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Nowadays, people suffer from various diseases for a number of reasons. Most illnesses arise due to poor ecology, nerves, and fatigue. Some of them can be cured with medication, while others can be treated with surgery. But, unfortunately, there are also incurable ones. But even if a disappointing diagnosis is made, one must not give up. It is necessary to fight in all possible ways and believe in miracles. They actually can happen.
If you believe in the power of the Lord and the Holy Great Martyrs, then you can also pray for the health of your family and friends. It is prayer that gives strength in moments of sadness and grief, when the last rays of hope fade away.
There are a large number of prayers that are addressed to various Saints who help a person recover. Requests can be addressed to:
- Jesus Christ
- John of Kronstadt
- John the Healer
- Luka Krymsky
But in our article I would like to pay special attention to prayers to Saint Luke.
Prayer to Saint Luke of Crimea
St. Luke is one of the most revered Saints among believers. He is asked:
- About the health of relatives and close friends, acquaintances;
- About the healing of a child;
- About the successful conception of a baby;
- About healing from cancer and other deadly diseases.
When loved ones get sick, it’s simply unbearable to watch. In such a situation, we try to do everything possible and impossible to save the life of a loved one. After all, the main thing is not to be idle when every minute is precious.
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You should look for any ways to solve the problem - the best clinics, experienced specialists. In addition, one must always remember that God sees everything and everyone. He will definitely help, you just have to ask for help.
Luke of Crimea is a Saint who achieved glory during his lifetime. He was a very talented surgeon. The Lord himself gave him the talent to save people's lives. Luke performed very complex operations, thereby curing hopelessly sick people.
He devoted his entire life to saving people, their healing, he gave them the most valuable thing that could be - life. So after his death, he helps every person who needs his support. And here is what the prayer for the health of the sick person sounds like:
“O all-blessed confessor, our holy saint Luke, great saint of Christ. With tenderness we bow the knee of our hearts, and falling before the race of your honest and multi-healing relics, like the children of our father, we pray to you with all earnestness: hear us, sinners, and bring our prayer to the merciful and man-loving God, to whom you now stand in the joy of the saints and from the face 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 confirm His children in the spirit of right faith and piety: to the shepherds to give holy zeal and care for the salvation of the people entrusted to them: to observe the right of believers, 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: the establishment of our cities, the fruitfulness of the land, deliverance from famine and destruction, consolation for the afflicted, 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 distress. The Lord's upbringing and teaching, help and intercession for the orphaned and needy.
Grant us all your Archpastoral blessing, so that if we have such prayerful intercession, we will get rid of the wiles of the evil one and avoid all enmity and disorder, heresies and schisms. Guide us on the path that leads to the villages of the righteous, and pray for us to the omnipotent God, in eternal life we will be worthy with you to constantly glorify the Consubstantial and Indivisible Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen."
How do prayers help? What to ask Saint Luke for
During his lifetime, Luka Krymsky was a wonderful surgeon and saved lives every day. He received talent from God and used it for the benefit of people. He lived in the 20th century and you can still meet people who communicated with him or saw him and thanked their relatives for the successful treatment.
Luke was a deeply religious man and led a righteous lifestyle. Even during the times of persecution of the church, he always had an icon in the operating room. Before starting an operation, he always read a prayer for the healing of the patient.
Having completed his earthly journey and gone to heaven, the Simferopol healer continues to help people overcome illness and save them from fatal diseases. The day of remembrance of the holy healer is celebrated on June 11. On March 18, the discovery of the relics took place.
People turn to the healer Luke with a request for healing and health for a loved one, relative, friends and parents. Even if a person is diagnosed with cancer, a strong prayer to Luke will help him and give him strength to fight the terrible disease. You can also read the complete collection of prayers for cancer.
Healer Luke helps in many cases. They pray to him:
- if there is an operation ahead (we also recommend strong prayers before the operation);
- about an easy pregnancy;
- in case of loss of vision about its return;
- for sick relatives and children so that they recover.
They pray to Luka Krymsky for recovery and ask for strength to overcome the illness. You can turn to the saint on behalf of relatives, loved ones and especially children. During their lifetime, the doctor often treated children, saved them from various diseases, and performed operations. He is especially attentive to prayers in which parents and others ask for children.
Adults turn to the holy healer asking for the health of their parents, especially if their weakness and infirmity have been prolonged. Also in this case, you can read prayers for health for children from their mother.
It doesn’t matter for whom an Orthodox Christian prays, reading the prayer text helps him to realize that the situation is difficult, but not hopeless, and to gain strength and patience to overcome everything. Those who read the text gain confidence in the positive outcome of treatment and peace of mind.
