Some Churches may want to have a ceremony for their parish Nurse.

National Nurses Week is May 6-14



Blessing of the Hands



"May the work of your hands bring healing
to all the people you touch.
"May the God who formed these hands
guide them to bring the healing touch of life
and bless these hands to be instruments of healing.
"Blessings and appreciation for the many tasks
these hands do."



Nurses' Hands

Blessed be these hands that have touched life.

Blessed be these hands that have felt pain.

Blessed be these hands that have embraced with compassion.

Blessed be these hands that have been clinched with anger or withdrawn in fear.

Blessed be these hands that have drawn blood and administered medicine.

Blessed be these hands that have cleaned beds and disposed of wastes.

Blessed be these hands that have anointed the sick and offered blessings.

Blessed be these hands that grow stiff with age.

Blessed be these hands that have comforted the dying and held the dead.

Blessed be these hands, we hold the future in these hands.

Blessed be our hands for they are the work of Your hands, O Holy One


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