Prayer of the Week for the Week Beginning 3rd June 2018
Grant us, O Lord, humble, lowly and quiet hearts. Give our waking hours patience, kindness and tenderness of spirit. Let all our words, our works and all our thoughts be overshadowed by the gift of your Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.
Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
Prayer of the Week for the Week Beginning 27th May 2018
In our weakness, O Lord, be our strength. In our sinfulness, be to us pardoning love. In our need, be our all sufficient grace. In our anxiety, be to us both stillness and rest, and at all times be to us the fullness of blessing; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Frances Ridley Havergal (1836 – 1879)
Prayer of the Week for the Week Beginning18th March 2018
O Love most powerful, strengthen me. O Love most sweet, let me taste your goodness. O Love most dear, let me live for you alone. O Love most faithful, comfort and support me. O Love most companionable, accompany all my deeds. O Love most victorious, persevere with me to the end; for your own name’s sake. Amen
St Gertrude of Heltfa (1256 – 1302)
Prayer of the Week for the Week Beginning 11th March 2018
Care for us, O Christ, with your tenderness; clothe us with your humility; guide us with your gentleness; rule us with your wisdom and exalt us with your love; for your mercy’s sake. Amen.
Mechthild of Magdeburg (c.1207 – 1282)
Prayer of the Week for the Week Beginning 31st December 2017
Love of the heart of Jesus, inflame me; strength of the heart of Jesus, uphold me; wisdom of the heart of Jesus, teach me; will of the heart of Jesus, guide me; zeal of the heart of Jesus, consume me, now and for ever.
Amen.
St John Eudes (1601 – 1680)
Prayer of the Week for the 10th December 2017
May we be blessed in knowing that we are
surrounded by the all-inclusive love of God,
that we see in the life of Jesus
and experience through the power of his Spirit.
Amen.
© Wendy Ross-Barker
Published with the kind permission of Wendy Ross-Barker
Prayer of the Week for the Week Beginning 3rd December 2017
O Lord our God, grant us grace to desire you with our whole heart; that so desiring, we may seek and find you; and so finding, we may love you; and so loving you, we may never return to those sins from which you have delivered us; through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
St Anselm (c.1033 – 1109)
Prayer of the Week for the Week Beginning 6th August 2017
Before ever you made us, O Lord, you loved us. Your love has never slackened nor ever shall. In love all your works have begun, by love you sustain them and in your love our life is everlasting. So let the beginning and ending of all our loving be to see our God for ever and ever. Amen.
Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – c. 1417)