The power of Orthodox prayers for healing
With such serious diseases as cancer, a person needs spiritual support, without which drug treatment will be ineffective. A positive attitude is necessary to adjust hormonal levels. The fear of death paralyzes the will, depresses the nervous system, aggravating the condition of the cancer patient.
Prayer requests for health in front of holy images must come from the heart. In this case, they have a calming effect and inspire hope that the Lord will hear the tearful request for help and perform a miracle of healing. Without faith, love for the Almighty, and deep repentance for one’s sins, the most healing prayers will be ineffective.
Orthodox prayers that help against cancer, first of all, heal the soul of the patient. Help from the Almighty depends on the depth of faith and pious lifestyle: everyone is rewarded according to his religious beliefs and behavior. There are known cases of believers being cured of cancer when doctors did not give them a chance for recovery.
Which saints should I turn to for help?
To cope with despair, you need to seek support from Heavenly patrons.
To fight cancer they pray:
- to the Almighty;
- Holy Mother of God;
- Archangel Raphael;
- Archangel Michael;
- guardian angel;
- saints, famous for their gift of healing.
Often a tearful prayer before the face of the saints, so that they become petitioners before the Lord for the sick, is fulfilled.
Saint Panteleimon was a skilled healer who healed people with medicinal potions and prayer to Christ. During the persecution of Christians he was executed. Matrona of Moscow became famous for her mercy towards the suffering, although she herself was blind from birth and then immobilized. Through her prayer to the Lord, hopelessly ill people were cured.
Luka Krymsky (before he was tonsured, Valentin Voino-Yasenetsky) was a talented surgeon before entering the path of priesthood. Until his last days (1961), the archbishop combined surgical activities with episcopal ministry. From a young age, he saw the meaning of his life in helping those suffering. Nectarios of Aegina suffered a lot of persecution and injustice in his life, but this did not shake his faith in God.
Archangel Raphael is the patron saint of doctors and helps everyone suffering from physical pain. Archangel Michael is a great helper to those who mourn. The Mother of God, a merciful petitioner before the Son, is addressed with any misfortune. The Lord is merciful to sincerely repentant sinners. Cancer patients and their loved ones, for example, a wife for her husband, can ask for healing.
Why do you need to irrigate before surgery?
Thoughts about the upcoming operation disturb the patient.
Appetite disappears, mood deteriorates and insomnia torments. In legends and prayers it was said “God rules with the hand of a doctor.” People still believe in this unshakably to this day. But despite this, a person is designed in such a way that even with the strongest faith, somewhere in the depths of his soul he admits that something could go wrong. To cheer up the patient and strengthen his faith, relatives turn to the Lord, asking for his help and protection.
Doctors are ordinary people and can make mistakes too. Therefore, the relatives and the patient himself pray that the Lord, through the hands of the doctor, will grant healing. For as Christ said: “not a hair will fall from your head without my will.”
How to Pray for Healing from Cancer
They ask for recovery from cancer by ordering a prayer service in church or offering prayers in front of the home iconostasis. A prayer for recovery is a short service that a priest performs at the request of a believer. Before whose face the ritual will be performed (the Almighty, the Mother of God, a saint) is determined by the believer.
Before the start of the service, it is necessary to write a note indicating the name of the person in need of prayer assistance, which is handed over to the priest. They attend the service in person. But if a prayer service for loved ones is ordered in a church remote from the believer’s place of residence, then the prayer service can be ordered online.
Privately they read prayers to the angels, the Mother of God, the Lord and the saint. Before making a prayer request, you must repent of your sins before Jesus Christ.
“Heavenly Father! I admit that I am a sinner. Forgive all my sins. Help me gain freedom from sin and live righteously. Lord Jesus! Come into my life and change it. I can't live like this anymore, help me. Heal me. Jesus Christ be my Lord and Savior. Amen!".
Prayer requests begin with the prayer “Our Father” in front of an image with a lit candle or lamp. When the Lord and Mother of God are mentioned, they cross themselves and bow. The text of the prayer is repeated to the Guardian Angel 3-5 times. At the end of the home prayer service they cross themselves and bow.
When ordering a prayer service and reading prayers, one must remember that the sufferer must be baptized, including a young child.
Icon of the Mother of God “Vsetsaritsa”: history of appearance
The prayer “To the All-Tsarina” is associated with the iconographic image of the Mother of God of the same name. The exact time of the discovery of the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Vsetsaritsa” is unknown. However, already in the 8th century, on the coast of modern Turkey, there was a monastery of the Mother of God “Vsetsaritsa”. And in the first half of the 16th century, Metropolitan Athanasius of Nicaea donated this miraculous image to the Mount Athos monastery of Simonopetra. Currently, the revered icon “The All-Tsarina” is located in the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos.
