All services are currently cancelled.  But searching radio, TV and internet will show you ways for seeking Worship available in those media.


Some prayers we might like to use at this time:

Loving God

If we are ill, strengthen us

If we are tired

Fortify our spirits

If we are anxious

Help us to consider the lilies of the field and the birds of the air.

Help us not to stockpile treasures from supermarkets in the barns of our larders!

Don't let fear cause us to overlook the needs of others more vulnerable than ourselves

Fix our eyes on your story

And our hearts on your grace

Help us always to hold fast to the good and see the good in others.

And remember there is just one world, one hope,

One everlasting love, with baskets of bread for everyone.

In Jesus we make our prayer,

The one who suffered, died and was raised to new life,

In whom we trust, these days and all days. Amen

God, our rock and shield, we pray for our land, and all nations and places in our world,
as many endure the effects of the illness Covid-19 and the Coronavirus pandemic.
 
For those who are ill, grant healing;
 
for those who mourn the death of loved ones, bring comfort;
 
for those who care for the sick, grant strength and endurance;
 
for those who are isolated or whose livelihoods are threatened, give courage and hope;
 
for all who take difficult decisions, from governments to health practitioners,
give wisdom and compassion to accompany the knowledge and experience that they bring.
 
Deliver us from this disease, we pray, and enable all nations and communities
to grow in collaboration and unity as we face this challenge together.
 
Grant a legacy of enduring common purpose in facing all that threatens our global common good.
 
We pray in Jesus' name, in the unity of the Spirit, Amen.

And the people stayed home. 

And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. 

Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. 

Some met their shadows. 

And the people began to think differently.

And the people healed. 

And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.

And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.

                                                                             Kitty O’Meara

from Revd Malcolm Rothwell
 

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