Betegekért
Pleading for Healing and Comfort
The prayer asks God to comfort and heal the sick, that they may accept his visitation and grow in love and fear through his fatherly chastisement.
Almighty God, strong support and protector of human frailty, in whose hand are the bounds of our life: we plead with Your Majesty for your sick servants: comfort them, encourage them, and strengthen them, so that they may accept your visitations willingly and bear them calmly.✦ Heal them, for the sake of your holy name, from the affliction you have sent upon them, so that, recognizing your kindness toward them, they may give worthy thanks for your mercy, and through your fatherly chastisement grow in your love and your fear.✦
Accepting God's Sovereign Will
The prayer acknowledges that if death is more beneficial, the sick should receive the Holy Spirit for penance; it also asks for grace to recognize that illness comes from God's fatherly hand and leads to conversion.
But if, in your infinite wisdom, you see that their dying now is more beneficial, then give them the Holy Spirit, so that through true penance they may obtain forgiveness of sins, and their departure from this world may be pleasing in your sight. Give them your holy grace, so that they may recognize that the scourge of bodily illnesses and afflictions comes from your fatherly hand.1 Since without your will not even a strand of our hair can fall, and for this reason you scourge us: so that we may turn from our sins to you, who are true life and true happiness.
Closing Invocation and Doxology
The prayer concludes by invoking Jesus, who conquered death, and ends with a trinitarian doxology and Amen.
O blessed Jesus, who conquered the sting of death, help your sick servants. Who lives and reigns together with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Read the original Hungarian
Hatalmas Isten, emberi gyarlóságnak erős gyámola és oltalmazója, ki kezében vannak életünk határi: könyörgünk felségednek a te beteg szolgáidért: vigasztald őket, bátorítsad és erősítsed, hogy jó néven vegyék és csendesen szenvedjék látogatásidat. Gyógyítsd meg őket, szent nevedért, a reájok bocsátott csapásból, hogy megismérvén hozzájok való jóvoltodat, méltó hálát adjanak irgalmasságodért, és atyai ostorozásod által öregbüljenek szerelmedben és félelmedben.
Ha pedig véghetetlen bölcsességed szerént hasznosbnak látod az ő mostani kimúlásokat: adj Szentlelket nékik, hogy az igaz penitencia által, bűnök bocsánatját nyerhessék, és teelőtted kedves kimúlások légyen e világból. Adjad szent malasztodat nékik, hogy megismérjék a testi nyavalyáknak és csapásoknak ostorit atyai kezedből származni. Mivel akaratod nélkül csak hajunk szála sem eshetik el, és azért ostorozsz minket, hogy bűneinkből tehozzád térjünk, ki igaz élet és igaz boldogság vagy. Oh áldott Jézus, ki meggyőzted a halál fulákját, légy segétséggel beteg szolgáidnak. Ki az Atya és Szentlélek Istennel egyetemben élsz és uralkodol. Amen.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Ps.31.15;Job.14.5;Acts.17.26 — But as for you, I have trusted in you, O LORD; I said, "You are my God." Job.14.5 — Since his days are determined, the number of his months is with You, and You have set his limits that he cannot pass, Acts.17.26 — And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined appointed times and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
- ↩Prov.3.11-Prov.3.12;Heb.12.5-Heb.12.11 — My son, do not despise the discipline of the LORD, and do not resent his rebuke. Prov.3.12 — For the LORD reproves the one he loves, as a father delights in his son. Heb.12.5 — And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose heart when you are reproved by him;" Heb.12.6 — For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he scourges every son whom he receives. Heb.12.7 — Endure for discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? Heb.12.8 — But if you are without discipline—something all have come to share in—then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Heb.12.9 — Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? Heb.12.10 — For they disciplined us for a few days as seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. Heb.12.11 — Now all discipline for the present does not seem to be joyful but grievous, yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Notes
- 1 ↩malasztodat rendered as 'grace' (traditional Hungarian Catholic term for divine grace, not mere favor).
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