Prayers at the Icon of the Mother of God “Vsetsaritsa”
Texts of strong Orthodox prayers against cancer and oncology
Prayer requests are read by heart or written out on a piece of paper from the prayer book.
Holy Mother of God
All-merciful, venerable Mother of God, Pantanassa, All-Queen! I am not worthy, but come under my roof! But as a merciful and gracious Mother of God, say the word, may my soul be healed and my weak body strengthened. You have an invincible power, and all your words will not fail, O All-Tsaritsa! Beg for me! You begged for me. May I glorify Your glorious name always, now and forever. Amen.
Luka Krymsky
O all-blessed confessor, holy saint, our Father Luke, great servant of Christ! With tenderness, we bow the knee of our hearts, and falling before the race of your honest and multi-healing relics, like a child of our father, we pray to you with all diligence: hear us sinners and bring our prayer to the Merciful and Lover of Mankind, to whom you now stand in the joy of the saints and with the faces of an angel. We believe that you love us with the same love that you loved all your neighbors while you were on earth. Ask Christ our God to establish in his holy Orthodox Church the spirit of right faith and piety: may he give to her shepherds 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, 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. Strengthening our cities, fruitful lands, deliverance from famine and destruction. Comfort for those who are grieving, healing for those who are ill, return to the path of truth for those who have lost their way, blessing from a parent, education and teaching for a child in the Passion of the Lord, 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, set us on the path leading to the villages of the righteous, deliver us from airy ordeals and pray to Almighty God for us, so that in eternal life with you we may continually glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, to Him belongs all glory and honor. and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Jesus Christ
Our earthly Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior. Help me cleanse my soul. Help me get rid of earthly vices. Help strengthen your flesh.
I pray for your forgiveness to all the souls of my loved ones living in Heaven and on Earth.
I pray to You for forgiveness to all souls on earth. I pray that you send us your grace and lead us along the path of Heaven. I pray to You for the health of my body. My body prevents my soul from purifying itself. Help me get rid of my serious illness. Help me drive out decay from my bodies. I will believe and follow You. Praise You and take care of my Soul. Amen.
Saint Nektarios of Aegina
Oh, Saint Nektarios, God-wise Father! Receive, guardian of the Orthodox faith, the confession from the lips of people named after Christ, gathered today in the temple by the grace of God living in you. The news has reached the Russian borders, as you, the great servant of Christ in the saints, appear to those who call on your name in all corners of the universe and grant healing from cancer. We have heard about the priest, your namesake, who built a temple in your name, with great sorrow. I was stricken with a cancerous chest ulcer, bleeding every day, and I suffered fiercely; but you do not abandon your holy work. Suddenly you, O most merciful Saint, descended from heaven and appeared to him in the temple in a visible form. He, the unseeing thy brother, was alone from mortals, asking for your prayers and saying: “I am a great one, otherwise I want to restore the holy altar, so that once again I will perform the holy liturgy together with the parishioners; “I am ready to die afterwards; death does not frighten me.” You, father, are incorporeal, your face is wet with tears! and the volume of the sufferer, kissing and saying: “Do not grieve, my child, as if you have been tested by illness, you will be healthy. Everyone knows about this miracle.” He, having been healed, was, in your mind, with whom you were talking, invisible to you. Oh, great servant of Christ Nectarius! This temple is now complete and your miracles are like an overflowing sea, multiplying! We know that the prayer of the righteous must be hastened by our zeal for the service of God and I resolve to die for Christ, so that we may find health. Your sick child prays to you, righteous father: may God’s will be done to us, good, pleasing and perfect, not wanting the sinner to die, but to turn and live for him. You, the herald of God’s will, heal us with your grace-filled appearance, may God be great in heaven and on earth forever and ever! Amen.
Saint Panteleimon
O holy great martyr and healer Panteleimon, merciful imitator of God! Look with mercy and hear us sinners, praying fervently before your holy icon, ask us from the Lord God, who stands before Him with the angels in heaven, for the forgiveness of our sins and transgressions: heal the mental and physical illnesses of the servants of God who are now remembered, those present here and all Christians For the Orthodox, for our sins, we are fiercely overcome by many ailments and are not imams of help and consolation: we resort to you, for the grace will be given to you to pray for us and to heal every ailment and every disease: grant us all, through your holy prayers, health and well-being of souls and body, progress of faith and piety and everything necessary for temporary life and salvation, as if you have been worthy of great and rich mercies, let us glorify you and the Giver of all blessings, wondrous in the saints of our God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
Matrona of Moscow
O blessed Mother Matrono, with your soul standing in heaven before the Throne of God, with your body resting on earth, and exuding various miracles by the grace given from above. Look now with your merciful eye on us, sinners, in sorrows, illnesses and sinful temptations, our waiting days, comfort us, desperate ones, heal our fierce ailments, from God we are allowed by our sins, deliver us from many troubles and circumstances, pray to our Lord Jesus Christ forgive us all our sins, iniquities and falls, in whose image we have sinned from our youth even to this day and hour, and through your prayers having received grace and great mercy, we glorify in the Trinity the One God, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever. Amen.
