CALENDAR
OF PRAYER
FOR THE CHURCH AND THE
DIOCESE
January,
February &
March 2015
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The Anglican Cycle of Prayer
ACP
The Porvoo Communion - An Invitation to Prayer
Porvoo
Mission Partners
MP
Zambia Link
Z
The Anglican/Methodist Covenant
Ang./Meth.
The Accord of Reuilly
Reuilly
Please remember regularly in your prayers the ministry
of the charity ReSource (based in Wells) as they work
with Churches and Groups across the U.K. supporting
Church renewal, mission, outreach and, in particular,
their healing ministry.
On December 28th last, we celebrated the “Feast of the
Holy Innocents" but the suffering of innocents knows no
end. Each and every week, without exception, Innocents both child and adult - are wilfully killed by gang or family
violence, terrorist or military action, drunken or
aggressive driving. There are also those who kill
themselves and, sometimes, their family and unrelated
others following the darkest despair, unbearable
rejection, unendurable pain or perceived shame. The
mentally disturbed also sometimes kill, often at random.
For the victims, it is over and they are at peace, beyond
further hurt. But do not forget that, for their families and
friends, it is never over: the pain and despair can endure
without limit. Please remember these Innocents and
their loved ones - by name if possible - in your prayers at
the end of each week. Remember also those for whom
each day is filled with fear, whose innocence has been
destroyed and trust undermined by violent, predatory
and unscrupulous individuals often in a position of trust
and authority. Those who have caused these hurts are
not themselves beyond the reach of God’s Love and
forgiveness, even though difficult or even impossible for
us, and should also be remembered by us.
Pray also for the many suffering in Egypt, Iran, Iraq,
Israel, Nigeria, Palestine, Syria and the Ukraine from
politically or religiously inspired violence especially death
threats towards Christians as well as from famine.
Please remember those, some of whom you can name,
who suffer from enduring ill-health – whether physical or
mental - including those assailed by a fresh problem
each time the previous problem clears. Remember as
well those who suffer alongside their family member or
friend.
Remember those brought low by natural catastrophes,
often made worse by indifference, corruption and
inefficiency including those still enduring the after
effects of flooding in Somerset and other places.
Each Saturday is marked "Innocents” as an aide
memoire.
Sunday 28-Dec-2014 – Christmas 1 - Holy Innocents
A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of bitter weeping.
Rachel is crying for her children; she refuses to be
comforted; for they are dead.
Pray for the holy innocents of Israel, victims of fear and
anti-Semitism.
Lord have mercy upon us, Christ have mercy
upon us.
A sound is heard in Gaza, the sound of bitter weeping.
Pray for the holy innocents of the camps, victims of
displacement and injustice.
Lord have mercy upon us, Christ have mercy
upon us.
A sound is heard in Mogadishu, the sound of bitter
weeping.
Pray for the holy innocents of Somalia, victims of war
and famine.
Lord have mercy upon us, Christ have mercy
upon us.
A sound is heard in London, the sound of bitter weeping.
Pray for the holy innocents of Britain, victims of
indifference and greed.
Lord have mercy upon us, Christ have mercy
upon us.
A sound is heard in our own town, the sound of bitter
weeping.
Pray for the holy innocents in our midst, victims of
violence and selfishness.
Lord have mercy upon us, Christ have mercy
upon us.
(Scotland: taken from a litany of the Iona Community.
The full litany includes many other countries and needs.)
ACP: Kushtia - (Bangladesh) RR Sunil Mankhin
Porvoo: Church of Norway: Diocese of Oslo, Bp Ole
Christian Kvarme
CofE: Diocese of Durham, vacancy, Bp Mark
Bryant
Scottish Episcopal Church: Diocese of Moray
Ross and Caithness, Bp Mark Strange
MP : Lois Dingley in Nepal with INF
Z : St Mary & St John, Kwacha, the Revd Peter Chapewa
SHEPTON MALLET DEANERY (Wells)
RD Alastair Wheeler. LC Chris Jenkins
Monday 29-Dec-2014
ACP: Kwara - (Kwara, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Olusegun
Adeyemi Kutigi - (Lokoja, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Jeremiah
Kolo
Ashwick with Oakhill and Binegar
PiC (1/2 T) Richard Priestly (CA), Rpto Grenville Reakes
Tuesday 30-Dec-2014
ACP: Kwoi - (Abuja, Nigeria) RR Paul Zamani
Please pray for those who will today seek healing in St.
John’s Church, Glastonbury (12.00) as well as for those
who will pray alongside them.
Coxley with Godney, Henton and Wookey
PiC Paul
Clarke & Rachel
Wednesday 31-Dec-2014
ACP: ACP: Kyoto - (Japan) RR Stephen Takashi Kochi
CELCOP
Bell Ringers throughout the Diocese.
The Bath & Wells Diocesan Association of Change
Ringers
NEW YEAR'S EVE
ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father, Who hast given us
grace in times past, and hast mercifully brought us to
see the end of another year, grant that we may continue
to grow in grace and in the knowledge of Thy dear Son.
Lead us forward by Thy Spirit, from strength to strength,
that we may more perfectly serve Thee, and attain unto
a more lively hope of Thy mercy in Christ Jesus. Quicken
our dull hearts, inspire us with warmer affections for
Thee, 0 God, and for Thy heavenly Truth. Stir up the gift
that is in us, and. pour down from above more abundant
gifts of grace, that we may make progress in heavenly
things. Increase our faith as Thou dost increase our
years, and the longer we are suffered to abide on earth,
the better may our service be, the more willing our
obedience, the more consistent our daily lives, the more
complete our devotion to Thee. Grant this our prayer, 0
gracious Father, which we humbly offer at the throne of
grace, in the name and for the sake of Jesus Christ Thy
Son, our Lord and Saviour. Amen. (Tracts for Christian
Seasons, Nineteenth Century.)
(From “A Chain of
Prayer” – S.F. Fox. 1918)
At the end of the road, there is no more road but the
Goal
– the term of
pilgrimage
At the end of the night, there is no more night but the
Dawn
At the end of winter, there is no more winter but the
Spring
At the end of death, there is no more death but Life
At the end of despair, there is no more despair but Hope
At the end of humankind, there is no more humankind
but God made Man,
Jesus Christ.
Original French text by J.C. Folliet, translation
by M.D.R.
Thursday 01-Jan-2015 The Naming and Circumcision of
Jesus.
Almighty God, who madest thy blessed Son
to be circumcised, and obedient to the law
for men : Grant us the true circumcision of
the Spirit ; that, our hearts, and all our
members, being mortified from all worldly
and carnal lusts, we may in all things obey
thy blessed will; through the same thy Son
Jesus Christ our Lord.
