Find out below who the archangel Saint Raphael is and a series of prayers for various petitions that will help you in the most difficult moments.
He is one of the seven archangels who stands before the throne of God. He is also known as the healing archangel due to his divine intervention with the biblical character of Tobit, whom he cured of blindness.
Saint Raphael is also known as the patron saint of travelers, both on physical and spiritual journeys, guiding them in their search for knowledge and truth. Doctors and the blind also consider her their patron saint.
According to the Gospel of Tobias in the Old Testament, Saint Raphael helped Tobias create some ointments to cure his father’s blindness (Tobit)
The meaning of “Rafael” is “he who heals” or “divine medicine” and is usually called upon by Catholic doctors and nurses to help their patients heal.
The day of San Rafael Archangel is the same as that of other archangels, San Miguel and San Gabriel and is celebrated on September 29.
Find below various prayers to San Rafael Arcángel to make different requests.
Prayer to Saint Raphael the Archangel 21 days
You must perform this prayer of Saint Raphael the Archangel for 21 days in a row and it will provide you with energetic protection and peace of mind.
“I am love
I am health
I am peace
I deserve to be loved
I deserve to be happy
I deserve to be healthy
Today begins my healing of body, thought and spirit.
I forgive myself for the mistakes I made without forgetting any, because I am not guilty of anything.
I could not and did not know how to act otherwise at that time.
I forgive all the people for whom I felt some anger.
I accept them because they could not be as I wanted.
I release them and release myself from the grudge forever.
I definitively cancel the past, in the present to release my future.
I stop judging myself and judging others forever.
Right now I give all my pain, my mistakes and my illness to you; God holy father, so that you transform it into health, love and peace.
I accept everything as it is now, with patience to begin to heal definitively.
I deserve to enjoy the love of my loved ones. Father, you are in me and I in you.
By your divine power and your eternal love within me, I decide to heal my body, mind and soul. I open my heart to your love, which surrounds me with its radiant light revitalizing every cell of my body, every negative thought becomes positive recreating myself in a life full of love and joy, which I am going to share loving, communicating everything I feel.
I want to heal my heart. Then I will help heal others and thus fulfill my mission of love and communication in this life.
Thank you Beloved Divinity for this new opportunity in my life and the Universe for my inner reunion.
Amen “
Prayer to Saint Raphael Archangel for love
If you want to request help in some kind of love problem or just want to find a partner, pray this prayer of the Archangel Saint Raphael and your pleas will be answered:
“Glorious Saint Raphael, patron saint and lover of young people, I need to invoke you and ask for your help. With all confidence I open my heart to you and ask for your guidance and assistance in the important task of planning my future.
Obtain for me, through your intercession, the light of God’s grace, so that I may decide wisely regarding the person who will be the partner of my life. Angel of happy encounters, guide us with your hand to find each other. May all our movements be guided by your light and transfigured by your joy. Just as you guided young Tobias to Sara and opened a new life of happiness for them in his holy matrimony, guide me to the one whom your angelic wisdom deems the best to join me in marriage.
Saint Raphael, lover patron of those who seek a partner for marriage, help me in this supreme decision of my life. As a groomsman, find me for life the person whose character reflects something of the distinctive qualities of Jesus and Mary. May it be correct, loyal, pure, sincere and noble, so that with united forces and chaste and selfless love, we can educate ourselves in the perfection of soul and body, as well as the children that God will entrust to our care.
Saint Raphael, Angel of chaste life, bless our friendship and our love so that sin does not enter. May mutual love bind us so firmly that our home is similar to the home of the Holy Family of Nazareth. He offers our prayers to God for both of us and obtain God’s blessing on our marriage, just as you heralded blessing for Tobias and Sarah’s marriage.
Saint Raphael, friend of the young, be my friend because I always want to be yours. I always want to invoke you in my needs. To your special care I entrust the decision that I am going to make in relation to my future spouse. Direct me to the person with whom I can best collaborate in the fulfillment of God’s holy will, and with whom I can live in peace, love and harmony in this life, and achieve eternal joy. Amen”
San Rafael Archangel prayer for marriage
If your marriage is going through a difficult time and you need clarity to solve your marital problems, here I share a powerful prayer to the archangel San Rafael for love with which you can ask for enlightenment and solve what ails you:
“Oh Glorious Saint Raphael Archangel, Medicine of God, intercede for our marriage today.
Come and bring to our marriage the same heavenly gifts that you gave Tobias and Sara, the graces of healing, deliverance and marital unity.
Instill in our hearts the peace and assurance that nothing is impossible for God regarding the renewal of our marriage.
Come, revive and give our marriage a new forgiveness, a new humility, a new grace, a new peace, a new purity, a new trust and a new love.
O Saint Raphael Archangel, one of the seven who are before the throne of God, intercede with the Merciful Father for the miracle of peace and reconciliation in our marriage, for the infinite merits of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and the power of the force comforter of the Holy Spirit.
Oh blessed Saint Raphael the Archangel, guide us on the path of peace and marital unity. Loving archangel of healing, I believe in you, in your protection and in the power of your intercession.
Amen.”
Prayer to Saint Raphael Archangel for protection
If you need extra protection, this prayer from Saint Raphael the Archangel will help you obtain it:
“Archangel Saint Raphael, who said: «Bless God every day and proclaim his benefits.
Practice good and you will not stumble in evil.
Good is prayer with fasting, and almsgiving is better than hoarding up gold.
I beg you to accompany me in all my ways
and reach me thank you for following your advice.”
Prayer to Saint Raphael the Archangel for health
If you want to ask for your health or the health of someone, pray this prayer to San Rafael for health:
“Oh kind and spiritual guide Saint Raphael Archangel, I invoke you as the patron of those who are afflicted by illness or bodily ailment.
You had the medicine prepared that cured old Tobias’s blindness, and your name means “The Lord Heals.”
I am writing to you, imploring your divine help in my current need.
(Mention the petition here)
If it is the will of God, deign to heal my illness, or at least grant me the grace and strength I need to be able to bear it patiently, offering it for the forgiveness of my sins and for the salvation of my soul.
Teach me to unite my sufferings with those of Jesus and Mary and seek the grace of God in prayer and communion.
I wish to imitate you in your eagerness to do the will of God in all things.
Like young Tobias, I choose you as my companion on my journey through this valley of tears. I wish to follow your inspirations every step of the way, so that I can reach the end of my journey under your constant protection and in the grace of God.
Oh Archangel San Rafael Blessed, you revealed yourself as the divine assistant of the God Throne, come into my life and assist me in this moment of trial.
Grant me the grace and blessing of God and the favor I ask of you through your powerful intercession.
O great Physician of God, deign to heal me as you did with Tobias if it is the will of the Creator.
Saint Raphael, Resource of God, Angel of Health, Medicine of God, pray for me.
Amen.”
If you have been interested in the different prayers to Saint Raphael, here are other prayers to other archangels that will also be useful to you: