Diocese of Newcastle Prayer Diary May 2021 1 PHILIP AND JAMES, APOSTLES 4 Tuesday Anglican Communion: English Saints and Martyrs of the Reformation Diocese of British Columbia (Canada) Era Bp Anna Greenwood-Lee Anglican Communion: Diocese of Winchester: Diocese of West Buganda (Uganda) Tim Dakin, Bishop of Winchester Bp Henry Katumba-Tamale Hexham Deanery: Diocese of Winchester: Area Dean: Jeremy Thompson Archdeacon of Bournemouth – vacant Peter Rouch, former Archdeacon, takes up This week … the post of CEO at the Church Army in ‘Abide in me as I abide in you.’ (John 15:4) Sheffield during this month. Hexham Deanery: Open to God’s transforming love: the heart Benefice of Allendale with Whitfield and of our faith is being at home in Christ and Ninebanks Christ being at home in us. Let’s pray for Rector: vacant those we know who have yet to find their home in Jesus that they might recognise his 5 Wednesday knock at the door and welcome him in Eadbert of Lindisfarne, 696 [CNS] * (Revelation 3:20). Anglican Communion: Diocese of Buhiga (Burundi) 2 FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Bp Evariste Nijimbere Porvoo Communion: Diocese of Winchester: Diocese of Southwark Richard Brand, Archdeacon of Winchester Diocese of Björkvin (Church of Norway) Hexham Deanery: Anglican Communion: St Cuthbert’s Parish Church, Allendale The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the * The Bishop of Berwick, Mark Wroe Middle East Most Revd Michael Augustine Owen Lewis, Thursday Primate 6 Diocese of Winchester: Anglican Communion: David Williams, Bishop of Basingstoke Diocese of Bujumbura (Burundi) Hexham Deanery: Bp Eraste Bigirimana Lay Chair: vacant Diocese of Winchester: Winchester Cathedral: 3 Monday Catherine Ogle, Dean Anglican Communion: Hexham Deanery: Diocese of Central Buganda (Uganda) St Mark’s Parish Church, Ninebanks Bp Michael Lubowa The Mothers’ Union Diocese of Winchester: Pray for members planning to attend a Debbie Sellin, Bishop of Southampton retreat led by Jenni and Malcolm Jones this Hexham Deanery: month. May they find inspiration in their Secretary: vacant shared time together. Finance Officer: vacant 7 Friday 10 Monday Rogation Day John of Beverley, bishop, 721 [CNS] * Anglican Communion: Anglican Communion: Diocese of Bunbury (Australia) Diocese of Bukavu (Congo) Bp Ian Coutts Bp Sylvestre Bahati Diocese of Winchester: Diocese of Winchester: Alresford Deanery: Winchester Cathedral: David Chattell, Rural Dean Roland Riem, Residentiary Canon Hexham Deanery: Hexham Deanery: St John’s Parish Church, Garigill Holy Trinity Parish Church, Whitfield and St John’s Church, Whitfield 11 Tuesday Rogation Day * Canon Ian Flintoft, Vicar of Newsham and Mary Astell, feminist social reformer, 1731 Horton and Interim Priest in Charge of [CNS] * Cowpen Anglican Communion: Diocese of Bungoma (Kenya) 8 Saturday Bp George Mechumo Julian of Norwich, spiritual writer, c.1417 Diocese of Winchester: Anglican Communion: The Arle Valley Benefice (Bighton, New Diocese of Bukedi (Uganda) Alresford, Old Alresford and Ovington with Bp Samuel Egesa Itchen Stoke) Diocese of Winchester: Hexham Deanery: Andrew Robinson, Chief executive Holy Paraclete Parish Church, Kirkhaugh Hexham Deanery: * vacant Benefice of Alston Moor Vicar: Mark Nash Williams 12 Wednesday Rogation Day Please pray today for all attending the meeting Gregory Dix, priest, monk, scholar, 1952 of the Diocesan Synod. Anglican Communion: Diocese of Bunyoro-Kitara (Burundi) This week … Bp Samuel Kahuma ‘You did not choose me but I chose you …’ Diocese of Winchester: (John 15:16) Benefice of Bishop’s Sutton and Ropley and West Tisted Generous with God’s transforming gifts: we Hexham Deanery: have all been chosen, so as we give thanks St Jude’s Parish Church, Knaresdale for the gift we are to each other, let’s pray that we might all understand more of who This Prayer Diary can be downloaded God calls us to be, and how God is calling each of us to be fruitful. each month from the Newcastle diocesan website: 9 SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER www.newcastle.anglican.org/prayerdiary Porvoo Communion: Diocese of Gloucester Diocese of Västerås (Church of Sweden) The daily themes for Thy Kingdom Anglican Communion: Come 2021 are Anglican Church of Kenya developed with short Abp Jackson Nasoore Ole Sapit reflections and Diocese of Winchester: Cain Ormondroyd, Chancellor prayers in the Prayer Sue de Candole, Registrar Journal you can Hexham Deanery: access at St Augustine’s Parish Church, Alston www.thykingdomcome.global 13 ASCENSION DAY Jesus 16 SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Sorry Anglican Communion: Sunday after Ascension Day Diocese of Busan (Kenya) Porvoo Communion: Most Revd Onesimus Park Diocese of Guildford Diocese of Winchester: Diocese of Viborg (Evangelical