Category: Daily Prayer

Advent Waiting Good morning to everyone joining the People of Christ the Cornerstone to greet this new day in prayer Let’s begin with Psalm 130: 5–8. I wait for the Lord with longing, I put my hope in his word. My soul waits for the Lord more eagerly than watchmen for the morning. Like those who...

A reading of Psalm 46 1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, 3 though its waters roar and foam< and the mountains quake with their surging. 4 There is a river whose streams make...

The Unfolding Word of God ‘The Word of God has been gradually unfolded all through the Old Testament, throughout the New Testament and ever since.’ The coming birth and ministry of Jesus was foretold mainly by Isaiah in the Old Testament. He prophesied hundreds of years before Jesus, our Messiah (anointed one) came to earth. We...

To Live in the Mercy of God By Denise Levertov To lie back under the tallest oldest trees. How far the stems rise, rise before ribs of shelter open! To live in the mercy of God. The complete sentence too adequate, has no give. Awe, not comfort. Stone, elbows of stony wood beneath lenient moss bed....

Good morning, Cornerstone friends, on what is likely, at first, to be a wet morning in Milton Keynes, but that need not deter us. It is a new day and I hope you have sufficient time for some quiet reflection. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and of great kindness. He...

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost  Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the...

Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins  Glory be to God for dappled things — For skies of couple-color as a brindled cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscapes plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle,...

How Can I Repay You by Tychon of Zadonsk  How shall I repay your generosity, O my Lover? How shall I repay you for all you have given me? If I had died a thousand times for your sake, it would be as nothing. You are my Lord, and I am just clay and ashes, a...

My Heart Leaps Up By William Wordsworth   My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I...

Good evening, everyone. Advent – The coming of Christ Let’s begin our prayers this evening with a congregational hymn which welcomes Christ into our lives. Please click on the link below for ‘Hark the glad sound, the Saviour comes.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeBRYhG86x0 If, like me, you are just beginning to register that Christmas really is only a few...

Welcome to this first Friday of a tier-2 Advent. We’re preparing for Christmas one small, tentative step at a time, in the beginning of winter, amid the rain and the sleet and the cold. Yet still, we can greet the day in hopeful prayer. O Lord we welcome the light of this new day, bringing its...

A reading from the Book of Job Where Wisdom is Found 1 There is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined. 2 Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore. … 12 But where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell? 13 No mortal comprehends its worth;Vit cannot be found in...

Season of Hope and Light The word ‘Advent’ means ‘coming’ or ‘arrival’. This season marks the beginning of the Church’s year and is celebrated on the four Sundays before Christmas. Advent is significant for three main reasons: we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ; this was His first coming to earth; Jesus provided salvation...

You who want knowledge, see the Oneness within. There you will find the clear mirror already waiting. Hadewijch II (Antwerp, 13th century) [translated by Jane Hirshfield] Good evening and welcome to Evening Prayers That this evening may be holy, good and peaceful, let us pray with one heart and mind. Silence is kept.  As our evening...