General Chat

Good morning :-)

Hope everyone has managed to 'spring forward'.....

The Lenten calendar for today :

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0

Lord Jesus, we thank you for coming to bring down the barriers that divide people from each other and from God. Amen.

It is also Mothering Sunday.

The Collect (special prayer) for today:

God of love, passionate and strong, tender and careful: watch over us and hold us all the days of our life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Gospel reading tells of the dying Jesus asking John to care for Mary, his mother.

Cx :-)

Good morning :-)

Praying for Ukraine <3


Today's Lenten calendar :

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0

Holy God, we are both inspired and fearful before your holiness; may you transform our hearts, that we become people whose holiness and justice are expressed in contagious love and grace. Amen


Cx :-)

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Praying for Ukraine <3


Today's Lenten calendar.....

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0

Loving God, help us see the face and the life of those we like to condemn for their failings. Give us the grace to hold together accountability and mercy. Amen.



Cx :-)

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Praying for Ukraine <3


Our Lenten calendar for today :

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0


Gracious God, we thank you that you take our feeble efforts and transform them in your mercy; help us work together as a fellowship of grace to see justice bloom among us. Amen.

We also thank God for all the volunteers who help to keep our churches alive.

Cx :-)

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Praying for Ukraine <3

Today's Lenten calendar :

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0

God of challenge and transformation, open our hearts to learn from those we would rather walk past, ignore or silence, and see your face as we look into theirs. Amen.


Cx :-)

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Praying for Ukraine <3


Today's Lenten calendar....

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0


Loving God, we pray for the great and the small in human eyes, that we may learn to see them as equally made in your image and in need of your embrace. Amen.

Cx :-)

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Praying for Ukraine <3


Today's Lenten calendar

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0


Loving God, open our eyes today to one person whom we have failed to see, or hear, or treat as made in your image, and show us how to share the depth of your love for them. Amen.

Cx :-)

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The Lenten calendar for today :

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0


The Collect (special prayer) for today :


Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen


Cx :-)

Good morning :-)

Praying for Ukraine <3

The Lenten calendar for today :

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0

Merciful God, we recognise our failure to do justice, through the things we do and those we fail to do, through our words, and through our silence and complicity: cleanse and transform our lives. Amen.

Cx :-)

Good morning :-)

Praying for Ukraine <3


The Lenten calendar..........

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0

God of all things, we pray that you would help us to shape our lives for justice, to speak up and witness to those things that are beyond our individual power to change. Amen.

Cx :-)

Hello all

Happy St Patrick's Day to our Irish friends on Genes Reunited.

May the luck of the Irish always be with you.

I'm continuing to pray for the people of Ukraine and an end to the horrible war.

Good morning :-)

Praying for Ukraine <3

Today's Lenten calendar - as this is a family calendar, it may be an idea to substitute the word 'class' for 'church'. :-)

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0


Lord God, help us to seek justice together with all others in our communities – not just those we agree with, but seek the kind of justice that enables the flourishing of all. Amen.

Cx :-)

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Praying for Ukraine <3


Today's Lenten calendar - not many people will find this easy!

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0


God of the poor and forgotten, help us stop our frantic striving for possessions. May we listen to your word, learn to rest, and embrace your offer of new life. Amen.


Cx :-)

Good morning :-)

Praying for Ukraine <3

Today's Lenten calendar

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0


Holy God, root out the desire for revenge and the tendency to hold grudges from our hearts, and help us pursue justice so that all may flourish. Amen.


Cx :-)

Good morning :-)

Praying for Ukraine <3


The Lenten calendar for today :

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0

God of justice and mercy, teach us to live well, to care for the widow, the orphan and the stranger, and love our neighbour as ourselves. Amen.


The Commandments

I am the Lord your God: you shall have no other gods but me.
You shall not make for yourself any idol.
You shall not dishonour the name of the Lord your God.
Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.
Honour your father and mother.
You shall not commit murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not be a false witness.
You shall not covet anything which belongs to your neighbour.


Cx :-)

Good morning :-)

Praying for Ukraine <3


The Lenten calendar......

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0

The story of Exodus is not just a story of liberation. It goes hand in hand with the birth of a new community, shaped for justice and the flourishing of all with a set of laws for everyday living.


Think about your daily choices this week: who has produced your food, your clothes, who serves you while remaining invisible? Can you make one change in your buying or consumption habits to contribute to a better life for an invisible worker?


Cx :-)

Another week gone by already. Thank you for the Lenten postings Cynthia. I found the information about the Jewish Seder meal interesting.

For a while in the early days of our marriage we lived in an area that was almost entirely occupied by Hasidic Jews. There was never any nastiness directed towards us, we were mostly just ignored, but I did learn something of what it felt like to be an “outsider”. It think it did me good to see things from the other side of the fence as it were and hopefully it made me a little more understanding.

Ongoing thoughts for the people of Ukraine <3

Good morning :-)

Praying for those in the Ukraine. <3


The Lenten calendar for today ........in lieu of the film, maybe read this instead. Exodus 12.21-32

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0

Loving God, inspire us to seek justice your way, driven by compassion for all, shaped by your holiness and ready to discover grace in the most unexpected places. Amen


Cx :-)

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For Ukraine and the people. <3


The Lenten calendar for today :

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0


Cx :-)

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The Lenten calendar continues, as do our prayers for the Ukraine and the horrors unfolding each day.

https://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/what-we-believe/lent-holy-week-and-easter/livelent-embracing-justice-our-lent-0

Worth a google. A Passover seder is a service held at home as part of the Passover celebration. It is always observed on the first night of Passover and in many homes, it is observed on the second night as well. Participants use a book called a haggadah to lead the service, which consists of storytelling, a seder meal, and concluding prayers and songs.


Cx :-)