A word from us...
The Living Spirit - October 13th
THE PRISONS WEEK PRAYER
Lord, you offer freedom to all people.
We pray for those in prison. Break the bonds of fear and isolation that exist. Support with your love prisoners and their families and friends, prison staff and all who care. Heal those who have been wounded by the actions of others, especially the victims of crime. Help us to forgive one another, to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly together with Christ in his strength and in his Spirit, now and every day. Amen
From Psalm 142
"I cry to you, O Lord. I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.” Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me! Bring me out of prison that I may give thanks to your name! The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me."
THE PRISONS WEEK PRAYER
Lord, you offer freedom to all people.
We pray for those in prison. Break the bonds of fear and isolation that exist. Support with your love prisoners and their families and friends, prison staff and all who care. Heal those who have been wounded by the actions of others, especially the victims of crime. Help us to forgive one another, to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly together with Christ in his strength and in his Spirit, now and every day. Amen
From Psalm 142
"I cry to you, O Lord. I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.” Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me! Bring me out of prison that I may give thanks to your name! The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me."
The Living Spirit - September 22nd
"Walk with love and care in God's earth; Walk with vital awareness of God's comprehensive vision, and purpose for creation; Walk with awe and gratitude to ensure justice to the trees and rivers as well as the person next to you - they are not without purpose in God's vision."
Archdeacon Taimalelagi Fagamalama Tuatagaloa, Samoa
From Psalm 24:
" The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein. For he has founded it upon the seas and established it on the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
"Walk with love and care in God's earth; Walk with vital awareness of God's comprehensive vision, and purpose for creation; Walk with awe and gratitude to ensure justice to the trees and rivers as well as the person next to you - they are not without purpose in God's vision."
Archdeacon Taimalelagi Fagamalama Tuatagaloa, Samoa
From Psalm 24:
" The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein. For he has founded it upon the seas and established it on the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
The Living Spirit - September 15th
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
Jurgen Moltmann
(Yesterday was Holy Cross Day)
From Psalm 34:
"The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and his ears toward their cry. The face of the Lord is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance
of them from the earth. When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit."
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
Jurgen Moltmann
(Yesterday was Holy Cross Day)
From Psalm 34:
"The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and his ears toward their cry. The face of the Lord is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance
of them from the earth. When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit."
The Living Spirit - September 8th
“Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
From Matthew 6:
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”
“Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
From Matthew 6:
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”
The Living Spirit - September 1st
“You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.”
St. Augustine of Hippo (Feast day, August 28th), “Confessions”
From Psalm 27:
"Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud, be gracious to me and answer me! “Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!” Your face, Lord do I seek.
Do not hide your face from me. Do not turn your servant away in anger, you who have been my help.
Do not cast me off do not forsake me, O God of my salvation!
If my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will take me up. Teach me your way O Lord and lead me on a level path because of my enemies. Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnessed have risen against me and they are breathing out violence.
I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord, in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord."
“You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.”
St. Augustine of Hippo (Feast day, August 28th), “Confessions”
From Psalm 27:
"Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud, be gracious to me and answer me! “Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!” Your face, Lord do I seek.
Do not hide your face from me. Do not turn your servant away in anger, you who have been my help.
Do not cast me off do not forsake me, O God of my salvation!
If my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will take me up. Teach me your way O Lord and lead me on a level path because of my enemies. Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnessed have risen against me and they are breathing out violence.
I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord, in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord."