almighty, Holy King, punish and do not kill, strengthen those who fall, and raise up the overthrown, correct bodily sorrows of people, we pray to You, our God, visit Your weak servant (name) with Your mercy, forgive him (her, me) every free sin and involuntary.
To her, Lord, Thy healing power was sent down from Heaven to direct the mind and hand of Thy servant the doctor (name of the doctor) so that he would perform the necessary surgery safely, as if the bodily ailment of Thy sick servant (name) was completely healed, and every hostile invasion would be driven far away from him.
Raise him from his sick bed and grant him health in soul and body, pleasing Thy Church. For You are a merciful God, and to You we send glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
A complication has developed. The time spent in the hospital was prolonged.
You keep getting sick and sick, but there is no outcome in sight, one body 
One grief pulled another one along with it. Is this really a coincidence?! The Lord, the Mother of God, the saints are near you, don’t they really see your suffering, and seeing why they make you languish. If they are love and truth, why allow this?
Put yourself in God's hands and wait. Everything is in God’s hands, and you are all fussing, restless, trying to outwit yourself. Stop doing this and lie quietly, complacently enduring what happened, thanking God for everything. Another thing is to calmly think about strengthening your patience. How to do it? In your case, it is appropriate to invite a priest to partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ. If you are about to undergo a repeated major operation (especially abdominal or neurosurgical), you should receive unction and receive communion before the operation. Meanwhile, the attitude towards this, of course, great and gracious support for the patient is for some reason completely connected with the superstitious opinion that one who has been unctioned with oil must certainly die soon. Meanwhile, the sacrament of consecration of oil is one of the most beneficial sacraments of the Holy Church, which is performed on the sick for their recovery: physical, mental and spiritual.
After the operation, daily consumption of prosphora and holy water, anointing oneself with holy oil from the relics of saints of God or from Miracle-working icons promote a speedy recovery.
Prayer before useprosphora and holy water
Lord my God, may Your holy gift be: Your holy prosphora and Your holy water for the remission of my sins, for the enlightenment of my mind, for the strengthening of my mental and physical strength, for the health of my soul and body, for the subjugation of my passions and infirmities in the infinite Thy mercy through the prayers of Thy Most Pure Mother and all Thy saints. Amen.
Unexpectedly diagnosed with cancer
If you suddenly find yourself after being discharged from an oncologist, there is no need to lose heart and grumble. Regardless of whether the alleged diagnosis is confirmed or not, try to perceive this situation correctly, in a Christian way: as a kind of God’s mercy, when the Lord gives you time and a reason to think about Eternity, into which sooner or later from earthly, “temporary” life the immortal soul of each of us leaves. To what eternity will she go? eternal bliss, or into eternal suffering - depends on ourselves. From how they believed, from how they filled their faith with righteous deeds and repentance. The mercy of the Lord is so boundless that even at the end of our sinful earthly existence he is ready to grant us Salvation: if our prayers were warm and strong, our repentance would be deep and sincere, our love for our neighbor would actually become visible. And, most importantly, there would only be time left for all this! The bigger, the better. That is why even such a situation should be perceived with thanksgiving to God, as his saving, advance answer to your prayer requests for a “shameless Christian death.” So that sudden weakness, which can lead to the death of the body, does not take the soul by surprise. In any case - no matter how many years, months and days the Lord gives you now - this is unconditional. God's call to recognize a time of intensified and more frequent prayers, good deeds and deepened repentance, combined with more frequent Communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ (in agreement with the confessor).
About fasting in hospital conditions
Often this question serves as a stumbling block for Christians, a source of temptation for medical staff and a subject of disobedience for confessors. The cross of illness is intended, first of all, to cleanse the soul, so that it is enriched with the spirit of meekness, the spirit of kindness, mercy, love and the spirit of other Christian virtues. The meaning of any fast is hunger and compassion with Christ and for Christ, and not blind oppression of oneself only in food. Illness replaces fasting, and if it is endured with thanksgiving to God, then it is accepted by him as equivalent to fasting, and often even higher. Whoever endures it with patience, thanking God, through patience receives the fruit of his salvation. Instead of weakening the strength of the body by fasting, it is already weakened by illness. Thus, the most reasonable thing for a sick person would be not to do his own will, but to fulfill the commandments of the Holy Fathers, and eat everything that is given in the hospital canteen and that is brought, in agreement with the attending physician, by relatives.
Health and illness
St. Theophan the Recluse says: “God sends something as a punishment, as penance, another as a discipline, so that a person comes to his senses; another, to save him from the trouble that a person would fall into if he were healthy; another, so that a person shows patience and deserves all the more reward; other, to cleanse from some passion, and for many other reasons... There are diseases, the healing of which the Lord imposes a ban on when he sees that illness is more necessary for salvation than health.... If you feel and see that you yourself are guilty, then start with repentance and regret before God for not taking care of the gift of health He gave you. And then, nevertheless, reduce it to the fact that illness is from the Lord, and nothing happens by chance. And after this, thank the Lord again . Illness humbles, softens the soul and eases its usual burden from many worries... The Lord takes away strength in order to at least calm a person down. He no longer knows how to fix it any other way. And mercies, and sorrowful visits - everything has been re-experienced, and everything is of no use ".
Anyone recovering from an illness, especially after a serious and dangerous one, must feel and say: “I have been granted reprieve from Above, so that I may repent and correct my life according to the commandments of Christ.” Amen.
Prayer of thanksgivingupon healing from illness (St. John of Kronstadt)
Glory to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the beginningless Father, who alone heals every ailment and every illness among people, for you have had mercy on me as a sinner and delivered me from my illness, not allowing it to develop and kill me according to my sins. Grant me from now on, Master, the strength to firmly do Your will for the salvation of my damned soul and for Your glory with Your beginningless Father and Your consubstantial Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Medicine has developed so much today that surgical operations have become commonplace. However, the upcoming test worries the patient and makes him worry about different scenarios for the development of events. Sometimes worries deprive you of sleep, appetite and make a person even sicker.
Regardless of the complexity of the operation, God rules the hand of the surgeon. And God wants a person in any trial to learn not to rely on chance, but to resort to His help and the intercession of the saints.
Why is prayer necessary before surgery?
A prayer before surgery addressed to God fills the soul with peace and hope and works miracles.
“We are not omnipotent, pray,” say the doctors. This is correct: the human body is so complex that any accident can put you on the line between life and death.
Often the patient turns to God for the first time, fearing the unknown outcome medical procedure, and general anesthesia is perceived as temporary death.
The saints do not help a person through their own strength, but through prayers to God, who gives what they ask for for the sake of their holiness.
Holy prayer books for health
How and to whom to pray, what prayer before surgery reaches God faster? Will God help an unbeliever or a sinner? The answers are contained in the history of the Orthodox Church, which knows many cases of healing according to
Important articles:
Holy Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon
In 2010, a miraculous incident occurred with an elderly man at Krasnodar City Hospital No. 1. He had to have surgery on a broken collarbone. General anesthesia was dangerous; doctors doubted whether it was possible to operate on such a patient.
The night before the operation, a young man “in strange clothes” appeared to him in a dream, as the patient himself later said. Leaning over the bed, he handed the man a spoon with medicine and said: “Don’t be afraid, everything will be fine.”
The operation was successful; the doctors were surprised at how easily the patient tolerated the anesthesia and how quickly recovery began. Before being discharged, the man accidentally saw the icon of Healer Panteleimon and exclaimed: “Yes, it was him!”
The help of the Holy Great Martyr Panteleimon in illnesses has been known for a long time. In his earthly life (beginning of the 4th century) St. Panteleimon was a doctor. Before healing, he prayed to the Christian God, which was dangerous: Christians were persecuted by pagans. Seeing the determination of the young doctor, God gave him the power to heal the sick and raise the dead.
Instead of worrying and worrying before the operation, it is better to read the akathist to the Healer Panteleimon and then pray in your own words: “Holy Great Martyr Panteleimon, help the servant of God so and so undergo the operation and recover in order to glorify God.”
Prayer to Healer Panteleimon
Oh, great saint of Christ, passion-bearer and merciful physician Panteleimon! Have mercy on me, the sinful servant of God (name), hear my groaning and cry, have mercy on the Heavenly Physician of our souls and bodies, Christ our God, may He grant me healing from the cruel illness that oppresses me. Accept the unworthy prayer of the most sinful man above all. Visit me with a gracious visit. Do not disdain my sinful ulcers, anoint them with the oil of your mercy and heal me; May I be healthy in soul and body, and with the help of God’s grace, I can spend the rest of my days in repentance and pleasing God, and be worthy of receiving the good end of my life. Hey, servant of God! Pray to Christ God, that through your intercession he may grant me the health of my body and the salvation of my soul. Amen".
In surgeons' offices you can often see the icon of St. Luke of Voino-Yasenetsky. This saint was glorified by the Church in 1996.
In his earthly life he was a famous surgeon, healed many sick people, and wrote works on surgery that are still used in medical practice today. In adulthood, Luke became a bishop, without abandoning his medical practice. God glorified the Saint for his confession of faith in difficult times of the revolution and civil war.
After death, healings continued to flow from the relics of St. Luke. Through the prayers of the saint, patients preparing for surgery were suddenly healed and no surgical intervention was required.
Prayer to Luke of Crimea
O all-blessed confessor, holy saint, our Father Luke, great servant of Christ!
With tenderness we bend the knee of our hearts and fall before the race of your honest and multi-healing relics, like the children of our father, we pray to you with all our zeal: hear us sinners and bring our prayer to the All-Merciful and Humane God.
We believe that you love us with the same love with which you loved all your neighbors while you were on earth.
Ask Christ our God that He may establish in His holy Orthodox Church the spirit of right faith and piety; May its shepherds give holy zeal and care for the salvation of the people entrusted to them: to observe the right of the believer, to strengthen the weak and infirm in the faith, to instruct the ignorant, and to reprove the contrary.
Give us all a gift that is useful to everyone, and everything that is useful for temporary life and eternal salvation: the establishment of our cities, the fruitfulness of the land, deliverance from famine and destruction, consolation for the grieving, healing for the sick, return to the path of truth for those who have gone astray, blessing for the parent, blessing for the child. in the Passion of the Lord, education and teaching, help and intercession for the orphaned and needy.
Grant us all your archpastoral and holy blessing, so that through you we will get rid of the wiles of the evil one and avoid all enmity and disorder, heresies and schisms.
Grant us a godly way to cross the path of temporary life, guide us on the path leading to the villages of the righteous, deliver us from airy ordeals and pray to the omnipotent God for us, so that eternal life with you we unceasingly glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, to Him belongs all glory, honor and power forever and ever. Amen.
Holy Great Martyr Barbara
The Orthodox Church knows cases of St. Barbara helping in critical cases during surgical operations.
The holy martyr is depicted on icons with the Communion Cup. This is no coincidence: Christians are afraid to die suddenly, without confessing and without receiving Holy Communion.
St. Barbara is asked to be delivered from sudden death during anesthesia.
VMC Prayer. Varvara
Holy glorious and all-praised Great Martyr Varvaro! Gathered today in your Divine temple, people who worship the race of your relics and kiss with love, your suffering as a martyr, and in them the Passionate Christ Himself, who gave you not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him, with pleasing praises, we pray to you, the well-known desire of our intercessor: pray with us and for us, beseeching God from His mercy, that He may mercifully hear us asking for His goodness, and not leave us with all the necessary petitions for salvation and life, and grant a Christian death to our belly - painless, shameless, peace, I will partake of the Divine Mysteries, and to all, in every place, in every sorrow and situation, who require His love for mankind and help, He will give His great mercy, so that by the grace of God and your warm intercession, always abiding health in soul and body, we glorify God, wondrous in our saints Israel, who does not remove His help from us always, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer help from Guardian Angels
An 80-year-old woman was admitted to the Krasnodar regional hospital with a diagnosis of volvulus. The only salvation was abdominal surgery, which the patient could not tolerate, she had a bad heart. Relatives were warned about a possible death, everyone prayed, since there was nothing more to hope for.
Before the operation, the woman dozed off and saw a glowing face in front of her. She asked the first thing that came to mind: “Guardian Angel?” The vision immediately disappeared, and the patient’s soul was filled with peace and joy.
