Rob leads our Evening Prayer and asks Christ to entrust all those ill and in pain to his everlasting embrace and tender care. Rob recites Catherine Smith’s prayer to remind us of the light God spills out into our world, risky, saving and wondrous – God cuts a swathe through the darkness and beckons us...
Evening Prayer with Rob who recalls Christ’s example – to love our neighbours and to care for those in need – as if we were looking after our Lord. In this time of anxiety give us strength to comfort the fearful, to assure the isolated of our love and the love of Jesus Christ our...
Rob asks our Lord to watch over us tonight and reminds us that Christ is with us and around us – in danger and quiet times alike. We bind ourselves to the Holy Trinity and pray with Rob, who recites St Patrick’s prayer ‘Christ be with me’, for our Evening Prayer.
Rob starts Evening Prayer this week by offering up prayers for the vulnerable: Homeless people, prisoners of conscience and political prisoners, those suffering mental and physical ill health and those who lack Christ’s hope and love.
Evening Prayer and our final one with Gina and Ali as we ask our Lord to guide us as we pray for our church – like a shepherd that cares for their flock.
Evening Prayer and we consider with Ali a child’s-eye view of bed time, that God guards us through the night, renews not just our tired bodies but also the depths of our complex being. So that out sense of hope, compassion, faith, wisdom & love are nurtured and tomorrow morning we wake up refreshed and...
Evening Prayer and we pray for all nations and people as they face life’s troubles and perils; we pray for the bereaved, the vulnerable, the lonely and the exhausted – Ali asks our Lord to draw near to each.
As darkness draws near we consider perception and how things are not always as clear as they appear to be at face value – Evening Prayer and Ali and Polly ask for clear sightedness as we seek peace and understanding.
Gina leads our Evening Prayer for the first time this week and considers the beauty of the Holy Spirit. Gina reads JK Baxter’s prayer describing the force of the Holy Spirit through nature – like a tumultuous wind, an eagle nurturing her young in the peace of her feathers or a cloud obscuring and protecting...
Our Evening Prayer with Ali and she considers the perfection of our Lord, following St Francis of Assisi’s prayer of thanks to God for his supreme goodness and qualities such as love, strength, humility, wisdom and faith – just as important to us today as they were to Christians in the 13th century.
