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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Pastoral Prayers for Hospitalized Patients | |
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| Related to Illness or Surgery | |
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| Facing Surgery | |
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| After Successful Surgery | |
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| After Surgery That Was Not Successful | |
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| Anticipating Bad News | |
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| Diagnosed with a Serious, Progressive Illness | |
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| Recovering from Heart Surgery | |
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| Suffering from a Stroke | |
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| Dealing with Cancer | |
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| Coping with Breast Cancer | |
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| Undergoing Chemotherapy | |
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| Suffering from Addiction | |
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| Unable to Diagnose the Source of Illness | |
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| In Need of a Transplant, Waiting for an Organ | |
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| In Chronic Pain | |
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| Related to Children and Youth | |
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| Celebrating the Birth of a Child | |
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| Mourning a Miscarriage | |
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| Grieving the Loss of a Baby Near Birth | |
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| Mother Choosing Adoption for Her Newborn | |
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| Adoptive Parents Receiving Their Child | |
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| Premature Infant | |
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| Baby Who Is Hospitalized | |
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| Child Who Is Hospitalized | |
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| Youth Hospitalized for Drug Treatment and Afraid to Face Parents | |
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| Youth Who Is Unlikely to Recover | |
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| Related to Dying and Death | |
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| Longing to Die | |
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| Negative Prognosis | |
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| Does Not Have Long to Live | |
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| When Death Is Imminent | |
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| Prayer over a Stillborn Infant | |
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| Family Members Unable to Say Good-bye to Loved One Before Death | |
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| Surviving Family Who Lost Loved Ones in the Same Accident | |
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| Family Whose Loss Was Due to Suicide | |
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| Related to Accident or Violence | |
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| Injured Due to Street Violence | |
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| Injured Due to Natural Disaster | |
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| Rape Victim | |
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| Victim of Domestic Violence | |
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| Injury Due to War | |
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| Related to Special Circumstances | |
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| New Immigrant Who Has Fallen Ill | |
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| Recent Refugee | |
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| College Student | |
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| Suffering Depression | |
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| Patient Who Also Has Alzheimer's | |
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| Enduring Painful Rehabilitation | |
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| Facing a Long Recovery | |
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| Farmer Anxious about Crops and Animals | |
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| Hospitalized while Incarcerated | |
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| Someone Unconscious | |
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| Developmentally Disabled Patient | |
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| Attempted Suicide (Prayer with Family Present) | |
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| Psychotic Patient | |
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| Related to Personal Concerns of the Patient | |
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| Worried about a Child Deployed in the Military | |
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| Worried about Paying the Hospital Bill | |
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| Wants to Go Home but Cannot | |
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| Wants Prayer for Family Members | |
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| Feels Guilty about Surviving an Accident | |
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| Grieving Friends Who Died in the Same Accident | |
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| Desires Inner Peace | |
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| Needs Courage to Endure | |
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| Refuses to Be Comforted | |
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| Needs Forgiveness while Ill | |
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| Feels Guilty for Being in the Hospital | |
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| Prayers with Hospital and Nursing Staff | |
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| Hospital Staff Who Feel Overwhelmed | |
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| Hospital Staff Experiencing Grief | |
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| Hymns Appropriate to Sing with Patients | |
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| Ill but Hopeful of Recovery | |
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| There Is a Balm in Gilead | |
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| Blessed Assurance | |
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| Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing | |
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| Wonderful Words of Life | |
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| Unlikely to Recover | |
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| On Jordan's Stormy Banks | |
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| Blest Be the Tie That Binds | |
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| God Be with You till We Meet Again | |
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| Nearer My God to Thee | |
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| Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us | |
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| He Leadeth Me | |
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| With Children | |
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| Jesus Loves Me | |
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| This Is My Father's World | |
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| In Any Situation | |
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| Amazing Grace | |
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| Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow (Doxology) | |
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| A Mighty Fortress Is Our God | |
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| Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross | |
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| What a Friend We Have in Jesus | |
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| Traditional Blessings, Prayers, and Scripture Suggestions | |
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| Traditional Blessings | |
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| Traditional Gaelic Blessing | |
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| God Be in Your Head | |
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| Traditional Prayers | |
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| Prayer of Saint Thomas Aquinas | |
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| Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi | |
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| The Lord's Prayer (Traditional and Ecumenical Versions) | |
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| Benedictions from Scripture | |
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| Numbers 6:24-26 | |
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| Romans 15:13 | |
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| Romans 16:25-27 | |
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| Additional Scripture Suggestions | |
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| Psalm 23 (KJV) | |
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| Psalm 100 | |
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| Guided Prayers | |
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| Bidding Prayer | |
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| Example of a Bidding Prayer | |
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| Pastoral Prayer | |
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| Example of a Pastoral Prayer Based on Patient's Responses | |
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| Breath Prayer | |
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| Examples of Breath Prayers | |
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| Rituals | |
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| Accepting Christ | |
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| Ritual for Accepting Christ | |
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| Baptism | |
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| Ritual for Baptism | |
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| Holy Communion | |
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| Ritual for Holy Communion | |
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| Anointing with Oil for Healing | |
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| Ritual for Anointing with Oil | |
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| Scripture Index | |