Prayers of Power
Prayers of Power
You are a king of all and for all,
with all and in all,
forgetting nothing and forgiving everything.
(20-26 November Year B)
Prayers of Confusion and Understanding
Prayers of Confusion and Understanding
Guide us to understand the complex and baffling details of modern life;
understand what you are really telling us;
understand each other.
(Third Sunday of Easter Year B)
Advent Candle Readings – Expectation, Preparation, Justice, Joy
Prayers, Prayers for Advent and Christmas
Advent Candle Readings – Expectation, Preparation, Justice, Joy
Short advent-candle lighting scripts with weekly themes of expectation, preparation, justice and joy.
Walk With Us – Prayers of Surprise
Walk With Us – Prayers of Surprise
(Third Sunday of Easter Year A)
“Join us, surprise us
Ask the awkward questions
And reveal your living truth.”
Prayers for Insignificant People
Prayers for Insignificant People
You ask us to come in humility
so that we can be friends to the friendless,
hope to the hopeless.
(18-24 September Year B)
Prayers Because Nothing Good Comes from Here
Prayers Because Nothing Good Comes from Here
Can anything good come from this place, from the shuttered shops and minds?
Somewhere, or everywhere, your voice is calling, calling us to be the difference.
(14-20 January Year B)
Prayers – What Must We Do?
Prayers – What Must We Do?
What must we do Lord?
How can we serve your world, how can we serve each other?
What must we do Lord?
(9-15 October Year B)
Prayers of Calling
Prayers of Calling
We are trying Lord,
trying to walk in your footsteps, follow your path
and we are not really very good at it.
(16-22 October Year B)
Prayer: Free
Prayer: Free
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)
Advent Candle Readings – Future, Justice, Joy, Peace
Prayers, Prayers for Advent and Christmas
Advent Candle Readings – Future, Justice, Joy, Peace
Short advent-candle lighting scripts with weekly themes of the future, justice, joy and peace.
Prayer – looking around
Prayer – looking around
We look down at the dust we were made from, around at the people we struggle to love, out at the big wide world where we see nations and communities living in air-conditioned freshly-laundered sparkling spring-watered comfort, while others live in war-torn desert-encroached tin-shack poverty.
Pentecost Prayer: Come Suddenly
Pentecost Prayer: Come Suddenly
Come suddenly with power and love unimaginable,
leading us into
dreams and adventure
and success and failure.
(Pentecost Year B)
Prayer – Becoming All You Want Us To Be
Prayer – Becoming All You Want Us To Be
Help each of us to recognise the skills and gifts you have placed within us,
then to work hard to develop and nurture them,
so that we will become everything that you mean us to be.
(13–19 November Year A)
Prayers of Christ Here
Prayers of Christ Here
Who knows?
Who among us really knows when Christ comes?
But we see the signs of his presence all around.
(13-19 November Year B)
Prayers of Temptation and Sparkly Lives
Prayers of Temptation and Sparkly Lives
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)
Prayers for Second Chances
Prayers for Second Chances
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)
Prayer: Called Out of Our Depth
Prayer: Called Out of Our Depth
We hear you calling us out of our safe places,
beckoning us onward
to journey uncomfortably with you
(19-25 June Year A)
Prayers of Vivid Lives
Prayers of Vivid Lives
Lord our Shepherd,
today feed those fleeing from wars or terror;
don’t let us ever turn a blind eye to suffering
and be alive in the work of all those who reach out to help
(Fourth Sunday of Easter Year B)
Prayer: A Voice Calling
Prayer: A Voice Calling
Original prayers for you to use in any time of worship.
“Let us listen before we talk, let us offer help before we offer opinion,
And let us show humility before we show judgement.”
Prayers of Sacrifice
Prayers of Sacrifice
We remember those who down the generations
have given everything to build a better world.
Lord help us to bring your everlasting love to this weary earth.
(6-12 November Year B)
Prayer: Today is a New Day
Prayer: Today is a New Day
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)
Prayers of growing into your love
Prayers of growing into your love
Original prayers for you to use in any time of worship.
“Let our words be inspired by yours,
Let our motive be simply your love”.
Prayers for First Sunday of Advent
Prayers, Prayers for Advent and Christmas
Prayers for First Sunday of Advent
On the frst Sunday of Advent the candle lighting script is based on the theme of Expectation, and the intercessions expect that we will be God’s light in dark places.
(First Sunday of Advent Year C)
Prayer: Faces in the Crowd
Prayer: Faces in the Crowd
We are here Lord:
the young and the old, rich and poor,
the wise and the foolish, healthy and infirm.
(Palm Sunday Year C)
Finding the Way – Prayers for the Confused
Finding the Way – Prayers for the Confused
(Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A)
“Show us how to give up the life we struggle to have
And help us to take up your offer of abundant life, wonderful life
And then to bring the joy of your life to all those around us.”
Prayer Through Child’s Eyes
Prayer Through Child’s Eyes
Let us see again
through new eyes, a child’s eyes,
full of wonder,
full of hope.
(23-29 October Year B)
Dazzling Change – Prayers of Transfiguration
Dazzling Change – Prayers of Transfiguration
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)
Prayers in a Time of Change
Prayers in a Time of Change
You are the God who always is,
the God who never ceases
and we ask you to do a new thing today
and change everything.
(2-8 October Year B)
A voice calling – prayers to help us hear
A voice calling – prayers to help us hear
Original prayers for you to use in any Sunday service.
“to most it is a voice far off, indistinct, uncertain,
But if we listen very very hard we might hear the words:
This is my son”.
Prayers for Strangers at the Gate
Prayers for Strangers at the Gate
Open our eyes to the strangers at the gate:
the newcomer looking for a friendly face;
the huddled, weary migrants searching for a place to call home;
(4-10 September Year B)
Prayers of Worlds Transformed
Prayers of Worlds Transformed
You transformed a belief in laws into a faith of grace;
you transformed the everyday into the extraordinary.
(14-20 January Year C)
Prayers of Travelling Light
Early Summer Prayers, Featured 6, Prayers
Prayers of Travelling Light
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)
Prayers for Second Sunday of Advent
Prayers, Prayers for Advent and Christmas
Prayers for Second Sunday of Advent
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)
Prayers of Remembrance and Standing for Good
Prayers of Remembrance and Standing for Good
We remember that in every generation
people all over the world have made a choice:
who to stand for? who to live or die for?
(6–12 November Year A)
Prayers for Third Sunday of Advent
Prayers, Prayers for Advent and Christmas
Prayers for Third Sunday of Advent
On the third Sunday of Advent the candle lighting script is based on the theme of justice, and the intercessions call for us to be God’s presence in a broken world.
(Third Sunday of Advent Year C)
Prayers of Fruitfulness
Prayers of Fruitfulness
(2–8 October Year A)
We’ve tried to be good Christians when we should have been good friends.
We’ve tried to be right when we should have been fruitful.
Help us to be fruitful Lord.
All Saints Prayers – A Sea of Lights
All Saints Prayers – A Sea of Lights
If we shut our eyes really tightly
we can see a sea of lights,
the multitude of those
who have set out on your journey of faith.
Carol Service Prayers – Making Dark Places Sparkly
Prayers, Prayers for Advent and Christmas
Carol Service Prayers – Making Dark Places Sparkly
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.
Prayers – Loving Your Neighbour
Prayers – Loving Your Neighbour
We are called to love God with every part of our being,
to love friends, relations, acquaintances, strangers.
Not just love a bit, but love in abundance.
(30 October-5 November Year B)
Harvest Prayers – An Abundant World
Harvest Prayers – An Abundant World
Help us always to be amazed
and to never to take any of this for granted.
Make us glad to share the fruits and resources
with anyone and everyone
because you made it for all.
Prayers for All who are Sent
Prayers for All who are Sent
Lord, give us the power to change your world,
the openness to do it all a new way
and the courage to start now.
(25 September-1 October Year B)
Prayers of God Made Real
Prayers of God Made Real
Fill us with your spirit
and the desire to tell everyone that this is the year –
The year when they could make a difference.
(21-27 January Year C)
Prayer: Dreams of Home
Prayer: Dreams of Home
We’re coming home Lord,
From the dreams of last night and the tangled thoughts of today.
(Fourth Sunday in Lent Year C)
Prayers of Understanding and Loving
Prayers of Understanding and Loving
As we watch the news, chat and hear stories,
surprises and shocks, joys and heartbreaks,
Open our minds to understand and our hearts to love.
(Fifth Sunday of Easter Year B)
Prayer: Demolishing the Walls
Prayer: Demolishing the Walls
We want to feel the world your way,
flinging wide the doors
and letting the breath of your world surround us.
(Fifth Sunday of Easter Year C)
Pentecost Prayers: A Sudden Spark
Pentecost Prayers: A Sudden Spark
Burn your gospel of peace into the essence of our being
and your gospel of love into the core of who we are
(Pentecost Year A)
A bright new day – prayers of hope
A bright new day – prayers of hope
Original prayers to use in any time of worship.
“Under the baking skies of Africa and the stormy skies of Asia
Create rivers of hope and oases of tranquillity.”
Prayer for Putting Stuff Down
Prayer for Putting Stuff Down
We have heard a voice saying “give it up, give it all up”
and so we have come to offer up to you
all our burdens, our fears, our relationships, our hopes.
(11–17 September Year B)
Prayers for Stormy Times
Prayers for Stormy Times
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)
Prayer: Open the Gates!
Prayer: Open the Gates!
As we remember Christ entering into Jerusalem
we lay down our burdens, fears, hopes and dreams
at your feet.
(Palm Sunday Year B)
Prayer: Faith to Change The World
Prayer: Faith to Change The World
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)