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Intercessions for Trinity +19 – Year B – Proper 23 – 11 October 2015 – series 2

The Collect O God, forasmuch as without you we are not able to please you; mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and […] Continue reading »

Intercessions for Trinity +18 – Year B – Proper 22 – 4 October 2015 – series 2

The Collect Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us your gift of faith that, forsaking what lies behind and reaching out to that which is before, we may run the way of your commandments and win the crown of everlasting joy; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and  reigns with you, […] Continue reading »

Intercessions for Trinity +17 – Year B – Proper 21- 27 September 2015 – series 2

The Collect Almighty God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you: pour your love into our hearts and  draw us to yourself, and so bring us at last to your heavenly city where we shall see you face to face; through Jesus Christ your […] Continue reading »

Separate Beds And Separate Tables For The Anglican Communion?

If asked to describe through an image what it has hitherto meant to be a member of the Anglican Communion, most of us would pick, I think, not the compass rose used by the ACO (from the four corners of the earth) but a version of The Last Supper, at which all of its members […] Continue reading »

Intercessions for Trinity +16 – Year B – Proper 20 – 20 September 2015 – Series 2

  The Collect O Lord, we beseech you mercifully to hear the prayers of your people who call upon you; and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil them; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is […] Continue reading »

Milk And Sugar?

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for  thereby some have entertained angels unawares (Hebrews 13.2) Did you see Yasmeen’s story on Facebook? She has kindly allowed me to reproduce it here: I am British/Egyptian and currently live in Egypt. Here there are now hundreds of thousands of Syrians if not more. In the past years […] Continue reading »

Intercessions for Trinity + 15 – Proper 19 – Year B – 13 September 2015 – Series 2

The Collect God, who in generous mercy sent the Holy Spirit upon your Church in the burning fire of your love: grant that your people may be fervent in the fellowship of the gospel that, always abiding in you, they may be found steadfast in faith and active in service; through Jesus Christ your Son […] Continue reading »

Intercessions for Trinity +14 – Proper 18 – Year B – 6 September 2015 Series 2

The Collect Almighty God, whose only Son has opened for us a new and living way into your presence: give us pure hearts and steadfast wills to worship you in spirit and in truth; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, […] Continue reading »

Review of ‘Writing On The Word’ by Malcolm Guite

Like the rest of his many fans, I look forward eagerly to publication of the latest poems of everyone’s favourite troubadour. We have not met, but we have corresponded when he allowed me to quote from The Green Man in the guide to St Peter’s Church, Hurstbourne Tarrant. And it pleases me, partly for the […] Continue reading »

Intercessions for Trinity +13 (Year B) (Proper 17) 30 August 2015

The Collect Almighty God, who called your Church to bear witness that you were in Christ reconciling the world to yourself: help us to proclaim the good news of your love, that all who hear it may be drawn to you; through him who was lifted up on the cross, and reigns with you in […] Continue reading »

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