Prayers to the Holy Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon

Troparion, Tone 3

O holy Passion-bearer and Healer Panteleimon,/ intercede with the merciful God,/ that He may grant unto our souls// the remission of our sins.

Kontakion, Tone 5

Since thou art an imitator of the Merciful One,/ and hast received from Him the grace of healing,/ O Passion-bearer and Martyr of Christ God!/ By thy prayers heal our spiritual diseases,/ ever driving away the temptations of the adversary from those who faithfully cry:// Save us, O Lord.

Prayer 1

O great servant of Christ and glorious healer, Great-martyr Panteleimon! Who in soul art standing in Heaven before the Throne of God, enjoying His tri-hypostatic glory, and in body and holy icon art resting on earth in divine temples, pouring out various miracles through the grace given thee from on high!

Look down with thy merciful eye upon the people standing before thee, who pray before thy holy icon with compunction and ask of thee healing help and protection: stretch forth to the Lord our God thy warm prayers and entreat for our souls the remission of sins. For we, because of our transgressions, dare not lift up our eyes to the height of heaven; but with a contrite heart and a humble spirit we call upon thee, the merciful intercessor before the Master and a prayerful advocate for us sinners, for thou hast received grace from Him to drive away diseases and heal passions.

And so, we pray thee: despise us not, the unworthy, who pray to thee and need thy help! Be unto us a comforter in sorrows, a physician to those suffering in grievous illnesses, a swift patron to those in distress, a giver of sight to those with diseased eyes, and a most fervent defender and healer to nursing infants and children in their sufferings. Intercede for all all things profitable unto salvation, so that, having obtained grace and mercy by thy prayers to the Lord God, we may glorify the Source of all good things and the Giver of gifts, God, Who is glorified in the Holy Trinity, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Prayer 2

O glorious martyr and valiant soldier of the Heavenly King, all-blessed Panteleimon, most excellent imitator of the Merciful God, who didst boldly confess Christ on earth, and didst endure diverse torments for His sake, receiving an unfading crown in Heaven, where thou enjoyest eternal bliss and standest with boldness before the Throne of the Tri-sunned Godhead!

To thy Christ-like compassion after God we all run, who are sinners, and we pray thee with all our heart, our warm helper and intercessor: cease not to look upon us who are in needs and sorrowful circumstances, and by thy prayerful help and healing power deliver us ever from cruel evils, destruction, and all other troubles and sicknesses. For thou, O saint, hast received an inexhaustible grace of healing from our Savior Jesus Christ for thy firm faith in Him, joined to a pure and blameless life, sealed by thy martyrdom and thy victorious death, in which, according to the grace given thee, thou wast named Panteleimon by Christ, which is to say “All-merciful,” showing mercy to all who run to thee in sorrows and illnesses.

Therefore, knowing thee to be a merciful helper and healer in all things, we cry to thee with faith: hear us, and by thy God-pleasing intercession grant us all things profitable for this life and needful for eternal salvation. By thy martyr’s boldness, entreat the Merciful God to have mercy on us, sinners and unworthy, according to His great mercy, that He may deliver us from earthquakes, floods, fire, the sword, and all righteous wrath and chastisement, moving us in due time to cleansing and propitiatory repentance for our sins, for the sake of the multitude of His compassions; that He may grant us all a secure, quiet, and God-pleasing life, and victory and triumph over all enemies to Orthodox Christians, and preserve us all from enemies visible and invisible by His grace and the invincible host of His Angels, by whom being protected and guided, we may live in this world in repentance, purity, and the doing of God-pleasing works; and that we may be deemed worthy by thy warm intercession to obtain a Christian end of life, painless, peaceful, blameless, and to be delivered from the wiles of the aerial princes of darkness and from eternal torment, and to become heirs of the endless and all-blessed Kingdom.

Yea, O servant of God! Cease not to pray for us sinners, that being delivered by thy mediation from temporal and eternal evils, we may magnify thee, our defender and advocate, and eternally glorify the common Master and Lord of all, our Jesus Christ, to Whom is due all glory, honor, and worship, with His Beginningless Father, and the Most Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Prayer 3

O great servant of Christ, passion-bearer and merciful physician, Panteleimon! Have mercy on me, the sinful handmaiden of God (name), hear my sighing and cry, and propitiate the Heavenly and Supreme Physician of our souls and bodies, Christ our God, that He may grant me healing from the disease which oppresseth me.

Accept this unworthy supplication of one who is more sinful than all other men. Visit me with a gracious visitation. Turn not thy face away from my sinful wounds, but anoint them with the oil of thy mercy and heal me; that, being whole in soul and body, I may be able to spend the remainder of my days, by the grace of God, in repentance and in pleasing God, and may be deemed worthy to receive a good end of my life.

