When deciding to have an operation, anyone will worry about the result and worry about the professionalism of the surgeon. Have a beneficial effect on the doctor, a positive outcome and successful process any intervention can be done with suitable prayer. Read more in this article about what prayers should be read, to whom, how and when.

The Power of Prayer Before Surgery

Prayer before surgery is not just a guarantee of a successful outcome.

In addition to guaranteeing a safe outcome, it helps with the following:

1. Calms and gives hope.
2. Provides surgeon confidence and skill.
3. Allows you to avoid unexpected situations and unnecessary reactions.
4. Does not allow a lot of stress on the body.
5. Eliminates unwanted consequences.

Such prayers are usually read by the whole family and relatives. This is done in order to strengthen the request and increase the chances of its fulfillment.

For a successful outcome, the patient himself must go through three stages:

1. Prayer the day before surgery.
2. A petition before the process itself.
3. Gratitude after.

The main one is the prayer read before surgery. Moreover, it must be read within a week.

Who to pray to before and after surgery, how to do it correctly?

When deciding who needs to offer what kind of prayer service, you don’t have to worry about making the right choice. Remember that you are asking the Saint to convey your prayer to the Lord and pray with you.

Therefore, you can appeal to several forces at once in turn:

• to the Mother of God;
• Nicholas the Wonderworker;
• Matrona of Moscow;
• Luke Krymsky.

Prayer before surgery should not be based on fear, but on faith in the Lord and hope for the best. A prayer filled with fear will not have the desired effect. You should also pray for the health of the doctor who will operate on you.

The selected prayer service is repeated daily for a week. If possible, it is preferable to visit church several times, confess to the priest and receive communion. You should take a small cross or a copy of the icon with you to the operating room and keep it with you even after the procedure is completed.

God bless you for a successful outcome

To beg the Lord for successful outcome operations, you should contact him with two prayers:

• the first is read in the days before surgery;
• the second directly at the beginning of the process.

The most popular prayer that can be read before the procedure is “Our Father.” This prayer service is used under any circumstances, it calms and pacifies, and also helps to concentrate God’s power and will on what is happening. It is repeated three times a day: in the morning, after lunch, in the evening.

Once a day you can say another prayer:

“Our Lord Almighty, holy is Your name, Your kingdom is eternal! Submissive (submissive) to Your will, the Servant of God (Servant of God) (your name) prays for a blessing and a miracle in order to protect you from an evil fate and grant a good outcome in the coming event. Don’t leave me, guide the hand of the doctor (surgeon’s name) with your hand. Carry out your will through his actions. Amen".

After each reading, you must cross yourself three times and bow three times. You can read both prayers daily, but it is not advisable; the Lord will hear and heed the words anyway. Immediately before the operation itself, after administering anesthesia, you should repeat: « Bless and save!".

The prayer to Luka Krymsky before the operation is many times stronger if close relatives repeat it. It is not necessary to memorize the text, the main thing is to put into it the hope of healing and a successful outcome. Download full version prayers are possible.

To the Blessed Virgin Mary about a successful operation

A prayer is read separately to the Most Holy Theotokos on the icon before the operation so that it goes well. You should also light an odd number of candles, kneel and say:

« Holy Mother of God, Defender of the clan and Intercessor! Do not offend the Servant of God (the Servant of God) (your name or the name of the patient) and favor healing! Take away the pain, heal the wounds, and wrap your mother in blessings, love and protection. Amen".

Cross yourself, touch the bottom of the icon with your lips, repeat the action three times. If a prayer service is read by a relative, then before him it is recommended to appeal to the Mother of God with the prayer “Virgin Mother of God, rejoice...”. You can recite the sacred text before the operation and during its process in order to focus the attention of the heavenly forces on what is happening.

Nicholas the Wonderworker

We should not forget about the great Saints who performed miracles during their lifetime, healed people and granted deliverance from troubles and torment. One of the most popular Saints is Nicholas the Wonderworker. You can pray to him before the operation every night, kneeling by the bed and repeating:

“Oh, all-holy saint Nicholas, intercessor of the grieving, help the Servant of God (Servant of God) (name) in this life, beg the Lord God to grant relief and tranquility, to accomplish a good deed and save from an unkind outcome. So that the Almighty would desire to deliver me from torment. I offer this prayer to the glory of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and I trust in You, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen».

They also turn to the Wonderworker with prayer before surgery loved one:

“Wonderworker Nicholas, protector of the suffering and healer of all kinds of diseases, we pray to you for a loved one. Save the Servant of God (Servant of God) (name) from trouble and save from pain, intercede for him (her) before God and grant your blessing. By your will, so be it! Amen».

Matrona of Moscow

It is better to appeal to Matrona with a request directly on the day of the operation itself, in the morning, after reading other prayers. You need to cross yourself and read the words:

“Blessed Matrona, who guides you through sorrows free of charge, hear my call and grant protection! I pray for parting words for my doctor (surgeon’s name), for a steady hand and good health! I ask for Your goodness, and pray to the Lord for help and healing. Amen. Amen. Amen".

This prayer is considered to accompany those that have been read throughout the week. It helps to focus divine energy and direct it on the right path.

Recovery after surgery with prayer

After the operation and the reading of many different prayers, an equally important task remains - reading a prayer of thanks. It is imperative to thank heaven for help in order to consolidate the effect obtained, avoid possible relapses and recover faster. Thanksgiving is read exclusively by the patient himself in solitude and by candlelight:

“Thank You, Lord God, Father Almighty! Thank you for your help (cross yourself), for your goodness (repeat the sign of the cross), for your favor (repeat the action). Thank you for Your finger, pointing to a true deed (cross yourself), for medical wisdom, miraculous healing and a happy and cloudless future life (cross yourself again). I will glorify You and Your Saints now and ever. Amen".

Read online or listen to a powerful Orthodox prayer before a loved one’s surgery in Russian. Why do you need to irrigate before surgery? Which saints will hear prayer before the operation of a loved one? Read more about everything in this article!

O Lord, our Creator, I ask for Your help, grant a complete recovery God's servant(name), wash the blood with your rays. Only with Your help will healing come to her. Touch her with miraculous power and bless all her roads to the long-awaited salvation, healing, recovery. Give her body health, her soul - blessed lightness, her heart - Your divine balm. The pain will forever recede and strength will return to it, the wounds will all heal and Thy holy help will come. Your rays from the blue Heavens will reach her, give her strong protection, bless her for deliverance from her illnesses, and strengthen her faith. May the Lord hear these words of mine. Glory to You. Amen

Any, even seemingly simple, surgical intervention is a serious and responsible step. Not only the person being operated on, but also his relatives worry about the outcome of the operation, because his life is in the hands of the doctors. And only the professionalism of doctors can guarantee a positive outcome. However, an important point is the morale and faith of the patient.

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 - ordinary people and they can also be wrong. 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.”

The power of prayer before surgery

There are many stories in Orthodoxy when, through the prayers of loved ones, even the most difficult operations ended successfully, and the patient quickly recovered.

Prayer before surgery

Master Almighty, Holy King, punish and do not kill, strengthen those who fall, and raise up those who have been cast down, correct the afflictions of human beings, we pray to You, our God, visit Your weak servant (name) with Your mercy, forgive him (her) every sin, voluntary and involuntary. To her, Lord, Thy healing power was sent down from Heaven to direct the mind and hand of Thy servant the doctor (name of the doctor) so that he would perform the necessary surgery safely, as if the bodily ailment of Thy free Servant (name) was completely healed, and every hostile invasion would be driven far away from him. Raise him from the bed of the Sick and grant him health in soul and body, pleasing Thy Church. Thou art the merciful God, and to Thee we send Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

A case was recorded where a patient with a clavicle fracture was contraindicated for surgical intervention, since he might not survive it. A saint appeared to him in a dream, gave him a solution to drink from a spoon and said, “Everything will be fine.” The old man then agreed to the operation and tolerated it well. A few days later he saw an icon on which he recognized the saint who had come to him. It was Healer Panteleimon.

Turning to the saints, we ask them to beg the Lord so that the operation is successful and the patient receives healing.

Which saints should you pray to before surgery?

Who and how to pray for the operation to be successful? It all depends on the nature of the surgical intervention and the person’s disease.

Holy Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon

Saint Panteleimon was a physician who was given the Gift of Healing during his lifetime. Despite the fact that during his earthly life Christians were persecuted by pagans, the saint always prayed to the Lord before treating a sick person.

Prayer to Panteleimon the Healer

Oh, great saint of Christ, passion-bearer and merciful physician Panteleimon! Have mercy on me, the sinful servant of God (name), hear my groaning and cry, have mercy on the Heavenly Physician of our souls and bodies, Christ our God, may He grant me healing from the cruel illness that oppresses me. Accept the unworthy prayer of the most sinful man above all. Visit me with a gracious visit. Do not disdain my sinful ulcers, anoint them with the oil of your mercy and heal me; May I be healthy in soul and body, and with the help of God’s grace, I can spend the rest of my days in repentance and pleasing God, and be worthy of receiving the good end of my life. Hey, servant of God! Pray to Christ God, that through your intercession he may grant me the health of my body and the salvation of my soul. Amen.

