CBCP releases updated prayer vs. COVID-19

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has issued another version of the Oratio Imperata or prayer against COVID-19 on Friday, Jan. 28.

This is the third version of the mandatory prayer, which is recited in various parishes in the country, and has been attuned to the health situation in the country. The updated version of the prayer is as follows:

Merciful and compassionate Father,

we confess our sins

and we humbly come to you

to find forgiveness and life.

We come to you in our need

to seek your protection

against the COVID-19 virus

that has disturbed and claimed many lives.

We ask you now to look upon us with love

and by your healing hand,

dispel the fear of sickness and death,

restore our hope, and strengthen our faith.

We pray that you guide the people

tasked to find cures for this disease

and to stem its transmission.

Bless our efforts

to use the medicines developed

to end the pandemic in our country.

We pray for our health workers

that they may minister to the sick

with competence and compassion.

Grant them health in mind and body,

strength in their commitment,

protection from the disease.

We pray for those afflicted.

May they be restored to health.

Protect those who care for them.

Grant eternal rest to those who have died.

Give us the grace in these trying times

to work for the good of all

and to help those in need.

May our concern and compassion for each other

see us through this crisis

and lead us to conversion and holiness.

Grant all these

through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son

who lives and reigns with you,

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

God forever and ever. Amen.

We fly to Your protection,

oh Holy Mother of God.

Do not despise our petition in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers,

oh glorious and blessed Virgin. Amen.

Our Lady, health of the sick, pray for us.

St. Joseph, pray for us.

St. Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

San Roque, pray for us.

San Lorenzo Ruiz, pray for us.

San Pedro Calungsod, pray for us.

-- BAP, GMA News