ACP: Kyushu - (Japan) RR Luke Ken-ichi Muto
Fosse Trinity
(Ditcheat, East Pennard &
Pylle)
PiC Christine Donkersley & Edward, LR Jean Halford
Friday 02-Jan-2015
ACP: Lafia - (Abuja, Nigeria) RR Miller Maza
Pilton with Croscombe, North Wootton and Dinder
PiC Christine Butler, AC Elaine Brightwell, LR Susan
Green
Saturday 03-Jan-2015
ACP: Lagos - (Lagos, Nigeria) MR Ephraim Ademowo
Innocents
Please pray for those who will today seek healing in
Wells Cathedral (12.00) as well as for those who will
pray alongside them.
Prayer from the Methodist Covenant Service
(The Methodist Worship Book, Methodist Publishing
House pub. 1999)
I am no longer my own, but Yours.
Put me to what You will, rank me with whom You
will;
put me to doing, put me to suffering;
let me be employed for You or laid aside for You,
exalted for You or brought low for You;
let me be full, let me be empty
let me have all things, let me have nothing;
I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things
to your pleasure and disposal.
And now, glorious and blessed God,
You are mine and I am Yours.
So be it.
And the covenant now made on earth, let it be
ratified in heaven. Amen.
(Dare you pray this prayer without
reservations?)
Sunday 04-Jan-2015 Christmas 3
ACP: Lagos West - (Lagos, Nigeria) RR James Odedeji;
Lagos Mainland - RR Adebayo Akinde
Porvoo: Chichester : Bp Martin Warner, Bp Mark
Sowerby, Bp Richard
Jackson; Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Finland: Diocese of
Mikkeli, Bp Seppo Häkkinen
Ang/Meth : Covenant Sunday
MP : Dan & Rachel King in Tanzania with Wycliffe Bible
Translators
Z : St Mary, Mindolo, the Revd Dismas Chanda
SHEPTON MALLET DEANERY (Wells) cont.
Please pray for all having PTO within the
Deanery.
Monday 05-Jan-2015
ACP: Lahore - (Pakistan) RR Irfan Jamil
Shepton Mallet with Doulting and West Cranmore
R vacant, AV & Mission Enabler (1/2T) Richard Priestly,
Rpto David Dixon, LR Albert Owen, LR Kirsteen Heselton,
LR Julian Tucker, Rpto Betty Craig, Rpto Rose Longman,
LR Gillian Goodall.
Shepton Mallet – St. Peter & St. Paul is joint
Anglican/Methodist.
Methodist Minister – Roly Sims, Lay Worker Janet Day.
Please pray for the Churchwardens and PCC during the
vacancy
Tuesday 06-Jan-2015 - The Epiphany
O God, who revealed your only Son to the
Gentiles by the leading of a star, mercifully
grant that we, who know you now by faith, may
after this life enjoy the splendour of your
gracious Godhead, through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen
Wells St Cuthbert with Wookey Hole
V Alastair Wheeler & Bridget, AP(NS) Jennifer Cole, AC
Elizabeth Sidwell, LR Alistair Glanville, Rpto Robin White.
Wednesday 07-Jan-2015
ACP: Lainya - (Sudan) RR Peter Amidi Pitia
CELCOP
Wells St Thomas with Horrington (no church) and
Chewton Mendip with Ston Easton, Litton and
Emborough (no church)
V Tobie Osmond, AP HfD James Latty, AP Nick Fridd &
Fiona, AC Clare Margaret Cowlin, LR Chris Jenkins, LR
Margaret Hendy.
Thursday 08-Jan-2015
ACP: Lake Malawi - (Central Africa) RR Francis Kaulanda
Cathedral Church of St Andrew in Wells
Dean John Clarke & Cressida, Chancellor Andrew
Featherstone & Lesley, Treasurer Graham Dodds &
Pauline, Precentor Nicholas Jephson-Biddle & Joanna,
Archdeacon of Wells Nicola Sullivan, Sub Dean Paula
Hollingsworth, Administrator Paul Richards, Lay Canons
Adrian I’Anson, Gill Hawkings & Barbara Bates, LR
Caroline Byrne, Voluntary Chaplains and Cathedral
Friends.
Friday 09-Jan-2015
Lake Rukwa - (Tanzania) RR Mathayo Kasagara
Bp of Bath & Wells – Peter Hancock & Jane, Bp of
Taunton – Peter Maurice & Liz, Bp’s Ch. Michael Caddy
and the Bishop’s Staff.
Please pray for all Assistant Bishops helping within the
Diocese.
Saturday 10-Jan-2015
ACP: Lango - (Uganda) RR John Charles Odurkami
Innocents
The Blue School, Wells (CofE V.C.) :
Please pray for the pupils, staff and Head Stephen
Jackson, Ch. Joy Hawes.
Sunday 11-Jan-2015 - Epiphany 1
ACP: Langtang - (Jos, Nigeria) RR Stanley Fube
Porvoo: London: Bp Richard Chartres, Bp Adrian
Newman, Bp Peter Wheatley, Bp Pete Broadbent, Bp
Paul Williams, Bp Jonathan Baker
Church of Norway: Diocese of Nidaros/ New see and
Trondheim, PB Helga Haugland Byfuglien, Bp Tor
Singsaas
MP : Miriam Knowles working with Neema Crafts in
Tanzania with CMS
Z : St Bernard & St Cyprian Churches in Mufulira, the
Revd Williams
Chisanga
SHEPTON MALLET DEANERY (Wells) cont.
Monday 12-Jan-2015
ACP: Lebombo - (Southern Africa) VR Carlos Simao
Matsinhe
Wells Cathedral School : Please pray for the pupils,
staff and Head Elizabeth Cairncross , Ch Juliette Hulme
Tuesday 13-Jan-2015
ACP: Leicester - RR Timothy John Stevens; AB
Christopher John Boyle
Please pray for the Bishop’s Staff Meeting today
Whitstone School, Shepton Mallet :
Please pray for the pupils, staff and Acting Head
Steve Smith.
Wednesday 14-Jan-2015
ACP: Lesotho - (Southern Africa) RR Adam Mallane Taaso
CELCOP
Shepton Mallet Community Hospital
Please pray for the patients and staff.
Thursday 15-Jan-2015
ACP: Lexington - (IV, The Episcopal Church) RR Douglas
Hahn
Please join your prayers with those of the prayers of the
Mothers’ Unions of Chew Magna and Midsomer Norton
Deaneries as they pray in the Cathedral today at 11.30 .
