Good caring presence within us, around us, and above us;
Hold us in a sense of mystery and wonder.

As an Episcopalian I regularly recite the Apostles’ Creed and pray the Lord’s Prayer. In doing so, I stand with Jesus’ early followers as they struggled to find words that could frame how their lives were being renewed beyond comprehension. My life also is being renewed beyond comprehension, or so I’m convinced, as I try to live out the self-giving embodied in the common life Jesus began. But I live in a vastly different time and place from those of Jesus’ early followers. My everyday assumptions about the world and how it works are vastly different, not final truths, mind you, but still different, and just as inescapable as people’s everyday assumptions back then.

We recognise that life is a gift and a joy to be lived in all its richness

All: We give thanks with all our hearts

I am really struggling with my faith today, A boy near us has killed himself.

Gretta Vosper offers this lovely prayer to use in community which focuses on the unity of all.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama offers this simple prayer for others

The time for healing is now…

I slept and dreamt that life was joy, I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.   Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

God bless this food we are about to receive. Give bread to those who hunger; and hunger for justice to us who have bread.  Amen

For each new morning with its light…

May the Love of those with dear ones lost
Be strong.

We pray for those who are struggling with addiction,
Filling their void with more emptiness.
May they find the pure Fullness that is God.

We worship and adore God,
source, essence, and aim of all things,
spirit that enlivens all beings.

Group reading…a commitment to live as compassionate beings.

Eternal God, Giver of joy and source of all strength, we pray for those who prepare for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games. For the competitors training for the Games and their loved ones, For the many …

We affirm our common humanity with all human beings and our commitment to truly value each person regardless of how different they are from us. All: We celebrate our unity in our diversity   We acknowledge that …

The public prayers of conservative Christians are embarrassing to me, and I find myself uncomfortable sharing with strangers the fact that I am an ordained member of the Christian clergy. I was recently in a situation in which I once again experienced this unsettling, self-conscious feeling.

“Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.” A Taize chant is incorporated into a opening invocation