We, Your faithful servants, standing before Your Newly-Appeared Icon suppliantly cry unto You, O Queen of All,: descent Your healing to Your servants who come to You today that all together we would joyfully cry unto You: Rejoice, O Queen of All, You heal our ailments by Your grace!
Ikos 1.
An Archangel descended from Heaven and said to the All-Queen: Rejoice! And beholding You, O Lord, taking bodily form he cried to Her saying such things as these:
Rejoice, the Crown of our salvation!
Rejoice, the Fulfillment of our Creator’s plan!
Rejoice, You through Whom God had been made incarnate!
Rejoice, You in Whom Invisible became visible!
Rejoice, You Who accepted in You the Mercy of peace!
Rejoice, You Who had made the cloth of flesh to the Word!
Rejoice, incredible Upper Glory!
Rejoice, Heavenly Manna Who had animated many hearts!
Rejoice, the Star Who is radiant of grace!
Rejoice, the Spring Who is an effusion of living water!
Rejoice, O Birth-Giver of God blessed among women!
Rejoice, Undefiled Virgin Who gave birth to our Savior!
Rejoice, O Queen of All, You heal our ailments by Your grace!
Kontakion 2.
Through You, O Virgin, the Everlasting Word had become the Infant Child giving healing to those who honored His Birth and You crying: Alleluia!
Ikos 2.
Seeking to know knowledge that cannot be known, the Virgin cried to the ministering one: "Tell Me how I, a pure Maiden, can be the Mother of the Highest?" Gabriel spoke to Her with fear crying aloud thus:
Rejoice, chosen by the Highest Council!
Rejoice, the Fast-hearer of praying voices!
Rejoice, the Treasure of the Christ’s world!
Rejoice, the Hope and Strength of Your people!
Rejoice, the miraculous Destroyer of cancer’s wounds!
Rejoice, the Healer of other sickness!
Rejoice, the only Intercessor of the world!
Rejoice, the true Redemption of sorrow!
Rejoice, the Relief of weeping and tears!
Rejoice, You Who opens to all the entrance of salvation!
Rejoice, the Government of all who live on Athos!
Rejoice, the Mace of monks and laity!
Rejoice, O Queen of All, You heal our ailments by Your grace!
Kontakion 3.
The Power of the Most High had overshadowed You, O Virgin, and had accepted the flesh showing You a good pasture for those who want to reap salvation, and who sing: Alleluia!
Ikos 3.
Your icon called "Queen of All" had been miraculously glorified when it had appeared carrying healing. You give healing to those who with faith sing before it that would be multiplied by such songs:
Rejoice, the Mother of Unfading Light!
Rejoice, the Victory of those who suffer to the end!
Rejoice, the inviolable Wall of all orphans and widows!
Rejoice, You Who opens the doors of Paradise!
Rejoice, You Who defends all who labor and are burdened!
Rejoice, the Intercessor for the salvation of all!
Rejoice, You Who prays for mankind!
Rejoice, the Heavenly Ladder that raises from the earth to Heaven!
Rejoice, the Living Water that cleanses deadly sins!
Rejoice, the Lamb that protects the hearts of the honest ones!
Rejoice, the Cover that spreads over the children of the Church!
Rejoice, O Queen of All, You heal our ailments by Your grace!
Kontakion 4.
Granting life to the whole world the Lord settled in Your womb immaculately and showed You to be the Mother for the faithful calling them to sing in peace: Alleluia!
Ikos 4.
You have done amazing things, O Place of God, by healing through Your Holy Icon. Accepting the streams of Your healing we sing, O Queen of All, the song of thanksgiving:
Rejoice, the Medicine that reduces pain!
Rejoice, the Coolness that cools fever of the ailments!
Rejoice, You Who cauterize the illness of cancer like fire!
Rejoice, You Who lift from the bed of illness those who are forgotten by doctors!
Rejoice, You Who show Your All-Pure Image to those who are chosen!
Rejoice, You Who absolve us from sinful chains!
Rejoice, You by Whom we receive deliverance from death!
Rejoice, You by Whom uncountable ranks of the faithful are justified!
Rejoice, the Height Who is not researched by human thoughts!
Rejoice, the Depth Who is investigated only by Word!
Rejoice, the Prophecy of patriarchs who lived before You!
