Category: Daily Prayer

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to our Friday evening prayers. On Sunday we read the introduction to Psalm 107, and those of you involved in the Lent study groups will know that this was also referred to in this week’s study. These verses refer to God’s unchanging love and his grace in extending that to everyone, throughout...

Welcome and Good Morning to you all wherever or whenever in the world you may be. Just four more weeks to go in this phase of pandemic lockdown – just a few more sleeps until we can begin to emerge from behind the barricades. Some words for today from Psalm 18: I love you, Lord my...

We begin our prayers this evening with the Lenten prayer that forms part of our Lent study materials and that we are using as the Prayer of the Week in our Sunday morning services throughout Lent: Lenten Prayer God who calls us on our journey, as we remember Jesus’ time in the wilderness, help us to...

Good morning, Living Stones! God is good? All the time.… What a joy to join you this morning for prayers as we start the day … A moment of silence as we gather our thoughts … Lord, speak to us in the quietness of our daily lives and assure us of your everlasting love, even in...

The Prayer of Saint Patrick I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, Through a belief in the Threeness, Through confession of the Oneness Of the Creator of creation. I arise today Through the strength of Christ’s birth and His baptism, Through the strength of His crucifixion and His burial, Through the...

Good morning to you on this day of the patron saint of Ireland, St Patrick. We are now in the second half of Lent; Easter is getting closer. From today, each day is going to be longer than the night before it until nearly the end of September. Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High...

Ashes to Ashes By Tias Little I am on my back, now At the end of a long and circuitous march Down hallways, into rooms and kitchens. I’m done building, raising up, tearing down I’m done trying to get from A to B No straight lines, geometry or form The architecture of me vanished. It’s difficult...

Spring By Mary Oliver Somewhere a black bear has just risen from sleep and is staring down the mountain. All night in the brisk and shallow restlessness of early spring I think of her, her four black fists flicking the gravel, her tongue like a red fire touching the grass, the cold water. There is only...

Pantoum for Postpartum By Brittany Rogers I birth a child, and the wet wound never closes. My mother diagnoses postpartum casuallyas if saying — mail is here, and your name is on it. Explains the drilling is nothing I asked for, overripe nerves happen sometimes. My mother announces my postpartum casually, says in her day, black...

My favorite time is in time’s other side By Etel Adnan My favorite time is in time’s other side, its other identity, the kind that collapses and sometimes reappears, and sometimes doesn’t. The one that looks like marshmallows, pomegranates, and stranger things, before returning to its kind of abstraction. I used to be fond of time...

Thank you, God, for the wonder of your creation; for taking such care of us. Help us to remember: each of us matters to you; you hurt when we hurt; you rejoice when we feel happy and fulfilled; you are saddened when we neglect you and neglect others. As we approach Mothering Sunday this weekend, we...

Good morning, Friends of Christ the Cornerstone! Stretch and breathe deeply of the early air, fling open the curtains on our still-damp world and praise God for this gift of a fresh new day! Preserving God, who holds us close in the darkness of night, stay close to us in all we undertake today. Give us...

We begin our prayers this evening with the Lenten prayer that forms part of our Lent study materials and that we are using as the Prayer of the Week in our Sunday morning services throughout Lent: Lenten Prayer God who calls us on our journey, as we remember Jesus’ time in the wilderness, help us to...

Lord, open our lips, and our mouths shall proclaim your praise! Good morning and welcome to this session of morning prayers. Ordinarily, our sister Glynne Gordon-Carter would be bringing us our devotions, but she is a wee bit under the weather. Hold her in your prayers, will you! Opening Prayer Gracious God, we call your holy...