Mon 13 Oct 2025
Monday 13 October 2025
"But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it." (v. 23)
A prayer for encouragement
Come, Holy Spirit. Come near to us and bless our prayer. Refresh, renew and fill us that we might receive our calling anew. Teach us patience that we might reflect your patient love as we seek to sing a new song so that in all things we might give glory to God, through Christ and in the power of the Spirit. Encourage us and fill us with hope for the future that with warmed hearts, fresh harmonies and renewed hands and voices we might pour ourselves out in love for others as you have poured out your love for us in Christ. Come, Holy Spirit. Come, Lord, come.
Richard Andrew, Chair, Darlington District
A prayer commending all to God - Alternative Prayer
We commend to you, O Lord, our waking and our sleeping, our going out and our coming in, our souls and our bodies, our words and our deeds, our life and our death, our household and our companions, our world and our neighbours.
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)