Archbishop Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) is one of the newly glorified saints, who, however, is already surrounded by great veneration by Orthodox Christians. His life was cut short in the early sixties of the XX century as a result of a long illness. But his name is not forgotten, a prayer is offered daily to St. Luke of Crimea from the lips of many believers.

The formation of the personality of St. Luke

Before moving on to the very texts of prayers to the saint, one should understand a little about the biography of this person. This will give an understanding of why prayer is offered to him at all. Saint Luke at birth was given the name Valentine - Valentin Feliksovich Voyno-Yasenetsky. He was born in 1877 in Kerch. As a child, he had a penchant for drawing and dreamed of becoming an artist, but in the end he chose the path of a doctor. After graduating from Kiev University, Valentin worked as a surgeon in the Far East, operating on wounded soldiers who took part in the battles during the Russo-Japanese War. In 1917, he moved to Turkestan, where he continued to practice medicine in one of the hospitals in Tashkent. In 1920, he headed the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy of the Turkestan University, lectured.

Taking Holy Orders

While living in Tashkent, Valentin Voyno-Yasenetsky begins to show an active interest in church life. Thanks to one of his speeches in 1920 regarding church life in Turkestan, Valentin was noticed by Bishop Innokenty of Tashkent, who ordained him to the rank of deacon, and then a priest. Having assumed the burden of pastoring and bearing the obedience of a cathedral preacher, Valentine did not leave medicine and scientific activity, continuing to operate and teach.

Archbishop Luke's persecution and exile

The persecution of Father Valentin began after he took monastic vows in 1923 and was named Luke in honor of the evangelist, who, according to legend, was also a doctor. In the same year, Hieromonk Luke was ordained to the episcopal rank, after which the first exile followed - to Turukhansk.

While imprisoned, Bishop Luke worked on his book Essays on Purulent Surgery, for which Comrade Stalin would later personally award him. Soon Bishop Luka was sent to Moscow, where the authorities allowed him to serve and live in an apartment. Fourteen years later, during the anti-religious persecution of 1937, Bishop Luka's second exile followed, this time to Krasnoyarsk. When the war began, he was sent to work as a doctor at the Krasnoyarsk evacuation point. Since 1943, he also occupies the Krasnoyarsk bishop's chair. However, just a year later, he was expected to move again. Now he is going to the Tambov region as a bishop, but he does not stop practicing medicine, coordinating under his command about 150 hospitals in the region.

Awards and canonization

With the end of the war, Archbishop Luka is waiting for a church award - the right to wear a diamond cross on his hood. And on the part of the state authorities, he is awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."

In 1946, Archbishop Luka was awarded another award - the Stalin Prize of the 1st degree - for his contribution to the development of domestic science in the field of medicine.

In the same year, he was transferred as a bishop to Simferopol, entrusting the Crimean cathedra. There Bishop Luke will spend the rest of his life. By the end of his days, he will completely lose his sight, but still he will not stop serving.

The Council of the Moscow Theological Academy at this time accepts His Grace Luke as an honorary member of the Academy. And his posthumous veneration among the church people led to a natural canonization: in 1996, in Simferopol, Archbishop Luke was glorified as a saint and confessor of the faith.

Lifelong service as a doctor also determined his place in the Cathedral of Saints - prayer to St. Luke became a means of healing and recovery. To him, as well as to St. Panteleimon, people who are obsessed with various ailments and diseases turn to him. However, praying for something else is also not forbidden. Many parents read, for example, prayers to St. Luke for children, for family well-being. As a patron of the area, Archbishop Luka is remembered in those places where he carried out his pastoral ministry - in the Crimea, Tambov, Tashkent, Krasnoyarsk, etc.

General Prayer to Saint Luke

In private prayers, you can pray in your own words, but joint services are subject to a certain order and have a standardized set of texts. Below we will give a prayer to St. Luke of Crimea in Russian translation:

O all-blessed confessor, saint, our father Luke! Great saint of Christ! In tenderness, bowing the knees of our hearts, as the children of our father, we implore you with all zeal: hear us sinners. Lift up our prayer to the merciful and philanthropic God, to whom you stand in the goodness of the saints, with angelic faces. For we believe that you love us with the same love with which you loved all your neighbors when you were on earth.
Beg from Christ, our God, so that he would establish his children in the spirit of correct faith and piety. May he give the shepherds holy zeal and care for the salvation of the flock entrusted to them. Let them protect the right of believers, strengthen the weak in faith, instruct the ignorant, rebuke those who resist. Give each of us the gift that we need, and that will be useful both for eternal salvation and in this life. Grant our cities affirmation, fertility to the earth, protection from hunger and disease, comfort to the mourners, recovery to the sick, return the erring to the path of truth, bless parents, raise and grow children in the fear of the Lord, help orphans and the lonely. Give us all your archpastoral blessing, so that, having this prayer intercession, we can get rid of the opposition of the devil and avoid all enmity, discord, heresies and schisms. Lead us to the road leading to the villages of the righteous, praying for us the almighty God, so that in eternal life we ​​will be honored with you to unceasingly glorify the consubstantial and indivisible Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Such is the common prayer to St. Luke, read during official services. In prayer books intended for private use, other versions of the texts are also given. One of them - a prayer to St. Luke for health - will be given below. For the convenience of understanding the text, it will also be presented in Russian translation.

Saint Luke: prayer for recovery

Oh, blessed Saint Luke, hear and accept us sinners who turn to you with prayer! You are accustomed in your life to accept and help everyone who needs your help. Listen to us, the mourners, with faith and hope, crying out for your intercession. Grant us an ambulance and miraculous healing! May your mercy not be squandered now on us, the unworthy. Heal us, who suffer in this bustling world and find no consolation and compassion anywhere in spiritual sorrows and bodily illnesses. Deliver from the temptations and torments of the devil, help to carry your life's cross, endure all the difficulties of life and not lose the image of God in it and preserve the Orthodox faith. Give us the strength to have firm hope and hope in God, unfeigned love for our neighbors, so that when the time comes to part with life, we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven together with all those who are pleasing to God. Amen

This is how Saint Luke is venerated in the Orthodox Church. At the same time, a prayer for recovery can be read not only during physical exhaustion, but also during depression or some kind of mental illness. In addition, the circle of diseases in the church tradition also includes spiritual problems, for example, doubts about faith.


O all-blessed confessor, our holy hierarch Luko, the great saint of Christ. With tenderness, bow down the knees of our hearts, and falling to the race of your honest and multi-healing relics, like a child of the father, we pray with all your heart: hear us sinners and bring our prayer to the Merciful and Humane God. To him you are now in the joy of the saints and with the faces of an angel you stand. We believe more, because you love us with the same love, with which you loved all your neighbors, being on earth.

Ask Christ our God to confirm His children in the spirit of right faith and piety: let the shepherds be given holy zeal and care for the salvation of the people entrusted to them: observe the right of the believer, strengthen the weak and weak in faith, instruct the ignorant, and rebuke the opposite. Give us all a gift that is useful to everyone, and all the same for temporary life and for eternal salvation useful.

Our cities are affirmation, the land is fruitful, deliverance from prosperity and destruction. Consolation to the grieving, healing to those who are ill, return to the path of truth, blessing to the parent, upbringing and teaching to the children in the fear of the Lord, help and intercession to the orphans and the poor.

Grant us all your archpastoral blessing, and if we have such a prayer intercession, we will get rid of the wiles of the evil one and avoid all enmity and discord, heresies and schisms.

Lead us on the path leading to the villages of the righteous, and pray for us the almighty God, that in eternal life we ​​will be able to glorify with you the unceasingly glorifying the Consubstantial and Indivisible Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Compiled by Archpriest Georgy SEVERIN,
rector of the Church of the Three Hierarchs in Simferopol

St. Luke of Crimea is one of the righteous, who are most often asked for help in illnesses. Along with St. Panteleimon, this is the quickest helper and intercessor before God for all the sick. On the way to recovery, it is important not to forget in whose hands our lives and all good things are. The saint prays to the Almighty for all the sick and those who are already on their way to recovery.

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For miracles of healing, the saint received recognition during his lifetime - Professor Voyno-Yasenetsky was in charge of the Department of Operative Surgery and there were legends about his talents. Saint Luke combined medical work with a priestly vocation, healing not only bodily, but also spiritual ailments. And just as the saint helped the sick during his lifetime, he helps now.

