Prayer to San Raffaele Arcangelo to ask for healing

O most powerful Archangel St. Raphael, we turn to you in our infirmities: to you who are the Archangel of healing and intercede those goods that come to us from the merciful Father, the immolated Lamb Son, the Holy Spirit Love. We are convinced that sin is the real enemy of our life; in fact, with sin sickness and death entered our history and our likeness to the Creator was clouded. Sin, which upsets everything, distracts us from the eternal bliss to which we are destined. Before you, or San Raffaele, we recognize that we are like lepers or like Lazarus in the sepulcher. Help us to welcome Divine Mercy above all with a good Confession and then to keep the good intentions we do; thus will Christian hope, a source of peace and serenity, be kindled in us. You, Medicine of God, remind us that sin disturbs our mind, obscures our faith, makes us blind who do not see God, deaf people who do not listen to the Word, dumb people who can no longer pray. For this reason we ask you to rekindle the faith in us and to live it with perseverance and courage in the Holy Church of God. You, our powerful intercessor, see that our hearts have dried up because of sin, sometimes they have become hard as stone. Therefore we ask you to make them mild and humble like the heart of Christ, so that they will know how to love everyone and forgive. Bring us to the Eucharist, because we know how to draw true love and the ability to give ourselves to our brothers from our tabernacles. You see that we seek all the means to cure our diseases and keep our bodies healthy, but, realizing that it is always sin that creates a total disorder even in the physical, we beg you to heal every wound, to help us live with sobriety and sacrifice, so that our bodies are surrounded by purity and candor: in this way we will be able to look more like our Heavenly Mother, Immaculate and full of Grace. What we ask for us, grant it also to those who are far away and to all those who cannot pray. In a special way, we entrust you with the unity of families. Listen to our prayer, or wise and beneficial Guide, and accompany our journey towards God-Father, because, together with you, we can one day praise His infinite Mercy forever. So be it: Three Pater, Ave, Gloria