Reflections
Below you can find prayers, reflections and favourite Bible passages from the worship team and other members of the congregation to be used as a resource for your own quiet time
If you have a favourite short prayer or reading, contact us and we will try to include it
WRITING
FROM THE RECTORY
It seems to come round more quickly every year, but here we are,
Lent again. The ‘forty days’ is the season for
self-examination, a sort of spiritual M.O.T. This is no
negative exercise. If we didn’t service and MOT our cars,
their performance would soon decline, the breaks become faulty and
the fuel economy diminish. We would soon know something was
wrong, even though the car would still be on the road for a while
longer in some under-performing way.
Lent helps us change the spiritual oil and give a boost to our
Christian discipleship, through self-examination, and re-focussed
devotion and study. Once more, there will be extra mid-week
Eucharists with a devotional flavour:
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Every Wednesday at St Hugh’s, Sturton, at 9.15am
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Every Thursday at St Peter’s, Torksey, at 9.30am
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Every Friday at St Helen’s, Willingham, at 7.30am
Tuesday 10th is the usual Songs of Praise. All will
take place at Sturton Methodist Church and there will be opportunity
for prayer, study and discussion..
Again, if anyone would like to borrow a book from the Rectory ‘library’ for Lenten reading, please do not hesitate to ask.
Yours sincerely
Alex Whitehead
THE MONTHLY PRAYER MEETING
On the first Monday every month we continue a prayer meeting at the Rectory between 7.00 and 8.00pm.
The meeting usually includes introductory reflective music, prayers for the day with prayer from the Stow Group’s Prayer Diary and a space for silence and our own prayers.
This links our prayers
with both the regular Sunday worship and also the Service
of Wholeness, Healing and Shalom.
PEACE BE WITH YOU AND YOURS THIS DAY AND ALWAYS
THOUGHT
As we come to the end of the Christmas, New Year and Epiphany celebrations, we enter into the second month of the new year. In Angela Ashwin’s book, Woven into Prayer, she gives a biblical reading for each day of the week for reflection and meditation.
Sunday: O
the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements and how inscrutable his ways! To him
be glory for ever. Amen. Romans 11.33.36b
Monday: I
have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but
Christ who lives in me. Galatians 2.20
Tuesday:
God forbid that I should boast, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus
Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Galatians 6.14
Wednesday:
Jesus said,
'You
did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and
bear fruit. ' John 15.16
Thursday: ‘I
have loved you with an everlasting love’, says the Lord.
‘Therefore I have continued my faithfulness toward you’.
Jeremiah 31.3
Friday:
Do you not know that you are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit
dwells in you? 1 Corinthians
3.16
Saturday: Surely
God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord is
my strength and my
might. Isaiah 12.2
Angela also has this prayer to be used after reading
or
reciting
Psalm 139:
All seeing and ever present God,
I thank you
for the
wonder of my existence.
You knew me
before I was born
and will
welcome me when I will die.
Keep me always in the
love of your Son,
Jesus Christ, my Lord.
Amen.
