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 – [email protected] 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: