Our new-look prayers are designed to examine scripture, supporting our response to these passages in a prayerful and personally reflective way, by our Rector Liz Newman. Ally W leads both Morning and Evening Prayer this week. Morning Prayer – Ally W reads the parable of a man’s fig tree in his vineyard and considers our...
Since April 2020 we have produced Morning and Evening Prayer 6 days a week and posted them on the website. We’ve recently run a questionnaire to find out how helpful people find them. What came across from your feedback was: It’s helpful to have that reminder to pray twice a day People appreciate being asked...
Our final Morning Prayer with Amabel who prays that we pay attention to the greening of this earth and this ground of wonder, that we are attentive to God who gives us this new day. Amabel thanks the Lord for the precious gift of our bodies, whatever their strengths or limitations. She asks that we...
Amabel greets our day and recites Psalms 17 and 19, reminding us that: “The heavens are telling the glory of God and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.” Amabel prays that we seek God’s countless forms of creation all around us, in the sun’s rising glory, on the face of friends and strangers, for God’s heart in...
Evening Prayer led by our Rector Liz who marks Corpus Christi by praying for us all – for our willingness to make present in our world the love of Christ shown to us in the Eucharist. Liz prays that we will offer to God a promise of love and to our sisters and brothers a...
Amabel prays for us to value our awareness of the world and nature around us. She reminds us of life and death – that all things emerge in God’s great river of life and vanish into the river again. At the beginning of this day we wake, not as separate streams but as countless currents...
Morning Prayer – Amabel recites Psalm 5 – attributed to King David, this Psalm focuses on God’s mercy and deliverance from sin. Amabel says prayers for us all and asks that the very soil of our soul is God’s and we must be still and aware of prayerfulness for the light of the world –...
Our Morning Prayer will be led by Amabel this week. “Mercy and truth are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each other…” Amabel prays to our merciful God, that when we come to our Lord fearing that the truth will condemns us, that God will show us that truth is one with love and...
Barbara’s last, mellow, Morning Prayer this wee – inspired by Psalm 147; “He heals the broken hearted and binds up all their wounds. He counts the number of the stars and calls them all by their names. Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his wisdom is beyond all telling.” Barbara prays for us – that we...
Barbara considers what will get us out of bed this morning! She recalls father Pedro Arrupe’s prayer and asks us to think about what breaks our hearts, what amazes us with joy and gratitude this Morning Prayer. Barbara prays for us and encourages us to find and fall in love with God, because staying faithful...
