Intercessions for the Third Sunday of Lent

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…

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Interecessions for Candlemas 2023

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…

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Sermon and Prayers for Sunday 6th Novembe, 2022 – the Third Sunday before Advent

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…

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A new vocation

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…

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