Prayer Before Surgery

Loving One, we entrust _____ to your care this day: guide with wisdom the skills and hands of the medical people who minister in your Name, and grant that every cause of illness be removed, that she may be restored to soundness of health and learn to live in more perfect harmony with you and those around her.
Through Jesus Christ. AMEN

--from Catholic Online

Prayer in Infirmity

O most mighty and most merciful God,
who, though thou have taken me off my feet,
hast not taken me off my foundation, which is thyself;
who, though thou have removed me from that upright form
in which I could stand and see thy throne, the heavens,
yet hast not removed from me that light
by which I can lie and see myself;
who, though thou have weakened my bodily knees,
that they cannot bow to thee,
hast left me the knees of my heart,
which are bowed unto thee evermore;
as thou hast made this bed thine altar,
make me thy sacrifice,
and as thou makest thy Son Jesus Christ the priest,
so make me his deacon,
to minister to him
in a cheerful surrender of my body and soul to thy pleasure,
by his hands.

-- John Donne (1572-1631), English priest, essayist, and poet, from Devotions Upon Divergent Occasions, III, (1624)

Prayer for the Sick

Heavenly Father, whose blessed Son our Lord took upon himself our infirmities and had compassion upon all sick and suffering: Hear our prayer for all who suffer in body or mind or spirit; and especially we pray for 

​______

. Grant to 

​her/him

 relief from pain, strength in 

​her/his

 weakness, light in 

​her/his

 darkness and, if it shall please you, restoration to health. Enable 

​her/him

 now to trust you though your way is hidden from their sight; and let 

​her/him

 know

​ that peace which is the gift of your Holt Spirit. Amen.

--from Prayers for All Occasions, by Forward Movement