Speedy in intercession is the One, Christ, / show speedy visitation from above to your suffering servants, / and deliver from ailments and bitter diseases; / and raise them up to sing Glory to you unceasingly, // through the prayers of the Mother of God, the One Lover of Mankind.
On the bed of illness, wounded by a mortal wound, / as you sometimes raised up, O Savior, Peter’s mother-in-law, / and the weakened one, on the bed of the wearer, / to this day, O Merciful One, visit and heal the afflicted:/ You alone bear the ailments and diseases of our generation, // and are all mighty, for You are Most Merciful.
O Most Merciful God, Father, Son and Holy Soul, worshiped and glorified in the Undivided Trinity, look kindly upon Thy servant (name), who is overcome by illness.
Forgive him all his sins; grant him healing from illness; restore his health and bodily strength; Give him a long and prosperous life, Your peaceful and premium blessings, so that he, together with us, brings grateful prayers to You, the All-Generous God and our Creator.
Most Holy Theotokos, by Your omnipotent intercession help me to beg Your Son, my God, for the healing of God’s servant (name).
All saints and angels of the Lord, pray to God for His sick servant (name). Amen.
Master, Almighty, Holy King, punish and do not kill, strengthen those who fall and raise up the overthrown, correct the afflictions of bodily people, we pray to Thee, our God, Visit Your weak servant (name) 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 weakness, be the doctor of Your servant (name), raise him up from from the sickness and from the bed of embitterment, whole and all-perfect, grant it to Your 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.
Master 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 it, leave it, 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, with Thy Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and ever eyelids of centuries. Amen.
Accept, O All-Blessed and All-Powerful Lady, Lady Theotokos the Virgin, these prayers, now brought to You with tears from us, Your unworthy servants, to Your celibate in the image of the singing of those who send out with tenderness, as You yourself are here and hearken to our prayer.
You fulfill every request, alleviate sorrow, give health to the weak, heal the weakened and sick, drive away demons from demons, and drive away those who are offended by insults. you deliver, you cleanse lepers, and you have mercy on little children; also, Lady Lady Theotokos, you free from bonds and prisons and heal all manifold passions: for all things are possible through Your intercession to Your Son, Christ God ours.
O 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 faith I have no doubt towards You, the Ever-Virgin, Most Glorious and Immaculate, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
O All-merciful, venerable Mother of God Pantanassa, the All-Queen! 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.
O 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 who suffer, to the holy those who fall in faith to Your image!
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 to those who have soon received miraculous help, we glorify the Life-Giving and Indivisible Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
O holy Archangel Raphael! We earnestly pray to you, be our guide in our lives, save us from all visible and invisible enemies, heal our mental and physical illnesses, direct our lives to repentance for sins and the creation of good deeds.
O holy great Raphael the Archangel! Hear us, sinful servants of God (names), praying to you, and grant us in this and the future life to thank and glorify our common Creator to the endless ages of ages. Amen.
About the greatness of Christ's saints and wonderworkers 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.
O glorious holy martyr Antipo and quick helper to Christians in illness! I believe with all my soul and thought that the Lord has given you the gift of healing the sick, healing the sick, and strengthening the weak.
For this reason, for your sake, as a blessed doctor of illnesses, I, weak, come running and, kissing your venerable image with reverence, I pray: by your intercession from the Heavenly King, ask me, to the sick, healing from the dental disease that depresses me, since I am unworthy of you, my most gracious father and my most faithful protector, but you, being an imitator of God’s love for mankind, create me worthy of your intercession through my conversion from evil deeds to a good life, heal the ulcers and scabs of my soul and body with the grace abundantly given to you, grant me health and salvation in everything good haste, yes, having lived such a quiet and silent life in all piety and purity, I will be deemed worthy with all the saints to glorify the all-holy name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
* Translation by Hieromonk Feofan (Adamenko).
1 Sequence of prayer singing for the sick.
2 Handbook of an Orthodox person. Prayer singing for the sick.
3 Canon. Canon of the Most Holy Theotokos in front of Her icon “The All-Tsarina”.
4 Menaion. April. St. sschmch. Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum in Asia.