Bromilow Thomson, Area Bp of Selby. Paul John Pray for all the churches in the town of Flint, Ferguson, Area Bp of Whitby members of the Flint and District Ctyun, and for the increasing confidence they are showing in Teulu Asaph Cycle of Prayer Please pray for the success of the community their joint working. Christmas dinner tomorrow afternoon at St. Peter’s Holywell 29 th - Tuesday - Thomas of Canterbury December 2015 Gregory at the Midnight Eucharist, St Asaph (1170), Bishop & Martyr Cathedral Diocese of Zaria [Kaduna, Nigeria] - Bp Cornelius This month we pray for the Deanery of Holywell. Salifu Bello 25 th - Friday - The Nativity of Our Lord Ember Days Diocese of Ysabel [Melanesia] - Bp Richard Please pray for the Hope 37 Youth Trust in This month there are 3 Ember Days observed on the Wednesday, Friday and Naramana Holywell and our youth worker Leanne Saturday following the Third Sunday of Advent. Other Ember Days occur on Wednesdays, Stanford. That their ongoing funding issues Fridays and Saturdays within the week before the Second Sunday of Lent and in the weeks before Please join with the Deanery of Holywell in may be resolved and that a new office on the the Sundays nearest to 29 th June and 29 th September. On these days we especially pray for praying for the whole Teulu Asaph, for our High St. in Holywell and new relationship with vocations, and for those who serve the church in different ministries. shared life together and for a joyful Christmas the charity Care & Repair will prove a more The following collects can be used on those days: season across the Diocese. sustainable way to continue the valued work of the trust. 26 th - Saturday - Stephen, & First Ember Day Collect: Martyr 30 th - Wednesday - Tathan (6th C.), Abbot Almighty God, the giver of all good gifts, by your Holy Spirit you have appointed various orders of ministry in your Church. Look with mercy and grace on your servants called to be , Diocese of Yukon [British Columbia & the Yukon, Diocese of Zonkwa [ Abuja, Nigeria] - Bp Jacob & ; keep them in the truth and renew them with holiness, that by word and good example Canada] - Bp Larry David Robertson Kwashi they may faithfully serve you to the glory of your name and the good of your Church; through Jesus Please remember the refugees and migrants at Pray for the outreach from St. Mary & St. Christ our Lord. Amen. Calais; those who will be volunteering this Peter’s to the bereaved of Bagillt who come to Prayer for the right use of God’s gifts Christmas to distribute aid and that 2016 may the Church in their time of greatest need. And Almighty God, your Holy Spirit equips the Church With a rich variety of gifts: Grant that we may see political action to bring an end to the for the work to improve the church graveyard squalor of the Calais jungle. for the benefit of the whole community. use them to bear witness to Christ by lives built on faith and love. Make us ready to live his gospel and eager to do his will that we may share with all your Church in the joys of eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 27 th - Sunday - John, Apostle & 31 st - Thursday - John Wycliffe (1384), & Translator Evangelist Introduction 1st - Tuesday - World Aids Day & - Nicholas Diocese of Zaki-Biam [ Abuja, Nigeria] - Bp Diocese of Zululand [Southern Africa] - Vacant Farrar (1637), Deacon The typographical conventions in this Teulu Benjamin Vager Diocese of West Tennessee [Province IV, Episcopal Please pray for the 24 hours that the Asaph Cycle of Prayer are: Church, USA] - Bp Don Johnson Please pray for the parish of Bagillt and their Leadership Team of the prospective Holywell mixture of urban workforce, local business, Mission Area are taking together at Gladstone Sundays... Please pray for all our Deanery’s Advent and farmers and their families that they can all enjoy Library on January 8th and 9th as we seek to ...are highlighted with a larger red font Christmas services: that they may being part of the church family. develop a vision together and a better and preceded by a double red line. communicate the expectation and the joy of the deeper appreciation of one another and our seasons and be a blessing to all who 28 th - Monday - The Innocents various gifts. Weekdays participate in them. Diocese of Zanzibar [Tanzania] - Bp Michael Hafidh ...are black with a smaller font preceded by a Bishops’ Staff Team’s Training Event, Cardiff (Jointly single black line. with Llandaff BSM) The sections that follow each of the above If you would like to receive the Teulu Asaph Cycle of Prayer by email please ask to be added to are:.. 