“Your grandmother is great!” - the doctors were surprised, discharging the patient, who surprisingly easily recovered from anesthesia and soon got back on her feet. The woman told her happy relatives at home about the vision of the Angel.
They are located next to every baptized person. If you do not forget them in your prayers, then they will not hesitate to help.
When praying before the operation, they read the Canon to the Guardian Angel, then say a short prayer “ Saint Angele God, my Guardian, pray to God for me!” as often as possible.
Sometimes they recommend short petitions of “folk” composition, for example, “My angel, follow me, you are ahead, I am behind you.” This is acceptable, but not stronger than prayers, consecrated by the Orthodox Church, they must be pronounced first.
Canon to the Guardian Angel
Irmos: Let us praise the Lord, who led His people through the Red Sea, for He alone was gloriously glorified.
Lord Jesus Christ my God, have mercy on me.
Sing and praise the song, Savior, worthy of Your servant, the disembodied Angel, my mentor and guardian.
I am the only one lying in foolishness and laziness now, my mentor and guardian, do not leave me, perishing.
Direct my mind with your prayer, to do God’s commandments, so that I may receive remission of sins from God, and teach me to hate the evil ones, I pray to you.
Pray, O Maiden, for me, Thy servant, to the Benefactor, with my guardian Angel, and instruct me to do the commandments of Thy Son and my Creator.Irmos: You are the affirmation of those who flow to You, Lord, You are the light of the darkened, and my spirit sings of You.
Chorus: Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
I place all my thoughts and my soul on you, my guardian; Deliver me from every misfortune of the enemy.
Chorus: Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
The enemy tramples me, and embitters me, and teaches me to always do my own desires; but you, my mentor, do not leave me to perish.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Sing a song with thanksgiving and zeal to the Creator and God give me, and to you, my good guardian Angel: my deliverer, rescue me from the enemies who embitter me.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Heal, O Most Pure One, my many painful scabs, even in my soul, and heal the enemies who are constantly fighting against me.
Sedalen, voice 2
From the love of my soul I cry out to you, the guardian of my soul, my all-holy Angel: cover me and always protect me from evil deception, and guide me to heavenly life, admonishing and enlightening and strengthening me.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Theotokos:
The Blessed Most Pure Mother of God, Who without seed gave birth to all the Lord, Pray Him with my Guardian Angel to deliver me from all bewilderment, and to give tenderness and light to my soul and purification through sin, Who alone will soon intercede.
Irmos: I heard, O Lord, Thy mystery, I understood Thy works, and glorified Thy Divinity.
Chorus: Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Pray to God, the Lover of Mankind, my guardian, and do not forsake me, but keep my life in peace forever and grant me invincible salvation.
Chorus: Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
As the intercessor and guardian of my life, you are received from God, Angel, I pray to you, holy one, free me from all troubles.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Cleanse my depravity with your shrine, my guardian, and may I be excommunicated from the part of Shuiya through your prayers and become a partaker of glory.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
I am bewildered by the evils that have happened to me, O Most Pure One, but deliver me from them quickly: I am the only one who has come to You.
Irmos: We cry out to You in the morning: Lord, save us; For you are our God, don’t you know anything else?
Chorus: Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
As if I had boldness towards God, my holy guardian, I begged Him to deliver me from the evils that offend me.
Chorus: Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Bright light, brightly enlighten my soul, my mentor and guardian, given to me by God to the Angel.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Sleeping me with the evil burden of sin, keep me vigilant, Angel of God, and raise me up for praise through your prayer.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Mary, Lady of the Brideless Mother of God, the hope of the faithful, cast down the heaps of the enemy, and those who sing make you glad.
Irmos: Give me a robe of light, dress in light like a robe, O most merciful Christ our God.
Chorus: Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Free me from all misfortunes, and save me from sorrows, I pray to you, holy Angel, given to me by God, my good guardian.
Chorus: Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Illuminate my mind, O blessed one, and enlighten me, I pray to you, holy Angel, and always instruct me to think usefully.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Tire my heart from real rebellion, and be vigilant, strengthen me in good things, my guardian, and guide me wonderfully to the silence of animals.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
The Word of God dwelled in Thee, Mother of God, and man showed Thee the heavenly ladder; Because of you, the Most High has come down to us to eat.