Lutheran Benefice of Farliegh, Candover and Wield, Church in Denmark) including Bradley and Northington with Anglican Communion: Swarraton Anglican Church of Korea Hexham Deanery: Abp Onesimus Park St Mary and St Patrick’s Church, Lambley Diocese of Winchester: Praying for Unity: Alton Deanery For Street Pastors projects throughout our Brian Pritchard, Area Dean region Hexham Deanery: St Cuthbert’s Parish Church, Greenhead 14 MATTHIAS THE APOSTLE Praise Greenhead C of E First School Anglican Communion: Diocese of Busoga (Uganda) 17 Monday Offer Bp Paul Moses Samson Naimanhye The Anglican Communion: Diocese of Winchester: Diocese of Butare (Rwanda) Benefice of Itchen Valley, comprising Bp Nathan Gasatura Avington, Easton, Itchen Abbas and Diocese of Winchester: Martyr Worthy Benefice of Alton Resurrection Hexham Deanery: Hexham Deanery: St John’s Parish Church, Nenthead Holy Cross Parish Church, Haltwhistle 15 Saturday Thanks 18 Tuesday Pray for … Anglican Communion: Anglican Communion: Diocese of Central Busoga (Uganda) Diocese of Butere (Kenya) Bp Patrick Wakula Bp Timothy Wambunya Diocese of Winchester: Diocese of Winchester: Benefice of Upper Itchen, comprising Benefice of Bentley, Binsted and Froyle Beauworth, Bramdean, Cheriton, Hinton Hexham Deanery: Ampner, Kilmeston and Tichborne Benefice of Haydon Bridge and Beltingham Hexham Deanery: with Henshaw: Benefice of Haltwhistle and Greenhead Vicar: vacant Vicar: vacant 19 Wednesday Help This week … Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, monastic ‘As you have sent me into the world, so I reformer, 988 have sent them into the world.’ (John 17:18) Alcuin of York, deacon, abbot of Tours, 804 Anglican Communion: Engaged in God’s transforming work in the Diocese of Buye (Burundi) world: let’s pray for the communities in Bp Sixbert Macumi which we live because these are the people Diocese of Winchester: and places to whom God sends us Let’s pray Benefice of Bethworth, Lasham, Medstead that in and through us God will be at work and Shalden here. Hexham Deanery: St Cuthbert’s Parish Church, Beltingham 20 Thursday Adore This week … Alcuin of York, Deacon, abbot of Tours, 804 ‘All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit Anglican Communion: …’ (Acts 2:4) Diocese of Byumba (Rwanda) Bp Emmanuel Ngendahayo As we celebrate the birth of the Church at Diocese of Winchester: Pentecost, let’s pray that we might be filled Four Marks Benefice afresh with the Holy Spirit, celebrate our Hexham Deanery: God-given diversity and difference, and be All Hallows Church, Henshaw united in our praying, serving and witnessing Henshaw C of E First School to Jesus Christ. Praying for Unity: 23 PENTECOST For all regular ecumenical prayer groups Porvoo Communion: throughout the region Diocese of Exeter Please pray for our Bishops, Christine and Mark, Diocese of Nord- and those accompanying them on a Pilgrimage Hålogaland (Church of from Hexham Abbey to Durham Cathedral from Norway) today until Sunday. This is Anglican Communion Sunday (see separate panel on Friday 21 Celebrate page 6) Helena, protector of the Holy Places, 330 Anglican Church of Melanesia Anglican Communion: Most Revd Leonard Dawea, Primate Diocese of Calabar (Nigeria) Diocese of Winchester: Most Revd Tunde Adeleye Benefice of Annotts Ann and Upper Diocese of Winchester: Clatford and Goodworth Clatford Benefice of Northanger, comprising Hexham Deanery: Chawton, East Tisted with Colemore, East Benefice of St John Lee Worldham, Farringdon, Hartley Mauditt Rector: Jeremy Thompson with West Worldham, Kingsley with Reader: Pamela Nobbs Oakhanger, Newton Valence, and Selborne Hexham Deanery: Monday St Cuthbert’s Parish Church, Haydon Bridge 24 with Haydon Old Church John and Charles Wesley, evangelists, hymn writers, 1791 and 1788 Anglican Communion: Saturday Silence 22 Diocese of Caledonia (Canada) Anglican Communion: Bp David Lehmann Diocese of Calcutta (North India) Diocese of Winchester: Bp Probal Kanto Dutta Benefice of Andover St Mary Diocese of Winchester: Hexham Deanery: Deanery of Andover Parish Church of St John of Beverley, Trevor Lewis, Rural Dean St John Lee Hexham Deanery: Benefice of Hexham Abbey Tuesday Rector: David Glover 25 Assistant Curate: Elaine Ryder The Venerable Bede, monk at Jarrow, scholar, Reader: Douglas Vigor historian, 735 * Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne, 709 Anglican Communion: Diocese of Calgary (Canada) Abp Greg Kerr-Wilson >>>> Diocese of Winchester: Wallop, Over Wallop, Quarley, and West Downs Benefice, comprising Chilbolton, Andover. Crawley, Littleton, Sparsholt with Lainston, Hexham Deanery: and Wherwell Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels, Hexham Deanery: Warden Benefice of Warden St Michael and All Angels with Newbrough St Peter 29 Saturday Vicar: Jeremy Thompson