St Rocco

[Simone57]

This is a prayer I have said for a neighbor who has leg sores that are being treated by a nurse. I think he has pellagra.  I pray but he does not not want to discuss his illness.  St. Rocco (also known as St. Roch) was said to have been miraculously healed of the sores on his leg. I realize my neighbor is under a doctor's care and has an at home nurse visit him twice a week.  However loving and prayerful intervention is always an act of charity. 

Here is the prayer:

O Great Saint Rocco, deliver us, we beeech thee, from contagious diseases and the contagion of sine.  Obtain for us a purity of heart which will assist us to make good use of health and to bear sufferings with patience.  Teach us to follow your example in the practice of penance and charity, so that we may one day enjoy the happiness of being with Christ our Savior, in Heaven.

[CyrilSebastian]

On  the demise of his parents when he was twenty years old, Rocco distributed all his worldly goods   
among the poor and entered the Franciscan Third Order.