Kontakion, tone 4
Appear to me, merciful, holy Angel of the Lord, my guardian, and do not separate from me, the foul one, but enlighten me with inviolable light and make me worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven.
My humble soul has been tempted by many, you, holy representative, vouchsafe the ineffable glory of heaven, and singer from the faces of the disembodied powers of God, have mercy on me and preserve my thoughts kind soul Enlighten me, so that with your glory, my Angel, I will be enriched, and overthrow my evil-minded enemies, and make me worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Irmos: The youths came from Judea, in Babylon, sometimes, by the faith of the Trinity, they asked the fire of the fire, singing: God of the fathers, blessed art thou.
Chorus: Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Be merciful to me and pray to God, O Lord Angel, for I have you as an intercessor in my whole life, a mentor and guardian, given to me by God forever.
Chorus: Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Do not leave my accursed soul on its journey, killed by a robber, holy Angel, who was betrayed by God without blame; but I will guide you on the path of repentance.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
I bring all my disgraced soul away from my evil thoughts and deeds: but precede, my mentor, and grant me healing with good thoughts, so that I always deviate onto the right path.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Fill everyone with wisdom and Divine strength, Hypostatic Wisdom of the Most High, for the Mother of God, for the sake of those who cry out with faith: Our father, God, blessed art thou.
Irmos: Praise and exalt the Heavenly King, Whom all the angels sing to all ages.
Chorus: Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Sent from God, strengthen the belly of my servant, your servant, most blessed Angel, and do not leave me forever.
Chorus: Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
You are a good angel, my soul's mentor and guardian, most blessed, I sing for ever.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Be my protection and take away all people on the day of testing; good and evil deeds will be tempted by fire.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Be a helper and silence for me, O Ever-Virgin Mother of God, Thy servant, and do not leave me deprived of Thy dominion.
Irmos: We truly confess Thee, Theotokos, saved by Thee, Pure Virgin, with disembodied faces magnifying Thee.
To Jesus: Lord Jesus Christ my God, have mercy on me.
Have mercy on me, my only Savior, for You are merciful and merciful, and make me a partaker of righteous faces.
Chorus: Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Grant me to think and create continually, O Lord Angel, who is good and useful, as she is strong in weakness and blameless.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
As if you have boldness towards the Heavenly King, pray to Him, along with other incorporeal ones, to have mercy on me, the accursed one.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Having much boldness, O Virgin, to Him Who was incarnate from You, turn me from my bonds and grant me permission and salvation through Your prayers.
Prayer to the Guardian Angel
Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.
Holy Angel of Christ, falling to you I pray, my holy guardian, given to me for the protection of my sinful soul and body from holy baptism, but with my laziness and my evil custom I angered your most pure lordship and drove you away from me with all the cold deeds: lies, slander , envy, condemnation, contempt, disobedience, brotherly hatred, and resentment, love of money, adultery, rage, stinginess, gluttony without satiety and drunkenness, verbosity, evil thoughts and crafty ones, proud custom and lustful indignation, driven by self-will for all carnal lust. Oh, my evil will, which even dumb beasts cannot do! How can you look at me, or approach me like a stinking dog? Whose eyes, angel of Christ, look upon me, entangled in evil in vile deeds? How can I already ask for forgiveness with my bitter and evil and crafty deed, I fall into misery all day and night and at every hour? But I pray to you, falling down, my holy guardian, have mercy on me, your sinful and unworthy servant (name), be me a helper and intercessor against the evil of my opponent, with your holy prayers, and make me a partaker of the Kingdom of God with all the saints, always, and now and ever and ever. Amen.
Many are afraid general anesthesia like temporary death. In this case, you can remember the saints in whose lives there were similar states and pray to them.
- Seven Youths of Ephesus. Christian youths, hiding from pagan persecution in the 3rd century, by the will of God, fell asleep in a cave and woke up 150 years later, when their country was already ruled by a Christian king.
- Holy righteous Lazarus, one of the followers of Christ. Stricken by illness, Lazarus died in his home and was buried. After 4 days, Christ resurrected him, and all the gathered residents of Bethany witnessed the miracle.
- The Lord Jesus Christ Himself remained in a state of death for 3 days, until His Resurrection.
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