You’ve tried the medicine cabinet, the specialist, the search bar at two in the morning typing the same symptoms over and over. Nothing has given you a straight answer yet. Somewhere along the way you remembered something you read once, that Christians have prayed for healing through the intercession of Saint Raphael the Archangel for centuries, and you’re wondering if that prayer could be for you too.
Or maybe it’s not your own body. It’s the phone call you’re dreading, the loved one in a hospital bed, the diagnosis that changed everything overnight. You want an advocate in heaven, someone whose whole story in scripture is wrapped around healing, guidance and protection on a hard road.
That’s exactly who Raphael is. His name means “God heals,” and the Book of Tobit tells the story of an angel sent to guide a frightened young man on a journey and to restore sight to his father’s blind eyes. Whether you come from a Catholic background or you’re simply searching for language to pray through a hard season, these 50 prayers to Saint Raphael are here to give you words when you don’t have your own.
Prayers for Physical Healing
1. Saint Raphael, angel of healing, carry this prayer to God on my behalf. Ask Him to touch my body and mend what is broken, the way you mended Tobit’s eyes.
2. Glorious Archangel, I bring my illness before you today. Stand beside me and ask the Lord to restore my strength, cell by cell, breath by breath.
3. Raphael, whose very name means God heals, intercede for me now. Lord, let Your healing power move through every part of me that is hurting.
4. I am tired of being sick, Saint Raphael. Please carry my exhaustion to the throne of God and ask Him to give me back my health.
5. Angel of the Lord, walk with my doctors and my treatments. Ask God to guide their hands and bless every medicine that touches my body.
6. Raphael, you healed a blind man’s eyes with a fish’s gall and a father’s faith. Ask God to do something just as unlikely and just as real in my body.
7. I place this pain in your care, Saint Raphael. Carry it to God and ask Him to lighten what I cannot lighten on my own.
8. Archangel of healing, pray that God would restore what illness has taken from me: my energy, my appetite, my hope for tomorrow.
9. Raphael, you are called one of the seven who stand before God’s throne. Bring my request there now, that His healing hand would rest on me.
10. Lord, through Raphael’s intercession, I ask for patience while my body heals and faith that You are working even when I cannot feel it yet.
Prayers for Emotional and Inner Healing
11. Saint Raphael, my body may be fine, but my heart is not. Carry this ache to God and ask Him to heal what nobody else can see.
12. Angel of God, ask the Lord to heal the anxiety that keeps circling in my mind. I want peace, not just information.
13. Raphael, you guided Tobias through fear on an unfamiliar road. Guide me now through this season of grief, and ask God to heal my sorrow.
14. I carry old wounds, Saint Raphael, the kind that don’t show up on any scan. Please intercede for me, that God would heal my memory of them.
15. Archangel of healing, ask God to mend the parts of me that shame has kept hidden for years.
16. Raphael, pray that the Lord would heal my exhaustion, the kind that sleep does not fix, the kind that lives in my spirit.
17. Saint Raphael, ask God to restore the joy I used to feel before everything got so heavy.
18. Angel of God, carry my loneliness to the Lord. Ask Him to heal the isolation that illness and worry have built around me.
19. Raphael, intercede for my broken trust. Ask God to heal the fear that keeps me guarded even with people who love me.
20. Lord, through Raphael’s prayer for me, heal the anger I’ve been carrying since this all started. I don’t want to stay this hard.
Prayers for Healing a Loved One
21. Saint Raphael, I bring my mother before you. Ask God to heal her body and give our family strength while we wait.
22. Angel of healing, my child is sick and I feel helpless. Please carry this prayer to God and ask Him to restore my child fully.
23. Raphael, you walked beside Tobias so his father would not travel this road alone. Walk beside my spouse now, and ask God to heal them.
24. Archangel of God, my friend is facing surgery. Ask the Lord to guide the surgeon’s hands and bring my friend safely through it.
25. Saint Raphael, intercede for my father as he battles this illness. Ask God to give him comfort and, if it is His will, full healing.
26. Angel of the Lord, my sibling is struggling and won’t ask for prayer themselves. I’m asking on their behalf. Please carry this to God.
27. Raphael, ask God to heal my grandmother’s body in her final years, and to fill the days she has left with peace.
28. Saint Raphael, my coworker is fighting cancer. Please intercede for them, even though we are not close. Ask God to heal them anyway.
29. Archangel of healing, watch over every sick child in a hospital bed tonight. Ask God to heal them and comfort their frightened parents.
30. Lord, through Raphael’s intercession, heal the people I love who are too proud or too afraid to ask for healing themselves.
Prayers for Divine Protection and Guidance
31. Saint Raphael, guide of travelers, walk ahead of me into this uncertain season. Ask God to protect me from dangers I cannot see.
32. Angel of God, you protected Tobias from harm on his journey. Protect me now as I face my own unfamiliar road.
33. Raphael, ask the Lord to guard my mind against fear that isn’t from Him, and to guard my heart against giving up too soon.
34. Archangel of healing and protection, stand between me and anything that means to do me harm, physically or spiritually.
35. Saint Raphael, guide my decisions this week. Ask God to make the right path clear when I feel stuck and unsure.
36. Angel of the Lord, protect my family while we go through this hard season. Ask God to be our shield when we feel exposed.
37. Raphael, you guided a son back to his father safely. Guide my children home, wherever home needs to be for them right now.
38. Saint Raphael, ask God to protect my health from further harm as I recover, and to protect my peace from people who drain it.
39. Archangel of God, guard the hospital room, the surgery, the treatment plan. Ask the Lord to let nothing go wrong that could be prevented.
40. Lord, through Raphael’s watchful care, protect me from despair. Let me trust You even on the days healing feels far away.
Prayers for Safe Travel and Difficult Journeys
41. Saint Raphael, patron of travelers, watch over me on the road today. Ask God to bring me safely to where I need to be.
42. Angel of God, I am on a journey I did not choose, a diagnosis, a move, a season of change. Guide me the way you guided Tobias.
43. Raphael, ask the Lord to protect everyone flying, driving or walking somewhere far from home tonight. Bring them safely back.
44. Saint Raphael, my journey to healing feels long and uncertain. Walk beside me the way you walked beside a frightened young man long ago.
45. Archangel of healing, ask God to give me courage for the parts of this road I cannot see yet.
Prayers of Gratitude and Trust in God’s Healing
46. Saint Raphael, thank you for interceding on my behalf. Whatever the outcome, I trust that God hears every prayer you carry for me.
47. Lord, thank You for sending angels who care about my healing. Through Raphael’s prayer, I choose to trust Your timing over my own.
48. Angel of God, thank you for the doctors, the medicine and the small signs of progress. Help me notice them instead of only the pain.
49. Raphael, ask God to help me hold onto hope even before I see the full healing I’m praying for.
50. Saint Raphael, thank you for reminding me that God heals, that His name for you is proof of it. I place my body, my heart and my future in His hands.
Frequently Asked Questions About the Prayer to Saint Raphael
What is the prayer of St. Raphael?
The traditional prayer to Saint Raphael calls him the “great prince of the heavenly court” and asks him to guide travelers and heal the sick, echoing his role in the Book of Tobit. Many Christians pray a version of it before travel, surgery or a season of uncertain health, asking his intercession before God rather than praying to him as a source of power himself.
How do I ask Archangel Raphael for healing?
You can ask simply, in your own words, the way you’d ask a friend to pray for you. Name the illness or the person you’re praying for, ask Raphael to carry that request to God, and trust that the healing itself comes from the Lord. James 5:14 to 15 reflects this same posture of asking for prayer and trusting God with the outcome.
What is the prayer to St. Raphael for eyes?
This prayer draws directly from the Book of Tobit, where Raphael instructs Tobias to use a fish’s gall to restore his father Tobit’s sight. Believers who pray it are asking for healing of vision, whether physical blindness or the kind of clarity that comes from seeing a hard situation with new eyes.
What are the benefits of praying to St. Raphael?
Many who pray this prayer describe a sense of companionship on a hard road, the feeling that they are not facing an illness or a journey alone. The real benefit isn’t a guarantee of a specific outcome. It’s the reminder that Jeremiah 30:17 is still true, that God restores health and heals wounds, and that He hears every prayer offered on your behalf.
Is it biblical to pray to Saint Raphael?
Christians hold different convictions here, and it’s worth praying through with a clear conscience. What’s not in dispute is that Psalm 103:2 to 3 and Malachi 4:2 both point to one truth behind every version of this prayer: healing belongs to God, and He is the one every prayer, however it’s worded, is ultimately reaching toward.
Whatever brought you here today, an illness, a loved one’s diagnosis, a journey you didn’t ask to take, you don’t have to carry it in silence. These prayers exist so you have words on the hard days, and so you remember that healing has always been God’s business, offered freely to anyone who asks. If today’s prayer stirred something in you, read our Prayers for Healing collection, our guide on how to pray to God, our Healing Scriptures list, and today’s Verse for Today for more to hold onto.