Prayers given on our Family Communion service on the sixth Sunday after Trinity.
Considering prayer: make it a personal conversation, seeing God as father. After all, a father figure is someone to trust; a father will support us in what we need. Have you thought of how you pray? God knows what is in our hearts and minds – there is no wrong way to pray!
Notices for Sunday 28th July, with details of our upcoming services and events.
Are there specific things you want to persist in asking for? Is there something you look at several times a day like a mirror, window, computer screen or phone? Write a note and stick it where you’ll see it most as a reminder to pray.
So, we’re half way through Ordinary time, the half a year that follows the excitement of Easter and Pentecost. There aren’t seemingly any great feasts to celebrate, no anticipation as with Lent before Easter or Advent before Christmas. Really, ordinary time? More like boring yawn time – wake me up when it’s Christmas and something is happening, alright?
Prayers given on our Family Communion service on the fifth Sunday after Trinity.
Three times Martha mentions herself in her complaint to Jesus; she was concerned about what was happening to her – had her focus slipped from Jesus well being to her own?
Notices for Sunday 21st July, with details of our upcoming events and services from St Mark’s.
We thank God for the connections that make up our families and communities.
Words and music, Gerald Markland