Yea, O servant of God! Entreat Christ God, that by thy mediation He may grant health to my body and salvation to my soul. Amen.

Prayer 4

O holy Great-martyr and Healer Panteleimon, imitator of the Merciful God! Look down with thy compassionate heart and hear us, sinners, who pray fervently before thy holy icon.

Entreat for us of the Lord God, Whom thou standest before with the Angels in Heaven, the remission of our sins and transgressions. Heal the spiritual and bodily illnesses of the servants of God who are now commemorated, of those who stand here, and of all Orthodox Christians who run to thy protection.

For behold, by reason of our sins, we are grievously afflicted with many diseases and have no help or consolation; and we flee to thee, for grace hath been given thee to pray for us and to heal every disease and every sickness.

Grant therefore unto us all, by thy holy prayers, health and strength of soul and body, increase of faith and piety, and all things necessary for this temporal life and for salvation. So that, having been vouchsafed great and rich mercies through thee, we may glorify thee and the Giver of all good things, Who is wondrous in His saints, our God, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Prayer 5

O holy Great-martyr and Healer Panteleimon! Pray to God for us, the handmaiden of God (name), and suffer not the diseases wherewith we are sick in soul and body to remain in us any longer! Heal those wounds and sores which have been caused in us by our passions.

We are sick with sloth and paralysis — heal us.

We are sick with attraction and attachment to earthly things — heal us.

We are sick, O holy Panteleimon! We are sick with forgetfulness: of the work of salvation, of our sins and weaknesses, of our duties — heal us.

We are sick with malice, anger, and hatred — heal us, O healer of Mount Athos and of the whole world.

We are sick with envy, pride, arrogance, and self-exaltation, despite all our poverty and unworthiness — heal us.

We are sick with many and diverse fits of flesh-pleasing: gluttony, intemperance, surfeiting, and voluptuousness — heal us.

We are sick with drowsiness, talkativeness, idle chatter, and judging others — heal us, O holy Panteleimon!

Our eyes are sick with sinful gazes, our ears are sick with listening to empty talk, evil-speaking, and slander — heal us.

Our hands are sick with disinclination for raising in prayer and for giving alms — heal us.

Our feet are sick with unwillingness to hasten to the temple of the Lord, and with eagerness to walk in public streets and visit worldly houses — heal us.

Our tongue and our lips are sick, yea, grievously sick: with empty talk, idle chatter, and evil-speaking, turning away from prayers and praises, or pronouncing them carelessly, with distraction, without attention, without understanding — heal us, O merciful one!

From head to foot we are sick: our mind is sick with lack of understanding, foolishness, and madness; our will is sick, turning away from holy occupations and striving for harmful and God-opposing works; our memory is sick, having forgotten our transgressions and retaining in itself indelibly the sins and offenses of our neighbors; our imagination is sick, not knowing and not desiring vividly to present to us our death, the eternal torment of the sinful, the blessings of the Kingdom of Heaven, the wrath of God, the sufferings of Christ on the Cross, and His crucifixion — heal us, O holy Panteleimon!

Everything in us is sick. Our whole soul, too, is infirm, with all its powers and faculties. Our whole body also is infirm, with all its members.

Heal us, O holy Panteleimon, healer without charge and loving physician, servant of the Most Holy Theotokos; and leave not our wretchedness in so many diseases and in such weakness: that, being healed by thy grace, I may glorify the Most Holy Trinity, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and the Most Holy Theotokos, who sendeth thee to serve the sick, and I may thank thy healing sanctuary, O holy Panteleimon, unto ages. Amen.

Prayer of Thanksgiving, After Healing from Sickness

O holy Great-martyr, healer, and wonderworker Panteleimon, most excellent servant of God and constant intercessor for Orthodox Christians!

Worthy art thou called Panteleimon, which is to say “All-merciful”; for, having received from God the grace to pray for us and to heal diseases, thou dost richly grant unto all who run to thee diverse healings and all things necessary for this temporal life and for salvation.

Therefore we also, unworthy though we be, having been vouchsafed thy mercy, run again to thee before thy holy icon, and, glorifying thee as a true servant of God, our faithful prayerful advocate and healer, we fervently thank thee and the Giver of all good things, the Lord our God, for the great benefits which have come to us from Him through thee.

Accept therefore, in thy mercy, this small prayerful thanksgiving of ours, since we have nothing else to render to thee according to thy worth; and for the remainder of our life deprive us not, who are weak and sinful, of thy help and prayerful intercession before the Lord our God, to Whom is due all glory, thanksgiving, and worship, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.