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World Day of the Sick

Annual World Day of the Sick: February 11

The National Association of Catholic Chaplains has developed resources to help with the planning and celebration of World Day of the Sick. The resources include suggestions and prayers that can be used by individuals as well as by dioceses, parishes, health care institutions, and other organizations.

Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the thirty-first World Day of the Sick

World Day of the Sick XXXI: “Take care of him” Compassion as a synodal exercise of healing

NACC World Day of the Sick Prayer Cards

For over twenty years the NACC has produced prayer cards for World Day of the Sick, for use in hospitals, hospices, long-term care facilities, parishes, and for anyone else interested in the spiritual needs of sick persons and caregivers. While we no longer print and distribute physical cards, the printable cards (in PDF format) are freely available on our website and we encourage members and other caregivers to download, print, share, use them!

2022 Prayer Cards

A Prayer For The Sick
Prayer For The Sick 3-up (same as the above, but with three cards to a page)
A Prayer For The Caregiver
A Prayer For The Caregiver 3-up (same as the above, but with three cards to a page)

2022 Prayer Cards in Spanish

A Prayer For The Sick (Spanish)
Prayer For The Sick 3-up (Spanish) (same as the above, but with three cards to a page)
A Prayer For The Caregiver (Spanish)
A Prayer For The Caregiver 3-up (Spanish) (same as the above, but with three cards to a page)

Additional 2022 Prayer Submissions

We had several excellent submissions to our request for prayers for this year’s cards. They have been collected into a PDF: WDS Prayers. Please feel free to use and share them, and do give credit as indicated on each prayer.

Prayer card archives (2001-2022)

Click here to view or download prayer cards from 2001 through 2022

NACC annual letter to Bishops for World Day of the Sick

Each year in February the NACC sends a World Day of the Sick letter to our bishops explaining our board certification process and their endorsement of our priests and lay members.
To read the letter from this year and previous years click here.

More World Day of the Sick resources

Prayer of the Faithful – A prayer for the ill and those who care for them.

A Healing Service in a Hospital Setting – Carey Landry, NACC member and co-coordinator (along with his wife, Carol Jean Kinghorn) of liturgical music at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Indianapolis, wrote this article that appeared in April 2002 issue of Vision.

World Day of the Sick information from the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care

World Day of the Sick program
This program was written by NACC member Linda DeHahn BCC.

World Day of the Sick program
World Day of the Sick program (leader’s copy)

 

Our Lady of Lourdes Novena
Our Lady of Lourdes Novena is a special healing novena (meaning “nine days of prayers”) in preparation for the feast of the apparitions of Our Lady in Lourdes to St. Bernadette Soubirous on February 11th. (from marriageretreats.webs.com)

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