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All Desires Known - God Of Community Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

All Desires Known - The Refining Fire Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

THE REFINING FIRE Collect Isaiah 40.1–11; Malachi 3.1–5 God our healer, whose mercy is like a refining fire: touch us with your judgement... Advent 2 (ABC); Proper 2 (B); Proper 23 (BC); Proper 25 (B); Presentation (ABC); Birth of John the Baptist (ABC) Taken from All Desires Kno…

All Desires Known - Tell Out My Soul Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

TELL OUT MY SOUL Collect Luke 1.46–55 O God whose word is fruitless where the mighty are not put down, the humble remain humiliated... Blessed Virgin Mary (ABC); Advent 3 (AB); Advent 4 (BC); Proper 21 (C) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPCK

All Desires Known - Mary's Assent Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

MARY’S ASSENT Collect Luke 1.2–38 O God, you fulfil our desire beyond what we can bear... Advent 4 (BC); Annunciation (ABC) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPCK

All Desires Known - God's Fruitful Word Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

GOD’S FRUITFUL WORD Collect Isaiah 55.1–11; Luke 1.46b–55; Luke 4.14–21; 2 Timothy 3.14—4.5 O God our disturber, whose speech is pregnant with power and whose word will be fulfilled... Advent 3 (ABC); Epiphany 3 (C); Easter Vigil (ABC); Easter 6 (B); Proper 3 (B); Proper 10 (AC);…

All Desires Known - Incarnation - Word Made Flesh

by SPCK - Janet Morley

INCARNATION – WORD MADE FLESH Collect John 1.1–14; 1 John 1.1–4 God our beloved, born of a woman’s body, you came that we might look upon you... Christmas Eve/Christmas Day (ABC) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPCK

All Desires Known - Eucharistic Prayer for Christmas Eve

by SPCK - Janet Morley

EUCHARISTIC PRAYER FOR CHRISTMAS EVE Eternal Wisdom, we praise you and give you thanks, because you emptied yourself of power and became foolishness for our sake: for on this night you were delivered as one of us, a baby needy and naked, wrapped in a woman’s blood... This prayer …

All Desires Known - Annunciation Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

ANNUNCIATION/NOT AMONG THE IMPRESSIVE Collect Luke 1.2–38; 1 Corinthians 1.26–end O unknown God, whose presence is announced not among the impressive but in obscurity... Advent 4 (BC); Proper 6 (BC); Annunciation (ABC) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPC…

All Desires Known - Defender of the Helpless Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

DEFENDER OF THE HELPLESS Collect Matthew 2.13–18; 1 Corinthians 1.2–9 God of the dispossessed, defender of the helpless, you grieve with all the women who weep... Christmas 1 (A); Holy Innocents (ABC) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPCK

All Desires Known - Incarnation - Fullness of Glory Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

INCARNATION – FULLNESS OF GLORY Collect John 1.14–18 Loving Word of God, you have shown us the fullness of your glory in taking human flesh... Christmas 2 (ABC) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPCK

All Desires Known - A Scandal To Many

by SPCK - Janet Morley

A SCANDAL TO MANY Collect Luke 2.22–35; 1 Peter 2.1–10 Christ our cornerstone, you were recognized at your presentation as a sign of hope for the world... Christmas 1 (B); Epiphany 4 (C); Presentation (ABC) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPCK

All Desires Known - Most Holy and Most Humble Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

MOST HOLY AND MOST HUMBLE Collect John 1.1–14 Mighty God, most holy and most humble, you have chosen to hear our cry... Christmas Day (ABC); 2 before Lent (B); Lent 4 (B); Christ the King (C) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPCK

All Desires Known - Christ Our Brother Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

CHRIST OUR BROTHER Collect Luke 2.15–21; Galatians 3.28 Christ our brother, in you there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither male nor female... Christmas 1 (B); Proper 7 (C); Holy Name (ABC); Birth of John the Baptist (ABC) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published b…

The Minister as Entrepreneur - 3 Dragons’ Den? Towards a positive understanding of the entrepreneur

by SPCK - Michael Volland

Dragons’ Den? Towards a positive understanding of the entrepreneur The word, entrepreneur, draws a mixed response when it is used in conjunction with Christian ministry. Although some are happy with it, more often than not it prompts responses ranging from discomfort to fervent o…

All Desires Known - Songs of Liberation Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

SONGS OF LIBERATION Collect Luke 1.39–49 O God our deliverer, you cast down the mighty, and lift up those of no account... Advent 4 (C); Visitation (ABC) Taken from All Desires Known by Janet Morley Published by SPCK

All Desires Known - Labour Pangs of the New Age Collect

by SPCK - Janet Morley

LABOUR PANGS OF THE NEW AGE Collect Mark 13.8–end; Luke 21.25–36; Romans 8.18–25; 1 Thessalonians 5.1–11 God our deliverer, whose approaching birth still shakes the foundations of our world... Advent 1 (ABC); 2 before Lent (A); Pentecost (ABC); Proper 11 (A); 2 before Advent (ABC…

Rhythms of remembering - Easter - Wednesday Morning Prayer

by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild

EASTER - Wednesday Morning Prayer Alleluia, blessed are you, O God, ever-renewing your creation, alleluia. See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down,...

Journeying With Mark Year B - Christmas

by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce

2 Christmas Exploring the text Mark’s Gospel provides slim pickings at Christmas time. Unlike the Gospels of Matthew and Luke it provides no run-up to the birth of Jesus and no account of the events surrounding his birth. It does not even, like John’s Gospel, provide a poetic int…