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Prayer Matters Remember, prayer does matter - `every little helps`.
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There are times when we can never meet the future with sufficient elasticity of mind, especially if we are locked in the contemporary systems of thought. We can do worse than remember a principle which both gives us a firm Rock and leaves us the maximum elasticity for our minds: the principle: Hold to Christ, and for the rest be totally uncommitted.
Herbert Butterfield; English Historian.
February and thoughts of Spring and better times to come.

Give thanks for companions, health, homes and a steady income.

Give consideration and prayer for those who aren't so lucky. Those who fear for their jobs, their homes, their marriages and feel isolated and very alone.

Give me this night, 0 Father, the peace of mind which is truly rest.
Take from me
All envy of anyone else
All resentment for anything which has been withheld from me
All bitterness against anyone who has hurt or wronged me
All anger against the apparent injustices of life
All foolish worry about the future and all futile regret about the past.
Help me to be
At peace with myself
At peace with my fellow human beings
At peace with you
So indeed may I lay down to rest in peace,
through Jesus Christ my Lord.
Source unknown
Pray by the Day
Please use the following day-by-day guide for your prayers throughout the month.
  • Our Next Priest-in-Charge, whoever that will be
  • Our retired clergy, helping out during the interregnum
  • All preachers
  • Lay-readers
  • All those taking part in services
  • Church Wardens
  • PCC Members
  • All church officers
  • Bell Ringers
  • Home Group Leaders
  • Family Life
  • Prayer in the parish
  • The unemployed
  • Those working on the land and sea, including farmers and fishermen
  • Home Groups
  • Leaders
  • Church Visitors
  • THE BEACON team
  • Lunch Club
  • RNLI and Search & Rescue organisations
  • Royal British Legion
  • The Cornwall Air Ambulance
  • Outreach in the parish
  • Youth and Children's work
  • FUSION
  • GET-SET
  • SKYP Club
  • The Tribe
  • Sunday School, and 10 plus
  • All children's leaders
  • Little Fishes Parent and Toddler Group
  • Our schools
  • Those taking assemblies
  • Our worship
  • Organists, musicians and singers
  • Worship leaders
  • Caring professions
  • Our doctors and nurses
  • East Lizard Helpline
  • Polventon and Porthgwara
  • The elderly, bereaved and sick
Diocesan Vision
Pray for our diocese and ourselves as we work out how to implement the overall diocesan vision and strategy

Which is to:

  • Respond to God who is generous,
  • By striving to discover the Kingdom and
  • Grow the Church
The focus will be on Evangelism, Proclamation and Discipleship
Prayer Guide
A prayer for morning... and for evening
O God, who divides the day from the night, separate our deeds from the darkness of sin, and let us continually live in your light, reflecting in all that we do your eternal beauty.

O God, who gives the day for work and the night for sleep, refresh our bodies and our minds through the quiet hours of night, and let our inward eyes be directed towards you, dreaming of your eternal glory.

A Meditation

Meditate on this devotion written by Miria, who is from Tearfund partner The Church of Uganda Teso Diocese which is Jeremiah`s diocese.

Miria's prayer

Oh God, our heavenly Father,
thank you so much for this day,
the past days and the days to come.
Thank you for keeping us safe.

We are only human -just women and men
who may not even know how to pray.
Teach us today how to pray.
Hold us, today, sweet Jesus,
because tomorrow may never be ours.

Lord, help us every day to do what we ought to do.
When we stumble and fall, help us to rise.
When we go astray, please show us the way.
When happiness is gone, Lord shine in our heart.

This is our plea, one day at a time.
You, oh Christ, are all we want,
more than all, in you, we find.

Raise the fallen, cheer the faint and heal the sick.
Just and holy is your name!
We are all unworthy, yet you are full of grace.
Please remember us in this desperate position.
In Jesus` name, Amen.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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