PRAYERS FOR THE WEEK 22nd to the 28th March 2020
Sunday 22nd March
The Fourth Sunday of Lent (Mothering Sunday)
Intention: For the People of this Parish
Church: Please pray for the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui and for mothers everywhere, give thanks for their love and devotion, and pray, too, for the work of the Mothers’ Union and the Women’s Institute and all who work untiringly to maintain the values of the home and family life.
Religious Communities: Community of the Sacred Passion, Shoreham-by-Sea
Parish: For the People of this Parish
World: For the peace of the world
Years’ Mind: Walter Grimshaw
Monday 23rd March
Church: Please pray for The Dioceses of Matabeleland (Central Africa), Virginia The Episcopal Church), and Huron (Canada) and the retired clergy, Readers and lay ministers who live and work in the Deanery of Havering.
Religious Communities: Sisters of Charity, Plymouth
Parish: For Nursing Homes, Care Homes and Sheltered accommodation
For all who live in Eight Acre Lane
Years’ Mind: Emily King
Tuesday 24th March Oscar Romero Bp M
Church: Please pray for The Dioceses of Matana (Burundi), Wad Medani (Sudan) and Hyderabad (Pakistan) also the Deanery of Newham
Religious Communities: Community of S John the Baptist, Begbroke
Parish: For the University and places of Higher Education
For all who live in Eldred Avenue
Years’ Mind: Elizabeth Godman
Wednesday 25th March ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
Church: Please pray for The Dioceses of Matlosane [formerly Klerksdorp] (Southern Africa), and Waiapu (Aotearoa NZ & Polynesia) and the East Ham Holy Trinity Team Ministry
(S Mary, S Bartholomew, S Alban Upton Park, S Edmund) and East Ham (S George and S Ethelbert)
Religious Communities: Society of S John the Evangelist, Westminster
Parish: For all Community Services at the Social Centre
For all who live in Elmwood Avenue
Years’ Mind: Walter Jeans
Thursday 26th March
Church: Please pray for The Dioceses of Mauritius (Indian Ocean), Waikatu & Taranaki (Aotearoa NZ & Polynesia), and Wangaratta (Australia) and the Parish of East Ham (S Paul)
Religious Communities: Community of the Sisters of the Love of God, Oxford
Parish: For our Community Police Officer
For all who live in Fallowfield Road
Years’ Mind: Judy Burrells, Jean Theobald and Stephanie Theobald
Friday 27th March
Church: Please pray for The Dioceses of Mbaise (Nigeria) and Warri (Nigeria) and the Parishes of Forest Gate (All Saints) and Forest Gate (Emmanuel w S Peter Upton Cross)
Religious Communities: Community of S John the Divine, Birmingham
Parish: For the United Reform Church in Plume Avenue
For all who live in Fenno Close
Years’ Mind: Audrey Peacock, Catherine Atkinson and Norah Davis
Saturday 28th March
Church: Please pray for The Dioceses of Mbale (Uganda), Washington (The Episcopal Church),also Ibadan, Ibadan North and Ibadan South (Nigeria). We are just about to begin the last two weeks of Lent, a kind of mini-season sometimes known as “Passiontide”. It’s easy to misunderstand some of the old words we use in Church and “passion” here does not mean strong feelings but literally “being done to”. And that’s exactly what happens to Jesus. He is handed over to “being done to”. Particularly in the last 24 hours of his life he becomes the object of mockery, scorn and physical abuse. His followers betray him or run away. Even Peter denies that he ever knew him. And he dies the painful death of a criminal. And yet – as the centurion says out loud – it is precisely here that he is most deeply revealed as God.
Religious Communities: Society of the Sacred Mission, Milton Keynes
Parish: For the Mothers’ Union
For all who live in Fisin Walk
Years’ Mind: John Robinson
Also this week-
The Sick – Rev Tony Rose, Ethel Munson, Angela Marsh, Gillian, Aidan Cooke, Angela, Dawn & her family, John Barker, Christopher Browne, Ron Harden, Margaret, Chris Parkes and his family, Arthur, Amy, Pat Rickard, Louise, Rachel and Shareen Rouvray, Sandra French, John Swinburne, Tabitha, Geoffrey Webb, Edward Wiles, Emma, Shirley and John Hall
The Departed –Arthur Ward, Guy Biddlecombe and Sandra Webb
NOTICES FOR THE WEEK
ELECTORAL ROLL for 2020 I will be updating the Electoral Roll ready for the APCM on Monday 20th April 2020. The present Roll will be available in church from Sunday 8th March until Sunday 5th April. This year you will be required to check that your details are correct, including your address and, if necessary, to amend the list adding your signature. Please tick or put initials once checked, thank you. Any changes must be notified to me by Saturday 5th April
