Interceding; Prayers may include these concerns: Saturday Prayer o Our homes, families, friends and all whom Trinity Season we love o Those whose time is spent caring for others June, July, o Those who are close to death Aug, Sept, Oct o Those who have lost hope The worship of the Church o

You may wish to prepare by lighting a candle, taking deep Prayer breaths, focussing on the cross, or a flower, the Name of God be in my head, and in my understanding; Jesus… Choose to set down all concerns. Switch off your mobile phone! God be in my eyes, and in my looking; God is eternal – take time, He’s in no hurry! God be in my mouth, and in my speaking; God be in my heart, and in my thinking; Prepare your hearts and minds on God God be at mine end, and at my departing. O God, make speed to save us. Amen. Sarum Primer O Lord, make haste to help us. Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens Lord’s Prayer and your faithfulness to the clouds. .5 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; Give thanks and praise God thy kingdom come; thy will be done; What shall I give you, Lord, in return for all your on earth as it is in heaven. kindness? Give us this day our daily bread. Glory to you for your love. And forgive us our trespasses, Glory to you for your patience. as we forgive those who trespass against us. Glory to you for forgiving us all our sins. And lead us not into temptation; Glory to you for coming to save our souls. but deliver us from evil. Glory to you for your incarnation in the virgin’s For thine is the kingdom, womb. the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Glory to you for your bonds. Amen. Glory to you for receiving the cut of the lash. Glory to you for accepting mockery. To conclude Glory to you for your crucifixion. May Christ dwell in our hearts by faith. Glory to you for your burial. Amen. Glory to you for your resurrection. Glory to you that you were preached to all. Glory to you in whom they believed. Ephrem the Syrian (373)

Listening to the living Word of God : On any Saturday: Psalm 63.1–8 (or) Week 1: Week 2: Psalm 131 Week 3: Psalm 138 Week 4:

Short Old/ New Testament reading (see next page for daily readings)

Saturday verse for reflection: John 11:25,26 Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will never die.

Pause for a time of silence to reflect Short readings and to open its seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God saints from Week One: Isaiah 11.6–9 every tribe and language and people and nation; The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall you have made them to be a kingdom and priests lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the serving our God, and they will reign on earth.’ fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.

The cow and the bear shall graze, their young shall Or, on any Saturday: 2 Corinthians 4.18 lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like We look not at what can be seen but at what the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of cannot be seen; for what can be seen is the asp, and the weaned child shall put its hand on temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal. the adder’s den. They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the Notes on reflections, what you are sensing knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. God is saying to you/ answers to prayer

Week Two: Ephesians 3.14–19 - For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and earth takes ______its name. I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened ______in your inner being with power through his Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through ______faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. I pray that you may have the power to ______comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to ______know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, ______so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. ______

Week Three: John 11.17–26a ______When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. Now ______Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, and many of the Jews had come to Martha ______and Mary to console them about their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she ______went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. Martha said to Jesus, ‘Lord, if you had been here, ______my brother would not have died. But even now I ______know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Your brother will rise ______again.’ Martha said to him, ‘I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.’ Jesus ______said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, ______will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.’ ______

Week Four: Revelation 5.8–10 ______When the Lamb had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the ______Lamb, each holding a harp and golden bowls full of ______incense, which are the prayers of the saints. They sing a new song: ‘You are worthy to take the scroll