Evening Prayers Tuesday, 21 April 2020
Good evening, Living Stones.
I trust that your day has been well spent in spite of the enforced isolation.
So let us join with one another in this time of prayer to emphasise our togetherness.
Christ the healer,
thank you for the variety and richness of our individual stories
and the weaving of your presence through our lives.
Amen
Search me O God and know my heart
O Lord you have searched me out and know me
you know my sitting down and my rising up
you discern my thoughts from afar.
You mark out my journeys and my resting place
and are acquainted withal my ways.
For there is not a word on my tongue
but you, O Lord, know it altogether.
You encompass me behind and before
and lay your hand on me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me
so high that I can never attain it.
Search me O God and know my heart.
Psalm 139 verses 1-5 (Common Worship)
We have been loved by God from before the beginning.
Mother Julian of Norwich
As the two disciples came near the village to which they were going, Jesus walked ahead as if he were going on. But they urged him strongly, saying ‘Stay with us because it is almost evening and the day is nearly over.’ So he went to stay with them.
When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.
Then their eyes were opened, and they recognised him; and he vanished from their sight. They said to each other ‘Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scripture to us?’
Luke 24: 28–32
As our evening prayer rises before you, O God,
so may your mercy come down upon us
to cleanse our hearts
and set us free to sing your praise
now and for ever.
Amen
Looking for the coming of his kingdom, as our Saviour taught us, so we pray:
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come, your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power and the glory
are yours now and for ever.
Amen
Let us commend ourselves and the world, in which Christ rose from the dead, to the mercy and protection of God.
Have a peaceful night, good friends, and awake to the gift of a new day tomorrow.