Shepton Mallet N.H.S Treatment Centre
Please pray for the patients and staff.
Friday 16-Jan-2015
ACP: Liberia - (West Africa)RR Jonathan Bau-Bau
Bonaparte Hart
Please pray for all those working in The School of
Formation.
Saturday 17-Jan-2015
ACP: Lichfield – RR Jonathan Michael Gledhill
,Shrewsbury - RR Mark James Rylands; Stafford - RR
Geoffrey Peter Annas; Wolverhampton - RR Clive Gregory
Innocents
Please pray for all Benefice Treasurers
Sunday 18-Jan-2015 - Epiphany 2 - Octave of Prayer
for Christian Unity
Creator of the universe, who made us different
from one another in myriad ways we can see
And in more ways we shall never know, yet
made us all in your image;
Fill our hearts with your love and our minds with
your wisdom,
That we may truly become brothers and sisters
of your only Son,
Our Saviour Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and
reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
One God, now and for ever. Amen.
(Lionel Deimel)
ACP: London - RR & Rt Hon Richard John Carew Chartres;
Edmonton – RR Peter William Wheatley; Fulham - RR
Jonathan Mark Richard Baker; Kensington – RR Paul
Gavin Williams; Stepney - RR Adrian Newman; Willesden
– RR Peter Allan Broadbent
Porvoo: ELC in Finland: Diocese of Oulu, Bp Samuel
Salmi; Church of Norway: Diocese of Soer-Hålogaland
(Bodoe), Bp Tor Berger Joergensen; Coventry: Bp Chris
Cocksworth, Bp John Stroyan.
MP : Bp Rob & Sue Martin in Marsabit, Kenya with
Crosslinks
Z : St Joseph, Mufulira, the Revd Alfred Sichone
5 - CHEW MAGNA DEANERY (Bath) (9)
RD Jane Chamberlain, LC Sue Lloyd.
Monday 19-Jan-2015
ACP: Lincoln - RR Christopher Lowson; Grantham – RR
Timothy William Ellis; Grimsby - RR David Eric Court
Clutton with Cameley, Bishop Sutton and Stowey,
R Mark Cregan & Juliet, LR Frank Tucker.
Tuesday 20-Jan-2015
ACP: Litoral Ecuador - (IX, The Episcopal Church) RR
Alfredo Morante
Please pray for Debbie Turley as she is licensed as Vicar
of St. Peter’s, Lyngford, Taunton.
Blagdon with Compton Martin and Ubley
R Jane Chamberlain & Simon, Rpto Derrick Teague, LR
Lucy Hemsley, LR Gene Joyner.
Wednesday 21-Jan-2015
ACP: Liverpool - RR Paul Bayes; Warrington – RR Richard
Finn Blackburn
CELCOP
Please pray for the Diocesan Synod Meeting today.
The Lakeside Group. (Chew Magna with Dundry,
Norton Malreward and Stanton Drew).
R Charles Roberts & Julie, AC Sandra Elaine Lovern, Rpto
Pauline Primrose, Rpto Margaret Masding, Rpto Pamela
Harman
and Chew Stoke with Nempnett Thrubwell
PiC Charles Roberts, HfDP Victor Barley & Anthea
Thursday 22-Jan-2015
ACP: MR Barry Morgan Abp of Wales & Bp of Llandaff; AB
David Wilbourne
East Harptree with West Harptree and Hinton Blewet
HfDP Catherine Lleweyn-Evans,
Rpto John Hall
Friday 23-Jan-2015
ACP: Lokoja - (Lokoja, Nigeria) MR Emmanuel
Sokowamju Egbunu
Farmborough and Marksbury and Stanton Prior
R Jan Knott & Nicholas, LR
Yvonne Fry.
Saturday 24-Jan-2015
ACP: Limerick & Killaloe - (Dublin, Ireland) Revd Canon
Kenneth Kearon
Innocents
Keynsham Team Ministry
TR Stephen M’Caw & Caroline, TV Andrew Judge &
Amanda, AC Ian Douglas Russel, AC Denise Mary
Calverley, LR Edmund Cannon, LR Rachel Hall, LR June
Lowe, Rpto Les Herbert.
Sunday 25-Jan-2015 - Epiphany 3 – The Conversion of
Paul.
Today, Lord, we celebrate the conversion of
Saint Paul, your chosen vessel for carrying your
name to the whole world.
Help us to make our way towards you by
following in his footsteps, and by witnessing to
your truth before the men and women of our
day.
We make our prayer through the Lord.
ACP: Long Island - (II, The Episcopal Church) RR
Lawrence Provenzano
Porvoo: ELC in Finland: Diocese of Tampere, Bp Matti
Repo; Manchester : Bp David Walker, Bp Chris
Edmondson, Bp Mark Davies
Meth/Ang : Homelessness Sunday
MP : Hazel Maunsell in Ethiopia with Crosslinks
Z : St Mary, Mufulira, the Revd Fraser Kachekoti
CHEW MAGNA DEANERY (Bath) cont.
Please pray for all having PTO within the Deanery.
Monday 26-Jan-2015
ACP: Los Angeles - (VIII, The Episcopal Church) RR Jon
Bruno; 1. SB Mary Glasspool; 2. SB Diane Jardine Bruce
Publow with Pensford (no church), Compton Dando and
Chelwood
HfDP John Simpson & Carol, Rpto Sue Stevens, Rpto
Noreen Busby.
Tuesday 27-Jan-2015 Holocaust Memorial Day
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out - because I was
not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out - because I was
not a communist
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out - because I was
not a trade unionist
Then they came for me and by then there was no one left to
speak out for me.
Pastor Martin
Niemoller
ACP: Louisiana - (IV, The Episcopal Church) RR Morris
Thompson
Please pray for those who will today seek healing in St.
John’s Church, Glastonbury (12.00) as well as for those
who will pray alongside them.
Please pray for the Bishop’s Council Meeting today
Saltford with Corston and Newton St Loe
R vacant, LR Anthony Acton, LR Ken Plant, LR Robin
Dixon, Rpto Trevor Ewins, Rpto Peter Davies.
Please pray for the Churchwardens and PCC during the
vacancy
Wednesday 28-Jan-2015
ACP: Luapula - (Central Africa) RR Robert Mumbi
CELCOP
Winford with Felton Common Hill
PiC Paul Stephens & Lesley, LR Angela Heard.
