Verse for reflection: Matthew 5.5 Blessed are the meek, Epiphany Season for they will inherit the earth.

Daily Prayer Pause for a time of silence to reflect

Prayers

Intercession may include these concerns: You may wish to prepare by lighting a candle, taking deep o The unity of the Church breaths, focussing on the cross, or a flower, the Name of o The peace of the world Jesus… Choose to set down all concerns. Switch off your mobile phone! o The healing of the sick God is eternal – take time, He’s in no hurry! o The revelation of Christ to those from whom his glory is hidden Prepare your hearts and minds on God o All who travel O God, make speed to save us. O Lord, make haste to help us. Prayer With you, O God, is the well of life O good Jesus, and in your light shall we see light. Word of the Father and Psalm 36:9 brightness of his glory, whom angels desire to behold: Give thanks and praise God teach me to do your will Christ Jesus was revealed in the flesh that, guided by your Spirit, and vindicated in the spirit. I may come to that blessed city of everlasting day, He was seen by angels where all are one in heart and mind, and proclaimed among the nations. where there is safety and eternal peace, happiness and delight, Believed in throughout the world, where you live with the Father and the Holy Spirit, he was taken up in glory. world without end. Amen. This will be made manifest at the proper time after Gregory the Great (604) by the blessed and only Sovereign, Lord’s Prayer Who alone has immortality, Our Father, who art in heaven, and dwells in unapproachable light. hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; To the King of kings and Lord of lords on earth as it is in heaven. be honour and eternal dominion. Amen. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, I Timothy 3.16; 6.15,16 as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation; Listening to the living Word of God but deliver us from evil. : For thine is the kingdom, On any day: Psalm 72: 10-15 (or) the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Sunday: Psalm 67 Amen. Monday: Psalm 99

Tuesday: Psalm 100 To conclude Wednesday: Psalm 122 May the light of Christ our Lord shine in all our Thursday: Psalm 132: 10-19 hearts. Friday: Psalm 138 Amen. Saturday:

Short Old/ reading (see next page for daily readings) Short readings Saturday: Revelation 1.13-16 In the midst of the lampstands I saw one like the Sunday: Malachi 1.11 Son of Man, clothed with a long robe and with a From the rising of the sun to its setting my name is golden sash across his chest. His head and his hair great among the nations, and in every place were white as white wool, white as snow; his eyes incense is offered to my name, and a pure were like a flame of fire, his feet were like offering; for my name is great among the nations, burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his says the Lord of hosts. voice was like the sound of many waters. In his

right hand he held seven stars, and from his mouth Monday: John 2.10,11 came a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was The steward said to the bridegroom, ‘Everyone like the sun shining with full force. serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you Or, on any day in Epiphany: John 8.12 have kept the good wine until now.’ Jesus did this, Jesus said, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and follows me will never walk in darkness but will have revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in the light of life.’ him.

Notes on reflections, what you are sensing Tuesday: .1-3 God is saying to you/ answers to prayer Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For darkness shall - cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will ______appear over you. Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn. ______

Wednesday: 2 Corinthians 4.5,6 ______We do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for ______Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ who has shone in our ______hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the ______glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

______Thursday: Romans 8.15-17 You did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back ______into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ it is that ______very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, ______heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ – if, in fact, we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified ______with him. ______Friday: Ephesians 1.8b-10 ______With all wisdom and insight the Father has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to ______his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things ______in him, things in heaven and things on earth. ______

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