Prayers

We hear you calling us out of our safe places, beckoning us onward to journey uncomfortably with you (19-25 June Year A)

So many in this world are refugees, leaving a cherished land behind, nothing ahead but vague hopes and shadowy fears. (19-25 June Year B)

Help us to bring change, never settling for the way things are but always trying to reflect your love, your justice, your compassion and forgiveness. (12–18 June Year C)

Today make each one of us more free: free from fear, free to live with hope and joy and generosity. (3–9 July Year A)

Help us to travel lightly Lord, as we walk into each new day. Do we need all our things, the comforts and gadgets and clutter? (3–9 July Year B)

We want to feel the world your way, flinging wide the doors and letting the breath of your cretion surround us. (Fifth Sunday of Easter Year C)

Let us offer help before we offer opinion, and let us show humility before we show judgement. (Fourth Sunday of Easter Year C)

The suffering of Christ is the suffering of all people, the suffering of all creation. (Palm Sunday, Liturgy of the Passion Year C)

We are here Lord: the young and the old, rich and poor, the wise and the foolish, healthy and infirm. (Palm Sunday Year C)

We are your unlikely body on earth; so give us the strength to help others move on from the yesterdays that bind them (Fifth Sunday in Lent Year C)

We’re coming home Lord, From the dreams of last night and the tangled thoughts of today. (Fourth Sunday in Lent Year C)

Give us a second chance, Lord, to do those things today that we should have done yesterday; to say those things we should have said yesterday. (Third Sunday in Lent Year C)

We’re not standing on any lofty mountain but we have a god who is changing us every day, making us ready to reach out and change a broken world. (Transfiguration Sunday Year C)

When we stop being tempted by illusions of lives that are more sparkly we can look around and see those who are in need here and now. (First Sunday in Lent Year C)

We are sometimes slow and foolish, so open our ears and eyes. (Third Sunday of Easter Year A)

Protect us as we venture into new things, as we become the people you already see. (4-10 February Year C)

On the second Sunday of Advent the candle lighting script is based on the theme of preparation, and the intercessions ask God to prepare us to reach out to this world. (Second Sunday of Advent Year C)

The days are short and the wind cold, and in our houses there are dark, shadowy corners. But with love and hope help us to bathe our world in sparkle and wonder.