Strong prayer before surgery
One of the most difficult situations for any person is a disease, especially a severe one, which can only be healed with the help of. If this happened in life, it often means that you need to change a lot in yourself, in your inner world. And the main "advisor" in such a correction, of course, is the Lord.
It is to Him and His Heavenly Saints that one should pray before the operation. It often happens that after repentance and choosing another path, a person completely manages to say goodbye to the disease.
To whom to pray?
To whom specifically to pray in anticipation of the operation? Initially, the very formulation of this question is incorrect. Because in the spiritual life there are no “ready-made recipes” and precise recommendations. It all depends on the inner disposition of the person.
He can pray at least a dozen saints for a long time, but at the same time not receive what he asks. And all because he does it either mechanically or is simply not ready to accept God's help due to his inner discord.
Expecting such a difficult stage in your life as an operation, you can pray to the Lord, and the Mother of God, and any saint. And even all of them together. The main thing to understand is that the heavenly answer will come only through a sincere prayer of a person and only thanks to his ardent faith. An empty and heartless prayer is not pleasing and even sinful.
In spite of 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, are always “given” a specific “mechanism” that is able to correct and help everything. And even when it comes to the area where no mechanisms operate - the area of spiritual life.
So, the church gives advice to pray for the patient to several specific saints, while waiting for the operation. These are people like:
- Known for his great help to sick people Healer.
- Great intercessor for those who are weak, Saint Luke.
- Always hearing the sighs of the faithful children of the Church, the Holy Great Martyr Barbara.
- You can also make petitions while waiting for a difficult life test to your Guardian Angel.
- Be sure to hear the cry of the believer himself God.
- He will not leave without his cover and intercession a person asking for help, Mother of God.
Protector 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, was a surgeon himself 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 a person going for an operation 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 both 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 more help in life not to do wrong, but to go the way of God. Please help."
If it is difficult to find words in such a crucial period, then you can read a special strong prayer. This text can be read about a son and daughter, for yourself, a husband, mother, for another relative or loved one. If you ask warmly and with soul, help will come:
“O all-blessed confessor, our holy hierarch Luko, the great saint of Christ. With tenderness, bow down the knees of our hearts, and falling to the race of your honest and multi-healing relics, like a child of the father, we pray with all your heart: hear us sinners and bring our prayer to the Merciful and Humane God. To him you are now in the joy of the saints and with the faces of an angel stand. We believe more, because you love us with the same love, with which you loved all your neighbors, being on earth.
Ask Christ our God to confirm His children in the spirit of right faith and piety: let the shepherds be given holy zeal and care for the salvation of the people entrusted to them: observe the right of the believer, strengthen the weak and weak in faith, instruct the ignorant, and rebuke the opposite. Give us all a gift to whom it is useful, and all the same for temporary life and for eternal salvation useful.
Our cities are affirmation, the land is fruitful, deliverance from prosperity and destruction. Consolation to the grieving, healing to those who are ill, return to the path of truth, blessing to the parent, upbringing and teaching to the children in the fear of the Lord, help and intercession to the orphans and the poor.
Grant us all your archpastoral blessing, and if we have such a prayer intercession, we will get rid of the wiles of the evil one and avoid all enmity and discord, heresies and schisms.
Lead us on the path leading to the villages of the righteous, and pray for us the almighty God, that in eternal life we will be able to glorify with you the unceasingly glorifying the Consubstantial and Indivisible Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen."
You can also turn to the Saint in your own words for the surgeon who will perform the operation.
What prayer to read to the Lord Jesus Christ?
The most effective support in a difficult period is, of course, the hand extended by the Lord Jesus himself. It is better to pray to our Lord, starting with repentance. Since God, seeing a weeping heart, regretting sins, will surely 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 am very sorry and I ask you to forgive me. And help me get through 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 went on the mend and recovered. But of course, Thy will be done."
Here is another Orthodox prayer for a successful operation:
“Into Your hands, Lord Jesus Christ, I give you my spirit and my life. I ask You, Almighty, bless and have mercy on me. Grant me, Lord, life and long days in Your presence. May Your mercy be upon me. Forgive me my sins in the name of Your Holy Son Jesus Christ. I hope and hope in You, my Lord and my God. For You are truly the only Christ, the Son of the living God, who came into the sinful world to save us. May Your blessing be upon the hands of doctors, over what they will do. May Thy will be done, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Now and forever and forever and ever. Amen."
Petition to the Matrona of Moscow
Mati, a well-known saint in Russia, is a strong representative of people before God. If a person in a difficult situation calls with all his heart to her, 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 simple words.
Let's say this:
“Dear Mother, I am in a very difficult situation, I have an operation. Please help me so that everything goes well, so that the Lord forgives my sins and heals me. I know that with my deeds I defiled the image that the Lord laid in me. But you, please, ask Him to forgive my dirty and terrible sins, to have mercy on me. May the Lord forgive and give health, strengthen my bodily strength. Forgive me, help me."
Another text of the prayer for the health of oneself or relatives, to this strong intercessor before our heavenly Father:
“O blessed mother Matrono, now hear and accept us, sinners, praying to you, having learned to receive and listen to all those who suffer and mourn in all your life, with faith and hope for your intercession and the help of those who come running, quick help and miraculous healing to everyone; may your mercy not fail now to us, the unworthy, restless in this many-fuss world and nowhere to find comfort and compassion in spiritual sorrows and help in bodily illnesses: heal our sicknesses, deliver from the temptations and torment of the devil, passionately fighting, help convey your worldly Cross, to endure all the hardships of life and not lose the image of God in it, keep the Orthodox faith until the end of our days, have strong hope and hope in God and unfeigned love for neighbors; help us, after departing from this life, reach the Kingdom of Heaven with all those who please God, glorifying the mercy and goodness of the Heavenly Father, in the Trinity of glory, 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 granted, protecting and protecting from various earthly misfortunes, as well as from numerous invisible spirits of malice. If a person is in danger, then the Angel, figuratively speaking, activates and intensifies its help. But in the event that the believer does not forget about Him and turns to Him.
Therefore, it is precisely before the operation, which is a potential danger, that it is best for the sick person to call on his “personal” heavenly protector, who, like no one else, knows about all his troubles and misfortunes.
The following words can be pronounced, tuning in to 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, to my doctors accuracy, attention and dexterity, and patience and lightness go to me. Son of God, have mercy on me! Jesus Christ, our Savior, send me, a sinner, healing. May the Lord's will be done, not mine!"
Non-standard approach
Today, people often hear that There are so-called prayer-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 more practiced by healers, magicians, "white" sorcerers, they recommend reading them to the patient's relatives.
“Mother Theotokos slept and rested, and in her dream she saw a terrible dream. Son came to her: - My mother, are you awake? - I do not sleep, I hear everything, but God gave, and I see: You walk among the robbers, Between the mountains, among the traitors, the 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 in the sky, leads Her Son by the hand. She spent it in the morning, from morning - to mass, from mass - to vespers, from vespers - to the blue sea. A stone lies on the blue sea, and a church stands on that stone. And in that church a candle burns and Jesus Christ sits on the Throne. He sits with his legs down, looking up to heaven, reading a prayer to God, waiting for Saints Paul and Peter. Peter and Paul came to him, they stand and say to the Son of God: - Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of God, You read prayers for the whole world and accept flour for us. And the Lord said to them: - Peter and Paul, you do not look at me, but take prayers into your own hands, carry them all over the world, and teach all kinds of people - sick, lame, gray-haired, young. Who knows how - let him pray, who does not know how - let him learn. Whoever reads this prayer twice a day, he never knows any flour, he will not drown in water, he will not burn in fire, and he will conquer the most terrible disease.
A thief will not rob that person, lightning in a thunderstorm will not kill him, poison will not kill him, a denunciation in court will not destroy him. In the heat there is water, and in the famine there is food. That person will live a great age, and when his hour comes, he will die the easiest death. I will send him two angels and I myself will come down to meet him, I will save the soul and body of the righteous at the Terrible Judgment. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. Amen."
Appeal to Panteleimon
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 protection and in an invisible way, as it were, imposes his heavenly "ointment" on human wounds.
“Oh, the great saint of Christ, the passion-bearer and doctor, the many-merciful Panteleimon! Have mercy on me, a sinful servant of God (name), hear my groaning and cry, have mercy on the Heavenly One, the Supreme Physician of our souls and bodies, Christ our God, may He grant me healing from a cruel oppressive illness. Accept the unworthy prayer of the sinner more than all people. Visit me with a blessed visit. Do not disdain my sinful sores, anoint them with the oil of your mercy and heal me; Yes, healthy soul and body, the rest of my days, with the help of the grace of God, I can spend in repentance and pleasing God, and I will be able to perceive the good end of my life. Hey, God's servant! Pray for Christ God, may he grant me, through your intercession, the health of the body and the salvation of my soul. Amen."
The cover of heaven: strong and enduring
Usually women come to us with their problems. Therefore, she can pray before the operation in a feminine way, on the uterus, as well as if the child is to have surgery.
“O Most Holy Lady Lady Mother of God! Raise us, servants of God (names) from the depths of sin and deliver us from sudden death and from all evil. Grant, Madam, peace and health to us and enlighten our minds and eyes of the heart, even to salvation, and vouchsafe 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
Saint Father Nicholas - the greatest hope of the patient. This saint is known to everyone, because the help he exudes is truly great.
An appeal to his icon in case of life's adversities associated with illness and stay in the hospital may be as follows:
“O all-holy Nicholas, the servant of the Lord, our warm intercessor, and everywhere in sorrow a quick helper, help me, a sinner and despondent, in this life, implore the Lord God, grant me the remission of all my sins, who have sinned from my youth, in everything my life, deed, word, thought and all my feelings; and at the end of my soul, help me to the accursed one, implore the Lord God of all creatures, the Creator, deliver me from air ordeals and eternal torment, may 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 Thee! Verily, I have been unrighteous, I have blasphemed Your Name. But do not leave me alone, abandoned, You are the best of the inheritors, what by Your will came to You will depart.
To avoid surgery
Of course, a person suffering from some kind of ailment always tries to hope that such a fate as surgical intervention will pass him. There is no definite way to avoid this situation, but it is quite possible, realizing that there is a chance to do without extreme measures, to say cordially such words:
“Lord, Mother of God, our saints, you see what situation I am 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."
Key moment
Best of all, when preparing for such an event as a surgical intervention, do not just pray, but confess, get permission from the priest for Communion, 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 must immediately offer up 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 on our Creator.
If a person with a clear conscience, having repented, goes to the operational "bed", he is not afraid of the consequences of what is happening. The Lord will never leave a pure soul humbly asking for help.