    About Saint Luke

    Prayer to Luka Krymsky for healing will help the patient even in very difficult cases, when it seems that there is no hope. Even during his lifetime, the saint had a reputation as a well-known scientist, a talented surgeon, and a specialist who wrote works on purulent surgery, which are still used today. There were legends about the high medical skill of the saint - if he was given a book and told to cut a certain number of pages with a scalpel, the saint was never mistaken. The saint endured many trials during his lifetime: because of the persecution of the church, he was exiled three times, he did not agree to the offer to head the department in exchange for refusing to serve as a priest, and at the end of his life, after suffering an illness, he became blind in one eye.

    People turned in prayer to the saint at his grave long before his canonization. Orthodox Christians felt that the archbishop was helping them from heaven. The church ranked the healer on the list of saints in 1995, and his relics are in the Simferopol Cathedral.

    About healing

    An Orthodox person endures illness courageously, as a remedy for atonement for sins, but it is not considered shameful to ask the Lord for recovery. Whether God will send healing or not is not known for sure, but a person, asking for help from the saints, can rely on His holy mercy. There is the will of God for everything, which both grants health and can deprive it.

    Praying to the Lord for the sick, one should ask for the healing of St. Luke, since he is reputed to be the patron of all those who suffer and the deliverer from ailments. When visiting a church, you should order notes about the patient, put candles in front of the icon of St. Luke and pray for the need. In the temple, you can order prayers for health to a certain saint, which the priest reads. After reading the prayer service with the mention of the names of the sick, everyone is sprinkled with holy water.

    At home, prayers should be read daily, adding requests to the saint to the composition of morning and evening prayers. The number of readings is not so important, although repeating the prayer up to 40 times can achieve a greater result. It is better to read the texts of prayers for recovery in front of the saint's icon; you can light a church candle. Sincerity and perseverance in turning to the Lord will be rewarded a hundredfold. Before praying for healing, it is necessary to ask for forgiveness of the sins of the sick person. In order for a saint to intercede for a sick person, one should get rid of bad habits, foul language, and avoid theft and deceit. Often sickness is sent as a punishment, or to keep a person from falling into more serious sins.

    The shortest but strongest prayer to the saint is the appeal: " Saint Father Luko, pray to God for us"

    The text of the prayer for all diseases:


    Before and after surgery

    Those who are going to have surgery should prepare themselves not only morally, but also spiritually. If the state of health allows you to visit the temple, you should take advantage of this, because the church offers many means for the salvation of the soul and well-being.

    Before going to the hospital, a Christian confesses, takes communion, and asks his confessor for blessings for the operation. If possible, you should order a special requirement - "forty-mouth" about health, which is served for forty days with the mention of the name at the Liturgy. Another treba for the occasion is a prayer service before the operation. All those submitting notes need to know that church prayer is valid only when accompanied by the petition of those who ordered it.

    If the sick person has Orthodox relatives or friends, they are usually asked to pray together. Such a common prayer for a specific need is called a petition by agreement and has a very effective force.

    When going to a medical institution, it is important not to forget to take a prayer book, an icon of Christ, your heavenly patron and St. Luke. The presence of icons nearby will help create a prayerful mood and give the patient confidence in heavenly support. In small containers, you can capture consecrated oil and holy water. On the body there should be a pectoral cross, as a personal shrine that protects and protects from illness and trouble.

    On the day of the operation, putting yourself into the hands of doctors, you should read the prayers “Our Father”, the prayer to St. Luke and St. Panteleimon, and internally surrender yourself into the hands of God. The Lord does not require from the sick those daily appeals that are recorded in the prayer books for the healthy, so you can turn to God in your own words or short prayers.

    Prayer before surgery


    If the patient is formally baptized, but in practice does not even know the basic prayers, you should try to convince him to pray as best he can, the main thing is the ardent faith that his request will be heard, and the hope for a successful outcome.

    At the end, you need to thank God for the successful operation, and St. Luke for the heavenly help provided. It is customary to read special thanksgiving prayers.

    Prayer text:


A person has to live in many diseases. And from whom should we ask for help, if not from Our Lord Jesus Christ, His Most Holy Mother of God the Virgin and from his saints? during earthly life he helped people a lot in their illnesses, the saint helps now those who pray to him and ask for help.