Prayer to Luke of Crimea for healing
We often call the victory of a person suffering from an incurable disease simply a miracle. We perceive his recovery as a gift from God and call it nothing other than real healing.
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Even if you had to hear a terrible diagnosis of cancer, this is not a reason to panic and “throw yourself off the bridge.” We need to fight the disease and read the prayer to St. Luke every day. And he won't leave you in trouble. You can often find testimonies of those people who managed to be healed or those who know them. Cancer is not a death sentence, remember this.
Anyone can ask His Holiness for help for anyone. For example:
- mothers and grandmothers can ask for the child to be healed,
- children - about the healing of parents,
- girls and boys about the recovery of their other halves and friends.
You can also ask for yourself without remorse.
Prayer to Luka Krymsky for conceiving a child
Children are our treasures, they decorate the life of every person, make it bright and filled with important meaning. But, unfortunately, not every woman manages to get pregnant quickly and effortlessly.
Some undergo many medical tests, try to change their lifestyle, but still cannot experience the happiness of motherhood. Then the prayer service to St. Luke can help you.
If you read prayers every day with an open soul and pure thoughts, then the Saint will definitely help you. And most importantly, sincerely believe that everything will work out for you, and so it will be. You will become a mother.
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Prayer to Luka Krymsky before surgery
There are very few people who have not had to go under the surgeon's knife. And no matter what kind of surgical intervention it is, the patient will still feel fear and anxiety.
Even with ordinary appendicitis, people are nervous, not to mention more serious operations (for example, removal of tumors). Therefore, a patient who is awaiting surgery can calm himself down by reading a prayer to himself.
In addition, I would like to note that the doctors themselves also pray to Luka Krymsky when they face a difficult operation. It depends on them whether the patient will live or not.
Before, during and after surgery, your mother, husband or grandmother can pray for you. At the end of the operation, everyone who cares about the health and fate of the patient can ask for the patient’s recovery.
Great Martyr Luke of Crimea always comes to the aid of those who suffer; he leaves no one in trouble. Therefore, we should also be grateful to him and pray regularly, read him, go to church, especially on his memorial day, namely June 11. But even on ordinary days, do not forget about your Holiness.
Now you know what prayer should be used for recovery and healing of loved ones. So live and rejoice, may the merciful Lord be with you.
Saint Luke, Archbishop of Crimea
Saint Luke (in the world Valentin Feliksovich Voino-Yasenetsky) was born in 1877 in the city of Kerch, Crimea, into a noble family of Polish origin. Since childhood, he was interested in painting and decided to enter the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. However, during the entrance exams, he was overcome by doubt, and he decided that he did not have the right to do what he liked, but that he needed to work to alleviate the suffering of his neighbor. Thus, having read the words of the Savior about the laborers of the harvest (see: Matt. 9:37), he accepted the call to serve the people of God. Valentin decided to devote himself to medicine and entered the medical faculty of Kyiv University.
The artist's talent helped him in scrupulous anatomical studies. He completed his studies brilliantly (1903) on the eve of the Russian-Japanese War, and his career as a doctor began in a hospital in the city of Chita. There he met and married a sister of mercy, and they had four children. Then he was transferred to the hospital in the city of Ardatov, Simbirsk province, and later to Upper Lyubazh, Kursk province.
Working in hospitals and seeing the consequences that occur with general anesthesia, he came to the conclusion that in most cases it must be replaced with local anesthesia. Despite the meager equipment in hospitals, he successfully performed a large number of surgical operations, which attracted patients from neighboring counties to him. He continued to work as a surgeon in the village of Romanovka, Saratov region, and then was appointed chief physician of a 50-bed hospital in Pereslavl-Zalessky. There he still operated a lot, continuing to conduct scientific research.
In 1916, in Moscow, Valentin Feliksovich successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic of local anesthesia and began working on a large monograph on purulent surgery. In 1917, when the roars of revolution thundered in big cities, he was appointed chief physician of the Tashkent city hospital and settled with his family in this city. Soon his wife died of tuberculosis. While caring for a dying woman, the idea occurred to him to ask his operating sister to take on the responsibility of raising the children. She agreed, and Dr. Valentin was able to continue his activities both at the hospital and at the university, where he taught courses in anatomy and surgery.
He often took part in debates on spiritual topics, where he spoke out refuting the theses of scientific atheism. At the end of one of these meetings, at which he spoke for a long time and with inspiration, Bishop Innocent took him aside and said: “Doctor, you need to be a priest.” Although Valentin never thought about the priesthood, he immediately accepted the hierarch’s offer. On the following Sunday he was ordained a deacon, and a week later he was elevated to the rank of priest.
