Prayer for Those Who Suffer

Loving Father! Your Son endured unimaginable torments and a heavy and painful death out of great love for You and all people on earth. You did not allow death to destroy Him, but through the Holy Spirit You gave Him the power to rise from the dead. By His passionate sufferings on the Cross and His Resurrection, Your divine Son became the Victor over the forces of diabolical‑demonic darkness and death, and in this way He destroyed the evil of sin and the power of hell. Help us, loving Father, to remember all this well and always be grateful, properly valuing the exceedingly heavy sufferings, torments and death of Your Son Jesus, Who then, on the Golgotha Cross, saved, cleansed and healed us all.

May our pains and sufferings become for us a motivating reason to properly honor the priceless divine gift—human life, health, and a happy family. May the virtues of faith, hope, and love grow in us, so that we never waver or doubt You, and so that we rely on Your mighty and certain help, relief, restoration, and healing in our times of trial and suffering. We ask this through Jesus, Who suffered and died for us, in unity with the Holy Spirit—one God forever and ever. Amen.

Source: kyrios.org.ua