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your veneration together with so many who experienced your help in
illness and suffering. Amen.

III. Prayer for the Sick

MERCIFUL Holy Helpers, look benignly upon me, who implore your
intercession for a sick person. Our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ, who
Himself went about healing and doing good, appointed you the special
protectors and intercessors of the sick, and restored to bodily and
spiritual health many for whom you prayed. Encouraged thereby to invoke
you, I implore you to offer up to His sacred Heart all the pains and
torments He suffered during His bitter passion. Offer up to Him also
your own sufferings for God's glory, which you underwent during life,
and in death; offer up to Him all the anguish and distress suffered by
the sick person for whom I invoke your intercession. Ask Him to restore
him to health of body, and to infuse into his soul the grace of
salvation, so that he may devote his life with renewed vigor to the
service of God and to the fulfilment of his duties, and thereby gather
rich merits for eternity.

But if God, in the designs of His providence, should otherwise dispose,
implore for the sick person patience in his illness, resignation to the
divine will, and the grace of a happy death. Assist him in his agony,
and conduct his soul to the throne of the Almighty. Amen.

IV. Prayer of Parents for Their Children

HOLY Helpers, assist me to give thanks to God for blessing me with
children. Having received them from Him, it is my duty to train them for
His service. Therefore I commend them to your special protection. Guard
them from sin, help them to know and fulfil their duties, preserve them
from all harm of body and soul; pray for them that they may be and
remain children of God. For me, obtain the grace always to take good
care of them, to edify them by good example, to punish their faults
wisely, to preserve their innocence, and to instruct them unto piety, so
that they and I may together enjoy the eternal happiness of heaven.
Amen.

V. Prayer of Children for Their Parents

HOLY Helpers, mighty intercessors with God in all necessities; God
strictly commanded that children should love, honor, and obey their
parents. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Himself gave them the example
of submission and obedience by being subject to His mother and
foster-father. I commend myself to your powerful intercession and
implore you to obtain for me the grace to follow His example. For my
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