Prayer for health: 5 messages of faith and protection

Self-care is essential to maintain quality of life and well-being. And the prayer for health It can become an aid in the process, to promote spiritual cleansing and ask for protection. Anyone facing an illness at the moment can also turn to faith to find support throughout the treatment.

Which saint takes care of health?

There is more than one saint related to protecting health and curing illnesses. Among them are Saint Camillus (patron saint of patients, hospitals and healthcare professionals), São Roque (patron saint of invalids, dogs and surgeons, as well as protector against the plague), San Rafael (protector of doctors, pharmacists, nurses, travelers and young people) and Saint Liduina (patron saint of incurable patients). Our Lady’s help can also be invoked through Our Lady of Health It is Our Lady of the Head.

Prayer for health

“Lord, give me health for my body and may I cooperate with a disciplined life so that I may be worthy of Your help. Lord, for honoring You and reporting thanks and praise to You, how much You enrich me, never letting me lack what I need, crowning with great success all the journeys that are not always easy.

How much I praise You for such great kindness! May I thank You, Lord, not only with words, but above all with a life of holiness.

You who punish those you love, like the father who punishes the rebellious son he loves so much, I thank you for all the moments in which I suffered feeling Your Hand descend heavily upon me, but always so full of mercy. How much I have learned and am learning from You, my Father! Nothing can equal Your love.

Thank you, Lord. Your paths are strewn with many renunciations, but only those who travel them can feel their unparalleled delights.”

What is the prayer of Our Lady of Health?

In the 17th century, the so-called “Black Death” caused many deaths. In Portugal, when they opened a grave, they found a small image of Our Lady, which was seen as a sign from heaven. People began to pray and processions asking Our Lady for help. In 1570, April 20th was chosen to commemorate the disappearance of the disease and thus the name “Our Lady of Health” emerged as a form of thanks to the Virgin Mary.

“We resort to your protection, O Holy Mother of God, comforter of the afflicted and health of the sick. Do not despise our supplications in our needs, and always free us from all dangers and illnesses, O Glorious and Blessed Virgin.

Our Lady, our Mediatrix, our Advocate, with your Son, reconcile us, recommend us to your Son, present us to your Son. Most Pure Virgin, who are the Health of the Sick, the Refuge of Sinners, the Consoler of the Afflicted and the distributor of all graces, in my weakness and in my discouragement I appeal today, to the treasures of your divine mercy and kindness and I dare calling you by the sweet name of Mother.

Yes, O Mother, attend to me in my illness, give me the health of my body so that I can fulfill my duties with courage and joy, and with the same disposition serve your Son Jesus and thank you, Health of the Sick. Our Lady of Health, pray for us. Amen.”

Prayer to Our Lady of the Head for health

“Hail immaculate, queen of glory, Holy Virgin of the Head, on whose admirable title our hopes are founded for being queen and mistress of all creatures. Refuge of sinners, pray for us. This ejaculation, repeated thousands of times throughout the Universe, ascends to the throne of glory on which you are seated and returns to Earth, bringing torrents of light and grace to poor sinners.

So help me, O most sweet Our Lady of the Head. I beseech you with filial trust, for the merits of the pain you feel upon seeing your divine Son with his head crowned with thorns, to free me, and all of mine, from any head disease. I also beseech you, O most powerful Virgin of the head, to intercede with the good Jesus, your beloved Son, for those who suffer from these evils, so that, completely cured, they may glorify God and extol your maternal goodness.”

Prayer to Saint Roque to ward off illnesses

“São Roque, you who, not taking into account the danger of contagion from the plague, dedicated yourselves, body and soul, to caring for the sick and God, to prove your faith and trust, allowed you to contract the disease, but this same God , when you abandoned your cabin, in the woods, by means of a dog, he fed you in a miraculous way and also miraculously cured you, protect me against infectious diseases, free me from the contagion of bacilli, defend me from the pollution of the air, water and food.

As long as I am healthy, I promise to pray for the sick in hospitals and do everything possible to alleviate the pain and suffering of the sick, to imitate the great charity you had towards your fellow men. Saint Roque, bless the doctors, strengthen the nurses and hospital attendants, heal the sick, defend those who are healthy against contagion and pollution. Saint Roque, pray for us.”

Prayer to Saint Camillus for health

“Most merciful Saint Camillus, who, called by God to be a friend of the poor sick, dedicated his entire life to assisting and comforting them, contemplate from heaven those who call upon you, trusting in your help.

Diseases of the soul and body make our poor existence an accumulation of miseries that make this earthly exile sad and painful.

Relieve us in our illnesses, obtaining for us holy resignation to divine dispositions, and at the inevitable hour of death, comfort our hearts with the immortal hopes of beatific eternity. So be it. Amen.”

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