Christmas is good news all year round but in Advent we explore how it might be so when we wait for Jesus’ coming again. John the Baptist doesn’t mince words in his teaching! But the crowds came to him. Dare we listen and let it be Good News for us?
Please come and pray for the life of our parishes: our children & families work, our Christmas services and plans for 2025. This will take place in the Canterbury Room at St Thomas’. Coffee and croissants from 8:15am, followed by
This week we are asked to pray
Prayers for the week Thank you to Sally for this week’s prayers which are based on Glimpses of Glory by David Adam. Good and gracious God, grant us a glimpse of your glory, that we may rejoice in your presence and abide in your peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Loving Lord, help us to know that we dwell in you and you are in us. It is you, Lord, that seek out the straying and the lost: you desire to deliver all who are in trouble, you set out to rescue all who are oppressed, you come to us now and seek to bring us home. We rejoice in your presence and your almighty power. May your church share in your healing and saving power. We pray for the church working in areas of violence and rejection and all the people suffering due to all the Wars throughout the World, for all Christians who are persecuted for their faith. Lord, you are our deliverer. You are our refuge and our strength. We pray for areas of our world where people are devalued and discarded: for all who are outcasts and all who suffer from ethnic violence and prejudice. We pray that the rich and those in authority may bring relief and hope to the poor. We pray for all who are involved in tax-collecting and in the use of our taxes, for all who are in the armed forces, and for all who maintain peace and order. Lord, you are our deliverer. Lord you are our refuge and our strength. Lord, we rejoice that you are with us in our homes. Make us sensitive in our dealings with each other, attentive to the needs and desires of our loved ones. We pray for all homes where there is fear and abuse. Lord, you are our deliverer. You are our refuge and our strength. Lord, we rejoice that you are with us in our homes. Make us sensitive in our dealings with each other, attentive to the needs and desires of our loved ones. We pray for all homes where there is fear and abuse. Lord, you are our deliverer. You are our refuge and our strength. Mighty God, you are our strength. We pray for all who are frail and fearful, all who are weary and weak, all who are in pain or suffering hurt. We remember all who are captives to evil and vice. Lord, you are our deliverer. You are our refuge and our strength. We rejoice with all who have left the troubles of this world and now experience the glorious liberty of the children of God. We pray for loves ones departed. Lord, you are our deliverer. You are our refuge and our strength.