Thursday 29-Jan-2015
ACP: Lucknow - (North India) RR Maurice Dan
Broadlands School, Keynsham :
Please pray for the pupils, staff and Head
Mrs. L.P. Ogden
Friday 30-Jan-2015
ACP: Lui - (Sudan) RR Stephen Dokolo Ismail
Wellsway School, Keynsham :
Please pray for the pupils, staff and Head
Mrs. A. Arlidge.
Saturday 31-Jan-2015
ACP: Lusaka - (Central Africa) RR David Njovu
Innocents
Please pray for all Readers and Priests who, by reason of
age or infirmity, are no longer able to actively serve their
Lord.
Sunday 01-Feb-2015 - Epiphany 4
ACP: Luwero - (Uganda) RR Evans Kisekka
Porvoo: Birmingham : Bp David Urquhart, Bp Andrew
Watson; CofI: Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, Bp Paul
Colton; ELC in Denmark: Diocese of Elsinore, Bp LiseLotte Rebel
Meth/Ang. : Education Sunday
MP : Ben & Katy Ray in Tanzania with CMS
Z : St Alban’s, Solwezi, the Revd Chama Kashimoto
TONE DEANERY (Taunton) (5)
RD Matthew Tregenza, LC Rachel Renfree.
Monday 02-Feb-2015 - The Presentation of our Lord:
Candlemas
O Lord Jesus Christ, who as a child was
presented in the temple and received with joy by
Simeon and Anna as the Redeemer of Israel :
Mercifully grant that we, like them, may be
guided by the Holy Spirit to acknowledge and
love you until our lives’ end; who with God the
Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit; lives and
reigns God, world without end.
(Church of South India ; Feast
of the Purification)
ACP: Lweru - (Tanzania) RR Jackton Yeremiah Lugumira
Please pray for the Bishop’s Staff Meeting today
Bishops Lydeard with Lydeard St Lawrence,
Bagborough, Combe Florey and Cothelstone
R Matthew Tregenza & Claire, AV-HfD Maureen Young &
David, Rpto Joan Smith, RE John Stedman
Tuesday 03-Feb-2015
ACP: Machakos - (Kenya) RR Joseph Mutungi
Deane Vale Benefice.
Oake, Hillfarrance and Heathfield with Cotford St Luke
R Alison Norris & Andrew, AC Keith Brindle & Anna.
Wednesday 04-Feb-2015
ACP: Madhya Kerala - (South India) RR Thomas
Kanjirappally Oommen
CELCOP
Milverton with Halse, Fitzhead and Ash Priors
R Helene Stainer
Thursday 05-Feb-2015
ACP: Madi & West Nile - (Uganda) RR Joel Obetia
Wellington and District Team Ministry
(Wellington - Ashbrittle with Greenham; Bathealton;
Kittisford; Stawley - Rockwell Green; Thorne St Margaret
; Sampford Arundel - Bradford on Tone; Langford
Budville; Nynehead; Runnington; West Buckland)
TR Tim Treanor & Emma, TV Christopher Rowley &
Mandy, TV Allan Ellacot,TV + Missioner Steve Painting &
Claire, LR Elaine McNicholas, LR Sandra Lee, Rpto John
Elder, RE Peter Horsford.
Friday 06-Feb-2015
ACP: Madurai-Ramnad - (South India) RR Marialouis
Joseph
Wiveliscombe and the Hills (Wiveliscombe, Chipstable,
Huish Champflower , Clatworthy, Brompton Ralph and
Tolland)
R David Widdows & Becky, LR Martin Valuks, LR Mrs.
Vigdis Rorvik Adams.
Saturday 07-Feb-2015
ACP: Mahajanga - (Indian Ocean) RR Jean Claude
Andrianjafimanana
Innocents
Please pray for those who will today seek healing in
Wells Cathedral (12.00) as well as for those who will
pray alongside them.
Bishops Henderson, Taunton :
Please pray for the pupils, staff Head & Ch
Jenney Jeffrey
Sunday 08-Feb-2015 - 2 Lent
ACP: Maiduguri - (Jos, Nigeria) RR Emmanuel Kana Mani
Porvoo: CinW: Bangor: Bp Andrew John; CofI : Diocese of
Dublin and Glendalough, Abp Michael Jackson
MP : Sheila Tremaine in Brazil with Wycliffe Bible
Translators
Z : the Rt Revd David Njovu, Bishop of Lusaka
TONE DEANERY (Taunton) cont.
Please pray for all having PTO within the Deanery.
Monday 09-Feb-2015
ACP: Maine - (I, The Episcopal Church) RR Stephen Lane
Courtfields Community School, Wellington :
Please pray for the pupils, staff and Head
Elaine Faull
Tuesday 10-Feb-2015
ACP: Makamba - (Burundi) RR Martin Nyaboho
Kingsmead Community School, Wiveliscombe :
Please pray for the pupils, staff and Head
Geoffrey Tinker
Wednesday 11-Feb-2015
ACP: Makurdi - (Abuja, Nigeria) RR Nathan Nyitar Inyom
CELCOP
Taunton School : Please pray for the pupils, staff and
Head John Newton, Ch Matthew Dietz.
Thursday 12-Feb-2015
ACP: Malaita - (Melanesia) RR Samuel Sahu; AB Alfred
Hou
The Castle School, Taunton :
Please pray for the pupils, staff and Head
Kevin Freedman
Friday 13-Feb-2015
ACP: Malakal - (Sudan) RR Hilary Garang Deng; Bentiu
Area - RR John Gattek
Taunton Academy : Please pray for the pupils, staff
and Principal : Mark Trusson , Chs Liz Lewis & Michael
Haslam
Saturday 14-Feb-2015
ACP: Manchester - RR David Walker; Bolton – RR
Christopher Paul Edmondson; Middleton - RR Mark
Davies
Innocents
Wellington School : Please pray for the pupils, staff
and Head Martin Reader, Ch Jeremy Hellier
Sunday 15-Feb-2015 - 1 Lent
ACP: Mandalay - (Myanmar) RR David Nyi Nyi Naing
Porvoo: Worcester: Bp John Inge, Bp Graham Usher;
Church of Norway: Diocese of Hamar, Bp Solveig Fiske
MP : For those working in areas too sensitive for them to
be mentioned
by name.
Z : The Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Lusaka, the Dean the
Very Revd Charley Thomas, & the Revd Frank Hakoola &
the Revd Edwin Mwanza.
TONE DEANERY (Taunton) cont.
Monday 16-Feb-2015
ACP: Manicaland - (Central Africa) RR Julius Tawona
Makoni
Deane Barton Community Unit, Cotford St. Luke :
Please pray for the patients, staff , those who are
anxious or mourn and Chs. Christopher Rowley & Elsie
Howell
Tuesday 17-Feb-2015 – Janani Luwum, Abp of Uganda,
Martyr 1977.
