Leader: For the blessings that today has held: All: We thank you, God. Leader: For each person we have been in contact with today: All: We ask your blessing on them. Leader: For opportunities missed, for negative thoughts, for harmful words: All: We ask forgiveness as we pray in the name of…
Leader: As a parent raises her child to adulthood All: So God brings creation to maturity. Leader: Let us thank God for the beauty of the earth All: We praise and bless you, Creator God. Leader: We are part of this creation, growing to fullness in God. All: Thanks be to God.…
Dear All, Our theme today focusses on psalm 22 (23). There is an alternative translation of it amongst the attachments. Sometimes a different translation throws a different light on a well-known piece of scripture. The words of the psalm don’t really need much additional material – they speak very clearly to us of a shepherding…
Leader: Come, Lord Jesus: you too were weary when day was done; & you met your friends at eventide. All: Come, Lord Jesus. Leader: Come, Lord Jesus: when evenings drew on, you too enjoyed prayer and companionship at the close of the day. All: Come, Lord Jesus. Leader: Come, Lord Jesus: you…
Leader: How good it is to thank our God, & to praise God’s name. We sing of your love at dawn, your faithfulness at dusk. Your presence brings delight & the deeds you inspire joy. So we come together to pray, All: in the name of the Father & of the Son & of…
Leader: In Jesus Christ, we hear the Good News that God is our ever-loving, ever-forgiving creator. All: We believe that God is love. Leader: In Jesus, we see a God who wept for the people of the world, All: and weeps for our wounds. Leader: In Jesus, we see a God who reaches out with…
Leader: Let us pray to God – father, son & spirit. All: There is no other God. Leader: From whom we come, with whom we stay, to whom we return. All: You, we bless, name above all names, Holy One. Leader: Amen, alleluia! All: Amen, alleluia! Please join in the hymn O Strength & Stay,…
Leader: O God of Life, of all Life & of each Life, we lay our lives before you – we give our lives to you from whom nothing is hidden. All: You are before us, around us & within us. Leader: O Lord, you know the secret thoughts of every heart.…
We begin with our hymn, ‘Gathered in the Love of Christ’ – (The Song & the Silence.) Please join in if you wish, remaining seated. Gathered in the Love of Christ, we are one in the family of God. We are the dwelling place that love has made. We are formed to be…
Dear All, In the RC liturgical calendar we celebrate Sea Sunday tomorrow & so today we have taken this as our theme. It seems that for many of us, during the pandemic & its restrictions, there has been a longing to see the sea. It seems that the sea for many people has a restorative…