Archbishop Luke of Crimea

In almost every surgeon’s office you can see the image of St. Luke of Voino-Yasenetsky. The saint was glorified in 1996.

During his earthly life, he was a famous surgeon who wrote many works on surgery, which are used in practice to this day. Having become a bishop, he did not give up his medical practice. The Lord glorified the Saint for his unshakable faith.

From the relics of St. Luke, many sick people received healing. Often, through the prayers of the saint, people who were preparing for surgery were healed, and the need for surgery disappeared.

Prayer to Luke of Crimea

O all-blessed confessor, holy saint, our Father Luke, great servant of Christ!

With tenderness we bend the knee of our hearts and fall before the race of your honest and multi-healing relics, like the children of our father, we pray to you with all our zeal: hear us sinners and bring our prayer to the All-Merciful and Humane God.

We believe that you love us with the same love with which you loved all your neighbors while you were on earth.

Ask Christ our God, that He may establish His holy More Orthodox Church the spirit of right faith and piety; May its shepherds give 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, and 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 grieving, 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 the Passion of the Lord, education and teaching, 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 the omnipotent God for us, so that in eternal life with you we may unceasingly glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, to Him belongs all glory and honor. and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

They pray to the saint especially before operations in the field of purulent surgery.

Holy Great Martyr Barbara

The Orthodox Church has recorded cases when Saint Barbara helped in critical situations during surgery.

The Holy Great Martyr is depicted on icons holding the Communion Cup in her hand. A person’s greatest fear is sudden death, especially if he has not repented and received the Holy Mysteries of Christ.

Saint Barbara is asked to prevent sudden death during anesthesia.

If a person is afraid of suddenly dying from general anesthesia, it is also recommended to pray to saints in whose lives there were similar conditions:

1. To the seven youths of Ephesus, who, by the will of the Lord, fell asleep in a cave and woke up only 150 years later.
2. Holy righteous Lazarus, whom the Lord resurrected after 4 days.
3. Jesus Christ, who rose again three days later.

Prayer to the Great Martyr Barbara

Holy glorious and all-praised Great Martyr Varvaro! Gathered today in your Divine temple, people who worship the race of your relics and kiss with love, your suffering as a martyr, and in them the Passionate Christ Himself, who gave you not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him, with pleasing praises, we pray to you, the well-known desire of our intercessor: pray with us and for us, beseeching God from His mercy, that He may mercifully hear us asking for His goodness, and not leave us with all the necessary petitions for salvation and life, and grant a Christian death to our belly - painless, shameless, peace, I will partake of the Divine Mysteries, and to all, in every place, in every sorrow and situation, who require His love for mankind and help, He will give His great mercy, so that by the grace of God and your warm intercession, always abiding health in soul and body, we glorify God, wondrous in our saints Israel, who does not remove His help from us always, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer to Guardian Angels

A Guardian Angel is next to every person from the moment of baptism. He protects him from everything bad and... If necessary, he quickly comes to the rescue.

One day, an 80-year-old woman was brought to the regional hospital in Krasnodar in urgent need of surgical intervention. The only salvation was a strip operation, which she might not have undergone due to a bad heart and age. Relatives began to pray, hoping for God's mercy. Before the operation, a Guardian Angel appeared to her, and she realized that he would help her and everything would go well. Discharging my grandmother home, the doctors were surprised at how easily she recovered from the anesthesia and how quickly she recovered.

Holy Angel of God, my guardian, pray to God for me.

Prayer to the Guardian Angel

Holy Angel of Christ, falling to you I pray, my holy guardian, given to me for the protection of my sinful soul and body from holy baptism, but with my laziness and my evil custom I angered your most pure lordship and drove you away from me with all the cold deeds: lies, slander , envy, condemnation, contempt, disobedience, brotherly hatred, and resentment, love of money, adultery, rage, stinginess, gluttony without satiety and drunkenness, verbosity, evil thoughts and crafty ones, proud custom and lustful indignation, driven by self-will for all carnal lust. Oh, my evil will, which even dumb animals cannot do! How can you look at me, or approach me like a stinking dog? Whose eyes, angel of Christ, look upon me, entangled in evil in vile deeds? How can I already ask for forgiveness with my bitter and evil and crafty deed, I fall into misery all day and night and at every hour? But I pray to you, falling down, my holy guardian, have mercy on me, a sinful and unworthy servant of yours (name), be me a helper and intercessor against the evil of my opponent, with your holy prayers, and make me a partaker of the Kingdom of God with all the saints, always, and now and ever and ever. Amen.

Christ said: “Where two or three are gathered in My Name, there I am in the midst of them.” This means that relatives and friends of the patient should unite in prayer for him. In this case, the Lord will hear her faster and come to her aid.

Modern medicine today uses high-tech equipment to perform operations, and innovative technologies. This significantly speeds up the recovery process and makes operations so easy that a person is able to get back on his feet within a few hours after surgery.

But despite this, any operation is a very exciting event, therefore, in order to calm down and get into the right mood, believers always read special prayers before any, even the simplest from a medical point of view, surgical intervention.

The most famous prayer to St. Luke read before surgery

The most famous prayer that believers read before surgery is the prayer to St. Luke. According to the testimony of many people, this is very effective remedy, which allows you to cure the most serious diseases and recover after operations in a short time.

Saint Luke is a saint of God, very famous in the church world. This man lived during the time of Jesus and was his devoted disciple. Even in those days, Saint Luke considered the treatment of sick people his initial task. he was a very competent doctor and treated many different diseases. As a talented person, he managed to combine the roles of a doctor and a preacher of the faith of Christ.

During his lifetime, he performed complex operations and always fought for a person’s life as long as the slightest hope remained. People said that Luke had the hands of God. He conducted amazingly valuable medical research, the results of which were simply amazing and were useful in medical practice for many generations.

But it so happened that after some time he nevertheless put the church world first and took monastic vows. Therefore, he is better known as an apostle and evangelist. But the medical past of St. Luke was not forgotten by people. And today Christians pray to him in order to receive his support during the operation and recover faster after it.

Why do people turn to him with prayers during treatment?

The power of prayer to St. Luke has been proven. There is much evidence that she helped to recover from terrible diseases.

Prayer to Saint Luke strengthens a person’s faith that everything is in the hands of God. This means that the patient undergoing treatment gains peace of mind. this helps to successfully fight the disease.

Any disease does not arise just like that, it is a punishment from the Lord. Therefore, prayer to Saint Luke allows you to receive forgiveness from the Lord for your own sins. Therefore, the grace period for recovery may be individual for each person. The main thing is to believe that the Saint hears you and will definitely help you.



When to read a prayer to St. Luke

Saint Luke is a very revered Saint in Orthodoxy. It is believed that he always hears the request of a believer and always responds to it.

You can ask him for the following:

• About improving the health of your loved ones;
• About the healing and recovery of children;
• About the successful conception of a child and his birth strong and healthy;
• About healing from serious fatal diseases, in particular cancer.

You can pray to Saint Luke before going to the doctor, especially the surgeon. If a woman prays to the Saint for a successful pregnancy, then this should be done in front of the icon. A prayer read in church is considered more effective.

Interpretation of miracle prayer

IN miracle prayer Saint Luke is affirmed of his healing power and abilities. A praying person says that he kneels before the shrine that contains the relics of the Saint. He sincerely hopes that his requests will be heard and not rejected. In order to increase the power of prayer, it contains recognition of the merits of the Saint during his earthly life.

The prayer contains a request to strengthen the faith of the person praying. This means that a person understands that his illness is connected with some of his sins. He asks for repentance, since all the sins were committed due to his lack of understanding.

The prayer is imbued with the faith of the person praying, about the intercession of Saint Luke before God. And for the future, there is a request for help not to deviate from the true path and to give strength to resist all sinful temptations.

Prayers to the Saints during surgery, before and after it

Before and after surgery They offer prayers to various Saints. Prayer requests may differ in nature. Therefore, you need to choose the right Saint to convert.

St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is prayed to before surgery

Very often, before an operation, they turn to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker with a request for a successful outcome. It should be remembered that such a prayer must be offered in front of the icon.

The effectiveness of this prayer is also determined by the fact that during his lifetime this Saint performed miracles and healed the sick. He continues to do this, according to the testimonies of many believers, even after death. Therefore, turning to him in prayer before the operation gives hope for a miracle. This is especially important if surgery is required to treat a fatal disease.

When reading a prayer, the following rules must be observed:

• Before praying, you should clear your thoughts and tune in exclusively to the positive.
• Then you need to freely ask Nicholas the Pleasant to intercede with God for the forgiveness of your sins.
• Only after this can you turn to the Saint for healing. It is better to read the prayer in the original; you can take the text from the prayer book.

Prayer during the operation of a loved one is prayed to Matrona of Moscow

It is accepted to pray for life and health not only to the sick person, but also to his loved ones. This greatly increases the chances of complete healing. So, during the operation of a loved one, it is recommended to pray to the Matrona of Moscow. This Saint helped many people during her lifetime. And now, after God took her to heaven, she continues her good work. Many pilgrims come to her relics asking for help to be healed from a variety of serious illnesses. And she does not refuse a single believer who sincerely prays to her. Holy Matrona of Moscow begs for forgiveness for our sins before God and thereby heals our souls and bodies.

