Scholarship
July 3, 2025
Prayers for Health and Healing
- Author
- Publisher
- Continuum, New York, NY
- ISBN
- 0826412645
- Table of Contents
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Preface
A Healthy Life
Prayers for Healing
Prayers for Doctors, Nurses, Carers
Enduring Pain and Suffering
Depression and Sorrow
Chronic Illness and Disability
The Disabled
AIDS
Addiction
Inner Pain
Illness in Old Age
Losing A Child
Death and Bereavement
Subject Index
Index of Authors and Sources
Acknowledgements
Many of us have had the experience of visiting someone ill and thinking "What should I say or do now? Dare I offer to say a prayer?" But we do not know how to frame one and are too embarassed to make the suggestion, so we mumble something and leave.
Prayers for Health and Healing is a beautiful collection of prayers that draws upon the riches of the church, classic and contemporary, and provides an invaluable resource in time of need. From the Celts, the fathers and mothers of the church, to contemporary spiritual writers such as Marjorie Holmes, Sheila Cassidy, and David Adam, here are prayers for hope, comfort, and strength.
Each chapter is devoted to prayers for a particular situation: chronic illness and disability, depression and sorrow, illness in old age, losing a child, death and bereavement, even prayers for nurses, doctors and caregivers. In the hands of a minister to the sick or in the pocket of a friend wanting to pray with someone who is ill, Prayers for Health and Healing gives an appropriate expression to our longing for the deeper well-being of our loved ones in illness. (From the Publisher)
Prayers for Health and Healing is a beautiful collection of prayers that draws upon the riches of the church, classic and contemporary, and provides an invaluable resource in time of need. From the Celts, the fathers and mothers of the church, to contemporary spiritual writers such as Marjorie Holmes, Sheila Cassidy, and David Adam, here are prayers for hope, comfort, and strength.
Each chapter is devoted to prayers for a particular situation: chronic illness and disability, depression and sorrow, illness in old age, losing a child, death and bereavement, even prayers for nurses, doctors and caregivers. In the hands of a minister to the sick or in the pocket of a friend wanting to pray with someone who is ill, Prayers for Health and Healing gives an appropriate expression to our longing for the deeper well-being of our loved ones in illness. (From the Publisher)