Prayers for Healing
A Prayer Before Surgery
A contemporary prayer before an operation, closing with Christ's own words from the cross (Luke 23:46), which the Church has prayed at every Compline and at every deathbed for centuries.
God of life, tomorrow I will be in other people's hands, and I want it to be yours.
Steady me tonight. Take the fear that comes at three in the morning.
Guide the surgeon's hands and the whole team around the table.
Watch over the hours I will not remember.
Bring me safely through, and give my family peace while they wait.
Into your hands I commend my spirit. Amen.
Contemporary prayer closing with Luke 23:46
About the prayer
It is traditionally accompanied by the Anointing of the Sick in Catholic and Orthodox practice.
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