Rejoice, the Preceptor of hierarchs who prayed unto You!
Rejoice, O Queen of All, You heal our ailments by Your grace!
Kontakion 5.
Acknowledging You as the Most-Pure Temple of the Savior, O Virgin, we fall down before You asking, O Pure One, make us the temples of God, who sing to Him: Alleluia!
The God-proclaiming Preachers, the Saviors Disciples stood miraculously in front of You, O Virgin, when You went from the earth into Heaven that with one heart and one mouth they would sing: Alleluia!
Having beheld the fearful Nativity we laid aside all earthly care and have our hearts on high, because the Most High had come to invite those who sing to Him: Alleluia!
O Word! All the angels and humans were amazed by the greatness of Your incarnation that cannot be understood. Being perplexed by this great devotional secret we cry to You in fear and tremble with thanksgiving: Alleluia!
The Creator, desiring to save the charred human essence, had descended upon You as dew on fleece and had made You the Fire-proof bush and had become a Man that we would sing to Him: Alleluia!
O Glorious Lady, we, Your servants, remain unable to offer intelligent singing to the Savior. Who can praise God, Whose name is as myrrh poured, well enough? Because of that we cry to Him: Alleluia!
When the Giver of the Old Testament wanted to give us His grace He gave us the New Testament; after we have received the grace, we can be saved not by the deeds of the law but by faith and we sing: Alleluia!
O our Mother Queen of All, Who gave birth the Word, Holiest of all Saints! Having accepted our singing today, heal us from every deadly illness and from the coming condemnation, save those who sing: Alleluia! (This Kontakion read three times the re-read Ikos 1, Kotakion 1)
We, Your faithful servants, standing before Your Newly-Appeared Icon suppliantly cry unto You, O Queen of All: descent Your healing to Your servants who come to You today that all together we would joyfully cry unto You: Rejoice, O Queen of All, You heal our ailments by Your grace!
O All-Gracious, most wondrous Mother of God, Pantanassa, Queen of All! I am not worthy that Thou shouldst enter under my roof! But as Thou art the lovingly compassionate Mother of the merciful God, say the word that my soul may be healed and my weakened body strengthened. For Thou hast unconquerable might, and all Thy speech hath power, O Queen of All! Do Thou gain the victory for me, do Thou supplicate for me - that I may glorify Thy most glorious name, always, now and ever, and unto endless ages. Amen.
Second Prayer to the Mother of God
O Most-Pure Mother of God, O Queen of All! Hearken unto our much-afflicted sighing before Thy miraculous Icon, brought to Russia from the land of Athos. Look upon Thy children, suffering from unhealed ailments, who fall down before Thy holy image with faith! As a bird covers its nestlings with its wings, so do Thou now, who art ever present, cover us with Thy greatly healing omophorion. In that place where Hope be.
There where bitter sorrows overcome us, there will Patience and Rest be revealed. Where the torment of despair dwells in the soul, there will shine the ineffable Light of Divinity! Console the fainthearted, strengthen the weak, bestow softening and enlightenment upon embittered hearts. Heal Thine ailing people, O All-merciful Queen! Bless the minds and hands of our physicians, that they might serve as instruments of the All-powerful Physician, Christ our Saviour. We pray before Thine Icon, that Thou mightest truly live with us, O Sovereign Lady! Stretch out Thy hands, filled with healing and cures, O Joy of the sorrowful, Consolation in afflictions, that having speedily received miraculous help, wee may glorify the Life-creating and Undivided Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Source: Akathist to the Mother of God "Healer of Cancer", St. Paisius Serbian Orthodox
P.O. Box 1075
Safford, Arizona 85548
background on prayer:In the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos in Greece, there is a Holy Icon of the Mother of God called "The Queen of All" (in Greek "Pantanassa"). This icon has a special grace that has been given by God to heal the dreadful illness of cancer.
SOURCES FOR ALL ABOVE INFO (please read for more background info and information on the prayer):
http://www.angelfire.com/nh/milleniumikons/The_Akathist.html http://www.serfes.org/orthodox/prayersforcancer.htm
***disclaimer: I am in no way connected to these sources; I have found this prayer in a moment of personal need, by doing research on the internet, regarding prayers for cancer. I put this prayer here to basically share this wonderful source of light, comfort and strength with others in need.