These are two Coptic prayers I heard on the podcast Frederica Here and Now.
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Liturgical Communion Prayer:
Amen. Amen. Amen. I believe, I believe, I believe and confess to the last breath that this is the life-giving flesh which your Only Begotten Son, our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, took from Our Lady, the Queen of us all, the Holy Mother of God, St. Mary. He made it one with His divinity without mingling, without confusion, without alteration. He confessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate. He offered it upon the Holy Wood of the Cross for us all. Truly I believe that his divinity parted not from his humanity for a single moment, nor a twinkling of an eye. Given for us for salvation, remission of sins, and eternal life, I believe, I believe, I believe that this is true.
Amen.
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Prayer for Healing:
Again, let us ask God, the Pantocrater, the Father of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ. We pray and entreat your goodness, oh Lover of Mankind. Remember, oh Lord, the sick among your people. You have visited them with mercies and compassions. Heal them. Take away from them and from us all sickness and all disease. The spirit of sickness, chase away. All those who have long lain in sickness, raise up in comfort. Those afflicted by unclean spirits, set them all free.
Those in prisons or dungeons, those who are in exile or captivity, those who are held in bitter bondage, oh Lord, set them all free and have mercy upon them. For you are He who loosens the bound and uplifts the fallen, the hope of those who have no hope, and the help of those who have no helper. The comfort of the faint-hearted, the harbor of those in the storm. All souls that are distressed or bound, grant them mercy, oh Lord. Grant them rest, grant them refreshment, grant them grace. Grant them help. grant them salvation, grant the forgiveness of their sins and their iniquities.
As for us also, oh Lord, the maladies of our souls, heal; and those of our bodies, too, do cure. Oh You, the true physician of our souls and our bodies, the Bishop of all flesh, visit us with your salvation. Through the grace, mercies, and love for mankind of your Only Begotten Son, our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, glory, honor, dominion, and worship is due unto you, with Him and the Holy Spirit, the giver of life, who is of one essence with you, now and forever, and unto the age of all ages. Amen.
