A mother and son team to start our day, as Austin joins Ann to lead our Morning Prayer. They consider how it feels to pray to God as we get up this morning. They remind us that God shows us love when we arise, and ask God to help us be insightful and develop greater...
Miriam’s Evening Prayer contemplates how our Lord is our strength, our sun and our salvation. Miriam asks for God’s light to be shed over those living in the shadow of death, that this light may also warm the hearts of those who have lost hope, or who bear the cross of ever-present hunger, and she...
Ann leads our thought provoking Morning Prayer – she considers where Christ shared meals with friends and strangers, drawing parallels with where we take Communion. Ann describes how we have grown used to attending church services broadcast from people’s kitchen tables, including our Rectors’ Liz – where Communion has been led from our homes since...
Miriam recites Psalm 105 which tells of the plagues in Egypt and recounts the flight from Egypt of God’s chosen people. This Evening Prayer Miriam prays for our Lord’s life-giving power, to revive the weary, restore the broken, and renew the face of the earth.
Death is swallowed up in victory – where oh death is your sting? Ann reads Psalm 113 and prays for our Lord to have mercy upon us. Ann reminds us that Christ, in stretching out his divine hands upon the Cross, has joined together all that was divided before… our Morning Prayer.
Miriam considers the shadow of the life-giving cross this Easter – that we may keep this in our inner vision – to give us stability when confronted with turbulent times – we ask that we may depart in peace to rest tonight, this Evening Prayer.
Ann’s Morning Prayer gives thanks to God for the wonderful gifts we are given – for the kindness of those who care about us, those who work in the NHS, who run shops and keep much-needed services and buildings open, Ann prays that we grow to be open and generous in our giving to others...
Miriam leads Easter Evening Prayer this week. Miriam prays for a desire for change to well up within us and asks that our hearts overflow with compassion and love. As a stream wears away stone, she asks that we reshape our world together to reflect God’s kingdom.
Happy Easter! Morning Prayer considers God’s compassion through Psalm 111. God promised all disciples would be baptised with the Holy Spirit, Holy Week and Easter mark the fulfilment of this promise. We pray that today we are filled afresh with the Holy Spirit, and that nourished with such spiritual blessings, we may set our hearts...
Arek reads Psalm 128 and considers how abundant God’s goodness is, he considers prosperity, peace and God’s blessings and compassion. Arek asks God to breathe on us afresh this night and grant us rest – our final Evening Prayer this week with Arek.