If you turn to Matrona of Moscow during the operation of a loved one and ask for a successful outcome, then you need to do this with humility in your soul. Your request must be sincere and your faith unshakable. Before praying on this occasion, the Saint is recommended to give alms to the poor or make a donation to a religious institution.

The prayer itself can be found in the prayer book. This text is known to everyone; it is used by all pilgrims who come to the grave of the Blessed Elder.

A prayer for the sick person before and after surgery is said to Jesus Christ

The most powerful prayer that is used to help a sick person before and after surgery is the prayer to Jesus Christ. You should know that this prayer must be read many times. That is, it is necessary to start praying in the morning and evening several days before the planned surgical intervention. And after the operation, prayer appeal in the mornings and evenings should be used until full recovery sick person.

The power of prayer to Christ aimed at healing is explained by the fact that the Lord loves us endlessly. The Savior of the human race took upon himself all the sins of mankind and experienced terrible torment. At the same time, the Son of God himself was sinless, but did not leave people in trouble alone with their sins. When he lived on earth, he strove to save as many people as possible from terrible diseases with his miraculous healings.

A powerful prayer goes like this:

“O Lord Almighty, Creator of all earthly things, I ask for Your help. Don't refuse and hear me. Give complete recovery to God's Servant (name), cleanse his (her) blood with your divine light. Only you can give boundless kindness and heal. Touch her with your miraculous power and bless him (her) on the true path of salvation of her soul and body. May the pain disappear forever and long-awaited health return. Let his (her) faith strengthen and glorify all Your deeds from now on and forever. Amen".

When the need arises to pray for the health of a child, then, most often, mothers turn to the Most Holy Theotokos with a prayer. Only she can fully understand all the pain that a mother experiences when her child is sick. After all, she herself lived an earthly life, carried and gave birth to the Son of God. She understands the suffering of mothers, so the Most Holy Theotokos is always ready to help.

A prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos for the health of the child should be read in front of the icon. Moreover, she will be more effective if she prays in church, lighting a candle for the health of her child. The text of the prayer should be read in the original, taken from the prayer book.

After an operation, a sick person prays to Panteleimon the Healer for recovery

During his lifetime, Saint Panteleimon was engaged in healing, as he had good medical education, obtained from a well-known doctor at that time. He helped many people, curing them from the most terrible diseases. Moreover, he healed absolutely disinterestedly.

It is believed that prayer to Saint Panteleimon helps to recover after surgery. Both the sick person himself and his loved ones can read it.

You can use the following prayer text:

“Oh, great servant of God Panteleimon! Show your mercy, which was known to many during your life, to me. Help me, the sinful Servant of God (name), get rid of the disease and heal my mental and physical wounds. Accept my prayer and intercede with God for the forgiveness of all my sins committed due to my lack of understanding. Visit me and heal me, grant me good health, vitality to my body and salvation to my soul. Amen".

Powerful prayer before surgery that can heal

Before any operation, you need to contact a higher power. And this can be done with the help of strong prayer. It is always necessary, as it allows you to properly tune in and awaken internal reserves, which will contribute to a speedy recovery after surgery of any complexity.

The prayer “I am not going to the table alone, three Angels are leading me” has enormous power. But you need to read it correctly. When a prayer is used by a patient who is about to undergo surgery, you need to start reading it several days before the operation. This should be desired every day before going to bed. Mentally repeating the prayer text is also necessary when you are taken to the operating room until the anesthesia takes effect. If the operation is performed under local anesthesia, then you should say a prayer to yourself during surgical operations. Moreover, it is very important not to be distracted by anything.

Orthodox prayer text

A short version of the prayer

The short prayer is as follows:

“I’m not going to the table alone, three angels are leading me: the first one accompanies me to the table,
the second one opens the door for me, the third one saves my life.”

Interpretation of prayer words

This prayer calls on heavenly angels for help. This means that you will be confident that you will not be alone. Faith in the Lord always works miracles and it may happen that it will help to obtain a positive prognosis even with the most terrible diagnosis.

This prayer can calm you down and make you feel positive. After all, in it the Most Holy Theotokos herself is called to help. It is very simple, easy to remember, so you can pronounce it a huge number of times without any stress.

Prayer of thanksgiving to the Lord after surgery

Its text is as follows:

“I praise You, Lord Most High, Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son of the Beginning Father. You alone heal every ailment and every illness in people. Accept my gratitude for Your mercy towards me and the successful operation. Accept my gratitude for hearing my prayers and having mercy on me, a sinner, for saving me from a terrible illness. Grant me, O Lord, the Almighty, the strength to resist the temptations of the devil and to do everything according to Your will for the salvation of my own soul and for Your glory. Amen".

STRONG PRAYER BEFORE SURGERY.

One of the most difficult situations for any person is an illness, especially a severe one, which can only be healed through surgery. If this happens in life, it often means that you need to change a lot in yourself, in your inner world. And the main “adviser” in such correction, of course, is the Lord.

It is to Him and His heavenly Saints that one should turn to prayer before the operation. It often happens that after repentance and choosing a different path, a person completely manages to say goodbye to the disease.

Who exactly should I pray to while awaiting surgery? Initially, the very formulation of this question is incorrect. Because in spiritual life there are no “ready-made recipes” or exact recommendations. Everything depends on the internal disposition of a person.

He can pray to at least a dozen saints for a long time, but still not receive what he asks for. And all because he does this either mechanically or is simply not ready, due to his internal disorder, to accept God’s help.

While waiting for such a difficult stage in your life as an operation, you can pray to the Lord God, the Mother of God, and any saint. And even all of them together. The main thing is to understand that the heavenly answer will come only through a person’s sincere prayer and only thanks to his ardent faith. Empty and heartless prayer is not acceptable and even sinful.

Despite this, there are certain prayers that should be read before surgery. They are offered by the Orthodox Church because of human weakness, since we, sinful people, always “give” a specific “mechanism” that can correct and help everything. And even when we are talking about the sphere where no mechanisms operate - the sphere of spiritual life.

So, the church gives advice to pray for the patient to several specific saints while awaiting surgery.

These are such people as:

*Known for his great help to sick peopleHealer Panteleimon.

*Great intercessor for those who are weak,Saint Luke.

*Always hearing the sighs of the faithful children of the Church, HolyGreat Martyr Barbara.

*You can also offer petitions in anticipation of a difficult life test to yourGuardian Angel.

*He will definitely hear the cry of the believer himselfGod.

*Will not leave without his protection and intercession a person asking for help,Mother of God.

Intercessor Luka Krymsky.

Most often, people in a hospital bed turn to St. Luke for prayer support. And this is very true, because Luka Krymsky in the world Valentin Feliksovich Voino-Yasenetsky himself was a surgeon by profession, he performed unique operations in difficult conditions.

This is one of our main intercessors before God, that Saint who understands all human hardships and always comes to the aid of those who seek deliverance from them by correcting their lives.

It is quite possible for someone going for surgery to ask for heavenly support from this saint.. Read a short prayer from the heart.

For example, like this:

“Dear saint, I know that I am not worthy of your help, but help me, who is perishing in body and soul. Ask the Lord to forgive my terrible sins, have mercy on me and help me survive the operation safely, heal me and give me help in life to no longer act wrongly, but to follow the path pleasing to God. Please help."

If it’s difficult to find words in such a crucial period, then you can read a special strong prayer. This text can be read about your son and daughter, for yourself, your husband, your mother, or for another relative or loved one. If you ask warmly and with your soul, help will come:

“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 diligence: hear us sinners and bring our prayer to the Merciful and Humane-loving God. You stand before him now in the joy of the saints and in the face of an angel. We believe that you love us with the same love, with which you loved all your neighbors while you were on earth.

Ask Christ our God, may He strengthen His children in the spirit of right faith and piety: may He give holy zeal and care for the salvation of the people entrusted to them to the shepherds: to observe the right of believers, to strengthen the weak and infirm in the faith, to instruct the ignorant, and to reprove those who oppose. Give to all of us a gift that is useful, and everything that is useful for temporary life and eternal salvation.

Strengthening our cities, fruitful lands, deliverance from famine and destruction. Comfort for the grieving, healing for the ailing, return to the path of truth for those who have lost their way, blessing for the parents, education and teaching for the children in the fear of the Lord, 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 to the omnipotent God for us, so that 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."

The most effective support in difficult times is, of course, the hand extended by the Lord Jesus himself. It is better to pray to our Lord, starting with repentance. Because God, seeing a crying heart that regrets sins, will definitely send his invisible support.

You can speak from the heart like this:

“Lord, forgive me, a sinner who did not listen to You, who violated Your laws. I really repent and ask you to forgive me. And help me survive the operation. Please guide the doctors so that they do everything right and that their actions heal me. And so that after the operation I get better and get better. But of course, Your will be done.”

Here's another one orthodox prayer about a successful operation:

“Into Your hands, Lord Jesus Christ, I commit my spirit and my life to You. I ask You, Almighty, bless and have mercy on me. Grant me, Lord, life and long days before Your face. May Your mercy be upon me. Forgive me my sins in the name of Your Holy Son Jesus Christ. I hope and trust in You, my Lord and my God. For You are truly the Christ alone, the Son of the living God, who came into a sinful world to save us. May Your blessing be on the hands of doctors, on what they will do. Thy will be done, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen."

Petition to Matrona of Moscow.

Mati Matrona, a famous saint in Russia, is a strong representative of people before God. If a person in a difficult situation calls out to her with all his heart, he will quickly receive what he asked for in his sincere prayer. It is best to ask for support, strengthening and blessing for a good outcome of the operation in your own simple words.

Let's say this:

“Dear Mother, I am very difficult situation, I'm about to have an operation. Please help me so that everything goes away the best way so that the Lord would forgive me my sins and heal me. I know that with my deeds I have desecrated the image that the Lord placed in me. But please ask Him for forgiveness of my dirty and terrible sins, for mercy on me. May God forgive and give me health and strengthen my bodily strength. Forgive me, help me."

Another text of a prayer for health read for yourself or your family, to this strong intercessor before our heavenly Father:

“O blessed mother Matrono, hear and accept us now, sinners, praying to you, who in all your life has learned to receive and listen to all those who suffer and mourn, with faith and hope who resort to your intercession and help, giving quick help and miraculous healing to everyone; May your mercy not fail now for us, unworthy, restless in this busy world and nowhere finding consolation and compassion in spiritual sorrows and help in bodily illnesses: heal our illnesses, deliver us from the temptations and torment of the devil, who passionately fights, help us convey our everyday Cross, to bear all the hardships of life and not lose the image of God in it, to preserve the Orthodox faith until the end of our days, to have strong trust and hope in God and unfeigned love for others; help us, after departing from this life, to achieve the Kingdom of Heaven with all those who please God, glorifying the mercy and goodness of the Heavenly Father, glorified in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen."

What words to offer to the Angel?

It often happens that a person forgets that even at baptism he is given a Guardian Angel, who protects and protects from various earthly misfortunes, as well as from numerous invisible spirits of evil. If a person is in danger, then the Angel, figuratively speaking, becomes more active and strengthens its help. But only if the believer does not forget about Him and turns to Him.

Therefore, just before an operation that poses a potential danger, it is best for the patient to call upon his “personal” heavenly protector, who, like no one else, knows about all his troubles and misfortunes.

The following words can be said while tuning into prayer to our high intercessor before God:

“My angel, my Guardian, go ahead, and I will follow you. Mother of God, help me! Queen of Heaven, I ask You: stand at my table. Give, Most Pure One, to my doctors precision, attention and dexterity, and give me patience and ease. Son of God, have mercy on me! Jesus Christ, our Savior, send healing to me, a sinner. Let the Lord’s will be done, not mine!”

Non-standard approach.

Today you can often hear among people that There are so-called prayers-amulets. Including this is the Dream of the Blessed Virgin Mary. You should be very careful here, since the church does not officially accept these prayers as canonical. They are mostly practiced by healers, magicians, and “white” sorcerers; they recommend reading them to the patient’s relatives.

“Mother Theotokos slept and rested, and in her sleep she saw a terrible dream. My Son came to Her: “My Mother, are you not sleeping?” “I’m not sleeping, I hear everything, but God gave it, and I see: You walk among the robbers, Between the mountains, among the traitorous Jews, that they crucified Your hands on the Cross, that they nailed Your legs to the Cross. On Sunday, the sun sets early, the Mother of God walks across the sky, leading her Son by the hand. She spent it at morning, from morning - to mass, from mass - to vespers, from vespers - to the blue sea. There is a stone lying on the blue sea, and on that stone there is a church. And in that church the candle is burning and Jesus Christ is sitting on the Throne. He sits with his legs down, his eyes looking up to the sky, he reads a prayer to God, he waits for Saints Paul and Peter. Peter and Paul came to him, stood and said to the Son of God: “Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of God, you read prayers for the whole world and accept torment for us.” And the Lord said to them: “Peter and Paul, don’t look at me, but take the prayers into your own hands, carry them all over the world, and teach all kinds of people—the sick, the lame, the gray-haired, the young.” Those who know how, let them pray; those who don’t know how, let them study. Whoever reads this prayer twice a day will never experience any torment, will not drown in water, will not burn in fire, and will defeat the most terrible disease.

A thief will not rob that person, lightning in a thunderstorm will not kill him, poison will not kill him, and denunciation in court will not ruin him. In hot weather there is water, and in famine there is food. That man will live a long time, and when his time comes, he will die the easiest death. I will send him two angels and I will go down to meet him, I will save the soul and body of the righteous at the Last Judgment. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. Amen."

Appeal to Panteleimon the healer.

Of course, before such a difficult stage as surgery, a believer turns to Holy Healer Panteleimon. He always hears those who are in a state of illness, he gives strong defense and in an invisible way, as it were, applies his heavenly “ointment” to human wounds.

“Oh, great saint of Christ, passion-bearer and much-merciful physician Panteleimon! Have mercy on me, the sinful servant of God (name), hear my groaning and cry, propitiate the Heavenly, Supreme Physician of our souls and bodies, Christ our God, may he grant me healing from the cruel illness that oppresses me. Accept the unworthy prayer of the most sinful man above all. Visit me with a gracious visit. Do not disdain my sinful ulcers, anoint them with the oil of your mercy and heal me; May I be healthy in soul and body, and with the help of God’s grace, I can spend the rest of my days in repentance and pleasing God, and be worthy of receiving the good end of my life. Hey, servant of God! Pray to Christ God, that through your intercession he may grant me the health of my body and the salvation of my soul. Amen."

Women usually turn to the Mother of God with their problems. Therefore, you can pray to her before surgery like a woman, on the uterus, and also if a child is undergoing surgery.

“O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us, the servants of God (names), from the depths of sin and deliver us from sudden death and from all evil. Grant us, O Lady, peace and health and enlighten our minds and the eyes of our hearts to salvation, and grant us, Thy sinful servants, the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God: for His power is blessed with the Father and His Most Holy Spirit.”

Nicholas the Wonderworker will not leave the sick.

St. Father Nicholas - the greatest hope of the sick. This saint is known to everyone, because the help he exudes is truly great.

An appeal to his icon during life’s adversities associated with illness and hospital stay may be as follows:

“O all-holy Nicholas, exceedingly saintly saint of the Lord, our warm intercessor, and everywhere in sorrow a quick helper, help me, a sinner and saddened one, in this life, beg the Lord God to grant me forgiveness of all my sins, which I have sinned greatly from my youth, in everything my life, deed, word, thought and all my feelings; and at the end of my soul, help me the accursed, beg the Lord God of all creation, the Creator, to deliver me from airy ordeals and eternal torment, so that I always glorify the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen."

Each faith has its own rules. But the main thing is one thing: you need to ask for something in your appeals to heaven from the heart and with repentance.

“O Allah, who sent down Musa, Isa and Muhammad, O Allah, who sent down the Koran, help me, who is sick, help me during the operation. There is no god but You! Praise be to You! Verily, I have been unrighteous, I have blasphemed Your Name. But do not leave me alone, abandoned, You are the best of those who inherit, what by Your will has come to You will go away.”

To avoid surgery.

Of course, a person suffering from any illness always tries to hope that he will avoid such a fate as surgical intervention.

There is no specific prayer to avoid this situation, but it is quite possible, understanding that there is a chance to do without extreme measures, to say the following words cordially:

“Lord, Mother of God, our saints, you see what situation I have found myself in. And you yourself know what is better for me - to transfer this share or stay away from it. Manage this situation yourself. I rely on you for everything."

When preparing for any intervention, it is good to ask for the doctors performing the operation. This is significant because then their hands will be guided by the Lord himself.

You can pray in your own words.

For example, like this:

“Lord, send your covering to me. And bless all the doctors who will participate in the operation. Manage the entire process, guide the hands of the doctors.”

Or use ready-made text:

“O Lord Almighty, Holy King, punish and do not kill, strengthen those who fall, and raise up those who are cast down, correct the afflictions of human beings, we pray to You, our God, visit Your weak servant (name) with Your mercy, forgive him (her) every sin, voluntary and involuntary. . To her, Lord, Thy healing power was sent down from Heaven to direct the mind and hand of Thy servant the doctor (name of the doctor) so that he would perform the necessary surgery safely, as if the bodily ailment of Thy free Servant (name) was completely healed, and every hostile invasion would be driven far away from him. Raise him from the bed of the Sick and grant him health in soul and body, pleasing Thy Church. Thou art the merciful God, and to Thee we send Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen."

Rules:

Any prayer requires special attention and concentration. The morning and evening prayer rules are read in front of the icons, if possible - out loud, if not - silently.

The situation will tell you how to read them in the hospital, the main thing is that they are read thoughtfully, without irritation, in a calm mood. If your roommates do not object, read the prayers out loud - it will benefit them too.

*Prayer, both for yourself and for a loved one must be extremely sincere and heartfelt, and every word she says is balanced and meaningful.