Guardian angel
Oh holy Angele,
My good guardian and patron! Arouse me, the servant of God (the name of the sick person) from the sleep of sin! Keep my life in the passion of Christ God. With your prayers help the rest of my life to pass without blemish And create fruits worthy of repentance. My mind confirm in the true path, And wound my soul to Heavenly Love. May I be guided by You, the Angel of God, my Holy Guardian. And I will receive great mercy from Christ God, Help with Your prayers: May I receive the grace of God For the sobering of my wretched soul And for healing body from a cancerous illness. May I not perish in despair. May my enemy not rejoice over my death. Bright light! Enlighten my soul with light. My mentor and Guardian from God, given to me by the Angel! With a broken heart, a sick soul, and a body stricken with a cancerous ulcer, Lying on the cancer bed of a spoiled bed, languishing and rotting from demonic machinations, woven by devilish nets, I stand before You, praying: Hear me, your sinful servant (name) (the name of the sick person), With strong with the cry and bitter cry of one who cries: Remember my iniquities and untruths; Show yourself merciful to me; Do not leave me, foul one; Protect me from the mortal falls of sin. My Guardian Saint! As if you have boldness towards God, pray to Him to deliver me from the evils that offend me; Reveal a Miracle and His miracle-working grace Heal the invincible body of God's servant(s) (name of the sick person) from the diseases of cancer and all his titles. Angel of God! My Savior! Take me away from the enemies who embitter me. From every misfortune of the enemy with huts, Cover me and protect me from evil trapping, Guide me to heavenly life, Instructing, enlightening and strengthening me Keep my life ever in peace, Grant me invincible salvation, Free me from all troubles and misfortunes, And from sorrows save, invisibly dissolve my illness... Holy Angel, given to me by God, my good Guardian! I pray to you: Illuminate my mind, O Good One, Enlighten me, And always instruct me to think usefully, Instruct me wonderfully in the silence of animals, Tire my heart from real rebellion, Show yourself merciful to me. Holy Angel of the Lord! Holy representative, my guardian! Enlighten me with inviolable light, Raise me to the praise of Your prayer, Make me worthy of the Kingdom of God, Enlighten my soul with good thoughts, Destroy my evil-minded enemies, Free me from the cancerous scourge; Vouchsafe to resist it with dignity and defeat it...
Blessed Angel! My keeper! I have laid all my thoughts and my soul to You: Do not leave me perishing, Drive away the dark demons from my soul, Protect me from their demonic trappings, Quench the disease of the corruption of cancer And all its titles from my weak body, Cut with the Honest Cross of the Lord from the slave (- s) of God (s) (name of the sick person) Cancer is prickly, powerful, watery, fatty, poisonous, bloody, mushroom, wormy, rotting, decomposing, grain, serbulizing, creeping, poisonous, smelly, internal, external, irritating , Cereal, growing, Free me cancer, from the disease of the spirit outgoing, And all its titles. In the terrible hour of death, be persistent with me; Protect me from dark demons, Drive away the intimidators of my trembling soul; Make it easier to pass through airy ordeals; Yes, we keep (- a) I will be You, holy Angel, And I will comfortably reach the paradise I desire, Where the Persons of the Holy and Heavenly Powers Unceasingly praise the all-honorable and magnificent name of the glorified God in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and to Him befits honor and worship forever and ever. Amen.
Angel of God, my Holy Guardian! Friend and intercessor, Protector and champion, Pray to God for me, the sinful servant of God (the name of the sick person). Good to my Guardian! Save me, the sinful servant of God (the name of the sick person ( -ey)) Pray to God for me! Amen!
Holy Trinity
O most merciful God, Father, Son and Holy Soul, worshiped and glorified in the Undivided Trinity, look graciously upon Thy servant (name), who is overcome by illness; forgive him all his sins; give him healing from his illness; restore his health and bodily strength; Give him a long and prosperous life, Your peaceful and worldly blessings, so that together with us he brings grateful prayers to You, our All-Bountiful God and Creator.
