Christ our Good Shepherd, we pray for your flock, your church throughout the world. Help us to follow your way of care, welcome, self sacrifice. May we create places of welcome, inclusion, and love. Forgive us when people are turned away, rejected or put off by our coldness or judgement. Help us to build a…
As we approach the time of Jesus’ suffering and death we hold in our hearts and bring to God’s heart all who suffer in body, mind or spirit. We pray for all who suffer today: for victims of torture: for those denied the basics of human dignity: for those who are forsaken. for those…
Jesus, giver of living water, We bring your church to you in prayer. We give thanks for those whose lives given in proclamation and service have given birth to our faith. Today, at the end of International women’s Week, we give thanks for Photini, the woman at the well, Equal-to-the-Apostles, and for Mary Magdalene, Apostle…
God of peace and justice, We pray for the people of Ukraine today. We pray for peace and the laying down of weapons. We pray for those who fear for tomorrow, that your Spirit of comfort will draw near to them. We pray for those with power over war or peace, for wisdom, discernment and…
God of love, lover of humankind, we pray for your church, here locally, in the UK and across the world that it will be a place of wholeness, breadth, inclusion and welcome, a place which shows clearly your love for all your children. In our lives, as ambassadors for you, keep us from narrowness, Help…
Today’s gospel reading carries a most appalling story: the story of a poor woman whose husband dies and who is obliged to marry, one after the other, his six remaining brothers who also die, one after the other. Despite the seven husbands, the woman bears no child. Then she too dies. The people who told…
We are, these days, very keen to dig the dirt on leaders and celebrities: social media exist on this . No one would bother to read Twitter or Facebook were it not for scandal, and our national newspapers follow not very far behind. I have mixed feelings about this: one the one hand,…
God of creation, you fill the world with your abundance; it overflows with your generous mercy. There is enough for everyone, but we fail to share things fairly: a few have an abundance but millions of others have no chance of a decent life for themselves and their children This year we are experiencing scarcity…
Week 7 – Easter Day Jesus said to them, ‘Come and have breakfast.’ Now none of the disciples dared to ask him, Who are you?’ because they knew it was the Lord. Reading John 21.1-19 Jesus Appears to Seven Disciples After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias; and…
Holy Week – Easter Eve “Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting…
