healing prayers
Petitions for wellness
Healing prayers are prayers asking for physical, emotional, or spiritual restoration.
The term appears across religious traditions but is especially common in Christian contexts, where believers petition God to cure illness or relieve suffering: The congregation gathered for healing prayers over the sick child.
Healing prayers may be spoken individually, led by clergy, or performed with ritual elements like laying on of hands.
- lightVisible electromagnetic radiation
- holy waterSacramental liquid for blessings
- oilSlippery viscous fluid
- comfortEase or soothing relief
- touchPerceiving through physical contact
divine intervention · blessing · intercession · pastoral care · novena · discernment · deliverance · meditation · inner peace · scripture study · psalmody · restoration · anointing · ancestor veneration · recovery · get well soon · invocation · laying on of hands
- devotionsdaily devotions, daily devotion, devotional, devotionals, devotions
- prayersOur Father, morning prayers, daily prayers, evening prayers, bedtime prayers
- spiritual carechaplaincy, spiritual care, spiritual counseling, soul care, religious counseling
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- Buddhist devotionBuddhist prayers, morning prayers, peace prayers, offering prayers, devotionals
- Jewish prayersKaddish, shacharit, morning prayers, evening prayers, afternoon prayers
healing prayerscurses
Sworn oaths or hexes
hexes · maledictions · imprecations · damnation · jinxes
healing prayersmedical treatment
Care for illness
surgery · pharmaceuticals · chemotherapy · clinical intervention · evidence-based medicine
healing prayersblack mass
Profane parody of communion
necromancy · witchcraft · sorcery · devil worship · blood rituals