Holy Father, physician of souls and bodies, who didst send thine only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who healeth every infirmity, and delivereth from death; do thou heal thy servant, name, from the bodily and spiritual weakness that presseth upon him, and quicken him by the grace of thy Christ; through the prayers of our most holy Lady, the God-bearing and ever-virgin Mary; through the intercession of the honourable, heavenly bodiless powers; through the power of the precious and life-effecting cross; of the honourable glorious prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John; of the holy, glorious, and all-praised apostles; of the holy glorious, and excellently victorious martyrs; of our venerable and god-bearing fathers; of the holy and unmercenary physicians, Cosmas and Damian, Cyrus and John, Pantelimon and Hermolaus, Sampson and Diomed, Photius and Anicetas; of the holy and righteous god-progenitors, Joakim and Anna, and of all the Saints.
For thou art the fount of healing, O our God, and to thee we ascribe glory, with thine only-begotten Son, and with thy consubstantial Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.
This prayer is said by each priest after he hath said his gospel and prayer, while he anointeth the sick person with oil.
Deacon. Let us attend.
The second priest. Peace to all.
Prokimenon, tone ii.
The Lord is my strength and song, and is become for salvation unto me.
Verse. When thou chastenest, thou hast chastened me, O Lord; but thou hast not given me up unto death.
The epistle to the Romans, section cxvi.
Brethren, we that are strong ought.... ending, received us to the glory of God.[17]