Glorious Saint Alphonsus, loving Father of the poor and the sick, all thy

life you devoted yourself with a charity really heroic to lightening their

spiritual and bodily miseries.  Full of confidence in thy tender pity for

the sick, since thy  yourself have patiently borne the cross of illness,

I come to thee for help in my present need . . . . . . (Mention it)

Loving Father of the suffering, Saint Alphonsus, whom I invoke as

the Arthritis Saint, since you have suffered from this disease in your

lifetime, look with compassion upon me in my suffering.  Beg God to

give me good health.  If it is not God's will to cure me, then give me

strength to bear my cross patiently and to offer my sufferings in union

with any Crucified Savior and His Mother of Sorrows, for the glory of God

and the salvation of souls, in reparation for my sins and those of others,

for the needs of this troubled world, and for the souls in purgatory.

Saint Alphonsus, patron of the sick, pray for me. [i] Amen.

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