Archangel Michael
Oh, Great Archangel of God, Michael, conqueror of demons. Conquer and crush all my demons, visible and invisible. Pray to the Lord Almighty, may the Lord save and preserve me from all sorrows and illnesses, from deadly ulcers and from vain death, O Great Archangel Michael, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Archangel Raphael
Oh, great holy Archangel Raphael, stand before the throne of God!
By the grace given to you by the Almighty Physician of our souls and bodies, you healed the righteous man Tobit from bodily blindness, and you saved his son Tobias from an evil spirit while traveling with him. I earnestly pray to you: be my guide in my life. Save me from all visible and invisible enemies, heal my mental and physical illnesses, guide my life towards repentance of sins and the doing of good deeds.
Oh, great holy Raphael the Archangel!
Hear me, a sinner, praying to you, and make me worthy in this and the future life to thank and glorify our common Creator forever and ever. Amen.
Oh, holy, glorious Archangel of God Raphael!
A quick helper and warm before God for us, intercessor and prayer leader. Standing before the throne of the Holy Trinity, ask us from the Lord for forgiveness of our sins: may He turn over to mercy His righteous anger, which is brought upon us for the sake of our sins. Do not forsake us, O Archangel of God, with your help and intercession, who today glorify your holy name. Even though we have committed many sins, we still do not want to perish in our iniquities. Strengthen our weak will for good deeds with the grace of the Lord. Be a guide and adviser to us, like the youth Tobias, in our many-sorrowful life. Help us get rid of the diseases that oppress us, just as you saved Tobit from his many years of blindness. When the hour of our death approaches, do not leave us, Archangel of God, defenseless in the air ordeals against the spirits of evil blocking the sunrise to the heavenly. May we, guarded by you, reach the abodes of our heavenly Father and, together with you and with all the saints, glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
Silouan of Athos
O wonderful servant of God, Father Silouan!
By the grace given to you by God, pray tearfully for the entire universe, the dead, the living and the future, do not be silent for us to the Lord, who diligently fall to you and touchingly ask for your intercession (names).
Move, O all-blessed one, to prayer the Zealous Intercessor of the Christian race, the Most Blessed Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, who miraculously called you to be a faithful worker in Her earthly city, where the chosen one of God begs God for our sins, merciful and long-suffering, so that our untruths and iniquities are not remembered , but according to the ineffable goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ, to spare and save us according to His great mercy.
She, the saint of God, with the Most Blessed Lady of the World - the Most Holy Abbess of Athos and Her holy ascetics, ask the saints for the most holy Word of the holy Mount Athos and its God-loving desert dwellers to be preserved from all the troubles and slander of the enemy in the world. Yes, the Angels deliver the saints from evil and strengthen them in faith and brotherly love with the Holy Spirit, until the end of the century they pray for the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and show everyone the saving path, and the Earthly and Heavenly Church constantly glorifies the Creator and Father of Lights, enlightening and illuminating peace in the eternal truth and goodness of God.
Ask the people of the entire earth for a prosperous and peaceful life, a spirit of humility and brotherly love, good morals and salvation, a spirit of fear of God. Let it not be malice and lawlessness that harden the hearts of men, which can destroy the love of God in men and cast them into godless enmity and fratricide, but in the power of Divine love and truth, as in heaven and on earth, hallowed be the name of God, may His holy will be done in men , and may peace and the Kingdom of God reign on earth.
Likewise, for your earthly Fatherland - the Russian lands, ask, servant of God, the longed-for peace and heavenly blessing, covered by the omnipotent omophorion of the Mother of God, to get rid of famine, destruction, cowardice, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare and from all visible enemies and invisible, and thus remain the most holy house of the Most Blessed Mother of God until the end of the age, the Life-giving Cross by the power, and be established in the inexhaustible love of God.
For all of us, who are immersed in the darkness of sins and warmth of repentance, who have no lower fear of God and who constantly insult the Lord who loves us immeasurably, ask, O all-blessed one, from our All-Bountiful God, so that with His All-powerful divine grace He will visit and revive our souls and all evil and let the pride of life, despondency and negligence in our hearts be abolished.
We also pray that we, strengthened by the grace of the All-Holy Spirit and warmed by the love of God, in philanthropy and brotherly love, in humble crucification for one another and for everyone, may be established in the truth of God and well strengthened in the gracious love of God, and will draw closer to the filial One.
Yes, thus, doing His all-holy will, in all piety and purity of temporary life, let us walk the path unashamedly and with all the saints of the Heavenly Kingdom and His Lamb we will be honored. To Him from all earthly and heavenly be glory, honor and worship, with His Beginningless Father, His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