2nd - Wednesday - Saints, Martyrs & the mailing list by sending your request to [email protected] ...The first item is from the Anglican Cycle of Prayer. Missionaries of Asia and this section ends with a dotted line. Diocese of West Texas [VIII, Episcopal Church, USA] - Bp Gary Lillibridge & David Reed, Assistant Bishop Key to abbreviatons ...The next section features the benefices, AD Area Dean LC Lay Chair (PCC) parishes, clergy and officers of the Deanery for Give thanks for the officers of the Whitford AP Associate Priest PA(s) Pastoral Assistant(s) whom we are praying in the current month. Group of parishes: and for their generous Bp Bishop PinC Priest in Charge Collaborative Ministry areas are highlighted support to our congregational life during this CW(s) Church Warden(s) PS / BS PCC or Parish (or Benefice) Secretary in Blue ; Benefices/Single Parish Benefices time of interregnum. DLC Deanery Conference Lay Chair PT PCC or Parish Treasurer highlighted in Green ; and Constituent DS Deanery Conference Secretary R Rector Parishes in Bold. Archdeaconry Bishops’ Staff Team’s Training Event, Cardiff (Jointly DT Deanery Treasurer Rdr Reader highlighted in Magenta & Deanery in Purple with Llandaff BSM) GAS Gift Aid Secretary V Vicar HT Headteacher WLs Worship Leaders ...The following section includes prayers for Bishop 3rd - Thursday - Francis Xavier (1552), Gregory and his engagements. Missionary Editor: Ian Day, B.A. (H ons ) ...Other objects of prayer from the Diocese, Province Diocese of West Virginia [Province III, Episcopal or Nation. [email protected] Church, USA] - Bp Willam Michie Klusmeyer. Diocese of Southern Virginia [Province III, Episcopal 9th - Wednesday Pray with all in St. Mary and St. Peter’s that the Bishop Gregory at the Deeside Hospital Church, USA] - Bp Herman Hollerith Diocese of Western Tanganyika [Tanzania] - Bp proposed reordering will be approved and for Sadock Makaya the work of Olive Unwin (PS), Angela 19 th - Saturday - Ember Day Give thanks for the parish church of Flint, for its Rossington PT )and Olive & Robin (CWs) who, situation in the town centre and the part that Diocese of Yei [Sudan] - Bp Hilary Luate Adeba Please pray for the work of the lay assistants in with the congregation, are setting out to place this building is playing in the regeneration and their building and the work of the Church renewal of Flint. the parish of Bagillt who visit homes in the Pray for the school Governors who have a parish in support of those who are unable to squarely within the life of the Bagillt community. demanding role in their support for all the Bishop Gregory at the Provincial Standing Committee attend worship at St. Mary & St. Peter’s. primary schools in the Gorsedd group. May all 15 th - Tuesday parents and children connected with our th Residential Bishop’s Staff Meeting, Hawarden: (Jointly 4 - Friday with Bangor BSM). Bishop Gregory at the Diocese of Wusasa [Nigeria] - Bp Ali Buba Lamido schools be nurtured in love. Diocese of Western Izon [Bendel, Nigeria] - Bp Nicholastide Confirmation, St Asaph Cathedral at Please pray for an increase in a commitment to Edafe Emamezi. Diocese of Northern Izon [Niger 1830hrs Pray for the continuing growth of the Monday discipleship and Christian maturity for all the people Delta, Nigeria] - Bp Fred Nyanabo Club, welcoming youngsters from Flint of God in churches across our diocese as we seek to 10 th - Thursday Mountain into St. Thomas’ Church. serve God in a variety of contexts – work, home, Please pray for the Family Service at St Mary & Diocese of Wiawso [Ghana, West Africa] - Bp community, church. Please pray especially for our St Peter’s Bagillt: that it might better help to Abraham Ackah 16 th - Wednesday - Ember Day smaller churches, for hope and confidence. introduce their community and the newly Diocese of Wyoming [VII, Episcopal Church, USA] - Pray for those about to start their training for baptized to worship. Please pray for all in Holywell engaged in Bp John Smylie ordained ministry: Rocsand Bateman & Dominic making preparations to mark next June the Cawdell. Pray for those about to be licensed as 5th - Saturday - 600th anniversary of Henry 5th’s pilgrimage Please pray for Anne Hooper (Rdr) as she pioneers / evangelists: Mike Vellacott, Jennie Willson & Diocese of Western Kansas [VIII, Episcopal Church, from Shrewsbury to Holywell following the begins a 6 month placement away from the Rocsand Bateman. USA] - Bp Michael Milliken Battle of Agincourt. parish of Holywell as part of her progress towards . 20 th - Sunday - Fourth Sunday of Pray for the United Reformed Congregation, Bishop Gregory at the Presentation to winners of Advent Bishop’s Christmas Card Competition Please pray for those who are currently exploring

Tabernacle, who are sharing St. Peter’s D their vocation: for the new St Padarn Training Institute Diocese of Yewa (form. Egbado] - [Lagos, Nigeria] - Holywell for Sunday morning worship that the 11 th - Friday and for the church in a period of opportunity, Bp Michael Adebayo Oluwarohunbi relationship may grow in trust and for the e instability and change. success of their 5th Sunday shared worship. Diocese of Willochra [South Australia, Australia] -

c Pray for the outreach from St. Mary & St. Bp John Stead Pray for Phil Carey (deacon), to be ordained priest: Peter’s to the bereaved of Bagillt who come to e Ivor Hawkins, Peter Heaney & Glyn Jones (ordained the Church in their time of greatest need. And Please pray for the congregation at St. Paul’s deacon last month). For those currently in training th m for the work to improve the church graveyard 6 - Sunday - Second Sunday of Rhosesmor and for the whole community. for ordained ministry: Ann Chidgey, Dorothi Evans, Advent Juliet Fraser, Anne Hooper, Dylan Caradog Parry for the benefit of the whole community. b Diocese of Western Louisiana [VIII, Episcopal th Jones, Yvonne Pryce, Rebecca Sparey-Taylor & 12 - Saturday st - O Dayspring! Church, USA] - Bp Jacob W Owensby e Jeanette Wilkes. 21 - Monday Diocese of Winchester [Canterbury, England] - Bp

r Diocese of Yirol [Sudan] - Bp David Akau Pray for the congregation at Christ Church, Tim Dakin. David Grant Williams, Area Bp of 17 th - Thursay - O Wisdom! Rhes y Cae and for the whole community. Basingstoke & , Area Bp of Please pray for the parish Church of Holywell, Southampton Diocese of Yambio [Sudan] - Bp Peter Munde Yacoub St. James’ that it may find it’s place in the th 7 - Monday - Ambrose (397), Bishop & Please pray for the Headteachers of Mostyn modern world. Doctor Pennant, Whitford Ysgol Y Llan, Ysgol Bro Please pray for the congregation at St. Mary Diocese of Western Michigan [VI, Episcopal Church, Carmel, Brynford School and Lixwm School the Virgin, Halkyn and for the whole community. 22 nd - Tuesday - O King of the Nations! USA] - Bp Whayne Hougland and for wisdom to be given to all staff as they th Diocese of Yokohama [Japan] - Bp Laurence Yutaka plan ahead for all in their care. 18 - Friday - Ember Day Minabe Give thanks to God for the excellent links Stephen Than Myint Oo Archbishop of Myanmar between Church and Schools across the and Bishop of Yangon & Samuel Htang Oak, Assistant Please pray for the children of their two primary Gorsedd group of Mostyn, Whitford, Brynford, th - Third Sunday of Advent Bishop schools in Bagillt who so struggle to hear and Ysgeifiog and Gorsedd and for the welcome 13 - Sunday receive the Word of God. that is extended by the schools. Diocese of Windward Islands [West Indies] - Bp Pray for all the churches in the town of Flint, Calvert Friday members of the Flint and District Ctyun, and for 23 rd - Wednesday - O Emmanuel! 8th - Tuesday - Cynidr (6th C.), Bishop the increasing confidence they are showing in Give thanks for the parish church of Flint, St. their joint working. Diocese of Yola [Jos, Nigeria] - Bp Markus Ibrahm Diocese of Western New [Province II, Mary & St. David, for its situation in the town Episcopal Church, USA] - Bp William Franklin centre and the part that this building is playing Please pray for vocations to the ordained ministry As the Deanery moves forward in the New Year in the regeneration and renewal of Flint. from younger candidates, and for those who will be with a proposal to become two mission areas Give thanks for and pray for God’s continued able to exercise leadership in the church of the future please pray that this new structure will allow blessing on the success of the Monday Mix as Bishop Gregory at the Dewi Sant Festal Eucharist, St as we face the coming retirement of a large and enliven their mission to these communities. Flint Parish Church reaches out to people with Mary’s church, Paddington Green proportion of our clergy. For vocations to the newer dementia and to their carers. licenced lay ministries – evangelist, pastoral minister, 24 th - Thursday 14 th - Monday - John of the Cross (1591), youth and family workers. Residential Bishop’s Staff Meeting, Hawarden: (Jointly Priest, Poet & Teacher of the Faith [York, England] - The Most Revd & with Bangor BSM) Pray for those training or currently in training for Rt Hon Dr . , Area Bp of Diocese of Worcester [Canterbury, England] - Bp Licensed Lay Ministry: Margaret Clarkson, Alan Beverley. , Area Bp of Hull. John John Inge & , Area Bp of Dudley Cronin, Lesley Joy, David Miller & Mary Morris.