Calendar of Intercessions Passiontide - Trinity

to this edition of the prayer diary, which takes us through Passiontide, Eastertide finishes with

Trinity Sunday. It’s a sizable document, designed to be quick and clear to read, and also to leave space for your own notes. Of course, you do not have to print it all out at once, and you’re welcome to reformat it, if you wish (a Word version is available from my blog, see website below).

Sunday entries are designed to look at some of the bigger pictures in our Diocese – sometimes geographical (deaneries, archdeaconries, link dioceses) sometimes issues or activities (Vocations Sunday). If there is an aspect of diocesan life that you’d like included on a Sunday, do let me know. These are followed through the week by daily prayers from all over the diocese, and across the Anglican Communion, including the calendar of saints and other worthy people.

Finally, there is space in the daily entries for you to note any prayer requests that have been made to you or your parish, or any special interests you want to remember in your prayers.

Please contact me with any comments or suggestions – Lindsay@Rochester.Anglican.org or 01634 814439. I will also be pleased to provide large print copies to any who would find that helpful.

The calendar is published on the Diocesan website, and also on www.RochesterWorship.wordpress.com where you can find the next quarter’s intercessions (hopefully) as this quarter starts to come to an end.

Cover photograph courtesy of Katerina Gerhardt ©

Welcome

Sunday

13 March

Passiontide begins

Lent 5

Isaiah 43.16-21

Psalm 126 Philippians 3.4b-14

John 12.1-8

Greenhithe Community Café

Since the launch of the Community Café on Easter Eve 2014, it has continued to grow both numerically and as a hub for a range of community activity. We

have been blessed with grants to enable us to improve facilities and opportunities to provide to those in our community.

Each Wednesday the café provides a place of refreshment and relaxation, friendship and fellowship for all people, who can not only enjoy homemade

food but can get support and advice from the Citizens Advice Bureau, our local town Councillor, Community Wardens and PCSO’s, Sure Start and others.

Please pray for our current volunteers who provide love and care alongside coffee and cake, and for more volunteers to come. Please pray too that all

who come to the café may know the love and generosity of God. Please pray as we introduce Table Talk into the café that it may provide greater

opportunities for discussion.

Rochester Diocese:

Greenhithe Community Café, parish priest: The Rev Andrew Avery

Anglican Communion:

PRAY for Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui The Most Rev Dr Paul Kwong Archbishop of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui &

Bishop of Hong

Prayer Requests:

Monday

14 March

Rochester Diocese:

Joydens Wood, St Barnabas

Vicar: The Rev Ren Harding

Anglican Communion: Bida - ( Abuja, Nigeria) The Rt Rev Jonah Kolo

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 15 March

Rochester Diocese: Lamorbey, Holy Redeemer

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Colin Terry

Anglican Communion:

Birmingham - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Rev David Andrew Urquhart, and suffragan the Rt Rev Anne Elizabeth

Hollinghurst; Blackburn - (York, England) The Rt Rev Julian Tudor Henderson, and suffragans the Rt Rev Philip North

and the Rt Rev Geoffrey Seagrave Pearson

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

16 March

Rochester Diocese:

Lamorbey, Holy Trinity Vicar: The Rev Philip Wells

Anglican Communion: Bo (Sierra Leone) - (West Africa, West Africa) The Rt Rev

Emmanuel Tucker

Prayer Requests:

Thursday

17 March

Patrick, bishop, missionary, patron of Ireland, c. 460

Rochester Diocese:

Sidcup, Christ Church

Vicar: The Rev Tom Parsons

Anglican Communion: Boga - (Congo) The Rt Rev Mugenyi William Bahemuka

Prayer Requests:

Friday 18 March

Cyril, bishop, teacher of the faith, 386

Rochester Diocese: Sidcup, St Andrew,

Vicar: The Rev Rupert Hankey

Anglican Communion:

Bolivia - (South America) The Rt Rev Raphael Samuel

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 19 March

Joseph of Nazareth

Rochester Diocese: Diocesan Synod

Anglican Communion: Bondo - (Kenya) The Rt Rev Johannes Angela

Prayer Requests:

“I bind unto myself today The strong Name of the Trinity, By invocation of the same, The Three in One and One in Three.” Attributed to Patrick c.460

Sunday

20 March

Palm Sunday

Lit. Psalms: Lit. Passion Luke 19.28-40 Isaiah 50.4-9a

Psalm 118.1-2, 19-end Luke 23.1-49

Holy Week

The events of the last days of Jesus’ life form the core of the Gospel narratives and the whole of our faith. By walking with our Lord from the Joyful Entry

through the events of the Last Supper and on into his arrest, death and resurrection we can enter deeply into the mysteries of his giving of himself,

and of the restoration of the children of God.

By their nature, then, these days can be highly emotive, especially for

communities where tensions run high – hence the prayers of the Anglican Communion for the peace of Jerusalem.

Pray that our participation in these holy days may be solemn and joyful, without recrimination or defensiveness.

Pray for our relationships with people of other faiths, particularly our sister

Abrahamic faiths, that by our love we may witness to that greater love.

Anglican Communion:

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem

All glory, laud and honor, To Thee, Redeemer, King, To Whom the lips of children Made sweet hosannas ring.

Jerusalem - (Jerusalem & Middle East) The Rt Rev Suheil Dawani

Prayer Requests:

Monday

21 March

Monday of Holy Week

Rochester Diocese:

For all Christians as they prepare to keep this week holy.

Anglican Communion:

Bondo - (Kenya) The Rt Rev Johannes Angela

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 22 March

Tuesday of Holy Week

Rochester Diocese: For all approaching Easter with faithful eyes for the first

time.

Anglican Communion:

Bor - (Sudan) The Rt Rev Ruben Akurdid Ngong

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

23 March Wednesday of Holy Week

Rochester Diocese:

For those struggling with faith: for those who cannot believe, or who wish they did not, and for those who rage

against the faith of others.

Anglican Communion:

Botswana - (Central Africa) The Rt Rev Metlhayotlhe Rawlings Belemi

Prayer Requests:

Thursday

24 March

Maundy Thursday

Rochester Diocese:

For all bishops, priests and deacons renewing their vows in

the Cathedral today.

Anglican Communion: Brandon - (Rupert's Land, Canada) The Rt Rev James

Dusan Njegovan

Prayer Requests:

Friday 25 March Good Friday

Rochester Diocese: For those who feel abandoned by God or who cannot see

his face, for the despairing and the broken hearted.

Anglican Communion:

Brasilia - (Brazil) The Rt Rev Maurício Jose Araujo De Andrade

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 26 March

Easter Eve

Rochester Diocese: For the bereaved, for all waiting for new life.

Anglican Communion: Brechin - (Scotland) The Rt Rev Dr Nigel Peyton

Prayer Requests:

“For me, kind Jesus, was thy incarnation, thy mortal sorrow, and thy life's oblation; Thy death of anguish and thy bitter passion, for my salvation. Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay thee, I do adore thee, and will ever pray thee, think on thy pity and thy love unswerving, not my deserving.” J Heerman

Sunday

27 March

Easter Day

Isaiah 65.17-end

Psalm 118.14-24 Acts 10.34-43

John 20.1-18

Easter Day

We have walked with our Lord through the days of his Passion. We have placed ourselves into that story – the pain of betrayal, the injustice of a fixed

trial, the humiliation of mockery, the jeers of the crowd, the agony of nails, the loneliness of abandonment, the silence of death, the darkness of the tomb.

We have waited by that tomb, and now we emerge into the brightness of

Easter Day. Today we shout ‘Alleluia’ and we give thanks:

- That Life and Light are never quenched; - That fear and death cannot enslave us;

- That hope is renewed for all creation;

- That life renewed is offered to all; - That forgiveness flows for all who would turn;

- That injustice and pain are transformed and healed. And today we pray:

- That the living Lord Jesus walk with us each day; - That lives be transformed through the life-giving power of God;

- That we show forth God’s love in word and deed;

- That the face of creation be renewed by the grace of God; - That we be united with all who proclaim the resurrection of Jesus;

- That our lives take the shape of the risen Christ.

Lord of all life and power,

who through the mighty resurrection of your Son overcame the old order of sin and death

to make all things new in him: grant that we, being dead to sin

and alive to you in Jesus Christ,

may reign with him in glory.

Anglican Communion: Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia! our triumphant holy day, Alleluia! who did once upon the cross, Alleluia! suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia!

Monday

28 March Monday of Easter Week

Rochester Diocese:

Clergy and lay ministers following the busyness of Holy

Week and Easter

Anglican Communion: Brisbane - (Queensland, Australia) The Most Rev Dr Phillip

John Aspinall; Anglican Bishop to the Australian Defence

Force - (Australia) The Rt Rev Ian Keese Lambert; Brisbane - Northern Region - (Queensland, Australia) The Rt Rev Dr

Jonathan Holland; Brisbane - Southern Region - (Queensland, Australia) The Rt Rev Alison Taylor; Brisbane -

Western Region - (Queensland, Australia) The Rt Rev Cameron Venables

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday

29 March Tuesday of Easter Week

Rochester Diocese:

Sidcup, St John the Evangelist Vicar: The Rev Stephen Sealy

Anglican Communion:

Bristol - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Rev Michael Arthur

Hill; Bristol - Swindon - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Rev Lee Stephen Rayfield

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

30 March Wednesday of Easter Week

Rochester Diocese:

Ash, St Peter and St Paul, with Ridley, St Peter Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Canon Ruth Oates

Anglican Communion:

British Columbia - (British Columbia & the Yukon, Canada) The Rt Rev Logan McMenamie

Prayer Requests:

Thursday

31 March

Thursday of Easter Week

Rochester Diocese:

Fawkham, St Mary, and Hartley, All Saints

Rector: The Rev Jim Fletcher

Anglican Communion: Bukavu - (Congo) The Rt Rev Sylvestre Bahati

Prayer Requests:

Friday

1 April Friday of Easter Week

Rochester Diocese:

Cobham, St Mary Magdalene, with Luddesdowne St Peter and St Paul, and Dode

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Angela Walker

Anglican Communion:

Bujumbura - (Burundi) The Rt Rev Eraste Bigirimana

Prayer Requests:

Saturday

2 April Saturday Easter Week

Rochester Diocese:

Istead Rise, St Barnabas Vicar: The Rev Andrew Vaughan

Anglican Communion: Bukedi - (Uganda) The Rt Rev Samuel Egesa

Prayer Requests:

“Christ our life, you are alive in the beauty of the earth in the rhythm of the seasons in the mystery of time and space Alleluia!” Cathy Galloway (Iona community)

Sunday

3 April

Easter 2

Exodus 14.10-end; 15.20 to 21

Psalm 150 Acts 5.27-32

John 20.19-end

Shoreham Deanery

Please give thanks for incumbents newly appointed in the last few months to Ightham, Wrotham and Shoreham.

Give thanks too for faithful work carried on day by day by clergy and lay

people in these beautiful and historic churches and villages.

Pray for a monthly Saturday breakfast meeting held by Eynsford to support

those working in finance in the City.

The pressing need is for the appointment of a Rural Dean. The Deanery does

not have a town of any size and no natural centre and therefore no “lead” parish.

Rochester Diocese:

Shoreham Deanery

Rural Dean: Vacant; Lay Chair: Mr Charles Willsher

Anglican Communion: PRAY for The Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean: The Most Rev Ian

Gerald James Ernest Archbishop, Province of Indian Ocean & Bishop of

Mauritius

Prayer Requests:

Monday

4 April

Annunciation of our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary (transferred from 25 March)

Rochester Diocese:

Those struggling with parenthood

Anglican Communion:

Bukuru - (Jos, Nigeria) The Rt Rev Jwan Zhumbes

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 5 April

Rochester Diocese: Longfield, St Mary Magdalene

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Dylan Turner

Anglican Communion:

Bunbury - (Western Australia, Australia) The Rt Rev Alan Ewing

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

6 April

Rochester Diocese:

Meopham, St John the Baptist, with Nurstead, St Mildred Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Alyson Davie

Anglican Communion:

Bungoma - (Kenya) The Rev George Mechumo

Prayer Requests:

“Then Mary said, ‘Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.’ Then the angel departed from her.” Luke 1.38

Thursday

7 April

Rochester Diocese:

Addicts and those who live with them and care for them

Anglican Communion:

Bunyoro-Kitara - (Uganda) The Rt Rev Nathan Kyamanywa

Prayer Requests:

Friday

8 April

Rochester Diocese:

Southfleet, St Nicholas Rector: The Rev David Houston

Anglican Communion: Busan - (Korea) The Rt Rev Onesimus Dongsin Park

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 9 April

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran pastor, martyr, 1945

Rochester Diocese: Crockenhill, All Souls

Vicar: The Rev Keith White

Anglican Communion:

Busoga - (Uganda) Thr Rt Rev Naimanhye Paul

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

10 April

Easter 3

Zephaniah 3.14-end

Psalm 30 Acts 9.1-6

John 21.1-19

Tonbridge Archdeaconry

The Tonbridge Archdeaconry gives thanks for many, many people who came to services in our 107 churches and other congregations over the Christmas

period. We pray that those who had less regular links before then may be helped forward in their journey of faith and Church links in the New Year of

2016.

The Archdeaconry has 9 incumbency vacancies (with 16 churches without an

incumbent). Please pray for those parishes and for the will of God to be done in new clergy appointments. We also invite your prayers for the 44 Church

schools in our Archdeaconry — and, indeed, for other schools too - and for all

who are linked with them as students, teachers, staff, governors, parents, families, etc. We give thanks for those who give public service in our area's

local authorities. Do pray for them and for the various initiatives by which our churches serve people across our local communities.

Rochester Diocese: Tonbridge Archdeaconry

Archdeacon: The Ven Clive Mansell

Anglican Communion:

PRAY for The Church of Ireland: The Most Rev Dr Richard Lionel Clarke Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and Metropolitan

Prayer Requests:

Monday

11 April

George Selwyn, Bishop, 1878

Rochester Diocese:

Those who seek to create consensus in contentious

situations

Anglican Communion: Butare - (Rwanda) The Rt Rev Nathan Gasatura

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday

12 April

Rochester Diocese:

Darent Valley: Darenth, St Margaret of Antioch; Horton Kirby, St Mary; and Sutton-at-Hone, St John the Baptist

Vicar: The Rev Nicholas Williams

Anglican Communion:

Butere - (Kenya) The Rt Rev Timothy Wambunya

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 13 April

Rochester Diocese: Dartford, Christ Church

Vicar: The Rev Richard Mortimer

Anglican Communion:

Buye - (Burundi) The Rt Rev Sixbert Macumi

Prayer Requests:

Thursday

14 April

Rochester Diocese:

Dartford, Holy Trinity

Vicar: The Rev Martin Henwood DL

Anglican Communion: Byumba - (Rwanda) The Rt Rev Emmanuel Ngendahayo

Prayer Requests:

Friday 15 April

Rochester Diocese: Dartford, St Alban

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev David Helms

Anglican Communion:

Calabar - (Niger Delta, Nigeria) The Rt Rev Tunde Adeleye

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 16 April

Isabel Gilmour, deaconess, 1923

Rochester Diocese: Pioneer ministries and those in the distinctive diaconate

Anglican Communion: Calcutta - (North India) The Rt Rev Ashok Biswas

Prayer Requests:

“God has placed us in the world and we are to work for it and in it. We can make our secular work full of his Spirit … If Christ is not in us we are nothing, and can do nothing; if he is, then we can go on in peace and quietness…” Isabel Gilmour 1886-1923

Sunday

17 April

Vocations Sunday

Easter 4

Genesis 7.1-5,11-18; 8.6-18; 9.8-13

Psalm 23 Acts 9.36-end

John 10.22-30

Vocations Sunday

Today is Vocations Sunday in the Church of England, when we remember the breadth of calling and celebrate that each of us are called, diverse individuals

joined by our unity as disciples of Christ. We especially remember those in training for Licensed Lay Ministry, for

ordination and studying on short courses, and those who are discerning their

calling. We bring to mind all who will be challenged to think and pray about where God

is calling them through services and events today, and through the Vocation Day next Saturday and the regular “It’s Your Calling” days.

We give thanks for all the gifts and ministries being used today through the Diocese and the wider community, and pray that would all discover and

nurture the gifts that we have been given in the service of God and neighbour.

Rochester Diocese:

For the Rev Pamela Ive, the acting Diocesan Director of Ordinands (DDO), for the Assistant DDOs and Vocation Advisors, for all who discern, nurture and

encourage the callings of others.

Anglican Communion:

PRAY for The Nippon Sei Ko Kai (The Anglican Communion in Japan): The Most Rev Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu Primate of The Nippon Sei Ko Kai & Bishop of

Hokkaido

Prayer Requests:

Monday

18 April

Rochester Diocese:

For all who see their vocation being used in the workplace

and in the wider world.

Anglican Communion: Caledonia - (British Columbia & the Yukon, Canada) The Rt

Rev William John Anderson

Calgary - (Rupert's Land, Canada) The Rt Rev Gregory Kerr-Wilson

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 19 April

Alphege, Archbishop, martyr, 1012

Rochester Diocese: For the Area and Rural Deans, meeting this week.

Anglican Communion: California - (IX, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Rev Marc

Andrus

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

20 April

Rochester Diocese:

Dartford, St Edmund

Vicar: The Rev Marcel McCarron

Anglican Communion: Cameroon - (West Africa, West Africa) The Rt Rev Dibo

Elango

Prayer Requests:

“The path I walk, Christ walks it. May the land in which I am be without sorrow … A truly good journey! Well does the fair Lord show us a course, a path.” Attributed to Columcille, 7th century

Thursday

21 April

Anselm, Archbishop, teacher, 1109

Rochester Diocese:

Stone, St Mary

Rector: The Rev Kenneth Clark

Anglican Communion: Canberra & Goulburn - (New South Wales, Australia) The Rt

Rev Stuart Robinson, and assistant bishop the Rt Rev

Trevor Edwards

Prayer Requests:

Friday

22 April

Rochester Diocese:

Swanley, St Mary the Virgin Vicar: The Rev Dane Batley-Gladden

Anglican Communion: Carlisle - (York, England) The Rt Rev James Scobie

Newcome; Suffragan Bishop of Penrith - (York, England) The Rt Rev Robert Freeman

Prayer Requests:

Saturday

23 April

George, martyr, patron of England, c.304

Rochester Diocese:

Swanley, St Paul, and Hextable, St Peter

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Ray Sammé

Anglican Communion: The Most Rev and Rt Hon Justin Welby Archbishop of

Canterbury; Canterbury - Dover - (Canterbury, England)

The Rt Rev Trevor Willmott; Canterbury - Ebbsfleet - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Rev Jonathan Goodall;

Canterbury - Maidstone - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Rev Roderick Thomas; Canterbury - Richborough - (Canterbury,

England) The Rt Rev Norman Banks

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

24 April

Easter 5

Genesis 22.1-18

Psalm 148 Acts 11.1-18

John 13.31-35

Tonbridge Deanery

For all those in leadership roles across the parishes to encourage each other in their walk with God.

Building on the Deanery celebration of lay ministry on 30 January to encourage

lay ministry and the involvement of the laity throughout the Deanery.

Giving thanks for the attendance at the Easter services and pray that all will

take something lasting of what Jesus’ death on the cross really means.

For PCCs across the Deanery in the season of Annual Meetings and that God

will call and equip people to serve in this leadership role.

The benefice of Hever, Four Elms and Mark Beech as they enter an interregnum and for all the grace and strength they need during the vacancy,

and St Stephen, Tonbridge – for their new Associate Vicar, the Rev Eric Hornbuckle, newly licensed.

Rochester Diocese: Tonbridge Deanery

Rural Dean: The Rev Mark Brown; Lay Chair: Mrs Carol Wake

Anglican Communion:

PRAY for The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem & The Middle East: The Most Rev Dr Mouneer Hanna Anis Archbishop, Jerusalem & the Middle East & Bishop in

Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa

Prayer Requests:

Monday

25 April

Mark the Evangelist

Rochester Diocese:

Wilmington, St Michael and All Angels

Vicar: The Rev Richard Arding

Anglican Communion: Cape Coast - (Ghana, West Africa) The Rt Rev Dr Victor

Atta-Baffoe

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 26 April

Rochester Diocese: People who have recently moved into the area

Anglican Communion:

Cape Town - Table Bay - (Southern Africa) The Rt Rev

Garth Counsell

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

27 April Christina Rosetti, poet, 1894

Rochester Diocese:

Gillingham, Holy Trinity Vicar: The Rev Ann Richardson

Anglican Communion: Cashel & Ossory - (Dublin, Ireland) The Rt Rev Michael

Andrew James Burrows

Prayer Requests:

“The merest grass Along the roadside where we pass, Lichen and moss and sturdy weed, Tell of His love who sends the dew, The rain and sunshine too, To nourish one small seed.” Christina Rosetti 1830- 1894

Thursday

28 April

Peter Chanel, missionary, martyr 1841

Rochester Diocese:

Gillingham, St Augustine

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Jonathan Jennings

Anglican Communion: Central Buganda - (Uganda) The Rt Rev Jackson Matovu

Prayer Requests:

Friday

29 April Catherine of Siena, teacher of the faith, 1380

Rochester Diocese:

Gillingham St Barnabas Priest-in-Charge: Vacant

Anglican Communion: Central Ecuador - (V, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Rev

Victor Scantlebury

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 30 April

Pandita Mary Ramabai, translator, 1922

Rochester Diocese: Gillingham, St Luke

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Paul Matthias

Anglican Communion:

Central Florida - (IV, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Rev Gregory Brewer; Central Gulf Coast - (IV, The Episcopal

Church) The Rt Rev Philip Duncan

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

1 May

Easter 6

Ezekiel 37.1-14

Psalm 67 Acts 16.9-15

John 5.1-9

Diocese of Mpwapwa

We give thanks for 25 years since the founding of this Diocese. We give thanks for Bishop Simon, the first Bishop of Mpwapwa and for his successor and

current Bishop, the Most Rev Jacob Chimeledya, and all who have been, and currently are, part of the team sharing the light of Jesus across the Diocese.

We pray for rains, that they will continue, not just in Mpwapwa but across the

country, and that the drought will be broken and the harvest plentiful. We ask too, because the ground is dry and the rains may cause floods, that the people

will be wise and careful, and stay safe, and we pray for those who lost their lives in the drownings in the Diocese (and in Kondoa and in Dar es Salaam).

We give thanks for the early days of the new government in the country; we

pray that they will be effective and honourable, and that the situation with Zanzibar will be clarified during further elections in March.

And we pray especially for Jacob, who as well as his role in the Diocese, is also the Archbishop of Tanzania. At a time when he carries many responsibilities,

we pray for his health, for his family and the diocesan team who see little of him, and all the Pastors and Katikisti in his Diocese. We ask for wisdom as he

travels around the country, that he might give good council and

encouragement, that he is upheld by the Spirit and remains physically and spiritually strong.

Rochester Diocese:

Our Link Diocese, Mpwpwa: Bishop, The Most Rev Jacob Chimeledya, Archbishop of Tanzania

Anglican Communion:

PRAY for The Anglican Church of Kenya: The Most Rev Dr Eliud Wabukala

Primate and Archbishop of All Kenya

Prayer Requests:

Monday

2 May Philip and James, Apostles (transferred from 1 May) Rogation Day

Rochester Diocese:

Gillingham, St Mark, and St Mary’s Island

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Saju Muthalaly

Anglican Communion: Central New York - (II, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Rev

Gladstone Adams

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 3 May

Rogation Day

Rochester Diocese: Farmers and those whose livelihood depends on the land

Anglican Communion: Central Newfoundland - (Canada, Canada) The Rt Rev

Frederick David Torraville

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 4 May

Rogation Day English Saints and Martyrs of the Reformation Era

Rochester Diocese: Gillingham, St Mary Magdalene

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Ade Lawal

Anglican Communion:

Central Pennsylvania - (III, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Rev Audrey Scanlon

Prayer Requests:

Thursday

5 May

Ascension Day

Rochester Diocese:

Readers as they celebrate 150 years of Reader Ministry

Anglican Communion:

A hymn of glory let us sing New songs throughout the world shall ring Christ, by a road before untrod Ascendeth to the throne of God. Alleluia

Prayer Requests:

Friday

6 May

Rochester Diocese:

Rainham, St Margaret

Vicar: The Rev Judy Henning

Anglican Communion: Central Philippines - (Philippines) The Rt Rev Dixie Copanut

Taclobao

Prayer Requests:

Saturday

7 May

Rochester Diocese:

South Gillingham: Hempstead, All Saints; Wigmore, St Matthew; Bredhurst, St Peter; and Parkwood, St Paul

Team Rector: The Rev Brian Senior

Anglican Communion:

Central Solomons - (Melanesia) The Rt Rev Ben Seka

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

8 May

Sunday after Ascension Day

Easter 7

Ezekiel 36.24 – 28

Psalm 97 Acts 16.16-34

John 17.20-end

Strood Deanery

Pray for the churches on the Peninsula, as they work together as a Group, and especially now with a vacancy at Cliffe with Cooling, giving thanks there for the

ministry of the Rev Jill Wright during the interregnum.

Pray for “Who Cares”, an organisation on the Peninsula made up of folk from

churches and other agencies, which seeks to help vulnerable and isolated people.

Give thanks for the completion of the work on the interior of Hoo St Werburgh

and pray for God’s blessing on the church and wider community in the new

flexibility that has been created.

Pray for the Strood Cluster of churches, giving thanks for our two new Incumbents, the Rev Sharon Copestake and the Rev Nicholas Cooper. Pray for

guidance in the ongoing vision and life of this group.

Rochester Diocese:

Strood Deanery Area Dean: The Rev David Green; Lay Chair: Mr Geoff Foord

Anglican Communion: PRAY for The Anglican Church of Korea: The Most Rev Paul Kim Primate of the

Anglican Church of Korea and Bishop of Seoul

Prayer Requests:

Monday

9 May

Rochester Diocese:

Chalk, St Mary the Virgin

Vicar: The Rev Nigel Bourne

Anglican Communion: Central Tanganyika - (Tanzania) The Rt Rev Dickson

Chilongani

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 10 May

Rochester Diocese: Diocesan Resourcing & Support Team

Director: Mr Geoff Marsh

Anglican Communion:

Central Zambia - (Central Africa) The Rt Rev Derek Gary Kamukwamba

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 11 May

Rochester Diocese: Gravesend, Holy Family, with Ifield, St Margaret

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Richard Martin

Anglican Communion:

Central Zimbabwe - (Central Africa) The Rt Rev Ishmael Mukuwanda

Prayer Requests:

“You would know our Lord’s meaning in this thing! Know it well. Love was his meaning. Who showed it you? Love. What did he show you? Love. Why did he show you? Love. Why did he show it? For love.” Julian of Norwich c.1343-1417

Thursday

12 May Rochester Diocese:

Gravesend, St Aidan

Vicar: The Rev Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy

Anglican Communion: Chandigarh - (North India) The Rt Rev Younas Massey

Prayer Requests:

Friday 13 May

Rochester Diocese: Gravesend, St George

Rector: The Rev Canon Chris Stone

Anglican Communion:

Chelmsford - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Rev Stephen Geoffrey Cottrell; Chelmsford - Barking - (Canterbury,

England) The Rt Rev Peter Hill; Chelmsford - Bradwell - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Rev John Wraw; Chelmsford -

Colchester - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Rev Anthony Brett Morris

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 14 May

Matthias the Apostle

Rochester Diocese: Gravesend, St Mary

Vicar: The Rev Trudi Oliver

Anglican Communion:

Madras - (South India) The Rt Rev Dr Vedanayagam Devasahayam

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

15 May

Whitsun; Christian Aid Week begins

Pentecost

Genesis 11.1-9

Psalm 104.26-end Acts 2.1-21

John 14.8-17

Christian Aid Week

Pray for the workers for Christian Aid as they, with their partner organisations, work in Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Gaza, Iraq, the Philippines, Vanuatu, Thailand,

Syria, among others places, to alleviate poverty and rebuild lives.

Pray for them, too, as they keep structures in place to respond to emergencies

across the world.

Pray for all those running Christian Aid Church services today, for those who will deliver and collect donation envelopes in house to-house collections this

week and all running fundraising events. Pray too, for all considering whether

to give money.

Above all pray for all those dependant on this kind of help, whose lives have been devastated by famine, war, wind or flood. That they may know they are

not forgotten, not by God nor by his children.

Rochester Diocese:

Christian Aid co-ordinators in the Diocese.

Anglican Communion:

PRAY for the Anglican Church of Melanesia: The Most Rev David Vunagi Archbishop of Melanesia and Bishop of Central Melanesia

Prayer Requests:

Monday

16 May

Ordinary Time resumes today. Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877

Rochester Diocese:

Greenhithe, St Mary

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Andrew Avery

Anglican Communion: Chester - (York, England) The Rt Rev Dr Peter Robert

Forster; Chester - Birkenhead - (York, England) The Rt Rev

Keith Sinclair; Chester - Stockport - (York, England) The Rt Rev Libby Lane

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 17 May

Rochester Diocese: Bishop’s Chaplains gathering today

Anglican Communion: Chhattisgarh - (North India) The Rt Rev Purna Sagar Nag

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 18 May

Rochester Diocese: Milton, Christ Church

Vicar: The Rev Sue Brewer

Anglican Communion:

Chicago - (VI, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Rev Jeffrey Lee; Assisting Bishop of Chicago - (VI, The Episcopal

Church) The Rt Rev John Buchanan

Prayer Requests:

“In thee would we lose ourselves utterly; do in us what thou wilt.” Jacob Boehme 1575-1624

Thursday

19 May

Dunstan, Archbishop, monastic reformer, 988

Rochester Diocese:

Milton, St Peter and St Paul

Rector: The Rev Graham Herbert

Anglican Communion: Chichester - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Rev Martin

Warner; Chichester - Horsham - (Canterbury, England) The

Rt Rev Mark Sowerby; Chichester - Lewes - (Canterbury, England) The Rev Richard Charles Jackson

Prayer Requests:

Friday

20 May

Alcuin, Deacon, Abbott, 804

Rochester Diocese:

Northfleet, St Botolph, and Rosherville, St Mark

Team Rector: The Rev Lawrence Smith

Anglican Communion: The Most Rev Hector Zavala Muñoz Presiding Bishop of the

Anglican Church of South America & Bishop of Chile; Suffragan Bishop of Chile - (South America) The Rt Rev

Abelino Manuel Apeleo

Prayer Requests:

Saturday

21 May

Helena, protector of the Holy Places, 330

Rochester Diocese:

Perry Street, All Saints

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Lawrence Smith

Anglican Communion: Chotanagpur - (North India) The Rt Rev B Baskey

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

22 May

Trinity Sunday

Proverbs 8.1-4, 22-31

Psalm 8 Romans 5.1-5

John 16.12-15

Tunbridge Wells Deanery

For the deanery as we revisit the mission and ministry plan in the light of developments in the Diocese and locally. We need something that enables us

to be proactive as we consider the opportunities and challenges around us. The need for deeper collaboration is clear, including the working ecumenically.

Several parishes are waiting for a new incumbent. Pray for them as they navigate the interregnum and as they prepare for any changes which lie

ahead. Pray particularly for Church Wardens and Licensed Lay Ministers and the extra work which comes their way at such times.

For ecumenical partnerships, especially with establishing a new resource centre to work with the homeless and others. Tunbridge Wells now has an

established night shelter operating in several churches from January to early March but needs to be able to take this work forward from a proper centre

through the rest of the year. The concern has been around for a number of years with several false starts. It would be good to make some real progress.

Rochester Diocese: Tunbridge Wells Deanery: Rural Dean, the Rev Canon Jim Stewart; Lay Chair,

Mr Graham Syms

Anglican Communion:

PRAY for La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico: The Most Rev Francisco Moreno Presiding Bishop of La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico & Bishop of Northern

Mexico

Prayer Requests: