Oraciones para un padre enfermo, en casa o en el hospital



  • Ten short prayers cover a father in the hospital, his doctors, pain, tests or surgery, a long illness, old age, a child’s prayer, praying from far away, the family and the first signs of recovery.
  • Traditional prayers are quoted from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (“A Prayer for Recovery” and “A Thanksgiving for the Beginning of a Recovery”) and from the Orthodox service of Holy Unction in Hapgood’s 1906 translation.
  • Orthodox families give the priest a list of names “for the health and salvation” of the living; many also ask the prayers of Saint Panteleimon, a physician martyred around 305.
  • Catholics can ask for the Anointing of the Sick, which the Catechism says is not only for the dying; Protestants can call the elders of the church, as in James 5:14.
  • Scripture records Joseph visiting his sick father Jacob (Genesis 48), Hezekiah’s healing (2 Kings 20:5) and Paul healing the father of Publius (Acts 28:8).
  • La oración acompaña a la atención médica y nunca la reemplaza.

“Lord, my father is sick. Ease his pain, guide the doctors and nurses who care for him, give him strength for today, and restore him to health, if it is your will. Keep him from fear, and keep our family close to him. Amen.” It can be said at his bedside, in a hospital corridor or from far away. Prayer goes alongside your father’s medical care and never replaces it. If he has sudden chest pain, trouble breathing, confusion or…

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