*Praying during surgery focuses on conversation with the saint, to whom he turns, all his thoughts are with him.

*A prayer appeal to a saint should not be a one-time thing. Many people recommend reading the selected prayer 40 times. Often people read it constantly - until they enter a deep narcotic sleep.

*When preparing for an operation, we must understand that illnesses befall us not “for something”, but for “something”: this means that the Lord considers it necessary to enlighten us in this way, to teach us a lesson in patience and humility. And therefore, this lesson must be accepted, no matter how paradoxical it may seem, with gratitude and faith in the mercy of God. A simple and short “formula” “Thy will be done” will help you accept the situation with dignity.

*In the hours and minutes before the operation, being in a prayerful mood, in no case should you remember grievances, scold, blame, and especially curse anyone, even suspecting him of malice. Reconciliation with offenders is a direct path to recovery.

*We must take the spoken words of prayer seriously and thoughtfully. That is why true prayer should be distinguished from conspiracies and spells that turn the patient more likely to pagan examples of folklore.

*Prayer assumes that the person asking sincerely repents of his sins, of which many have accumulated over a lifetime.

Did it seem to you that what you asked for was not fulfilled to the extent that you would like?

This is also not for us, mere mortals, to judge, but we definitely cannot lose faith. Prayer strengthens the connection between the Almighty and human souls.

Of course, prayer does not work instantly, like a painkiller, but it helps to create an attitude of faith and trust in the Lord God and healers working for His glory.

Key moment:

The best thing to do when preparing for an event such as surgery is not just to pray, but to confess, get the priest’s permission to receive Communion, and take communion. And boldly place all further events in the hands of the Lord. And then sincerely offer your petitions. Moreover, you can pray at any time: as soon as a thought or fear regarding the future comes, you need to immediately offer your prayers.

Be sure to say at the end of each petition: "Thy will be done, Lord" , that is, to rely not on one’s own strength, but to trust in our Creator.

If a person with a clear conscience, having repented, goes to the operating “bed”, he is not afraid of the consequences of what is happening. The Lord will never abandon a pure soul that humbly asks for help.

Once the surgery is behind you, you can constantly pray for a speedy and safe recovery. St. Matrona.

“Oh, blessed Mother Matrona, with your soul you have appeared in heaven before the Throne of God, but with your body you rest on earth and, with the good gift given to you from above, you perform various miracles. Now look with your merciful eye at me, a sinner, living my days in sorrow, illness and sins, comfort me, despairing, heal our severe illnesses, sent from God to us for our sins, deliver us from many troubles and circumstances, pray to our Lord to forgive me all my sins, the crimes that I have committed since my youth, this day and hour. Thanks to your prayers, we received grace and great mercy. Let us glorify the One God in the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen."

If your child or your mother is recovering after surgery, you should ask for help Holy Mother of God. She herself is the great heavenly mother of the Lord and always helps those who with warm words ask her for intercession.

“Oh, Most Holy Lady Theotokos! With fear, faith and love, falling before Thy honorable icon, we pray to Thee: do not turn Thy face away from those who come running to You, beg, O merciful Mother, Thy Son and our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, to keep our country peaceful, and His Holy Church unshakable will protect from unbelief, heresies and schism. There are no other imams of help, no other imams of hope, except You, Most Pure Virgin: You are the all-powerful Helper and Intercessor of Christians. Deliver all who pray to You with faith from the falls of sin, from the slander of evil people, from all temptations, sorrows, troubles and from vain death. Grant us the spirit of contrition, humility of heart, purity of thoughts, correction of sinful lives and the remission of sins, so that we all sing gratefully of Your greatness and mercy, let us be worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom and there with all the saints we will glorify the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen."

Gratitude.

Should sincerely thank Heavenly Father when the operating procedures are completed:

“I thank you, Lord, for making me worthy to survive this difficult operation. Thank you for not sending me to the abyss of hell, for having mercy.”

There is such an offering of thanks upon completion of surgical interventions:

“Glory to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of the Beginning Father, who alone heals every ailment and every disease among people, for You have had mercy on me as a sinner and delivered me from my illness, not allowing it to develop and kill me according to my sins. Grant me from now on, Master, the strength to firmly do Thy will for the salvation of my damned soul and for Thy glory with Thy Beginningless Father and Thy Consubstantial Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen."

Important tip:

In general, there is a certain algorithm of spiritual actions performed by a person after surgery. This is a simple sequence that is logical to follow after the operation.

Here is the sequence:

*Immediately after completing a complex medical procedure, you need to sincerely pray like this:“Glory to Thee, God!”And more than once.

*This is followed bymentally thank all the people in your own words, to whom prayers were offered before the operation.

*Also very goodask for the further intercession of your Guardian Angel.

*And subsequently every day as mental strength pronounceheartfelt prayers for your full recovery.

*You must definitely change yourself internally, become better, purer in heart. It is worth confessing in church, and one must constantly resort to this sacrament. When the priest forgives his sins, it is important to boldly decide not to take the sinful path again and follow this decision.

*You also need to take communion often in church. But only after a sincere, tearful confession. You should never do this somehow mechanically, without thinking about spiritual life.

Faith is strong, strong, a complete change in life, the desire to live spiritually - this is what should become the main guide in the fight against bodily illnesses.

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Based on observations and analysis of many years of practice in healing, I can say that those people who turned to me for help had very few natural causes of illness.

This is the percentage:
40% of cases – “masonry” was found in pillows (lumps, soil, hair, skin of frogs, mice, grains, blades, nails, buttons, ropes, threads, bones, etc.)
30% of cases – they brought wreaths, scarves, towels, old fences, and monuments from funerals or cemeteries.
10% of cases - they took ropes from the hands and feet of the deceased, thereby tying themselves to the deceased.
5% of cases – they slept on pillows and blankets on which loved ones were sick and died for a long time.
15% of cases - they turned to black magic, read conspiracies, told fortunes, found ropes, thrown things at home, water was added, earth and grain were added, egg shells, ropes, rags, socks, etc. were found in the courtyards.

Saint Nile of Sinai said that in illness, first of all, you need to turn to GOD in prayer.
---After your prayer, when you told the Lord:

"Thy will be done", The doctor’s decision must be accepted as God’s providence for you and your health, and, first of all, for the salvation of your soul.

Before the operation.

You must first prepare for confession (the sacrament of repentance), take communion Holy Mysteries of Christ, take a blessing from the priest for the upcoming treatment, ask him to pray for a successful recovery.
--- It would be very good if you or your loved ones ordered a magpie for health and submitted it for remembrance, for the psalter, you can read the prayer to the relatives at home by agreement (for the sick and suffering) it is in all prayer books.
Saint Theophan Recluse This is evidenced as follows: “God listens to prayer when someone who is sick in soul prays.” - It’s another matter when you yourself at a prayer service, or in church at the liturgy, pray during the service. Then your prayer ascends faster to the Throne of God...

If you are in the hospital.

---When preparing yourself for a stay in, jkmybwt, in addition to personal hygiene items, it is advisable to take with you prayer book, folding book or icon depicting the Savior or the Mother of God and one’s heavenly patron. According to the erroneous opinion, many people, when going to the hospital, take off their pectoral cross. This should not be done, since the Cross of Christ protects us and protects us from all troubles, misfortunes and demonic temptations. The short prayer “Save and Preserve,” inscribed on the back of the cross, reminds every person how and to whom he should turn in a hospital bed.
---It is not good to hide icons (regardless of size) brought to the hospital in bedside tables or under pillows, as some do. Holy images should stand openly, at the head of the bed, or on the windowsill. It is your right.

PRAYER IN THE HOSPITAL

Upon entering the hospital, you should find out whether there is an Orthodox house church there, whether prayers and services are performed there. In hospital churches, as a rule, special prayer services are held for the sick, and by participating in them and submitting a memorial note about health, you contribute to your recovery.
---Some people encounter difficulties in following the morning and evening prayer rules. To avoid difficulties, you need to find out where the icons are located in the hospital and pray there. You can also pray in the ward. And one should not be embarrassed by the proximity of non-believing sick people or sick people belonging to other religious denominations (non-Orthodox). Standing by your bed in front of the Holy Image, you can read the rule to yourself, and if your reading does not bother your roommates, then it is better out loud so that they, hearing the words addressed to the Lord and to our Merciful Intercessor, mentally pray with you.
---Unfortunately, many who enter the hospital, being formally baptized people and already in adulthood, do not know a single prayer. Therefore, you need to have a prayer book, which contains the most important prayers, as well as a prayer appeal to the holy great martyr and Healer Panteleimon, who for over one and a half thousand years has been the patron of doctors of all specialties and the patron and healer of all the sick.
---The Lord does not require the same prayer rule from a sick person as if he were healthy. The complaint of sick believers that they pray poorly and do not keep up the feat was resolved Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk, saying: “What prayer for the sick? Thanksgiving and sighing.” This is how every feat is replaced.
---Saint Theophan the Recluse teaches: “There is no sin in praying for recovery... But we must add “if the Lord wills!” (i.e., if you want, Lord).

Before surgery.

