A “Prayer for Healing and Strength in Illness” is a powerful prayer seeking the intercession of St. Alphonsus Liguori, the patron saint of the sick and suffering. This beautiful prayer asks for divine healing while also requesting the grace to bear illness patiently if healing is not God’s will. It is perfect for anyone facing illness, chronic pain, or health challenges.
St. Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787) was a Catholic bishop, moral theologian, and Doctor of the Church who devoted his life to caring for the poor and sick with heroic charity. Having suffered from various ailments throughout his own life, he became known for his compassionate understanding of human suffering and is invoked as a patron of those who are ill.
Prayer for Healing and Strength in Illness
(St. Alphonsus Liguori)
VIDEO – Prayer For Healing and Strength in Illness
[Prayer Video will be available on Monday, July 14, 2025]
O Glorious St. Alphonsus, loving Father of the poor and sick, all your life you devoted yourself, with a heroic charity, to lighten their spiritual and bodily miseries.
Full of confidence in your tender pity for the sick, since you yourself patiently borne the cross of illness, I come to you for help in my present need…
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Loving Father of the Suffering, St. Alphonsus, look with compassion upon me in my suffering. Ask God to give me good health. If it is not God’s will, then give me the strength to bear my cross patiently and to offer my sufferings with my crucified Savior and his Mother of Sorrows; for the glory of God and the salvation of souls, in reparation for my sins and those of others, for the needs of this troubled world, and for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Amen.
St. Alphonsus Liguori, patron of the sick, pray for us.
Our Father,
Who art in Heaven,
hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now,
and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.