Category: Daily Prayer

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Friday evening prayers. We are still in the season of Easter. As we look around us, particularly on days like today, as I write, while the sun is shining, we see signs of spring all around us: gardens full of daffodils, the churchyard in our village full of primroses, longer days...

A Barbecue on the Beach Good morning, Cornerstone Friends, on this cold but promising Friday at the end of the week when we began slowly coming out of lockdown. A walk round the shops just to look in the windows and a professional haircut have been highlights for me. Let’s give thanks for the day: God...

A reading of Psalm 4 1 Answer me when I call to you, my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; have mercy on me and hear my prayer. 2 How long will you people turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods? 3 Know that the Lord has set apart...

Meeting the Risen Jesus Taking the bread, he blessed and broke and gave it to them. At that moment, open-eyed, wide-eyed, they recognised him; and then he disappeared – ‘Didn’t we feel on fire as he conversed with us on the road, as he opened up the Scriptures for us?’ Luke 24: 31–32 Message Study Bible...

CONTEMPLATING DEATH By SJ Holland Many things can take away The hope we have on earth. The losing of a job, a home, Disease, sickness, worse. To live a life of poverty. To stumble into drugs. To victimize a younger child. To search and search for love. But there is not a hopelessness That equals that...

Good morning, Cornerstone people. Are you still keeping at home, or have you ventured out to those activities that we can now enjoy: shopping, hairdressers, libraries, etc. Let us gather and share our thoughts and give thanks for being able to be more sociable this week. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise...

OH, HOW I LOVE YOU By SJ Holland We search each other’s eyes For depth of thought. We find feelings, real feelings Of deep, warm love, Never dying, But always trying to break free, To come forth And be the dream Of me and you come true. Oh, how I love you. Good evening and welcome...

AWARNESS By Sandi Holland Oh, let us savor this beginning So sublime, And rush not As excitement weighs heavily Upon our minds. Yet, we must not hesitate To answer the soft And gentle awareness, Of intense and increasing closeness. For to surrender is to Keep desire alive. And if I should die before we kiss, Happy...

This Breathless Earth By Malcolm Guite We bolted every door but even so We couldn’t catch our breath for very fear: Fear of their knocking at the gate below, Fear that they’d find and kill us even here. Though Mary’s tale had quickened all our hearts Each fleeting hope just deepens your despair: The panic grips...

When this is over, may we never again take for granted A handshake with a stranger Full shelves at the store Conversations with neighbours A crowded theatre Friday night out Receiving communion A routine check-up The school rush each morning Coffee with a friend The stadium roaring Each deep breath A boring day Life itself. When...

Good morning folks! God is good? All the time. Prayer Lord, as we prepare to enter the mystery of these three most holy days, we ask you to illumine our minds and hearts with the hope and promise of Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection. Give us eyes to see him in the breaking of the bread...

This is the point in Holy Week when the world turns for Jesus: halfway to Easter and there’s no turning back. Perhaps his Wednesday was as beautiful as ours has been – a day of warmth, a day of glorious sun, a day when you can almost see the trees awakening. Jesus was at the Synagogue...