The greatest suffering to the soul comes from the news that surgical intervention is inevitable. But everything from the hand of God must be accepted with humility and gratitude. After all, without the will of God, even a hair from a human head cannot fall, as the Lord Himself says. And then there's the whole operation. How to be?
---First you need to pray to the Lord that He will bless the operation, if He pleases. Orthodoxy has St. Luke! They pray to him for a favorable outcome of the operation..

There is a little-known special prayer in the Serbian missals; about surgical intervention (read by the priest).
If you don’t want it to be taken away or postponed until a good time, that is, for a time when the operation will serve for good, for healing, and not for evil, not for complication or destruction. --- Having prayed like this, then everything must be accepted without complaint, for there is no prayer that is not heard by the Lord. And if the outcome of the operation is not so good, or not what you and the doctors expected, then God is pleased to allow you to continue to bear the cross of illness for the further purification of your soul.
---On the evening before the operation (if it is planned), you should pray for all the doctors who will take part in the operation (surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and others), so that the Lord will make them with His own hands, healing your body, read the evening prayer rule and lie down sleep.
---Read the morning rule in the morning. From the moment the gurney arrives to take you to the operating room, constant prayer is required. You should pray with short prayers: “Lord, have mercy! Lord, bless!” When you are taken to the operating room, do not be embarrassed to make the sign of the cross and cross the operating table.
---What to do with a pectoral cross? Many anesthesiologists (doctors who provide anesthesia) force you to remove the cross. This is explained by several reasons. The first - if the anesthesiologist is an unbeliever, the second - for purely medical reasons, in the event of an unforeseen situation and the need for resuscitation, the cross on the chain cannot be torn off and cannot be cut with scissors, which creates practical inconvenience for the implementation of medical measures; the third - an expensive cross on a gold chain - a temptation for dishonest people, and the attending physician will have to answer for its loss. Therefore, it is recommended to go into surgery with a simple cross on an ordinary simple thread. If you are not allowed to have a cross on your neck, then it can easily be woven into your hair or tied to your hand or one of the fingers of your right hand.
---There are cases when patients, for lack of any other option, drew a cross on their chest with a ballpoint pen or asked anesthesiologists to leave the cross on the anesthesia machine until the end of the operation.
---The most important thing is to “go into anesthesia” (fall asleep) with the prayer “Lord, have mercy!” or with the Jesus Prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner,” and with a prayerful petition to your guardian angel. There are known cases when persons who “fell asleep” without prayers, even priestly rank, were attacked in an anesthetized “sleep” evil spirits. Only preliminary prayer and the sign of the cross protect against such and other troubles of the same kind.
---What should be the first words or thoughts of someone who has recovered from anesthesia? Praise be to God and thanks to Him for preserving life and for the operation. "Glory to Thee, God! Glory to Thee, God! Glory to Thee, God!"
---It is very good if you ask the ministers of the home hospital church to light a candle at the approximate time of your operation. And having recovered from the operation and strengthened physically, thank God and the Mother of God yourself by lighting candles.

TIME OF STAY IN THE HOSPITAL
-You keep getting sick and sick, but there is no outcome in sight, one bodily sorrow led to another. Is this really a coincidence?.! The Lord, the Mother of God, the saints are near you, don’t they really see your suffering, and seeing it, why do they make you languish? If they are love and truth, why allow this? Saint Theophan answers like this: “Take for yourself what happens between a pie fried in the oven and between the hostess. Give the pie a feeling, a thought, a language... What would it say to the hostess?!: “Mother! You put me here and I’m frying... Not a single grain of me is left unfrying, everything is burning, to the point of intolerance... And the trouble is that I don’t see the outcome, and I don’t have an end to the tea. I turn to the right, I turn to the left, forward or backward or upward, it’s locked in from everywhere, and the heat carries me intolerably. What have I done to you?" Let the hostess understand the pie's speech. What would she answer him?! "What are you talking about, I only care about you. Be patient a little... and you will see what a handsome man you will turn out to be... And what aroma will you give off throughout the house?!... Be patient a little more and you will see joy.”
---Now apply this conversation to yourself and to the Lord. The Lord is only concerned that through the cramped conditions and heat of illness, prepare your soul to understand His will, to fulfill the Gospel commandments, that is, to qualitatively change its condition, so that a pie comes out of the dough, and not until your death you remain unusable chaff , test. Put yourself in God's hands and wait. Everything is in God’s hands, and you are still fussing, toiling, trying to outwit yourself. Stop doing this and lie quietly, complacently enduring what happened.”
---So are you: you’ve already visited doctors and consulted in full, wasted money and time. Now the most reasonable thing is to really lie down and endure, thanking God for everything. Another thing is to calmly think about strengthening your patience. How to do it?
---In your case, it is appropriate to invite a priest (from the hospital church, and if there is none, then from a nearby one) in order to receive communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ.

SACRED SITES AND HOW TO USE THEM CORRECTLY

Holy water. There is holy water from the great blessing of water and from the small one. The Great Blessing of Water occurs once a year on the feast of the Epiphany. Water blessed on this day is called Epiphany or Epiphany. The third name for such holy water is great agiasma. It is consumed orally in a small amount (one teaspoon is enough) strictly on an empty stomach in the morning with the prayer “In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.”
---Water that is blessed at the small water blessing can be consumed internally if a person is sick, at any time of the day, in small quantities. Preferably before meals; add to drink.
---You can smear yourself with holy water (smear sore spots), sprinkle yourself and sprinkle your things, your room and hospital bed, and brought food.
Holy oil (blessed oil). The oil is consecrated during various services, but for the sick, the one that is consecrated during the unction, litia, is important. It can be anointed and added to food. Oil from lamps from holy places, from the relics of saints, miraculous icons or myrrh from the latter has great power. It is advisable to only anoint them (the forehead, forehead and sore spots in a cross shape).
---Moreover, the more acute and pronounced the symptoms of the disease, the more abundantly and often you need to smear and sprinkle with holy things with faith and trust in God.
The shrine in the form of a cotton swab or a piece of cloth soaked in oil can be applied to the sore spot. When the fabric becomes dirty and unfit for use, it should be burned. You cannot throw it in the trash.
---Artos is bread consecrated on Saturday of the first week after Easter. Specially consecrated for the sick (once a year). By coming to the temple on this day and asking the clergy, you can receive an artos home. Consumed on an empty stomach after holy water during illness.
Holy prosphora is a small bread from which a particle of health or repose is taken out during the proskomedia at the liturgy in the church. The prosphoras have an image of the Cross, the Mother of God, or a saint. At home, prosphora can be crushed and dried for later consumption during illness or fasting. Used internally after holy water.
In home hospital churches there are always certain shrines that you can ask for and use with blessing.
---If you are about to undergo a repeated major operation (especially abdominal or neurosurgical), you should receive unction and receive communion before the operation.
Meanwhile, the attitude towards this undoubtedly great and beneficial support for the patient is for some reason connected with completely different ideas about it. Most often this happens simply out of ignorance, which is convincingly shown in the brochure “On Superstitions” published by the Sretensky Monastery.
---" ...Many consider it completely unnecessary to resort to performing the Unction of the sacrament, in the common folk way - "unction with oil." consciousness.
---The reason for this is the superstitious belief that one who has received unction with oil must certainly die soon.
---...They listen with disbelief to many of the priest’s suggestions that the sacrament of the Blessing of Anointing is one of the most beneficial sacraments of the Holy Church, which she, as a loving mother, established to perform on the sick for their recovery from illnesses not only of the body, but also of the soul ( i.e. from sins), and that all the prayers of this sacrament contain prayers for the health of the sick person and for the forgiveness of his sins."
---After the operation, daily consumption of artos, holy prosphora, holy water, anointing oneself with holy oil from the relics of the saints of God or from Miracle-working icons contribute to a speedy recovery.

UNEXPECTEDLY DIAGNOSED: CANCER

According to existing modern medical regulations, they try not to hide the true diagnosis from patients if they can soberly and courageously approach its perception. In some cases, the diagnosis is communicated only to relatives. But in any case, if you suddenly find yourself after being discharged from an oncologist, there is no need to lose heart and grumble. Regardless of whether the alleged diagnosis is confirmed or not, try to perceive this situation correctly, in a Christian way: as a kind of God’s mercy, when the Lord gives you time and a reason to think about Eternity, into which sooner or later from earthly, “temporary” life , the immortal soul of each of us leaves. In what eternity it will go - into eternal bliss, or into eternal suffering - depends on us. From how they believed, from how they filled their faith with righteous deeds and repentance. The mercy of the Lord is so boundless that even at the end of our sinful earthly existence He is ready to grant us Salvation: if the prayers were warm and strong, if the repentance would be deep and sincere, if love for one’s neighbor would actually see the light... And most importantly, only time for all this! The bigger, the better.
---That is why even such a situation should be perceived with thanksgiving to God, as his saving, advance answer to your prayer requests for a “shameless Christian death.” So that sudden weakness, which can lead to the death of the body, does not take the soul by surprise.
---In any case - no matter how many years, months and days the Lord has given you now - this is, of course, God’s call to recognize the time of intensified and more frequent prayers, good deeds and deepened repentance, combined with more frequent Communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ (in agreement with the confessor).

