Author: Robin.Kyd

Morning Prayer Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Good morning Cornerstone friends. I hope you find this morning refreshed from sleep and ready for the day. When you join in these thoughts and prayers I shall be miles away in Sussex near where I grew up, to visit my brother and family and places of my childhood near the South Downs, but close enough...

Choral Evensong for Ascensiontide Sunday, 16 May 2021

Led by Revd Tim Norwood Music before the Service: Andante in C for flute W.A. Mozart (1778) K 315/285e performed by Abigail Burrows (flute) Adrian Boynton (piano) Introit God is gone up with a merry noise and the Lord with the sound of the trumpet. O sing praises unto our God. O sing praises unto our King....

Service of the Word for Sunday, 16 May 2021

This Service will be by Zoom at 10.00 am. Click this link to join the Service: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83042102692?pwd=WlZDdlp0VUZER2twcCtKblkzOXNDUT09 Meeting ID: 830 4210 2692 Passcode: 177645 Led by Revd Ernesto Lozada-Uzuriaga Welcome Prayer of the Week God of yesterday, tomorrow and today, we are children of the world you love and care for. We praise you, heavenly Father, for...

Prayer of the Week 16 May2021

God of yesterday, tomorrow and today,
we are children of the world you love and care for.
We praise you, heavenly Father, for calling us into relationship with you.
We praise you, Lord Jesus, for the power of your name and the protection of your prayers.
We praise you, Holy Spirit, for your guidance and gifts that enable us to draw others to you.
For you are faithful in times of uncertainty, strong when we are weak,
and the breath of all our being, the energy of all our doing and the peace of all our resting.
Amen

Evening Prayer Friday, 14 May 2021

Good evening, everyone. We are coming to the end of Christian Aid Week. My involvement with this charity has varied considerably over the years. For many years, I delivered envelopes and collected ‘house to house’. In more recent times, I have continued to support them, reading the news bulletin which they send me on a regular...

Morning Prayer Friday, 14 May 2021

Good morning Cornerstone Friends as we reach the mid-point of May. Like the trees moving into the full green of their summer clothing, our lives are moving into more sociability – another small step towards full communion. Let’s welcome the day and its opportunities! Refreshing Spirit of God, we welcome this day of fresh opportunity and...

Evening Prayer Thursday, 13 May 2021 Ascension Day

A reading from the Acts of the Apostles Jesus Taken up into Heaven 1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3 After his suffering, he...

Morning Prayer Thursday, 13 May 2021

Never Give up Your Loyalty Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2: 15 NIV® The Christian faith has always been passed from neighbour to neighbour from generation to generation, and from culture...

Morning Prayer Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Good morning on this green refreshing world, good Cornerstone friends. Alleluia. Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights. Praise him all his angels; praise him all his host. Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the world; Young men and women, old and young together; let them...

Music to End the Day Sunday, 9 May 2021

Hello everyone Our worship this weekend continues to focus on inspirational words from John, chapter 15: ‘As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Dwell in my love. … You did not choose me: I chose you. I appointed you to go on and bear fruit, fruit that will last. … This is my...

Sermon for Sunday, 9 May 2021 Easter 6

By Revd George Mwaura Psalm 98 and John 15: 9–17 Friends Christ, who calls us friends, speak to us in the silence of this space, and teach us to befriend those who seek and hunger for true friendship. Amen If someone were to ask you to describe your best friend, or the qualities that makes someone...

Holy Communion for Sunday, 9 May 2021

This Service will be by Zoom at 10.00 am. Click this link to join the Service: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84537860106?pwd=bTkzM2lVbjkxMWZ3NGg1dUhVaWswZz09 Meeting ID: 845 3786 0106 Passcode: 439628 Preacher: Revd George Mwaura Celebrant: Revd Ernesto Lozada-Uzuriaga Gathering music Introit: Ubi Caritas Welcome Prayer of the Week God of all, we give you thanks for the gift of friendship: for the giving...

Prayer of the Week 9 May 2021

God of all,
we give you thanks for the gift of friendship: for the giving and the receiving;
for the opportunities and the challenges; for the laughter and the tears;
for the conversations and the silence; for the moments and the memories.
Draw us deeper into your love, and bless us with the confidence
to proclaim Jesus as our dearest friend, teacher and Saviour.
We ask this in his name.
Amen

Evening Prayer Friday, 7 May 2021

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Friday evening prayers. This evening, we are going to begin our prayers with a hymn which recognises that God, our Creator, watches over everything in His world and all that happens in it. In the darkness of the still night in the dawning of the daylight, in the mystery of creation,...

Morning Prayer Friday, 7 May 2021

Where your treasure is, there your heart will also be! Welcome friends to a day to be treasured, blessed with blue skies and warming sun. Let us begin with a song of thanksgiving! Lord of Life and the one who blesses this day with beauty, we are thankful that we can enjoy your limitless bounty. Thank...