Rare Prayer to the Great Marytr and Healer Panteleimon

Rare Prayer to the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon (Prayer of Jeremiah the Hermit)

Commemorated  July 27/August 9.

(As a court physician he had a high position, but he chose poverty over luxury and cured people free of charge. All his life he devoted himself to helping the suffering, the sick and the poor. He brought back to life a boy who had died from a snake bite. St. Panteleimon has always been venerated in Russia as a heavenly healer of various ailments, especially cancer).

Holy Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon! Pray God for us (names) and do not let illnesses stay in us any longer, by which we are in pain in body and soul! Heal the sores and scabs which have been inflicted upon us by our passions. We ache with laziness and lethargy, heal us. We ache with craving and addiction to earthly things, heal us. We are in pain, O Saint Panteleimon! We ache with forgetfulness: of the work of salvation, of our sins and weaknesses, of our duties - heal us. We ache with rancor, anger, and hatred - heal us, O St. Panteleimon. We ache with addiction, pride, haughtiness, and conceit, in all our poverty and wantonness, heal us. We are in pain with many and various fits of carnality: gluttony, drunkenness, excessive eating,  for lust - heal us. Sick with sleepiness, with too many words, with idle talk, with sluggishness - heal us, O Saint Panteleimon! Our eyes ache with sinful views, our ears ache with listening to idle talk, slander, accusations - heal us. Our hands are sore because of our unwillingness to offer prayers and to give alms - heal us. 

Our feet hurt by the unwillingness to go to the temple of the Lord in haste and by the striving to walk in the hillocks and to visit the houses of the world - heal us. Our tongue and our mouths ache; they ache with idle talk, with evil language, with turning away from prayers and praises, or with saying them carelessly, distractedly, without attention, without understanding. From head to foot we ache: Our minds ache with incomprehension, unreasonableness, and insanity; our wills ache in us, turning away from holy tasks and striving to do harmful and profane things; our memories ache in us, forgetting our trespasses and holding in them the sins and insults of our neighbors without loss; Our imagination aches, unable and unwilling to vividly imagine our death, the eternal torment of sinners, the benefits of the kingdom of heaven, the wrath of God, the suffering of Christ on the cross, His crucifixion - heal us, O holy Panteleimon! Everything in us hurts. Our soul with all its powers and faculties does not exist. Our whole body, with all its members, also fails. Heal us, O Saint Panteleimon, Healer of the poor and affectionate Physician, servant of the Most Holy Mother of God, and do not leave us in our woes and in our infirmities: I glorify the Blessed Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and the Blessed Virgin Mary, who sends you to serve the sick, and I thank you holy Saint Panteleimon, for ever and ever. Amen.

Another prayer, also to him.

O great benefactor of Christ, passionate and merciful Physician Panteleimon! Have mercy on me, O sinful servant of God (name); hear my groaning and cry; have mercy on me Heavenly, Supreme Physician of our souls and bodies, Christ our God, grant that I may be healed of this cruel affliction that oppresses me. Accept the unworthy prayer of the most sinful person above all.Visit me with a gracious visitation. Do not despise my sinful sores; anoint them with the oil of thy mercy, and heal me; that being healthy in body and soul, I may spend the rest of my days, with the help of the grace of God, in repentance and pleasing God, and may be permitted to see the blessed end of my life. You who are a saint of God, pray to Christ God that He may grant me a good end to my life. beseech Christ God, that through your intercession may my body be made whole and my soul be saved. Amen.