He worked simultaneously as a doctor, as a professor and as a priest, serving in the cathedral only on Sundays and coming to classes in a cassock. He did not perform many services and sacraments, but he was zealous in preaching, and supplemented his instructions with spiritual conversations on pressing topics. For two years in a row, he participated in public disputes with a renounced priest, who became the leader of anti-religious propaganda in the region and subsequently died a miserable death.
In 1923, when the so-called “Living Church” provoked a renovationist schism, bringing discord and confusion into the bosom of the Church, the Bishop of Tashkent was forced to go into hiding, entrusting the management of the diocese to Father Valentin and another protopresbyter. The exiled Bishop Andrei of Ufa (Prince Ukhtomsky), while passing through the city, approved the election of Father Valentin to the episcopate, carried out by a council of clergy who remained faithful to the Church. Then the same bishop tonsured Valentin in his room as a monk with the name Luke and sent him to a small town near Samarkand. Two exiled bishops lived here, and Saint Luke was consecrated in the strictest secrecy (May 18, 1923). A week and a half after returning to Tashkent and after his first liturgy, he was arrested by the security authorities (GPU), accused of counter-revolutionary activities and espionage for England and sentenced to two years of exile in Siberia, in the Turukhansk region.
The path to exile took place in horrific conditions, but the holy doctor performed more than one surgical operation, saving the sufferers he met along the way from certain death. While in exile, he also worked in a hospital and performed many complex operations. He used to bless the sick and pray before surgery. When representatives of the GPU tried to prohibit him from doing this, they were met with a firm refusal from the bishop. Then Saint Luke was summoned to the state security department, given half an hour to get ready, and sent in a sleigh to the shore of the Arctic Ocean. There he wintered in coastal settlements.
At the beginning of Lent he was recalled to Turukhansk. The doctor returned to work at the hospital, since after his expulsion she lost her only surgeon, which caused grumbling from the local population. In 1926 he was released and returned to Tashkent.
The following autumn, Metropolitan Sergius appointed him first to Rylsk of the Kursk diocese, then to Yelets of the Oryol diocese as a suffragan bishop and, finally, to the Izhevsk see. However, on the advice of Metropolitan Arseny of Novgorod, Bishop Luke refused and asked to retire - a decision that he would bitterly regret later.
For about three years he quietly continued his activities. In 1930, his colleague at the Faculty of Medicine, Professor Mikhailovsky, having lost his mind after the death of his son, decided to revive him with a blood transfusion, and then committed suicide. At the request of the widow and taking into account the mental illness of the professor, Bishop Luke signed permission to bury him according to church rites. The communist authorities took advantage of this situation and accused the bishop of complicity in the murder of the professor. In their opinion, the ruler, out of religious fanaticism, prevented Mikhailovsky from resurrecting the deceased with the help of materialistic science.
Bishop Luke was arrested shortly before the destruction of the Church of St. Sergius, where he preached. He was subjected to continuous interrogations, after which he was taken to a stuffy punishment cell, which undermined his already fragile health. Protesting against the inhumane conditions of detention, Saint Luke began a hunger strike. Then the investigator gave his word that he would release him if he stopped his hunger strike. However, he did not keep his word, and the bishop was sentenced to a new three-year exile.
Again a journey in appalling conditions, after which work in a hospital in Kotlas and Arkhangelsk from 1931 to 1933. When Vladyka was diagnosed with a tumor, he went to Leningrad for surgery. There, one day during a church service, he experienced a stunning spiritual revelation that reminded him of the beginning of his church ministry. Then the bishop was transferred to Moscow for new interrogations and made interesting proposals regarding scientific research, but on condition of renunciation, to which Saint Luke responded with a firm refusal.
Released in 1933, he refused the offer to head a vacant episcopal see, wanting to devote himself to continuing scientific research. He returned to Tashkent, where he was able to work in a small hospital. In 1934, his work “Essays on Purulent Surgery” was published, which soon became a classic of medical literature.
While working in Tashkent, the bishop fell ill with a tropical disease, which led to retinal detachment. Nevertheless, he continued his medical practice until 1937. The brutal repressions carried out by Stalin not only against right-wing oppositionists and religious leaders, but also against communist leaders of the first wave, filled the concentration camps with millions of people. Saint Luke was arrested along with the Archbishop of Tashkent and other priests who remained faithful to the Church and were accused of creating a counter-revolutionary church organization.
The saint was interrogated by a “conveyor belt”, when for 13 days and nights in the blinding light of lamps, investigators, taking turns, continuously interrogated him, forcing him to incriminate himself. When the bishop began a new hunger strike, he, exhausted, was sent to the state security dungeons. After new interrogations and torture, which exhausted his strength and brought him to a state where he could no longer control himself, Saint Luke signed with a trembling hand that he admitted his participation in the anti-Soviet conspiracy.
So in 1940, he was sent into exile for the third time, to Siberia, to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, where, after numerous petitions and refusals, he was able to obtain permission to work as a surgeon and even continue scientific research in Tomsk. When the invasion of Hitler's troops took place and the war began (1941), which cost millions of victims, St. Luke was appointed chief surgeon of the Krasnoyarsk hospital, as well as responsible for all military hospitals in the region. At the same time, he served as a bishop in the diocese of the region, where, as the communists proudly reported, there was not a single functioning church left.
Metropolitan Sergius elevated him to the rank of archbishop. In this rank, he took part in the Council of 1943, at which Metropolitan Sergius was elected patriarch, and Saint Luke himself became a member of the permanent Synod.
Since religious persecution had subsided somewhat during the war, he embarked on an extensive program of reviving religious life, devoting himself with renewed energy to preaching. When the Krasnoyarsk hospital was transferred to Tambov (1944), he settled in that city and administered the diocese, while at the same time working on the publication of various medical and theological works, in particular an apologia for Christianity against scientific atheism, entitled Spirit, Soul and Body. In this work, the saint defends the principles of Christian anthropology with solid scientific arguments.
In February 1945, for his archpastoral activities, Saint Luke was awarded the right to wear a cross on his hood. For patriotism, he was awarded the medal “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.”
A year later, Archbishop Luka of Tambov and Michurin became the laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree for the scientific development of new surgical methods for the treatment of purulent diseases and wounds, set out in the scientific works “Essays on Purulent Surgery” and “Late Resections for Infected Gunshot Wounds of the Joints.”
In 1946, he was transferred to Crimea and appointed Archbishop of Simferopol. In Crimea, he was forced, first of all, to fight the morals of the local clergy. He taught that the heart of a priest must become a fire, radiating the light of the Gospel and love of the Cross, whether by word or by example. Due to heart disease, Saint Luke was forced to stop operating, but continued to give free consultations and assist local doctors with advice. Through his prayers, many miraculous healings occurred.
In 1956, he became completely blind, but from memory he continued to serve the Divine Liturgy, preach and lead the diocese. He courageously resisted the closure of churches and various forms of persecution from the authorities.
Under the weight of his life, having fulfilled the work of witnessing to the Lord, Crucified in the name of our salvation, Bishop Luke rested peacefully on May 29, 1961. His funeral was attended by the entire clergy of the diocese and a huge crowd of people, and the grave of St. Luke soon became a place of pilgrimage, where numerous healings are performed to this day.
Troparion to Saint Luke, Confessor, Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea, tone 1
The proclaimer of the path of salvation,/ the confessor and archpastor of the Crimean land,/ the true keeper of fatherly traditions,/ the unshakable pillar, the teacher of Orthodoxy,/ the godly physician, St. Luke,/ Christ And we continually pray to the Savior/ to grant unshakable faith to the Orthodox // salvation and great mercy.
Kontakion to Saint Luke, Confessor, Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea, tone 1
Like an all-bright star, shining with virtues,/ you were a saint,/ you created a soul equal to an angel,/ for this reason you are honored with the rank of holiness,/ in exile from the godless you suffered a lot,/ and not Let us be shaken by faith,/ by medical wisdom you have healed many./ Moreover Now the Lord glorify your venerable body from the depths of the earth, wondrously found,/ let all the faithful cry out to you:/ Rejoice, Father to St. Luke,// praise and affirmation for the Crimean lands.
Prayer to Saint Luke, Confessor, Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea
Oh, all-blessed confessor, our holy saint Luke, the great saint of Christ. With tenderness we bend the knee of our hearts, and falling before the race of your honest and multi-healing relics, like the child of our father, we pray to you with all our hearts: hear us sinners and bring prayer to I turn to the Merciful and Humane-loving God. To him you now stand in the joy of the saints and stand before him as 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 confirm His children in the spirit of right faith and piety: may He give the shepherds holy zeal and care for the salvation of the people entrusted to them: the right believer to observe, to strengthen the weak and infirm in the faith, to instruct the ignorant, to reprove those who oppose. Give us all a gift that is useful to everyone, and everything that is useful for temporary life and eternal salvation. Establishment of our cities, fruitful lands, deliverance from famine and destruction. Comfort to those who mourn, healing to those who are sick, return to those who have gone astray on the path of truth, blessing to parents, education and teaching to children in the fear of the Lord, help and intercession to the poor and poor. Grant us all your archpastoral blessing, so that if we have such prayerful intercession, we will get rid of the wiles of the evil one and avoid all enmity and disorder, heresies and schisms. Guide us on the path leading to the villages of the righteous, and pray for us to the all-powerful God, so that in eternal life we may be worthy with you to continually glorify the Consubstantial and Indivisible Trinity, the Father and the Son on and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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