Jim and Sheila lead Evening Prayer this week – tonight Jim praises God, reciting a traditional Irish prayer; ‘I arise today through the strength of heaven’. Jim contemplates God’s plan and Christ’s regard for each one of us, and prays that we are seen and heard through the loving purview of Christ who lights, guards,...
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Morning Prayer Monday February 15th 2021
Ali starts Morning Prayer this week – and contemplates the passage of time. Our days are but as grass, we flourish and flower yet we are at the mercy of strong winds blowing us off course and towards destruction. How quickly the abnormal becomes normal… Ali considers how wearing masks has become an accustomed way...
Charlton Benefice Service of Healing available on our YouTube channel.
The first of our regular Wednesday services is available on our You Tube. This week we celebrate the power of prayer to heal and strengthen the mind and body of those who have asked for our healing prayers.
Evening Prayer Saturday February 13th 2021
Hugh calls our Creator God to come amongst us as we join together in Evening Prayer, he asks for Christ’s help to discern his spirit, joy and wisdom in the world, and reminds us to share these blessing with our community. Hugh’s last Evening Prayer this week inspires us to lead a life with faith,...
Morning Prayer Saturday February 13th 2021
Naomi’s final Morning Prayer this week – as she asks our Father to raise up the poor and comfort the betrayed; when mercy and truth meet together and righteousness and peace combine, then glory is created here on earth. Naomi asks God to give us the grace to focus our minds on the little heaven...
Evening Prayer Friday February 12th 2021
Hugh’s Evening Prayer – he contemplates good versus evil – and calls on our Father, Protector of mankind, to keep our families and those we care about safe from harm.
Morning Prayer Friday February 12th 2021
Naomi leads our joyous prayers this Morning Prayer and looks forward to the day lying open before us – into God’s hands she commends our souls and thanks God for our first breath, for the miracle of our being and that we have risen today. She prays that our worries scatter as the mist is...
Evening Prayer Thursday February 11th 2021
Hugh reads Evening Prayer and considers God’s grace and call for us to serve Christ, our community and our earth – we are called to be loved and love, to forgive and be forgiven, to receive hope and offer hope, to feel peace and bring peace, to know joy and give joy, be made whole...
Morning Prayer Thursday February 11th 2021
May God’s face shine upon us as we pray – Naomi recites a prayer by Julian of Norwich; in our Father we have our preservation and our bliss, in Christ we are restored and saved, and in the Holy Spirit we find grace. Naomi reminds us that through this grace all shall be well. Naomi’s...
Evening Prayer Wednesday February 10th 2021
Hugh prays for the artist within us, asking God to awaken courage in us all to look again at what we take for granted, and the grace to share these insights with others. Hugh calls for people to reveal heaven here on earth, so that we receive into our hearts the glory of God’s creation.