You ask God to touch and heal your son, to protect him and surround him with peace. This is the cry of a parent's love, and I do not dismiss it. Yet consider what peace you truly seek and what healing you desire. Our Lord Himself declared, "I am not come to send peace, but a sword." Do not imagine that peace is always a blessing. When the body is diseased, the physician must cut away the rotting flesh so the whole may live. So too does Christ separate us from the sin that clings to us, sometimes by suffering, that our souls may be saved. The peace of robbers is not the peace of God. If you pray only for a quiet life and a healthy body while leaving the soul unexamined, you ask for a dangerous truce.
Above all, beware of seeking help from any source but God alone. Do not bind amulets on your child, do not whisper incantations, do not run after those who promise healing through charms, even if they claim to be Christians. That is not faith but idolatry, a sacrifice to demons. The sign of the Cross is your only weapon, your only medicine. If a mother endures her child's sickness and refuses such mockeries, she is a martyr, surrendering her son to God's will rather than to the Enemy. She who resorts to those deceitful practices, though she protest that she calls upon God, has already performed the act of sacrifice. Stand firm: say, "I am one of the faithful," and trust in Christ alone, who endured the Cross and opened not His mouth.
Pray for peace, yes, but the peace that is reconciliation with God. For the Son of God came down and lifted earth to heaven, breaking down the wall of partition. Each believer has an angel who beholds the Father's face; your son, if he is in Christ, has such a guardian. So ask for the Angel of peace, and let there be no war in your own heart against God's commandments. True peace is the mother of all good, but it comes only when the whole soul is at rest in obedience. If you would be a peacemaker and called a son of God, then imitate the Son of God. Be at peace with your neighbor, and wage war only against sin. He who hears Christ's words and keeps them, loves both the Son and the Father.
Do not simply confess Christ with your lips, like Nathanael who called Him King of Israel yet did not fully grasp His divinity. Confess Him as Very God, the Son of God, who holds all authority over body and soul. Then your prayer for healing will be joined to a prayer for sanctification. Whether your son is restored to health or called to suffer for a time, you will receive the grace and peace that come from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. That peace is not a fragile truce with the world but the unshakeable foundation of joy, the gift that remains when every earthly comfort fails.