Prayer to Luka Krymsky for healing

O all-blessed confessor, our holy hierarch Luko, the great saint of Christ. With tenderness, bow down the knees of our hearts, and falling to the race of your honest and multi-healing relics, like a child of the father, we pray with all your heart: hear us sinners and bring our prayer to the merciful and philanthropic God, to Him you are now in the joy of the saints and with the faces of an angel stand . We believe more, because you love us with the same love that you loved all your neighbors while on earth.
Ask Christ our God, and confirm His children in the spirit of right faith and piety: may shepherds be given holy zeal and care for the salvation of the people entrusted to them: observe the right of the believer, strengthen the weak and weak in faith, instruct the ignorant, and rebuke the opposite. Give us all a gift that is beneficial to everyone, and everything is even useful for temporary life and eternal salvation: our cities are affirmed, the land is fruitful, deliverance from gladness and destruction, consolation for those who are in pain, healing for those who have lost their way on the path of truth, blessing for a parent, a child in fear The Lord's upbringing and teaching, help and intercession to the orphans and the poor. Grant us all your Archpastoral blessing, and if we have such a prayer intercession, we will get rid of the wiles of the evil one and avoid all enmity and discord, heresies and schisms. Lead us on the path leading to the villages of the righteous, and pray for us to the almighty God, in eternal life we ​​will be able to glorify with you the consubstantial and indivisible Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Brothers and sisters! We are pleased to inform you that now, if you do not have the opportunity to visit the temple and order any kind of requirement in the temple - magpie for health, for example - you can order to pray for you through the form on our website! The priesthood of our church in honor of St. Luke will pray for you or your loved ones. >>.

Below is a video and oral prayer to St. Luke (you can just listen to the prayer and repeat to yourself).

See also: a short prayer of a sick person to the Lord, text in Russian.

Christians look at things differently than most people. They even consider their own body as a temple of God. But since a person is afflicted with sin, the physical existence is burdened with ailments that cause many unpleasant moments. Even the apostles were forced to endure physical infirmities until the very last days. But still, you can receive the endowment - for this it is customary to pray to the saints. One of the most famous healers is St. Luke of Crimea.

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An amazing fate awaited the boy who was born in April 1877 in Kerch. They named him Valentine. The family moved to Kiev, where the fourth of five children showed artistic talent.

Father came from a noble Belarusian family, was a Catholic. But natural delicacy did not allow him to impose his beliefs on any of the family members. Mother was Orthodox, engaged in works of mercy.

In his youth, the future very rarely visited the temple. But even then, sacrifice arose in his soul, which later became the main feature of his character. When the question arose of which educational institution to go to, Valentine chose medicine so it brings more benefits to society. The ability to draw well was very useful to the young man during his studies at Kiev University. In his own words, he became "an artist in surgery".

Valentin Voyno-Yasenetsky was destined for a brilliant scientific career. But after graduating from high school, he expressed a desire to become an ordinary zemstvo doctor in order to treat ordinary peasants. It was in this that he saw his own destiny. I was never afraid of "black" work.

After finishing my studies, Valentin was admitted to the hospital. There he met his future wife. She was very religious, did not even want to get married. But the young doctor managed to get his way. In marriage with Anna, four children were born (all of them have already rested in God). The wife herself died at a fairly young age from consumption. This sad event aroused in the talented doctor an interest in church life, in God. He began to visit the temple frequently.

Soul healer

In 1920 the surgeon lived and worked in Tashkent, where he had moved earlier, in the hope that the southern climate would positively affect his wife's weakened health. However, it didn't help. Having lost his wife, the healer began to actively help in the affairs of the parish, which did not pass by the attention of the ruling bishop. He invited the widowed Voyno-Yasenetsky to take holy orders, to which he immediately agreed. Thus began his life for the glory of Christ.

In the same period, the first of many references begins. But the repressions could not shake the firmness of faith, even when the doctor had to live in a barrack with broken windows during the winter.

Crimean diocese

A year after the end of the Great Patriotic War, when the country was rising from ruins, by decree from Moscow St. Luke appointed Bishop in Crimea. The archbishop immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of local spies from the authorities, since he did not consider him in personnel matters.

Already a mature priest gives lectures for local doctors, advises employees of a military hospital. As throughout his life, he continues to combine prayer and scientific work, writes books. At the same time, the bishop had to restore the destroyed churches throughout the peninsula.

In 1955 the saint lost his sight as a result of which he ceased to operate. But during his long life, he managed to save tens of thousands of ordinary people - he restored the ability to see to many, the soldier saved them from amputation of limbs. And he warmed everyone with the warmth of his soul. The saint died in 1961, leaving the memory of himself among the people as a miracle worker. Despite the resistance of the authorities, the whole city came out to see off their beloved Vladyka, the solemn procession was accompanied by the singing of prayers.

