No. 115 July 2022
This month our focus is on All Saints Church Wokingham:
Read moreThe Church of England in the Wokingham Area
The talk covers some challenging areas and attendees should be aware that they might find some of the themes upsetting
Read moreThis month our focus is on St Mary the Virgin, Winnersh and St Catherine Bearwood.
Read moreThis month our focus is on St Mary’s Wargrave with St Peter’s Knowl Hill
Please pray for:
Vicar: Revd John Cook
Associate Priest: RevdSteve Turville
Curate: Revd Richard Eves
Lay Minister: Andy Ferguson
Church Wardens Wargrave: Ian Matthews and Mark Puddy
Church Warden Knowl Hill: Sandra Baker
Administration Manager: Lucy Bowley
In the Parish, please pray for:
In the Deanery, please pray for:
In the wider world, please continue to pray for:
God of glory,
by the raising of your Son
you have broken the chains of death and hell:
fill your Church with faith and hope;
for a new day has dawned
and the way to life stands open
in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen
Alternative Collect for Easter Day, The Daily Office SSF,
This month our focus is on St Andrew’s Sonning, Charvil and Sonning Eye
Please pray for:
Vicar: Revd Jamie Taylor
Associate Vicar: Revd Kate Toogood
Youth Minister: Chris West
LLM: Bob Peters
Wardens: Liz Nelson and Stuart Bowman
Parish administrator: Hilary Rennie
Director of Music: Hannah Towndrow
Parish Magazine Editor: Bob Peters
In the Parish, please pray for:
In the Deanery we pray for:
In the wider world we pray for:
Heavenly Father,
whose children suffered at the hands of Herod,
though they had done no wrong;
by the suffering of your Son
and by the innocence of our lives
frustrate all evil designs
and establish your reign of justice and peace;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
[Collect for The Holy Innocents’ Day, The Daily Office SSF]
This month our focus is on St Michael and All Angels, Sandhurst.
Please pray for:
Rector: Revd John Castle
Associate Ministers: Revd John White and Revd Jane Kraft
Wardens: Catherine Wilkins and Emma Hodge,
Families Worker: Sarah Bishop
Youth worker: Mike Gower
In the Parish, please pray for:
In the Deanery, please pray for:
And as we pray for our world:
Creation’s Cross
We, your people come.
We, who crucify this world,
stripping bare its soil,
crowning it with a wreath of broken trees.
Its air breathes painfully,
its waters weep for the folly that poisons them, Its creatures bleed.
We have eaten and drunk of life’s body.
Heirs of all,
we have sold our world.
Thirty pieces of silver is our price. Loudly declaring our love,
we have denied our Lord.
We are Judas,
We are Peter.
We are the cross of all creation.
[From: Palmer, Martin. (1993). Living Christianity. Rockport, Mass : Element]