Thought for the Day - Ev'ry Time I Feel The Spirit

The Descent of the Holy Spirit, Joseph Matar

A Thought for the Day for the week between Ascension and Pentecost/Whitsun offered during Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 3rd June 2025 and St Giles-in-the-Fields on Wednesday 4th June 2025

Prayers of Intercession - The Ascension of Christ

The Ascension of Christ, Salvador Dali, 1958

Prayers written for the Choral Eucharist on the Feast of the Ascension at St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 26th May 2022 based on text from Luke 24.44-end  references from the hymn ‘Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise’ by Charles Wesley  and God is Gone Up by Gerald Finzi, text by William Croft based on Psalm 47.

Let us lift up our prayers to the ascended Lord, who ever intercedes for us. 

 

Risen Lord, 

Send down your blessing on your church; your broken body on earth. 

Lift up our heads towards the guiding light of your power and glory; 

open the gates of our minds, by your grace, that we might understand the scriptures;

may all who hear them become living witnesses to your Word. 

We lift up in prayer all bishops, priests and deacons; all who proclaim repentance and forgiveness of sins to the nations; all who take great risks when they worship and praise your name. 

 

Lord in your mercy

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Prayers of Intercession - Ascension Day

Bagong Kussudiardja (Indonesian, 1928–2004), Ascension, 1983

Prayers written for Ascension Day based on text from Luke 24.44-end  references from the hymn ‘Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise’ by Charles Wesley  and ‘O clap your hands’ a musical setting of Psalm 47 by Orlando Gibbons.