Are you or someone you love receiving medical care from doctors and surgeons? Invoke the Holy Spirit upon the physicians, surgeons, and specialists caring for you or your family. Entrust their diagnoses, decisions, and operations to God’s merciful and healing grace.
Prayer to Bless Your Doctors and Surgeons
Lord Jesus Christ, the Divine Physician,
We thank you and praise you for showing us all how to love the afflicted in body, mind, and soul. We praise you and adore you for your miraculous healing touch in all our lives through the doctors and surgeons who care for us.
The Bible shows us how you loved us as a great physician of body, mind, soul, and spirit during your earthly ministry. You also taught us how to suffer for your glory by the way of the Cross, and while carrying it, actively loving our neighbors with perfect love.
We thank you and praise you
for your loving presence
and for your Sacred Heart of love for all mankind.
We thank you
for the grace you give us
when we are sick and suffering
and in need of a physician to help us and heal us.
We thank you for all our doctors and surgeons
whom you have given to us.
We ask you to bless them [name them] and guide them through divine inspiration by the Holy Spirit as they seek to diagnose and treat all manner of illness and disease in our bodies, especially [name the patient(s)].
Give our doctors and surgeons wisdom, knowledge,
understanding, courage, fortitude, piety,
and fear of the Lord as they live out their vocations.
Let the Holy Spirit pour out on them
as they work in service
to those who are sick and in need of healing.
Lord, make them aware of their great mission
as healers of body, mind, and soul.
Help them minister to the needs of [name(s)]
and advise us on treatment options.
Fill our doctors and surgeons
with the fire of the Holy Spirit
in their daily work
and help them strive to imitate your merciful love
as they counsel and advise all their patients.
Bless [name them] abundantly.
Lord, please enlighten our doctors and surgeons to know the best treatment options available. Guide their decisions when they diagnose, treat, medicate, or operate. Give them hearts that are compassionate and merciful. Help them see the least of humanity and the most vulnerable as images of your divine Heart so that they can love patients with the love that radiates from your merciful Heart.
Lord Jesus Christ, bless our doctors and surgeons with abundant grace throughout all their medical studies and research efforts. Help [name them] come to know the best treatment modalities for each patient, and especially [name(s)].
Grant our doctors and surgeons the grace to love and serve the sick in both mind and body on their longest and toughest days of service as physicians. Strengthen them with your Holy Spirit and your loving presence with each difficult encounter, and help them be an image of You to those who are suffering and under their care, especially [name(s)].
We ask all this in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.
Saint Luke, please pray for us!
Saint Cosmas, please pray for us!
Saint Damian, please pray for us!
AMEN.
Saints Cosmas and Damian, Patron Saints of Doctors and Surgeons
Saints Cosmas and Damian lived during the third century in Arabia. They both studied medicine in Syria and practiced in the port city of Aegeae, which is in modern-day Turkey. They were very skilled, ancient physicians who provided medical care to the poor who couldn’t afford treatment. They refused payment for their services, which earned them the title of “anargyroi”. This act of merciful charity toward their countrymen led many under their care to convert to Christianity as a result.
Saint Cosmas and Damian are the patron saints of doctors and surgeons. They are also patron saints of dentists and pharmacists and for all those suffering from sicknesses.
Both Cosmas and Damian were persecuted under the Roman emperor Diocletian. They were arrested for their faith and asked to renounce Christ, but they refused. As a result they were tortured and then martyred for their faith by beheading. The Church remembers them on the Feast Day of Saints Cosmas and Damian every year on September 26.
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4 thoughts on “Prayer of Intercession for Doctors and Surgeons”
Thank you so much for this prayer. It’s a miracle to me to get this. I just said for my sister Melissa who is suffering from lupus and ailments. I was telling her yesterday day we need to pray for the doctors etc ❤️❤️❤️with much love in Jesus
Gracias a Dios por esta página de Internet, me ha sacado de muchos aprietos espirituales. ¡Bendito sea Dios!, ¡Grande es Dios!, ¡solo en Jesús confió! Gracias hermano por su gran trabajo y compartir estas oraciones, son bendición en mi vida. Los amo.
Thank God for this website. It has helped me through many spiritual difficulties. Praise God! Great is God! I trust only in Jesus! Thank you, brother, for your great work and for sharing these prayers. They are a blessing in my life. I love you.
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Michael, thank you for your loving response. God is so merciful that he forgives us every time we repent of our sins. He knows your heart and he loves you more than you can ever comprehend. Your comment reminded me of St. Paul, who wrote in Romans 7:15 the following, “I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate to do.” Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and there is a tradition on this day to pray Psalm 51, a prayer of David asking God for forgiveness. God tells us in the Bible that David was a man after his own heart because David, although he was a sinner who had committed many sins against God, was also a man who truly loved God, repented, and amended his life to stop committing the sins. We are fighting a good fight, and we have a Father in heaven who loves us and wants to forgive and give us all the grace necessary to grow in virtue and holiness. If you have confessed and have surrendered this situation to Jesus, trust that God has fully forgiven and let it go. You are a beloved son and precious to the Lord. You are in my prayers!