Prayer of the sick to be recited to the Madonna of Lourdes

Lord Jesus,
sickness knocked on the door of my life:
a hard experience, a difficult reality to accept.
Nonetheless, I thank you precisely for this disease:
made me touch the frailty and precariousness with my hand
of human existence.
Now I look at everything with other eyes:
what I am, with what I have, does not belong to me,
it is your gift.
I found out what it means to depend,
need everything and everyone,
not being able to do anything alone.
I felt loneliness and anguish,
but also affection and friendship of many people.
Lord!
Although it is difficult for me to repeat:
“Thy will be done! "
I offer you my sufferings and unite them with those of Christ.
Bless the people who assist me
and those who suffer with me.
Mary
our Lady of Lourdes,
I am your devotee:
intercede for me with your Son.
Amen.