Prayers for a Misty Morning
Prayers for a Misty Morning
by Christine Dutton
Opening prayers of approach, thanksgiving, confession This week has been full of misty morning, so my prayers for an autumn morning didn't quite fit! I wanted to write prayers that reflected though sometimes we walk through misty times in our faith and our lives but that God is a…
Prayers: Accident and Emergency
Prayers: Accident and Emergency
by Christine Dutton
Prayers for those who work in hospitals and those who need to visit hospital. Having visited our local accident and emergency department with my son who had broken his toe, every corner I turned there was someone else working to make the hospital work. Grateful for the opportunit…
The Open Gate - Thanksgiving
The Open Gate - Thanksgiving
by SPCK - David Adam
Thanksgiving The psalmist says, ‘Come into his gates with thanksgiving, enter his courts with praise.’ One of the easiest ways to seek God is to think and thank; literally to count your blessings, to see the world as His creation, to see your life, and your eternal life, as in Hi…
The Open Gate - Dedication
The Open Gate - Dedication
by SPCK - David Adam
Dedication Not only is God forever giving us gifts, He is giving us Himself. In fact it is because He gives us Himself, that His gifts are available to us. God is present in our lives and the more we open ourselves to Him, the more His gifts are able to flow into us and through u…
The Open Gate - The Eucharistic Prayer - Prayers 3&4
The Open Gate - The Eucharistic Prayer - Prayers 3&4
by SPCK - David Adam
The Eucharistic Prayer [He] took bread and gave you thanks; he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you. [Here the priest may break the bread, holding part in each hand and spreading his arms outwards to make the shape of th…
Open with God Book - Time of Crisis1 - concern for the future
Open with God Book - Time of Crisis1 - concern for the future
by Christine Odell
TIME OF CRISIS 1- concern for the future Prayers for Various Occasions Reading Psalm 23 God our Shepherd, we come to you in prayer feeling shaken and afraid because of the future we see gaping before us. We feel we are walking through the valley of deepest darkness.
Open with God Book - Voluntary Work
Open with God Book - Voluntary Work
by Christine Odell
VOLUNTARY WORK Prayers for Various Occasions Reading John 13.12-17 If members are willing, have a display about the voluntary work members do. God our Maker and our Minder, we praise and thank you for giving us this world to be our home and our place of soul-making. We praise and…
Open with God Book - Wedding
Open with God Book - Wedding
by Christine Odell
WEDDING Prayers for Various Occasions Reading 1 Corinthians 14.4-8a 13 Flowers and music, lovely clothes, smiling families, sumptuous food; God of joy and laughter these are some of the happy things that come to mind when we hear that there is to be a wedding...
Lenten Cross Liturgy