Finding relics

The grave of the saint was at the Simferopol cemetery, not far from the temple. Pilgrims who came to this place healed from diseases. This forced the church authorities to carefully study the life of the archbishop and he was canonized as a saint.

The imperishable body was found in March 1996, solemnly transferred to the Cathedral in the name of the Holy Trinity. On the veil that covered the face of the deceased, an imprint of his face appeared.

In Simferopol, 2 monuments to St. Luca, there is a museum dedicated to his life and work. Many pilgrims come to the cathedral to venerate the relics of the saint of God, which exude a wonderful aroma.

Icons

A lot of photos of the doctor-bishop came to contemporaries, there are also videos, so today you can have a clear idea of ​​his appearance. The icons have a great portrait resemblance to the "original", although it should not be forgotten that they show a person renewed by Christ.

The earthly life of the saint lasted quite a long time (he died in 84), the icon painters depict an old man, whitened with gray hairs. He wears a bishop's vestment. In the left hand, either a staff or the Gospel. With his right hand, he gives blessings to believers. On the chest is a panagia with the image of the Virgin.

In life, the saint had poor eyesight and wore glasses. But in the Kingdom of Heaven people get rid of bodily infirmities. Therefore, a bishop who is already with Christ does not need glasses. On a number of images, Luka Krymsky is written with surgical instruments - they indicate the type of activity during his lifetime.

veneration

Exile for the Christian faith was a fatal sentence for many. Thousands laid down their lives for not denying Jesus. Many were subsequently rehabilitated, like St. Luke (in 2000). A few years earlier, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church recognized him as a saint, five years later he was numbered among the host of the New Martyrs of Russia and began to be commemorated in all churches of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The confessor has three holidays- June 11, December 28 (Cathedral of the Crimean Saints). He is especially honored in Greece, where holy Orthodoxy is the main religion. In honor of St. Luke, many temples were consecrated there. The silver shrine, in which the relics now lie, was sent by the monks of the Greek Orthodox Church. The relics of the saint are still kept in the Crimea, and in Moscow there is an icon with a particle - in the temple of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God (on Ordynka).

Saint Luke - what you can pray for

  • A healer is approached in case of bodily diseases. It doesn’t matter what kind of illness befell the believer — the confessor, by the power of Christ, is able to help from many physical ailments, as thousands of healed people tell about.
  • Pregnant women pray that they will safely bear and give birth to a child. It's no secret that even today this natural event can be dangerous for both the mother and the baby.
  • If you have a surgical operation, you should also turn to St. Luke of Crimea. There are many cases when he appeared to patients and himself performed the most complex operations.
  • During the course of treatment, you can read a prayer to the saint so that he contributes to a speedy recovery.
  • Luka Krymsky also helps during mental suffering, because he is known for his kindness to people. This can be seen even in his scientific works - people were not just faceless "diagnoses" for him, the saint always made sure that the patient felt calm, believed in the success of the operation.

Testimonies of Healings

The greatest healer is Jesus Christ, He gives His faithful servants the power to heal people without resorting to traditional medicine. St. Luke also had such a gift.

  • One day a baby was brought to the saint, whose larynx was swollen. It was impossible to carry out the operation - the neoplasm was too large, the threat of damaging vital arteries. After a three-day prayer, the swelling subsided, then completely disappeared.
  • One of the parishioners was preparing for amputation of limbs. I came for the last time to confess, to receive the blessing of Fr. Luke. He did not let the woman go, together they began to earnestly pray. A few days later, the legs began to heal quickly, the operation was canceled. The prayer of the saint helped save the woman's legs.

This is just a small list. Luka Krymsky did many other good deeds. Miracles continue to this day.

Conclusion

Luka Krymsky was a very talented surgeon - performed operations on the heart, intestines, returned the ability to see. At the same time, St. Luke was a priest, read sermons, led people to faith. How did he have enough strength for everything? Who, if not Jesus Christ Himself, put fire in his heart, instructed, supported and consoled?

The saint rested very little, trying to help as many people as possible. But the main thing he did carried the Christian faith throughout his life, not abandoning it even during the repressions. Faith and prayer helped the righteous man endure personal grief, exile, bodily weakness. Like a bright lamp, he showed the way to everyone who came to him. The path is not only to bodily, but also spiritual recovery.

Saint Luke of Crimea