Prayers for First Responders

Divine Physician, hear our prayers for those in emergency medicine. By your healing power, grant them quick minds and skillful hands. Strengthen them in times of trauma. In quiet times, give them rest and assurance of the value of their work. Keep them ever prepared for the work you have called them to do, for your mercy’ sake. Amen.

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God our strong deliverer: when those charged with the urgent mediation of your healing power feel overwhelmed by the numbers of the suffering, uphold them in their fatigue and banish their despair. Let them see with your eyes, so they may know all their patients as precious. Give comfort, and renew their energy and compassion, for the sake of Jesus in whom is our life and our hope. Amen.

--From the Episcopal Church

Prayer for Health Care Providers

Give your blessing, gracious God, to those whom you have called to the study and practice of the arts of healing, and the prevention of disease and pain. Give them the wisdom of your Holy Spirit, that through their work the health of our community may be advanced and your creation glorified; through your Son Jesus Christ. Amen.

Prayer for Those Who Minister to the Sick

Gracious God, source of life and health: Jesus came to our disordered world to make your people whole. Send your Spirit on those who are sick and all who minister to them; that when the sick enter your peace, they may offer thanks to your Great Name; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.

- Episcopal Prayer

For Caregivers and Others in Support of the Sick

Compassionate God,

support and strengthen all those

who reach out in love, concern, and prayer 

for the sick and distressed. 

In their acts of compassion, 

may they know that they are your instruments. 

In their concerns and fears 

may they know your peace. 

In their prayer 

may they know your steadfast love. 

May they not grow weary or faint-hearted, 

for your mercy’s sake. Amen.

-- From "Ministry to the Sick," from Church Publishing