Sat 31 John Bosco,Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Diocese of Chelmsford Please pray for the members of the travelling community in our diocese, and those who minister to them. The Diocese of Lusaka (Central Africa) Cycle of Prayer for daily use in NOTES: December 2014 and January 2015 The Cycle of Prayer is also available on the Diocesan website: http://www.chelmsford.anglican.org/faith/prayer O Lord hear my prayer. When I call, answer me Where parochial links are known to exist the names of overseas workers are placed Mon 1 ANDREW THE APOSTLE immediately after the appropriate parish. Today is World Aids Day. Broxted w Chickney (St Mary Vn) and Tilty (St Mary Vn) and Great Easton (St Further information concerning overseas dioceses, including the names of bishops, is John & St Giles) and Little Easton contained in the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, available on their website http:// Clergy: Ivy Crawford (PIC) [Also CME Adviser].. www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/main.cfm Great Easton School: Claire Jackman (HT) To contact the Diocese of Chelmsford about the Cycle of Prayer please email internal/ The Diocese of Kibungo (Rwanda) [email protected] Tue 2 Great Bardfield (St Mary Vn) and Little Bardfield (St Katharine) Clergy: Robert Beaken (PIC) ABBREVIATIONS: A Assistant Clergy; AAD Assistant Area Dean; AC Associate Clergy; ACD Associate Clergy The Dioceses of Kigali and Kigeme (Rwanda) Diaconate; AD Area Dean; ASM Associate Minister, AT Assistant Clergy Title Post; AYO Area Youth Officer, BP Bishop; C Community Worker; CA Church Army; CIC Curate in Wed 3 Francis Xavier, Missionary, Apostle of the Indies, 1552 Charge; CHP Chaplain; EVN Evangelist; HT Head Teacher; MCD Minister of Conventional Great Canfield (St Mary Vn) w High Roding (All Saints) and Aythorpe Roding District; MIN Minister, P Priest; PIC Priest in Charge; R Rector; Rdes Rector designate; RDR (St Mary Vn): also Reader; PTO Permission to Officiate; RES Residentiary Canon; SNP Special Needs Post, T High Easter (St Mary Vn) and Good Easter (St Andrew) w Margaret Roding Teacher; TM Team Ministry; TR Team Rector; TV Team Vicar; V Vicar; Vdes Vicar (St Margaret of Antioch) designate; WDN Warden. Clergy: Dub Gannon (PIC). Great Dunmow (St Mary Vn) w Barnston Hon. Editor: Reverend Bill Howes, 26 Westfield Drive, Coggeshall, Colchester, Essex CO6 Clergy: Ruth Patten (PIC). 1PU, 01376 561826 (e‐mail [email protected]) who would be glad to receive comments and St Mary’s Primary School: Clare Griffiths (HT) corrections and also any items for prayer and praise to be considered for inclusion from The Dioceses of Kigezi and North Kigezi (Uganda) the parishes. Thu 4 John of Damascus, Monk, Teacher of the Faith, c.749 Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 Looking for a Spiritual Director? Stebbing (St Mary Vn) & Lindsell (St Mary Vn) w Great Saling (St James) and Little (Bardfield) Saling (St Peter & St Paul) Visit www.spiritual‐direction‐in‐essex.org for a list of co‐ordinators from the Dioce‐ Clergy: Tim Goodbody (PIC), Cilla Hawkes (AD, AC), Helen Pelly (A) san Spirituality Advisors Group in your Episcopal Area. Readers: John Davies, Nigel Warren. Discovering Prayer: Takeley (Holy Trinity) w Little Canfield (All Saints) Clergy: Rob Burles, (PIC); Kim Lepley (A) Resources and reflections at www.chelmsford.anglican.org/ The Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin & Ardagh (Armagh, Ireland) 12 1 Fri 5 Stansted Mountfitchet (St John) w Birchanger (St Mary Vn) & Farnham Sun 25 THE THIRD SUNDAY OF EPIPHANY (St Mary Vn) World Leprosy Day Clergy: Paul Wilkin (R) Almighty Father, the giver of life and health, look mercifully on those who St Mary’s School, Stansted: Christine Tonkins (HT) suffer from leprosy. Stretch out your hand to touch and heal them as Jesus The Retired clergy, Readers and lay ministers who live and work did during his earthly life. Grant wisdom and insight to those who are in the Deanery of Dunmow and Stansted. seeking the prevention and cure of the disease. We ask this for the sake of Jesus Christ your Son, our Lord. The Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman (Southern Africa) PRAY for the Diocese of Long Island (Province II, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Lawrence Provenzano, Bishop Sat 6 Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 Pray for all bishops, leaders and teachers of the faith. Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul The Diocese of Kindu (Congo) Mon 26 Loughton (St Mary Vn). Clergy: Malcolm Macdonald (V); Hugh Taylor (AC), Sam Pollard (A). THE SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT Sun 7 Reader: Pat Laker. Pray for the work of the Diocesan Evangelical Association and its Chair, Gordon Simmonds. The Diocese of Los Angeles (Province VIII, The Episcopal Church USA) PRAY for the Diocese of Kinkizi (Uganda), The Rt Revd Dan Zoreka, Bishop Tue 27 Holocaust Memorial Day Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Theydon Bois (St Mary Vn) w Theydon Garnon (All Saints) Mon 8 Clergy: Stephen Walker (V), John Fry (A). The Deanery of Harwich Area Dean: Vacancy. Lay Chair: John Baker The Diocese of Louisiana (Province IV, The Episcopal Church USA) Deanery Missioner: Francis Mason. Gillian Moore (CHP St Helena Hospice) Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Philosopher, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 Pray for The Most Revd Kahwa Henri Isingoma, Wed 28 Waltham Holy Cross TM: Waltham Abbey (Holy Cross & St Lawrence), High Archbishop of the Congo Beach (Holy Innocents), Upshire (St Thomas) & Ninefields (St Lawrence). Clergy: Peter Smith (TR); Gill Hopkins, Kelvin Woolmer (TV); Trevor Scott, Dedham (St Mary Virgin) Tue 9 Joyce Smith, AD (AC). Clergy: Gerry Moate (V). Readers: Jane Begley, Michael Hall, Keith Utting. Dedham School: Heather Tetchner (HT) High Beach School: Julie Harper (HT) Our Link Diocese of Kirinyaga (Kenya), Hillhouse School: Jo Willcox (HT) The Rt Revd Joseph Kibuchua, Bishop The Diocese of Luapula (Central Africa) EMBER DAY Wed 10 UN Human Rights Day Thu 29 Loughton (St Michael & All Angels) Harwich Peninsula Team Ministry: Dovercourt (All Saints) and Parkeston (St Clergy: Nina Coulthard (V), Elizabeth Price (A). Paul), Harwich (St Nicholas), Ramsey (St Michael) w Little Oakley (St Mary Vn) Reader: Lorraine Smart, Clergy: Peter Mann (TR), Rosie Tallowin (TV), Astrid Tiesema‐Samsom (A). The Diocese of Lucknow (North India) Readers: Janet Heath, Sioux Thorpe All Saints School, Dovercourt: Richard Hopkins (HT) Fri 30 Charles, King and Martyr, 1649 Two Village School, Ramsey/Little Oakley: Kay Wills (HT) Blackmore (St Laurence) w Stondon Massey (St Peter and St Paul) The Diocese of Kisangani (Congo) Clergy: Toni Smith (V). Reader: Anthea Gray The Diocese of Lui (Sudan) 2 11 Mon 19 Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 Thu 11 Elmstead (St Anne and St Laurence). Buckhurst Hill (St John, St Stephen, St Elisabeth) Clergy: Vacancy (PIC) Clergy: Ian Farley (TR); Corinne Brixton (AC), Sarah Guinness (A). The Diocese of Kita Kanto (Japan) Reader: Steve Bacon. St John’s School: Peter Tidmarsh (HT). Fri 12 Ember Day The Diocese of Lincoln (Canterbury) Ardleigh (St Mary Vn) and The Bromleys (St George, St Mary Vn) Clergy: Vacancy (R). Tue 20 Richard Rolle of Hampole, Spiritual Writer, 1349 St Mary’s School, Ardleigh: Donna Parker (HT) Chigwell and Chigwell Row TM: Chigwell (St Mary) Chigwell (St Winifred), St George’s School, Great Bromley: Julie O’Mara (HT) Chigwell Row (All Saints) Great Oakley (All Saints) w Wix (St Mary) & Wrabness( All Saints) Clergy: Malcolm Lambert, AAD (TR); Ben King (TV), Sharon Guest (A). Clergy: Vacancy (PIC), Francis Mason (AC). Reader: Laura Garnham Chigwell School: Simon Paul (CHP) All Saints School, Great Oakley: Jane Simmons (HT) The Diocese of Litoral Ecuador (IX, The Episcopal Church) The Diocese of Kitale (Kenya) Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 Wed 21 Sat 13 Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Epping District TM: Epping (St John), Epping Upland (All Saints), Coopersale Samuel Johnson, Moralist, 1784 (St Alban) Ember Day Clergy: Geoffrey Connor (TR); Bryony Morrison (TV), Jonathan MacNeaney (A). Remember our sisters and brothers who, even today, suffer and live in fear Readers: Carole Goddard, Diana Lowry, Bob Taylor. of death for practising their Christian faith. St John’s Comprehensive School: George Yerosimou (HT) The Diocese of Kiteto (Tanzania) Epping Upland School: Sarah Hurwood (HT) Coopersale & Theydon Garnon School: Sarah Miller (HT) Sun 14 THE THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT The Diocese of Liverpool‐Warrington (York) Pray for Denis Huntley, Chaplain amongst Deaf and Deafblind People and Adviser on Disability Issues, and his team. Vincent of Saragossa, Deacon , first Martyr of Spain, 304. Thu 22 PRAY for The Diocese of Kitgum (Uganda), Lambourne (St Mary & All Saints) w Abridge (Holy Trinity) and Stapleford The Rt Revd Benjamin Ojwang, Bishop Abbots (St Mary Vn) Clergy: Roger Gayler (PIC). Mon 15 Lawford (St Mary) The Most Revd Dr Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales Clergy: Simon Heron (PIC), Paul Mann (AC). Reader: Margaret Southgate Lawford School: Donna Wenden (HT) Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher of the Faith, 1622 Fri 23 Mistley w Manningtree (St Mary and St Michael) w Bradfield (St Lawrence) Loughton (St John the Baptist, St Nicholas, Trinity Church) Clergy: Chris Hills (R), John Brien (AC), Claire Scargill (A). Clergy: Geoffrey Smith (TR); Richard Fisher (AC) Michael Bradley (A) Reader: Stacie Withers. Reader: Barbara Read. Mistley Norman School: Amanda Woolmer (HT) The Diocese of Lokoja (Lokoja, Nigeria) The Diocese of Kitui (Kenya) THE CONVERSION OF ST PAUL Sat 24 Tendring (St Edmund) and Little Bentley (St Mary Vn) w Beaumont‐cum‐