Patient Advocacy Week is celebrated the second week in April or is combined with Patient Experience Week the last full week of April.
Most gracious God,
we ask that you bring your comforting presence to us all today.
Calm any fears or anxieties we may be experiencing,
and bring us a sense of hope through your ever-present Holy Spirit.
We lift up all caregivers today, Lord,
but especially those associated with Patient Advocacy.
We pray that you carefully guide their eyes, ears, and hearts,
so that your healing touch may be felt through them
and that they may be instruments of your mercy and love.
We lift up all patients,
that your enlightening Spirit may remind them, in and through their own suffering,
of the great suffering that Christ endured out of love for all.
And help us all to realize that as we,
caregivers and patients, minister to one another,
we are ministering to you.
All this we ask through your Christ, and in the power of your Holy Spirit,
God forever.
Amen.