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Prayers Resources:

The following are prayer resources for you to use in your personal prayers. If you have prayers to share please let us know at the office: office@holytrinity.mb.ca or 204.942.7465.

Our Prayers of the People for this week of March 29, 2020:

Father, though we are not together in our church building, may we feel together in prayer and in caring for each other at this time of social isolation. Instill in us fellowship though we are a distance from each other. Help us to still concentrate and follow a Holy Lent and observe prayer, meditation, increasing our monetary giving’s, giving up things we can do without, and more serving of others. Let us be mindful we can follow the Stations of the Cross and enrich our lives with more prayerfulness and reading of the bible.  Hear Us Lord.

Loving God, Healer of us all, we pray for all affected by the Covid 19 Virus, those who are isolated, quarantined or suffering from the disease. We pray for their loved ones and all who have died and for those awaiting funerals and memorials. We pray for those who are supplying essential medical and nursing services and that beds, equipment and necessary medical necessities be available. We pray for vulnerable people, the homeless those in poverty, the mentally sick and anxious a, for seniors and those in Nursing homes with no family to visit. Give them hope and resources Lord. Give wisdom to those who lead and the scientists and doctors fighting to keep us safe. Grant them energy and calm to get through each day. We pray for essential services, those in social services and those who work to bring us goods and food.

Give us hope and grace in this uncertain time, O Lord and let us look to our faith and trust in you.

Lord Hear us.

Father we pray for those who mourn and have lost loved ones;  especially Scott Grieg and Neville Scarlett, Junior,  Phil Perron, Robert McPhearson, may light perpetual shine upon them. Comfort the Grieg, Scarlett, Perron and McPhearson families especially Richard and Gwen, Veronica, Len and Shirley, and Laurel; may they rest in the knowledge they will be reunited in your Heavenly Kingdom.

Lord Hear us.

Good Shepherd, we pray for the world wide Anglican church and clergy everywhere, those recently ordained and those awaiting Holy orders. We pray for our own Primate Linda, Bishop Geoff, Reverends Cathy, Fitz , Donald, may they be given strength,  good health, grace and compassion  to serve as  they lead us through Lent under unusual circumstances. Lord Hear us.

[with thanks to Be Buckingham for these prayers]

Blessing in the Chaos

To all that is chaotic

in you,

let there come silence.

Let there be

a calming

of the clamouring,

a stilling

of the voices that

have laid their claim

on you,

that have made their

home in you,

that go with you

even to the

holy places

but will not

let you rest,

will not let you

hear your life

with wholeness

or feel the grace

that fashioned you.

Let what distracts you

cease.

Let what divides you

cease.

Let there come an end

to what diminishes

and demeans,

and let depart

all that keeps you

in its cage.

Let there be

an opening

into the quiet

that lies beneath

the chaos,

where you find

the peace

you did not think

possible

and see what shimmers

within the storm.

From “The Cure for Sorrow” J.Richardson

see janrichardson.com for more wonderful blessings

 

Additional Prayer Resources

 

The Rev'd Jessica Schaap, Missioner for Christian Formation [jschaap@vancouver.anglican.ca], of the Diocese of New Westminster has complied this set of online prayer resources for your exploration and use:

 

1.      DailyPrayer – one of the best apps for praying the daily office. It has a clean attractive format and each day gives you the psalm and lectionary readings so you’re not flipping around with multiple books and/or screens. You can pray the full set of offices from morning, midday evening, and night/compline and you can choose the traditional BCP or the contemporary prayer book of the Church of England called Common Worship.

 

2.      The Daily Office from the Mission of St. Clare – based on the 1979 Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, this app includes psalms and lection readings as well as text and recordings of chants and hymns used throughout morning, noonday, evening, and night prayer. It’s very easy to use. Bonus if you like the 16th century Coverdale translation of the psalms, you can click and pray them instead.

 

3.      Order of Saint Helena Daily Office - the daily office of the Anglican monastic Order of Saint Helena. The app is plain but simple to use and the sisters have worked diligently over the years to incorporate more gender inclusive and expansive language while hewing to the tradition and flow of the Book of Common Prayer.

 

4.      Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals – based on the popular adaptations of morning, midday, and evening prayer developed by Shane Claiborne and his team in the book of the same name. It’s a pretty straightforward text based app. One nice feature is the songbook that has folksy, accapella recordings of all the hymns used in the daily prayers.

 

 

IGNATIAN PRAYER APPS

 

1.       Pray as you Go – a popular 10-13 minute guided prayer session that gives scripture, questions for reflection, music, and prayer. It’s all audio with soothing voices and based in Ignatian spirituality, which invites us to use our senses and imagination in prayer and relationship with God.

 

 

2.      Reimagining the Examen – based on the book Reimagining the Ignatian Examen by Jesuit priest, Mark Thibodeaux, the app guides you step-by-step through a prayerful review of the day called an examen. You can choose among many different types of examen prayers and choose background music and text size. It helps by inviting us to attend to our bodies and posture as well.

 

 

 

MEDITATION APP

 

1.      Centering Prayer – an easy-to-use introduction and timer for contemplative prayer. You can set opening and closing prayers, many from Fr. Thomas Keating, founder of Centering Prayer, or from the tradition of the church. You can set the amount of time you wish to sit in silence and have a bell rung to open and close the time.

 

 

DEVOTIONAL APPS

 

 

1.      D365.org – based on the daily print devotional for youth, this simple app offers a brief prayer, a scripture passage, a short reflection, a closing prayer and sending. Users have the option to play music in the background with each day’s devotion.

 

 

2.      3 Minute Retreat - a time of calm with a brief passage from scripture, reflection, a question, and a closing blessing. The text is accompanied by image and meditative music. Produced by Loyola press, a Jesuit publisher. The Jesuits are really into the app realm it seems.

 

 

Do you have any apps that help you in your prayer life? I would love to hear about them. Feel free to email me: