Prayers
A Prayer for Healthcare Workers and First Responders
God, you promise to stay close
to those who are loving and true.
Be close now and accompany
those healthcare workers and first responders,
who have fallen ill, and
who have been faithful in their work
to care for others, especially those most in need.
Restore their health, so they may once more serve.
Give them renewed hope and courage.
Instill in us a deep appreciation for all those
entrusted with our safety, security, and health.
Continue to watch over your family.
We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen
by Father Louis Cameli Profiles in Catholicism
A Prayer for Healthcare Workers and First Responders
Lord, one time your daughter, our sister St. Teresa, addressed you, as only she could, musing that the reason you have so few friends is that you treat them so badly.
Dare I suggest the same is happening today?
So many of you children, nurses, doctors, aides and first responders find themselves under stress, dire stress in serving you as they server your other children. How is your love shown when they are so afflicted and in such danger? How is it a sign of your love when we, your children, put additional burdens on them? When we add to their stress?
Allow us to pray O Lord, from the depths of our hearts, help us to make our own, the words of your prophet David:
God is our refuge and our strength,
an ever-present help in distress.
Thus we do not fear, though earth be shaken
and mountains quake to the depths of the sea,
Though its waters rage and foam
and mountains totter at its surging.
The LORD of hosts is with us;
our stronghold is the God of Jacob.(Psalm 46)
Sustain us O Lord sustain us. Sustain us O Lord, sustain us. Amen
by Father David O. Brown, O.S.M. Profiles in Catholicism
Articles/Commentaries
Study Finds 1 in 10 Healthcare Workers with Mild COVID Have Lasting Symptoms by Dr. Francis Collins NIH
The pandemic’s lasting effects on young medical workers by Terry Nguyen Vox
Poland's nuns join rap video challenge to help health care workers by Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service/National Catholic Reporter
Pope at Mass prays for doctors and priests laying down their lives by Sr Bernadette Mary Reis, fsp Vatican News