Christ the King bidding prayers, 27 May 2018 (Trinity Sunday)

bidding prayers, Christ the King

Note to Reader: Please PAUSE as directed between the Intention and the Response. Please read the response all the way through with the congregation especially where it is longer than usual

P.Today we celebrate the three aspects of Our Father’s character Father, Son and Holy Spirit remembering how they enrich all aspects of our lives. To enable us to live richer lives in the Lord we ask for His  assistance.

 

  1. Our response is” May Your love be upon us Lord”

 

  1. We pray for the Church in all its activities and ask the Lord’s blessing on all who work to spread the Gospel in a multitude ofways and languages

PAUSE ….May your love..etc

 

R Let us pray for all our young people as they prepare for important examinations.  We pray also that they may use the many new forms of communication now available to them wisely.

 

  1. Pause…..May your love…etc

 

  1. Let us pray for al the deceased of our community who have died recently remembering especially Ugo Carpanini,Kazyk Baldy and Sean Welch.We ask the Lord’s mercy for them and comfort and solace for their families and friends. At the same time we pray for those who lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower and Manchester Arena disastersaround a year ago

R    Pause…..May our love….etc

 

  1. We remember the plight of the homeless and starving in our affluent society May the Lord listen to their needs and support those those who work to help them.

 

R   Pause……May our love…etc

 

 

  1. In the quiet of our hearts let us listen to the voice of Our Father.

 

Longer Pause

 

  1. We ask Mary our Mother to pray with us saying …Hail Mary …etc

 

P Lord listen to our petitions and grant them through Jesus your beloved Son who lives in glory with you and the Holy Spirit forever.

 

                                                                                                                                                AMEN

 

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I arise today

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St Patrick was active as a missionary in Ireland in the second half of the fifth century. Tradition credits Patrick with teaching the Irish about the doctrine of the Holy Trinity by showing people the shamrock, a three-leafed plant. This story first appears in writing in 1726, though it may be older, but definitely much older is the prayer usually known as “St Patrick’s Breastplate” or “The Deer’s Cry”. Modern scholars believe it to date from at least the eighth century, possibly much older, and therefore maybe going back to Patrick himself as tradition says. We know it from various translations and hymns, and on this Trinity Sunday here is an abridged version of this beautiful prayer.

I arise today through God’s strength to pilot me,
God’s might to uphold me,
God’s wisdom to guide me, God’s eye to see before me,
God’s ear to hear me, God’s word to speak for me,
God’s hand to guard me, God’s way to lie before me,
God’s shield to protect me, God’s host to secure me –
against snares of devils,
against temptations and vices,
against inclinations of nature,
against everyone who shall wish me
ill, afar and anear,
alone and in a crowd…
Christ, be with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ where I lie, Christ where I sit, Christ where I arise, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me. Salvation is of the Lord.
Salvation is of the Lord.
Salvation is of the Christ.
May your salvation, O Lord, be ever with us.

Fr Matthew

Christ the King bidding prayers, 20 May 2018 (Pentecost Sunday)

bidding prayers, Christ the King

PRIEST: My dear friends, after the weeks of Lent and Eastertide, we come with joy to celebrate the birthday of the Church, and to bring to our loving God our own needs and the needs of all the world.

 

Reader: The response is…renew us through your Holy Spirit.

 

We pray for the continuing conversion of the people of God.  May we become living

gospels in the world through the gifts freely given us by the Holy Spirit.

PAUSE       Merciful Father…

 

Let us pray that the many voices pleading for peace may lead to a change of heart

in those who promote wars, terror attacks and suffering in so many lands.

PAUSE       Merciful Father…

 

 

 

We pray for the people faced with natural disasters: drought, famine, flood and

earthquake; and for aid workers everywhere.

PAUSE       Merciful Father…

 

 

 

Let us pray for refugees, those displaced in their own country as well as those

forced to seek shelter elsewhere.

PAUSE       Merciful Father…

 

 

Let us pray for our children and young people, who recently received the gift of the

Holy Spirit in First Communion and Confirmation.  We pray for them and for their

families, that they may always be valued members of our parishes.

PAUSE             Merciful Father……

 

We pray for those who have died, that they may enjoy the happiness of God’s

Kingdom. We remember especially Joyce Jones, Mother of Rosemary Mathews

and Kazyk Baldy who have both died recently.

PAUSE       Merciful Father…

 

For a few moments, let us pray quietly in our own way… LONGER PAUSE (no response).

 

Mary, Mother of the Church, shared so much with her Son’s apostles.  Let us ask her to share our concerns, as we say…Hail Mary…

 

 

PRIEST: God of hope and mercy, we offer all these prayers through your Son, risen and ascended, and your Holy Spirit, who gives us life.  Amen.

Holy Spirit memory

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Pope Francis writes about a particular role of the Holy Spirit – to remind us…

“The Holy Spirit reminds us; he reminds us of all that Jesus said. He is the living memory of the Church, and when he reminds us, he helps us understand the words of the Lord.

This remembrance in the Spirit and by virtue of the Spirit . . . is an essential aspect of Christ’s presence within us and within his Church. The Spirit of truth and charity reminds us of all that Christ said and helps us enter ever more fully into the meaning of his words. We all have this experience: one moment, in any situation, there is an idea and then another connects with a passage from Scripture. . . . It is the Spirit who leads us to take this path: the path of the living memory of the Church. And he asks us for a response: the more generous our response, the more Jesus’ words become life within us, becoming attitudes, choices, actions, testimony. In essence the Spirit reminds us of the commandment of love and calls us to live it.

A Christian without memory is not a true Christian but only halfway there: a man or woman, a prisoner of the moment, who doesn’t know how to treasure his or her history, doesn’t know how to read it and live it as salvation history. With the help of the Holy Spirit, however, we are able to interpret interior inspirations and life events in light of Jesus’ words. And thus within us grows the knowledge of memory, knowledge of the heart, which is a gift of the Spirit. May the Holy Spirit rekindle the Christian memory within all of us! And there, that day with the apostles, was Our Lady of Memory, who from the beginning meditated on all those things in her heart. Mary, our Mother, was there. May she help us on this path of memory.”

from Walking with Jesus: A Way Forward for the Church by Pope Francis