PRAYER

Master Almighty, holy king, punish and do not kill, confirm the descendant, and raise the undestroyed, bodily sorrows of man and correct we pray to you, our God, visit your servant (name), who is incapacitated, with your mercy. Forgive him for every sin, voluntary or involuntary.

By God, your healing power has been sent down from heaven to control the mind and hand of your slave doctor (name) and perform the necessary surgery safely, as if the bodily ailment of your servant (name) was completely healed, and every hostile invasion was driven far away from him. Raise him from the horde of sickness and grant him health in soul and body, pleasing and doing your will.

For yours is a merciful hedgehog to save us, our God, and to you we send glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Now and ever and forever and ever. AMEN.

Akathist to Saint LUKE OF THE CRIMEA VOYAN YASENETSKY

Chosen to the saint of the Orthodox Church and confessor, who shone forth to our country in the land of the Crimea, like a shining luminary, having labored well and enduring persecution for the name of Christ, glorifying the Lord who glorified you, who has given you a new prayer book and helper, we sing praiseworthy songs: you, as you have Great boldness to the Master of heaven and earth, free us from all mental and physical ailments and strengthen us to stand well in Orthodoxy, so that we all call to you in tenderness:

Rejoice, Holy Hierarch Luke of the Crimea, good and merciful physician.

Interlocutor of angels and mentor of men, Glorious Luke, the same name of the Evangelist and Apostle Luke, you have received from God the gift of healing human ailments, in healing the illnesses of your neighbors, you have endured many labors, and, bearing the flesh, you have neglected the flesh, the good deeds of the Father. Thou hast glorified the heavenly. With the same gratitude, we call you with tenderness:
Rejoice, having subdued your mind to the yoke of Christ from your youth.
Rejoice, former most venerable village of the Holy Trinity:
Rejoice, thou who has inherited the bliss of the merciful, according to the Word of the Lord.
Rejoice, having healed many sick people through the faith of Christ and God-given knowledge:
Rejoice, merciful physician to those suffering from bodily ailments.
Rejoice, healer of leaders and warriors in the days of battle:
Rejoice, teacher of all doctors.
Rejoice, quick helper in the needs and sorrows of those who exist:
Rejoice, strengthening of the Orthodox Church.
Rejoice, illumination of our land:
Rejoice, the Crimean flock has been praised.
Rejoice, decoration of the city of Simferopol:

Seeing in people during healing, like in a mirror, the wisdom and glory of the Creator of all things, God, the ecu, God-wise, ascended to Him with the Spirit, illuminate us with the light of your God-mind, and let us cry together with you: Alleluia.

You enlightened your mind with Divine teachings, O all-glorious Luke, rejecting all carnal wisdom, and with your mind and will you submitted to the Lord. You were like an Apostle, for according to the Word of Christ: “He will come after Me, and I will make you a fisher of man,” leaving everything and walking after Him, and you, holy one, having heard the Lord Jesus calling you to serve through His servant Archbishop Innocent of Tashkent, abily accepted the priesthood in Orthodox Churches. For this reason, as a God-wise mentor, we pleasingly sing to you:
Rejoice, Guardian Angel's amusement.
Rejoice, for you have saddened no one:
Rejoice, thou who excelled in learning and astounded the body of the sages of this world.
Rejoice, you who have avoided those who do iniquity:
Rejoice, contemplator and preacher of God's Wisdom.
Rejoice, golden-talking teacher of true theology:
Rejoice, guardian of the apostolic traditions.
Rejoice, O Light, kindled by God, dispelling the darkness of wickedness:
Rejoice, star, showing the way to salvation.
Rejoice, zealot of Orthodoxy:
Rejoice, accuser of schismatics.
Rejoice, you who have thirsted for the Lord’s testimonies and justifications:
Rejoice, Holy Hierarch Luke of Crimea, good and merciful physician.

By the power of God’s grace, even in your present life you received the gift, Saint Luke, to heal ailments, so that all those who diligently come to you, bodily ailments and, more than spiritual healing, are honored with a cry to God: Alleluia.

Having vigilant concern for the salvation of the souls entrusted to you by God, blessed Luke, pastorally towards a soul-saving life, both in word and in deed, you incessantly instructed. For this reason, accept from our zeal worthy praise for you:
Rejoice, filled with the mind of God.
Rejoice, overshadowed by the grace of the Holy Spirit:
Rejoice, imitator of Christ's poverty.
Rejoice, good shepherd of those who deviate from the Orthodox faith and wander through the mountains of superstition, seeking:
Rejoice, worker of the grapes of Christ, strengthening the children of God in the true Orthodox faith.
Rejoice, shield, defending piety:
Rejoice, unshakable foundation of Orthodoxy.
Rejoice, solid rock of faith:
Rejoice, accuser and eradicator of soul-destroying unbelief and evil renovationism.
Rejoice, wise strengthener in the spiritual work of those who strive:
Rejoice, for those exiled from the world are the refuge of a quiet guide.
Rejoice, for you have accepted the cross and followed Christ:
Rejoice, Holy Hierarch Luko of the Crimea, blessed and merciful physician

Having a storm inside with many thoughts, the servant of God did not realize what the Lord was saying about him, when he realized that he was worthy of being the bishop of the city of Tashkent: above all, he gave himself up to Christ God, sending thanks to Him for everything, calling: “Blessed be God, pour out His Grace on His bishops.” " And singing to him: Alleluia.

Having heard the people of Orthodoxy, in the present persecution, about the fruitful kindness of your soul, God-bearing Luko, and seeing at the level of holiness, like a worthy vessel of Divine grace, healing all the weak and replenishing the impoverished, they are amazed at the wonderful providence of God for you and bring you the greatest praise:
Rejoice, bishop, ordained by the Lord Himself.
Rejoice, and in the inscription of your book the rank of bishop was indicated to you:
Rejoice, decoration of the hierarchs.
Rejoice, good shepherd, for you were ready to lay down your soul for your verbal sheep:
Rejoice, multi-illuminated lamp of the Church.
Rejoice, partaker of the Apostles:
Rejoice, ornament of confessors.
Rejoice, you have rejected all care for yourself:
Rejoice, sorrow reliever.
Rejoice, sadder of human ignorance:
Rejoice, having proclaimed the right teaching to those who sought salvation.
Rejoice, thou who by thy life have not put this teaching to shame:
Rejoice, Holy Hierarch Luke of Crimea, good and merciful physician.

Having preserved the rank of bishop in the days of terrible persecution with the blessing of the holy Patriarch Tikhon from the hands of the Orthodox bishops, Saint Luke, you did the work of an evangelist well, denouncing, forbidding, begging, with all long-suffering and teaching, and singing to God. : Alleluia.

Having seen the Angels of the rank of your great feats, always, according to the commandment of the Lord: “It is blessed to expel righteousness for the sake of: for the kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of heaven,” in the strength of your heart you resignedly endured imprisonment and exile in Siberia for the name of the Lord and the holy Church of Christ, arranging your salvation with great patience, by example true souls edifying. We diligently and reverently honor you with these praises:
Rejoice, thou lamp placed in the church candlestick.
Rejoice, for the word of Scripture: “He is patient with love,” has been justified in you:
Rejoice, for those who forbid the faithful to protect you. Rejoice, you who obeyed the authorities and for this purpose surrendered yourself into the hands of soldiers at night: Rejoice, you who were humiliated by the slander of unrighteous judges.
Rejoice, you who marched meekly into captivity with humility:
Rejoice, expelled from the Tashkent diocese ruled by you for the sake of truth.
Rejoice, mourned by the faithful:
Rejoice, thou who was wounded and bruised for the Lord crucified.
Rejoice, you who stop the lips of lying unbelievers:
Rejoice, you who spoke heavenly truth through righteous lips and in exile.
Rejoice, as martyrs in heaven rejoice over your patience:
Rejoice, Holy Hierarch Luke of Crimea, good and merciful physician.

The silent preacher of the mystery of the Most Holy, Consubstantial and Indivisible Trinity was ecu both in prison and in the cities of Siberian exile, enduring hunger, the scum of the northern countries and cruelty, the minions of the godless. For this reason, the Crimean Church preaches the greatness of God revealed to you, Saint Luke, as if you have received the gift of healing mental and physical ailments in the land of exile, so that with one heart and one mouth we all sing to God: Alleluia.

You shone like a radiant star, brighter than the flock and Tambovites, illuminating the souls of the faithful and dispelling the darkness of wickedness and godlessness. And the words of Christ were fulfilled on you: “Blessed are you, when they revile you, and destroy you, and say all kinds of evil things against you, who lie, for my sake.” But you, persecuted from city to city and enduring slander, fulfilled your archpastoral ministry with zeal and satisfied with the sweetness of your writings all those who hungered and thirsted for the truth, who cry out to you gratefully:
Rejoice, guide us all to heaven.
Rejoice, true zealot of the glory of God:
Rejoice, invincible warrior of Christ.
Rejoice, you who endured prison and beating for Christ the Lord:
Rejoice, true imitator of His humility.
Rejoice, container of the Holy Spirit:
Rejoice, thou who entered with the wise into the joy of thy Lord.
Rejoice, selfish accuser:
Rejoice, you who showed the destruction of vanity.
Rejoice, calling the lawless to conversion:
Rejoice, put Satan to shame.
Rejoice, for by whom Christ was glorified:
Rejoice, Holy Hierarch Luke of Crimea, good and merciful physician.