ACP: Mara - (Tanzania) RR Hilkiah Omindo Deya
Wellington Hospital : Please pray for the patients,
staff , those who are anxious or mourn and Chs Elsie
Howell & Christopher Rowley
Wednesday 18-Feb-2015 - Ash Wednesday
ACP: Marathwada - (North India) RR Madhukar Kasab
CELCOP
Please pray for all Vergers/Virgers and Sacristans.
To Keep a True Lent.
Is this a Fast, to keep
The larder lean? And clean
From fat of veals and sheep?
Is it to quit the dish
of flesh, yet still To fill
The platter high with fish?
Is it a fast an hour
or ragg'd to go Or show
A down-cast look and sour?
No : 'tis a fast to dole
Thy sheaf of wheat And meat
Unto the hungry soul
It is to fast from strife
and old debate, And hate:
To circumcise thy life.
To show a heart grief-rent
To starve thy sin, Not bin;
And that's to keep thy Lent.
Robert Herrick.
Thursday 19-Feb-2015
ACP: Maridi - (Sudan) RR Justin Badi Arama
Please join your prayers with those of the prayers of the
Mothers’ Unions of Shepton Mallet Group Deanery as
they pray in the Cathedral today at 11.30 .
Please pray for all Military Personnel, their civilian
support personnel, all of their families and Forces’
Chaplains based within the Diocese.
Friday 20-Feb-2015
ACP: Maryland - (III, The Episcopal Church) RR Eugene
Sutton; RR Heather Cook
Please pray for all Fire Service personnel, their families
and their Chaplains within the stations and headquarters
serving the Diocese.
Saturday 21-Feb-2015
ACP: Masasi - (Tanzania) RR Patrick Mwachiko
Innocents
Please pray for all Police Service personnel, their
families and Chaplains within stations and headquarters
serving the Diocese.
Sunday 22-Feb-2015 - Lent 1
ACP: Maseno North - (Kenya) RR Simon Oketch; Maseno
South – RR Francis Abiero
Porvoo: CofI : Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe, Bp
Kenneth Kearon; ELC in Denmark: Diocese of Roskilde,
Bp Peter Fischer-Moeller
MP : Graham & Nicola Aylett working in theological
education in Asia
Z : The Rt Revd John Osmers, Assistant Bishop in Lusaka
Diocese
LOCKING DEANERY (Bath) (17)
RD Richard Taylor , LC Mike Tedstone,
4 Estates Missioner – CA Andrew David Settle, ALM Joan
Eales, ALM Julie Shannon.
Monday 23-Feb-2015
ACP: Maseno West - (Kenya) RR Joseph Wasonga
Banwell and Congresbury with Puxton and Hewish St
Ann
V Matthew Thomson & Janet, AP-HfD Julie Sims & , AC
Tim Erridge & Heather, LR Kay Friend, LR David
Colbourne
Tuesday 24-Feb-2015
ACP: Masindi-Kitara - (Uganda) RR George Kasangaki
Please pray for those who will today seek healing in St.
John’s Church, Glastonbury (12.00) as well as for those
who will pray alongside them.
Bleadon & Bournville
PiC Timothy
John Erridge & Heather
Bleadon
LR Jill Smith.
Bournville - Ecumenical Parish.
Methodist Minister
Carole Gill.
Wednesday 25-Feb-2015
ACP: Massachusetts - (I, The Episcopal Church) RR Alan
McIntosh Gates; SB Gayle Harris; Western
Massachusetts - RR Douglas Fisher
CELCOP
Churchill and Langford.
PiC (also Local Misson Enabler – Mendip Vale) Kate Sax,
LR David Kemp, LR Pauline Hurst.
Thursday 26-Feb-2015
ACP: Masvingo - (Central Africa) RR Godfrey Tawonezwi;
Matabeleland – RR Cleophas Lunga
Hutton and Locking
PiC
Anne Lee
(Hutton) LR Jane Barry
(Locking ), Rpto Bill Dredge, LR June Gorton, LR Tony
Coles.
Friday 27-Feb-2015
ACP: Matlosane (formerly Klerksdorp) - (Southern Africa)
RR Stephen Diseko
Kewstoke with Wick St Lawrence
V Geoffrey Eales & Joan, LR Grace Rubery
Saturday 28-Feb-2015
ACP: Mbaise - (Nigeria) RR Chamberlain Chinedu
Ogunedo
Innocents
Please pray for the Readers’ Council Meeting today
Locking Castle - LEP
Lead Minister & Deanery Pioneer Minister Tom
Yacomeni & Mims
Methodist Minister Robert Channon. LR Susan Dare, LR
Peter Richardson
Sunday 01-Mar-2015 - St David of Wales – Lent 2
Almighty God, who called your servant David to
be a faithful and wise steward of your mysteries
for the people of Wales: in your mercy, grant
that, following his purity of life and zeal for the
gospel of Christ, we may with him receive the
crown of everlasting life; 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 forever. Amen
ACP: Mbale - (Uganda) RR Patrick Gidudu
Porvoo: Peterborough: Bp Donald Allister, Bp John
Holbrook; Church of Ireland: Diocese of Meath and
Kildare, Bp Pat Storey
MP : Sam & Violette Beeton working with the Anglican
Church in
Madagascar
Z : Mrs Grace Luwewa, Administrator, and all the staff in
the Lusaka
Diocesan Office
LOCKING DEANERY (Bath) cont.
Please pray for all having PTO within the Deanery.
Monday 02-Mar-2015
ACP: Mbamili - (Niger, Nigeria) RR Henry Okeke
Milton and Kewstoke
Geoffrey Eales & Joan, AP Gill Putnam, LR Alan
Calaminus, LR Elaine Evans.
V
Tuesday 03-Mar-2015
ACP: Mbeere - (Kenya) RR Moses Nthuka
Please pray for the Bishop’s Staff Meeting today
St. Nicholas with St. Barnabas, WsM.
R
Mark Madeley, Rpto Shirley Barlow, LR Jim Loring, LR
Barbara Lewis , LR Franz Malessa
Wednesday 04-Mar-2015
ACP: Mbhashe - (Southern Africa) RR Elliot Williams
CELCOP
Winscombe and Sandford
PiC , Lydia Avery & Christopher, LR Peter Rutter, LR
Hilary Hagen
Sandford All Saints is ecumenical.
Methodist Minister Carol Chaplin
Thursday 05-Mar-2015
Jewish : Purim, 14-15 Adar 5775. See Book of Esther. A
joyous holiday.
ACP: Meath & Kildare - (Dublin, Ireland) RR Patricia
Louise Storey
Worle Team Ministry – Ecumenical Parish.
TR Paul Richard Larcombe, TV Anne Farmer & Rafe, TV
Emma Amyes & Geoff, TV Chris Elms, AP Gillian Bunce,
LR Robert Taylor, Rpto Joan Bealey, LR Penelope
Devereux, LR Jayne Webster-Blyth, LR Yvonne Criddle.
Friday 06-Mar-2015
ACP: Medak - (South India) Vacant
Wrington with Butcombe and Burrington.
V Nicholas Maddock & Ruth, HfDP Andrew Hemming &
Catherine, Rpto Angela Smythe, Francis Montague.
Saturday 07-Mar-2015
ACP: MR Philip Leslie Freier, Abp of Melbourne & Primate
elect of Australia; Eastern Region - (Victoria, Australia)
RR Barbara Darling; Northern & Western Region - RR
Philip Huggins; Southern Region - RR Paul White
Innocents
Please pray for those who will today seek healing in
Wells Cathedral (12.00) as well as for those who will
pray alongside them.
Weston super Mare All Saints with St Saviour
V Andrew Hughes, AP Stuart Boyd.
Sunday 08-Mar-2015 - Lent 3
ACP: Meru - (Kenya) RR Charles Mwendwa
Porvoo: Canterbury : Abp Justin Welby, Bp Trevor
Willmott; CofI : Diocese of Down and Dromore, Bp Harold
Miller
MP : Freda Carey in Pakistan with CMS
Z : Lusaka Diocese Youth Pastor the Revd Robert
Sihubwa and all
Diocesan, National and Provincial Youth
Projects.
LOCKING DEANERY (Bath) cont.
Monday 09-Mar-2015
ACP: Mexico - (Mexico) RR Carlos Touche-Porter; Western
Mexico – RR Lino Rodriguez-Amaro
Weston super Mare Christ Church and Emmanuel
V Tom Webber, LR Meg Hill, LR Christopher Cole, LR
John Birkett, LR Derek Boardman, Rpto Jeff Morgan.
Tuesday 10-Mar-2015
ACP: Eastern Michigan - (V, The Episcopal Church) RR
Todd Ousley; Michigan - RR Wendell Gibbs
Weston super Mare St John
R Richard Taylor & Geraldine, AC Julie Birkett & John, LR
Jennifer Richards.
Wednesday 11-Mar-2015
ACP: Minna - (Lokoja, Nigeria) RR Daniel Abu Yisa
CELCOP
Please pray for the Ministry Forum Meeting today
Weston super Mare St Paul
V Andrew Alden & Elizabeth, AC Adrian Kevin Wolton &
Fran, RE Colin Locke
Thursday 12-Mar-2015
ACP: Minnesota - (VI, The Episcopal Church) RR Brian
Prior
Churchill School,
Please pray for the pupils, staff and Head
Barry Wratten
Friday 13-Mar-2015
ACP: Missionary District of Oeste-Brasil - (Brazil) Vacant
Sidcot School :
Please pray for the pupils, staff and Head
John Walmsley
Saturday 14-Mar-2015
ACP: Milwaukee - (V, The Episcopal Church) RR Steven
Miller; Mississippi - (IV, The Episcopal Church) RR
Duncan Gray Mississippi - RR Brian Seage
Innocents
Please pray for the Readers’ Conference Meeting today
Weston super Mare - Chaplains about Town (Cha†)
Lead Chaplain Gill Putnam. Please pray for the Chaplains
and volunteers as they listen to and befriend those in
need of comfort.
Sunday 15-Mar-2015 - Lent 4 – Mothering Sunday
Thank you, Lord, for our mothers. We remember
today their loving care and their ceaseless love
for us. May we show them by our gifts, our
words and our actions that we love them and
care about them too.
Father, we thank you for the family of the
church. Thank you for those who are true
mothers within our Christian family. May they
know your blessing and strength as they care
for others.
Amen
ACP: Missouri - (V, The Episcopal Church) RR Wayne
Smith
Porvoo: Chelmsford: Bp Stephen Cottrell, Bp John Wraw,
Bp Roger Morris, Bp Peter Hill; Church of Sweden:
Diocese of Karlstad, Bp Esbjorn Hagberg
ELC in Latvia: Abp Janis Vanags, Bp Einars Alpe, Bp
Pavils Bruvers
MP : William & Vicky Cray in Chad with Africa Inland
Mission
Z : The Kasenga Mission Station Project, Lusaka Diocese
LOCKING DEANERY (Bath) cont.
Monday 16-Mar-2015
ACP: Mityana - (Uganda) RR Stephen Kaziimba
Weston General Hospital, Weston-super-Mare : Please
pray for the patients, staff , those who are anxious
or mourn and Ch David Grace (Ang.)
Tuesday 17-Mar-2015 - St Patrick's Day
Almighty God, who in your providence chose
your servant Patrick to be the apostle of the
Irish people: Keep alive in us the fire of the faith
he kindled and strengthen us in our pilgrimage
towards the light of everlasting life; 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 forever. Amen
ACP: Mombasa - (Kenya) RR Julius Katio Kalu; AB
Lawrence Dena
Please pray for the Meeting of the Bishop’s Staff, Rural
Deans & Assistant Rural Deans today.
Weston Hospicare, Weston super-Mare : Please pray for
the residents and all close to them, staff and Ch
Karen Murphy
Wednesday 18-Mar-2015
ACP: Monmouth - (Wales) RR Richard Pain
CELCOP
Please pray for all Readers and Priests who, by reason of
age or infirmity, are no longer able to actively serve their
Lord.
Thursday 19-Mar-2015 - St Joseph of Nazareth.
Almighty God, at the beginning of our salvation,
When Mary conceived your Son and brought
Him forth into the world,
You placed them under Joseph's watchful care.
May his prayer still help your Church
to be an equally faithful guardian of your
mysteries,
and a sign of Christ to mankind.
We make our prayer through our Lord.
ACP: Montana - (VI, The Episcopal Church) RR Charles
Franklin Brookhart
Please join your prayers with those of the prayers of the
Mothers’ Unions of Axbridge Deanery as they pray in the
Cathedral today at 11.30 .
Please pray for The Pilgrims’ Friend Society and Pilgrim
Homes, founded in 1807 to care for vulnerable, needy
elderly of the Household of Faith. Pray that the Lord’s
presence will comfort, strengthen and bless those older
‘pilgrims’ now experiencing frailty and weakness with
some, perhaps, also struggling with dementia. And pray
that those who care for them may be similarly
strengthened and encouraged.
<www.pilgrimsfriend.org.uk>
Friday 20-Mar-2015
ACP: Montreal - (Canada) RR Barry Bryan Clarke;
Moosonee – RR Thomas Corston
Please pray for all Church Army workers within the
Diocese.
Saturday 21-Mar-2015 – Thomas Cranmer,
Abp of Canterbury,
Reformation Martyr 1556.
O loving Christ, draw me, a weakling, after
yourself; for if you do not draw me I cannot
follow you. Give me a brave spirit that it may be
ready alert. If the flesh is weak, may your grace
go before me, come alongside me and follow
me; for, without you, I cannot do anything, and
especially for your sake I cannot go to a cruel
death. Grant me a ready spirit, a fearless heart ,
a right faith, a firm hope, and a perfect love,
that for your sake I may lay down my life with
patience and joy.
(John Huss, as he lay
chained in prison)
ACP: Moray, Ross & Caithness - (Scotland) RR Mark
Strange
Innocents
Please pray for all Diocesan Staff, whether based in
Wells or in Archdeacons’ offices.
Sunday 22-Mar-2015 - Lent 5 – Passiontide Begins.
ACP: Morogoro - (Tanzania) RR Godfrey Sehaba
Porvoo: Lichfield: Bp Jonathan Gledhill, Bp Mark Rylands,
Bp Geoff Annas, Bp Clive Gregory; CinW : Diocese of St
David’s, Bp Wyn Evans
MP : Tim Curtis in Paraguay with CMS
Z : Mr Wilson Sumaili, Secretary of the Zambia Anglican
Council
FROME DEANERY (Wells) (8)
RD Colin Alsbury, LC Freda Davis.
Monday 23-Mar-2015
ACP: Mount Kenya Central - (Kenya) RR Isaac Nganga;
SB Allen Waithaka; Mount Kenya West - RR Joseph
Kagunda.
Beckington with Standerwick with Berkley with Rodden
with Lullington with Orchardleigh
R
Andrew Chalkley & Philippa, LR John Beaven, LR Glyn
Bridges, Rpto Alan Hawker, Rpto Hilary Daniel, Rpto
Edmund Phillimore, LR Simon McKie.
Tuesday 24-Mar-2015
ACP: Mount Kenya South - (Kenya) RR Timothy Ranji; SB
Charles Muturi
Frome Town Group Ministry - Frome Christ Church (V) &
Frome St Mary (PiC)
V/PiC Neil Maxted & Jacqueline.
Wednesday 25-Mar-2015 - Lady Day
Annunciation of Our Lord to the Blessed
Virgin Mary,
We beseech thee, O Lord, pour thy grace into
our hearts; that, as we have known the
incarnation of thy Son Jesus Christ by the
message of an angel, so by his cross and
passion we may be brought unto the glory of his
resurrection ; through the same Jesus Christ our
Lord.
ACP: Mount Kilimanjaro - (Tanzania) RR Stanley Elilekia
Hotay
CELCOP
Frome Town Group Ministry - Frome Holy Trinity
V Graham Owen & Lesley, LR Dorothy Anne-Bryant, Rpto
David Jukes, Rpto Ann Philips. LR Tom Harflett, LR Philip
Gray, LR Wendy Rootes .
Thursday 26-Mar-2015
ACP: Mpumalanga - (Southern Africa) RR Daniel
Kgomosotho
Frome Town Group Ministry - Frome St John &
Woodlands
V Colin Alsbury & Marian, LR Janet Caudwell
Friday 27-Mar-2015
ACP: Mthatha (formerly St John's) - (Southern Africa) RR
Sitembele Mzamane
Frome M.U. Child Contact Centre. Please pray for the
work of the Contact Centre Team, co-ordinator Jenny
Ayrton, reaching out to separated families.
Saturday 28-Mar-2015
ACP: Muhabura - (Uganda) RR Cranmer Mugisha;
Mukono - RR William Ssebaggala
Innocents
Hardington Vale
R
Caroline Walker & Michael, LR Christina Maslen, AP
Andrew Bowerman, LR Barbara Day.
Sunday 29-Mar-2015 - Palm Sunday of the Passion
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. All glory, laud and
honour, To Thee, Redeemer, King, To Whom the lips of
children Made sweet hosannas ring.
ACP: Jerusalem - (Jerusalem & Middle East) RR Suheil
Dawani
Porvoo: Church of Sweden: Diocese of Lund, Bp KarlJohan Tyrberg; CofI : Diocese of Cashel, Ossory and
Ferns, Bp Michael Burrows; Ely: Bp Stephen Conway, Bp
David Thomson
MP : For all those exploring a vocation to overseas
mission and making
preparations to work in new places.
Z : The Revd Francis Mwansa, Rector of the Seminary of
St John the
Evangelist in Kitwe and all the staff and
students.
FROME DEANERY (Wells) cont.
Please pray for all having PTO within the Deanery.
Monday 30-Mar-2015 - Monday in Holy Week
(Traditionally, the day that Jesus cursed the fig tree and
drove money changers from the Temple. From India :
The Litany of the Disciples of Christ the Servant.)
Servant Christ,
Help us to follow you into the temple of your
chosen people,
to erase from the worship of your Church
all that hinders the sense of your presence,
and the free flow of your word;
to open up Your house
that it may be a house of prayer for all people.
ACP: Multan - (Pakistan) RR Leu Paul
Leigh upon Mendip with Stoke St Michael
PiC Anthony Dickson & Christine, LR
Henry Pomeroy.
Tuesday 31-Mar-2015 - Tuesday in Holy Week
(The day of the visit to the Mount of Olives when Jesus
wept over the city and when, traditionally, Judas
negotiated the betrayal of Jesus with the Sanhedrin)
O God, heavenly Father, Who to redeem
mankind didst deliver up Thine own Son to be
betrayed and sold by one of His disciples : grant
that we may never so betray Him by our sins,
but that, loving Thee and Thy truth above all
things, we may remain steadfast in the
fellowship of Thy word and spirit, and attain to
the communion of Thine Apostles and saints in
light; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
(Walter Farquar Hook)
ACP: Mumbai (Form. Bombay) - (North India) RR Prakash
Patole
Please pray for those who will today seek healing in St.
John’s Church, Glastonbury (12.00) as well as for those
who will pray alongside them.
Mells with Vobster with Buckland Dinham, Elm, Whatley
and Chantry
PiC vacant, AP Barry Davies &
Kathryn.
Please pray for the Churchwardens and PCC during the
vacancy
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The paradox of prayer is that it asks for a serious effort
while it can only be received as a gift. We cannot plan,
organise or manipulate God; but without careful
discipline, we cannot receive him either.
Henri
Nouwen.
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Teach us, Lord, to give to prayer
The time that we give to our worries.
PRTL,
Bordeaux.
The Church of England has formal agreements with the
following Churches or Groups of Churches beyond those
of the Anglican Communion
The Porvoo Communion (PV) In Full Communion with the
CofE.
The Lutheran National Churches of : Norway & Sweden,
and the Evangelical-Lutheran Churches of Finland,
Iceland, Denmark, Estonia & Lithuania.
www.porvoochurches.org
The Accord of Reuilly (Reuilly) (The Editor, CoP holds a
copy) with L’Eglise Protestantante Unie de France
www.eglise-protestante-unie.fr/
The Meissen Agreement (Meissen), Evangelical Church
of Germany, Old Catholic Church in Germany
www.cofe.anglican.org/info/ccu/europe/ecumb
ackground
The Fetter Lane Agreement - The Moravian Church
www.cofe.anglican.org/info/ccu/engla
nd/moravian/fetterlane/
The Anglican/Methodist Covenant (Ang/Meth)
www.cofe.anglican.org/info/ccu/england/meth
odists/covenant.html
Twinnings and Exchanges (1990) (The Editor, CoP holds
a copy)
Guidelines proposed by the Anglican – Roman Catholic
Committees of France and England.
Other references
Anglican Cycle of Prayer (ACP)
www.anglicancommunion.org/
acp/index.cfm
Intercontinental Church Society (ICS)
www.ics-uk.org
The Diocese in Europe
http://europe.anglican.org/
Anglican services abroad
www.churchesabroad.org
Christian Ecology Link Community of Prayer (CELCOP) Please pray at the same time (of your choice) each
Wednesday.
www.christian-ecology.org.uk
The Mission to Seafarers ( MS)
www.missiontoseafarers.org
The Bible Society (BS)
www.biblesociety.org.uk
Churches Together in Somerset (CTS)
www.cte.org.uk
ReSource
www.resource-arm.net
CPAS
www.cpas.org.uk
The Leprosy Mission
www.leprosymission.org.uk
“Release” – The voice of persecuted Christians
www.
releaseintern
ational.org
“The Barnabus Fund”
www.barnabusfund.org
“National Association of People Abused in Childhood”
Supportline 0808-085-3330.
www.napac.org.uk
Messianic Testimony – sharing Yeshua with Jewish
people worldwide
www.messianictestimony.com
The Society for Distributing Hebrew Scriptures. (SDHS)
email <sdhs1940@aol.com>
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS CALENDAR
FOR CLERGY
AP
Assistant Priest ARD
Assistant Rural
Dean
AM
Associate Minister
AV
Associate Vicar
AssBp
Assisting Bishop
AC
Assistant Curate
C
Curate
HfDP
House for Duty
Priest
HfDPC
House for DutyPiC
M
Minister
MR
Most Reverend
NSM
Non-Stipendiary Minister
PiC
Priest in Charge
PB
Presiding Bishop
PM
Pioneer Minister
PTO
Permission To
Officiate
R
Rector
RD
Rural Dean
RR
Right Reverend
SAP
Senior Assistant
Priest
SB
Suffragan Bp
TC
Training Curate
TR
Team Rector
TV
Team Vicar
V
Vicar
VP
Vicar Pastor
VT
Vicar Theologian
For married clergy : N & Spouse
Benefice A and Benefice B denotes two separate
Benefices served by one set of clergy.
EP to C – Extra Provincial to
Canterbury
HT – Holy Trinity
S – Stipendiary
NS – Non Stipendiary
FOR SAINTS
A
Apostle
Ab
Abbot
Abs
Abbess
Bp
Bishop
C
Confessor
D
Doctor
Ev
Evangelist
M
Martyr
Mss
Missionary
P
Priest
Q
Queen
T
Teacher
V
Virgin
FOR LAITY
ALM
Authorised Lay Minister
ALC
Assistant Lay Chair
CA
Church Army
Ch
Chaplain
Ev
Evangelist
LC
Lay Chairman
LR
Licensed Reader
PAM
Pending Active Ministry
(An LR who is not currently active)
RE
Reader Emeritus
Rpto
Reader with PTO.
YW
Licensed Youth Worker.
Porvoo Churches.
CofE – Church of England
CinW – Church in Wales
CofI – Church of Ireland
ELC – Evangelical Lutheran
Church
A Prayer of Simeon Bar Sabbae, Persian Martyr
Simeon Bar Sabbae was Bishop of Seleucid, Persia. He and some companions were put to death during the persecutions
of Sapor II, between 339 and 340.
0 my Lord, press down on me the crown. Thou knowest well how much I do desire it, for I love thee with all my heart and
soul. I shall be glad to come face to face with thee, for thou wilt give me rest. As things stand now, I shall live no longer on
this earth, nor have to watch the sufferings of my people, see the churches devastated, the altars wrecked, the clergy
sorely tried, the weak contaminated, the pusillanimous driven far from the truth, nor see my people, once so numerous,
wiped out by bloody persecutions.
I shall no longer be forced to watch my friends become my enemies and assassins, nor watch old and trusted friends
become disloyal in the face of slaughters by the proud ones against our people.
However it may be, I wish to bear heroic witness to the way of righteousness, to persevere in my vocation and
courageously carry out my work so as to be an example to all the people of the Orient.
I have eaten at the head of the table, and now I wish to die at the head of my brothers, and mix my blood with theirs. With
them I wish to come to know the life that holds neither suffering nor pain, that knows not tyranny or victims. In that life I
shan't be flayed by the threats of kings or the terrors of prefectures. Nor will anyone be able to drag me before the tribunal
or make me tremble out of fear. In thee shall I correct the errors of my past, 0 life of truth, in thee my weary limbs will find
repose, 0 Christ, sacred oil of our unction. In thee all my sad soul-hurts vanish, for thou art truly the cup of my salvation.
Thou shalt dry these tears from my eyes, 0 consolation and joy!
So long ago, yet so terribly relevant.
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For all corrections, comments and requests, please contact the Editor:
Michael Rowe, "Tumbling Weir", Bleadney, Somerset BA5 1PF.
email <bathandwellscop@talktalk.net >. My phone number (Ex D) is also available on request.
I would also like to hear about important developments (ordinations, clergy appointments, concerns, community outreach
...........) affecting non-Anglican churches within/close to Diocesan boundaries so that prayer may be invited for these.
Inclusion is subject to limits of space.