Sat 04 Oct 2025
Saturday 4 October 2025
Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. (v. 2)
A prayer for our obedience to God's will
Holy and unfathomable God, Blessed Trinity, by your grace you have called your people to be a holy nation, a royal priesthood. Draw us more deeply into the Paschal mystery of the death and resurrection of Jesus, our Great High Priest, that our intercessory prayers for the world and all its people may be obedient to your divine will.
May the worship, fellowship and service of the Church faithfully proclaim the story of your redemptive purposes from the beginning of creation. Through our lives and by our prayers may your kingdom come, and all things be gathered into Christ. Amen.
David Chapman, Chair, Bedfordshire, Essex and Hertfordshire District
Prayer following the Manchester Synagogue attack on 2 October
Holy God, who breaks down the walls of division,
we cry out to you in solidarity with our Jewish sisters and brothers following the abhorrent attack upon life and community in Greater Manchester.
We pray that those who have died may rest in your eternal peace and that you would comfort those who mourn.
We pray for those in our communities who are afraid to walk the streets because of their faith and traditions.
On this day held especially holy to the Jewish community, we pray that you would guide our path and lead us through the wilderness.
Where there is enmity, we pray for peace; where there is division, healing; and where there is hatred, a mending of broken bonds.
Holy God, bring reconciliation to our nation that all might live justly and peacefully in the land.
Amen.
The President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference
A prayer for our evangelism - Alternative Prayer
Grant us grace, O God, to be interpreters of your beauty, narrators of your glory, confessors of your purpose, preachers of your mind and teachers of your works; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Odes of Solomon (late 1st Century CE)