Getting cancer is one of the most difficult experiences in a person's life. While going through it, the patient really needs prayer help - both private, from friends and relatives, and definitely from the church. Through sincere and tearful prayer, the Lord gives a person the strength to repent and correct his life, heals the soul, after which healing becomes possible. Cases of miraculous recovery from oncology through the prayers of the sufferer or people close to him are known and they are not isolated. In oncology, the Lord God gives hope for healing in the most difficult circumstances, right up to the last minute. In the case of oncology, we can help dear people with fervent prayer and trust in God.
Prayer for healing
In order for a prayer for an oncology patient to be offered in church, a prayer service should be ordered. This is a short service performed by a priest at the request of a believer. Joint prayer with the priest according to the church rite is done according to the word of our Lord Jesus Christ, conveyed to us in the Gospel: “Where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20).
A prayer service for health in case of cancer is a type of petitionary prayer service. It is served in front of the Savior, the Mother of God or the saints to whose help a person wants to turn. Before the start of the prayer service, you need to write on a separate note the name of the person who needs prayer help and give it to the priest, a church shop employee, or send it via the Internet, online. When performing a prayer service, it is better to be present in person. But if you cannot yet visit a church or have a burning desire to order a prayer service in a certain church, in front of a miraculous icon or the relics of a saint, it would be right to take the opportunity and order a prayer service online. Remember that a prayer service can only be ordered for a baptized person.
You can not limit yourself to ordering a prayer service for health, but submit notes about health, the priest will read them in the altar during the service of the Divine Liturgy, order the Sorokoust or the Indestructible Psalter, which is usually read in monasteries.
Diet for cancer patients
Diet and nutrition during cancer treatment are incredibly important. A balanced and rational diet is necessary regardless of the stage of development of the disease in the patient.
A diet for cancer helps improve overall well-being, maintain normal body weight, regenerate healthy cellular structures after chemotherapy and radiation, maintain the balance of nutrients and their proper metabolism, and also prevent the appearance of foci of infection and inflammation, and exhaustion.
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Second prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos in honor of Her icon “The Tsaritsa” (Pantanassa)
O Most Pure Mother of God, All-Tsarina! Hear our much-painful sigh before Your miraculous icon, brought from the Athos inheritance to Russia, look upon Your children, those suffering from incurable ailments, who fall to Your holy image with faith! Just as a winged bird covers its chicks, so You, now and ever-living being, have covered us with Your multi-healing omophorion. There, where hope disappears, awaken with undoubted Hope. There, where fierce sorrows prevail, Appear with Patience and Weakness. There, where the darkness of despair has settled in the souls, 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 if You are alive and present with us, we pray before Your icon, O Lady! Extend Your hand, full of healing and healing, Joy to those who mourn, Consolation to those in sorrow, so that with miraculous help we soon receive, we glorify the Life-Giving and Indivisible Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.
Orthodox priest's advice
Healing by fasting
First of all, in case of such terrible deadly diseases as cancer, it is necessary to prepare a general Confession: confess to a priest and worthily partake of the Body and Blood of Christ. Secondly, with such a serious disease as cancer, an accurate medical diagnosis and observation by medical specialists are necessary. And prayers and herbal decoctions with the addition of holy water will help you.
There are a lot of prayers addressing the Lord or the saints who have been given the grace to heal from this serious illness.
When suffering from cancer, one should pray to the Most Holy Theotokos in honor of Her icon “Quick to Hear” and in honor of Her icon “The All-Tsarina” (Pantanassa), as well as to Saint Nektarios of Aegina. In any illness, especially serious illnesses, be sure to pray to the holy Great Martyr and healer Panteleimon. Before upcoming operations, they turn to the holy intercession of St. Luke - confessor, Archbishop of Crimea.
The image of the Mother of God “The All-Tsarina” is located in the Vatopedi Monastery of Athos and since ancient times has attracted those who are suffering, seeking the intercession of the Most Pure Virgin in various ailments. There are especially well-known cases of miraculous help provided through the icon “The Queen of All” to those suffering from cancer.
Prayer to Saint Luke of Crimea
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.
Nutrition for cancer is prepared using the following useful products:
- Yellow, orange, and reddish-orange fruits and vegetables are believed to contain carotenoids that have beneficial effects against cancer. First of all, these are: apricots, citruses, carrots, tomatoes, zucchini. Beta-carotene, lutein, lycopene improve immunity and protect cellular structure from radiation.
- If the liver is damaged, meals should be fractional, without fatty and heavy foods, and include a sufficient amount of vitamins, proteins that are easily digestible, microelements and fiber.
- Broccoli, radishes, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts, turnips, and mustard are classified as cruciferous vegetables that contain indole, an active element that helps cleanse the liver and neutralize harmful chemical factors.
- Some varieties of green plants are rich in chlorophyll, so including them in the diet for cancer helps against abnormal elements and microbes. Such representatives include blue-blue and unicellular green algae, green peas and mustard, dandelion shoots, cabbage, and nettle leaves.
- Green tea is famous for its various strengthening properties.
- Pineapple, broccoli and garlic have an antitumor effect and stimulate detoxification. They reduce the likelihood of developing nitroso-induced oncology.
- For breast cancer, it is recommended to increase the intake of vitamin D, bran, whole grain cereals and their sprouts, beans, and bran.
- Ellagic acid, which prevents oxidation in cell membranes and is considered a good antioxidant, is contained in: raspberries, grapes, strawberries, strawberries, pomegranate, and blueberries.
- Fruits and vegetables of blue, red or lilac colors include anthocyanidins - antioxidants that activate the body's defenses, reduce the effects of free radicals, viral agents and carcinogens, and remove substances including chemical breakdown products and harmful elements. Representatives of this group include: blue cabbage, cherries, beets, various types of grapes, blackberries, blueberries.
- If you have pancreatic cancer, you cannot eat some healthy foods. For example, dates, bananas and grapes. Low-fat dairy products will have an effective effect.
Scientists have found that a cancer treatment diet that contains brown seaweed (also known as Japanese kelp) and blue-green algae helps reduce tumor size.
Various freshly squeezed juices and fruit drinks have a good effect.
The diet of cancer patients must include foods that contain omega-3 fatty acids. The best examples are fish oil and fatty sea fish. Also important acids are contained in flaxseed oil and seeds.
It is imperative to maintain favorable microflora in the intestinal tract. To ensure this, doctors recommend including the optimal amount of asparagus, garlic, tomatoes, onions, and sprouted wheat in your daily diet. If you need to induce a laxative effect, you can use prunes. Blueberries help reduce putrefactive processes and fermentation, as well as the accumulation of gases.
If you have cancer, doctors also recommend including the following foods in your diet:
- potatoes, peppers and beans;
- gooseberries, rose hips, hawthorn fruits;
- apples, peaches;
- parsley dill;
- buckwheat, brown rice, oats, barley;
- basil, celery, spinach;
- parsnips, lentils, peas, coriander;
- horseradish, melon, turnip, eggplant, radish;
- corn, basmati rice, pumpkin;
- wheat and its live sprouts;
- sea buckthorn, lingonberry, red and black currant, chokeberry, cranberry;
- honey (has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and anti-carcinogenic effects).
The material was prepared in agreement with the doctors of the Anadolu Clinic.
Prayer to 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. Order a prayer service
Prayers for cancer
In case of illness, Orthodox people do not use spells, mantras, or any other methods that the Church does not approve of. But in Orthodoxy there are prayers for various cases, including cancer, and readers ask us to tell you more about this.
Any believer knows that recovery will come or not, everything is in the hands of God. Despite the fact that in the Christian tradition a person is instructed to endure illness courageously, as a “bitter medicine”, a means of atonement for the mistakes of life, it is not considered a sin to ask God for healing or pacification of the illness.
A short prayer of a sick person to the Lord: “Lord, You see my illness, You know how sinful and weak I am, help me to endure and thank Your goodness. Lord, make this illness to be the cleansing of my many sins. Amen".
