Prayers for the sick are a frequent practice among Orthodox Christians. You can appeal to the Lord and His Most Holy Mother, as well as to various saints and the righteous. Especially strong are the prayers of mothers for children. Popular rumor calls popular rumor Matrona of Moscow, Luka of Crimea, the healer Panteleimon.
Mother of God Prayer for Children
The first intercessor and comforter in sorrows is the Blessed Virgin. The mother who gave birth and raised the Savior of the world understands maternal feelings, every prayer sigh hears and helps. Therefore, with illness, you need to turn to the Heavenly Queen.
Prayer for cough:
“O Blessed Virgin Mary, save and preserve under Your shelter my children (names), all the ladies, ladies and babies, baptized and nameless and worn in the womb. Cover them with the garment of Your motherhood, observe them in the fear of God and in obedience to your parents, beseech my Lord and Your Son, and grant them useful salvation. I entrust them to Your Mother's look, for Thou art the Divine Veil of Thy servants.
Mother of God, introduce me to the image of your heavenly motherhood. Heal the spiritual and bodily wounds of my children (names), inflicted by my sins. I entrust my child entirely to my Lord Jesus Christ and Yours, the Most Pure, heavenly protection. Amen".
Archbishop Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky
The Crimean saint was an outstanding surgeon who saved during the war more than one soldier's life. For many achievements he was awarded the title of laureate of the Stalin Prize. But the most important award was awarded to the archbishop in another world - the holy surgeon is revered not only in Russia, but throughout the world. They pray to him in diseases and various everyday circumstances. The saint should be addressed with faith and hope for help.
Text of a cough prayer in a child or adult:
O all-blessed confession, to the hierarch our father Luko, the great saint of Christ. With tenderness, it’s more tender than the knee of our hearts, and falling to your race of honest and multi-healing relics of yours, like a child of a father, we pray you heartily: hear us sinners and bring our prayer to a gracious and loving God. To him are you now in the joy of the saints and with the face of an angel appear. We believe more, because you love us with the same love with it, but all your neighbor loved you here on earth.
Ask Christ our God to affirm His child in the spirit of righteous faith and piety: give the shepherds holy zeal and care for the salvation of the people entrusted to them: strengthen the faith of the believer, strengthen the weak and weak in the faith, instruct the ignorant, ignore the contrary. Give us all the gift of someone who is covetous, and all that is useful to temporary life and to eternal salvation.
Our city of affirmation, the land of fruiting, deliverance from gladness and destruction. To those who mourn the comfort, to those who do not heal healing, who have lost their way on the path of truth, to return a blessing, to bring up and teach children in the Lord’s Passion, help and intercession to be poor and miserable.
Give us all your archpastoral blessing, and those who have such a prayer intercession, get rid of the wiles of the evil one and avoid all enmity and disorder, heresies and schisms.
Lead us on the path leading to the villages of the righteous and pray for us, the omnipotent God, in eternal life, let us make you unceasingly glorify the One-Saving and Inseparable Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Matrona Moscow
In the last years of the 20th century, the saint gained immense popularity. An endless chain of the afflicted and sick stretched to the place of her burial. Books have been written about Matron Dmitrievna; newspapers and magazines are full of stories about the wonderful help of mother. Forums are created on the network where mothers and grandmothers share tips on using oil consecrated on relics and dried flowers from the icon. Prayer Matrona of Moscow helps those who sincerely address her.
Prayer Matronushka for children:
Oh, blessed by mother Matrono, the soul in Heaven before the Throne of God is to be seen, the body rest on the earth, and given above blessings various miracles exuding. See now your gracious eye on us, sinful, in hardship, sick and tempting sinful days of our dependents, comfort us, desperate, healed, we owed a great deal to our grief Jesus Christ will forgive us all our sin, lawlessness and sin, and even from our youth even to the present day and hour we have sinned, and by your prayers we have received good fortune, and you were kindly pleased. The Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever and ever. Amen.
Great Martyr Panteleimon
The holy healer was born of a Christian mother and was raised in the faith. But the parent died early, and the father sent the young man to a pagan school. After training, Panteleimon received a medical education. To Christ the young man was brought by presbyter Yermolai. Subsequently, Panteleimon was captured by the soldiers of the emperor and took the crown of martyrdom. The saint is asked about the health of children and parents.
Prayer to the holy healer:
O great Christ servitor and glorious healer, the great martyr Panteleimon! Stand in front of the Throne of God to the Throne of God and enjoy His tripartite glories, but rest your body and face on the earth in Divine temples and give this above grace a variety of miracles, exhort with your merciful eye for your coming icon, sincerely praying to your prayer and prayer help and intercession: open your warm prayers to the Lord God and ask our souls to forgive sins. For we, for our iniquity, do not dare to raise our hair to the heights of Heaven, lower our prayer voice to E about the Divine of impregnable glory, with a broken heart and a humble spirit for you, who seeks mercy from the Lord and a prayer book for us, sinners, we urge you to receive the grace from Him to drive away ailments and to heal passions. We ask you to: do not despise us, unworthy, praying requiring you and your help. Be a comforter to us in sorrow, a physician who is suffering for you, a fast patron who is suffering, an impoverished giver who is worse than insight, a ready-made representative and a healer who pisses and sorrows: seek out all that is useful, as long as your prayers to the Lord God receive grace and mercy we will glorify all the good Source and Gift Giver of God, the Unity in the Trinity of Saints, the glory of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever, and forever and ever. Amen.
When you sincerely believe, saints help in difficult times.