Although it is worthy to accomplish the feat entrusted to you by God, you put on all the armor of God and began to fight against the rulers of this world, with the spirit of malice in high places, girding your loins with truth and putting on the armor of truth, confessor Luko, quenched all the arrows of the evil one, singing To the Creator and God: Alleluia.

A new persecution raised up lawless and godless people against the Orthodox Church and drove you into the distant taiga depths, Saint Luke, and being near death, preserved by the hand of God, cried out to Paul the Apostle: “Until this hour, we hunger, and thirst, and are hungry, and suffer , and we wander... We persecute, we endure: as if the world had been destroyed, trampling on all hitherto.” For this sake, leading such, we please you:
Rejoice, blessed confessor of Christ.
Rejoice, you who endured the cruel scum:
Rejoice, you who were near death, preserved by the Lord.
Rejoice, you who have shown complete self-sacrifice:
Rejoice, thou who hast betrayed thy soul to the Bridegroom Christ.
Rejoice, ever foreseeing the Lord crucified on the cross:
Rejoice, you continued unabated in vigils and prayers.
Rejoice, true zealot of the Consubstantial Trinity:
Rejoice, speedy one from every disease, free to the doctor.
Rejoice, healer of the aching and swollen:
Rejoice, thou who restored health from incurable purulent diseases of bones and wounds.
Rejoice, for through your faith and medical labors you healed the sickness:
Rejoice, Holy Hierarch Luke of Crimea, good and merciful physician.

Having been a wanderer in the vale of earth, you showed the image of patience, abstinence and purity, confessor Luko. You showed the love of the gospel, when the fatherland was in danger from the invasion of a foreigner, he worked day and night in the doctor’s office, healing the ailments and wounds of the leaders and warriors of the earthly fatherland, with his unforgettable malice and love, surprising all those who create misfortunes, and in many ways he turned to Christ in singing to him: Alleluia.

Completely filled with the love of Christ, O merciful Luke, you laid down your soul for your friends, and as a Guardian Angel you were present to those near and far, taming the embittered, reconciling the warring and arranging salvation for everyone. Remembering your labors for the good of the people of your fatherland, we cry out to you with gratitude:
Rejoice, you who showed wondrous love for the earthly fatherland.
Rejoice, teacher of humility and kindness: Rejoice, thou who wisely endured exile and cruel torment.
Rejoice, you who suffered and were tormented for Christ:
Rejoice, you who firmly confessed Him.
Rejoice, having conquered the malice of the enemies of the love of Christ:
Rejoice, merciful father, seeking the salvation of many.
Rejoice, for you were tempted by great sorrows:
Rejoice, you have shown wondrous patience in persecution.
Rejoice, for you prayed to the Lord for your enemies:
Rejoice, whose love conquers all enmity.
Rejoice, whose kindness conquered cruel hearts:
Rejoice, Holy Hierarch Luke of Crimea, good and merciful physician.

You were all, just like Saint Paul, and you saved everyone, Saint Luke, performing the archpastoral feat in the Tambov region with many works, renovating and creating churches, strictly observing the Patristic Rules, you did not cease to serve the salvation of your flock, singing purely to God: Alleluia.

The fortunes of humanity will not be able, according to their heritage, to utter your multitude of blessings, when Father Luke appeared on the Crimean land, like a loving father of his children. Your generous right hand is everywhere. We want to imitate your kindness, and in surprise we cry out to you:
Rejoice, ray of God's love.
Rejoice, inexhaustible treasure of Spasov’s mercy:
Rejoice, for you have given all of yours to the poor.
Rejoice, you who love your neighbor more than yourself:
Rejoice, nourisher and caretaker of motherless orphans.
Rejoice, guardian of helpless elders and elders:
Rejoice, for you visited the sick and those in prison.
Rejoice, for you met the needs of the poor in various places of your fatherland:
Rejoice, for, remembering the beggars, you arranged dinners for them.
Rejoice, for you appeared to everyone in their sorrows, like a comforting angel:
Rejoice, earthly angel and heavenly man.
Rejoice, for the Mother of God rejoiced at the depth of your mercy:
Rejoice, Holy Hierarch Luke of Crimea, good and merciful physician.

Kontakion 10.

You have not ceased to serve the salvation of your Crimean flock for many years in the image of the chief shepherd Christ, and you have brought your lost nature to God and the Father. By God's mercy, comforting you with your teaching words to correct your life, you were drawn to sing to God with a pure heart: Allilune.

Having become a faithful servant of the Heavenly King Christ God, Saint Father Luko, tirelessly proclaimed the word of truth in all the churches of our land of Taurida, teaching the faithful children with the soul-saving food of the teachings of the Gospel and strictly fulfilling the Church Rule. Moreover, we glorify you, like the good shepherd:
Rejoice, tireless preacher of the truth of the Gospel.
Rejoice, for you have grazed the flock of words given to you by God:
Rejoice, for you who protect your sheep from murderous wolves.
Rejoice, strict keeper of the church rite:
Rejoice, guardian of the purity of the Orthodox faith.
Rejoice, for through you the words of salvation were written in the Holy Spirit:
Rejoice, for you have revealed to us the secret of theology about spirit, soul and body.
Rejoice, for your word is like a vestment of gold, clothed with the mysteries of faith:
Rejoice, lightning, destroyer of pride.
Rejoice, thunder, terrorizing those who live lawlessly:
Rejoice, planter of church piety.
Rejoice, archpastor, spiritual shepherds who continually instruct and admonish:
Rejoice, Holy Hierarch Luke of Crimea, good and merciful physician.

Kontakion 11.

The singing at your tomb, servant of God, did not cease in the days of your blessed dormition. Many people know that you are God-bearing and equal to the angels, having gathered from all the borders of your earthly fatherland to perform a conciliar prayer for your soul ascending to the heavenly abode of the heavenly fatherland, chanting and singing to God: Alleluia.

Holy relics of LUKA Ikos 11.

You are a light in the Church of Christ, burning with the immaterial light of God’s grace, Saint Luke, illuminating the entire ends of our earth. When the time for your departure had come, the Divine Angels received your holy soul and ascended to the heavenly abode. Moreover, remembering your blessed dormition and your great glorification in heaven and on earth, with joy we offer you these blessings:
Rejoice, unfading lamp of the Never-Evening Light.

Rejoice, for the light of your good deeds has shone before men.
Rejoice, for you have glorified the Heavenly Father through your good deeds:
Rejoice, servant of God, who has piously ended the course.
Rejoice, you who have acquired faith, hope and love from the Lord:
Rejoice, with Christ, you loved Him, uniting yourself forever.
Rejoice, heir to the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal glory:
Rejoice, bishop, filled with grace-filled gifts from the eternal Bishop Christ.
Rejoice, quick helper to those who call upon you:
Rejoice, new light and affirmation for the Crimean land.
Rejoice, blessed patron of the Christian race:
Rejoice, Holy Hierarch Luke of Crimea, good and merciful physician.

Kontakion 12.

Having recognized the grace from above that has been given to you, we reverently kiss your honest face depicted, Saint Luke, hoping that you will receive what you ask from God. In the same way, falling before your holy relics, we pray to you with tenderness: Strengthen us to stand well in the Orthodox faith and, pleasing good deeds, silently sing to God: Alleluia.

Singing to God, who is wondrous in His saints, we praise you, Christ’s confessor, saint and intercessor before the Lord. For you are all in the highest, but you do not abandon those below, Father Luke, the saint, reigns ever with Christ and intercedes for us sinners before the throne of God. For this reason, in tenderness we call you:
Rejoice, light unapproachable to the viewer.
Rejoice, for in him the angels rejoice, and in him men rejoice:
Rejoice, you who taught and created the commandment of Christ.
Rejoice, for you have appeared worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven:
Rejoice, having reached the villages of paradise through confession.
Rejoice, you who endured the reproach of Christ and received eternal glory with Him:
Rejoice, guide of our souls to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Rejoice, representative before the Throne of God for us sinners:
Rejoice, praise to Orthodoxy and joy to our land.
Rejoice, thou who havest been counted worthy to be among the saints:
Rejoice, partaker of the Council of all Crimean saints.
Rejoice, Holy Hierarch Luke of Crimea, good and merciful physician.

Kontakion 13.

O great and glorious servant of God, our holy father Luke, accept this praiseworthy song from us unworthy, which is offered to you with filial love. By your intercession at the Throne of God and by your prayers, confirm us all in the more Orthodox faith and good deeds. Save those who find themselves in this life from all troubles, sorrows, illnesses and misfortunes, and deliver them from torment in the Hereafter. And grant us in eternal life, together with you and with all the saints, to sing to our Creator: Alleluia.

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