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NOVEMBER PRAYER DIARY

Jesus said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

(John 8 :12)

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Prayers for each day

3 Nov    Pray for our services at Cramond and Pennywell

4 Nov    for Julia and family

5 Nov    for Emma McMillan who has just started a placement with St Ninians Corstorphine. Emma is studying at New College.

6 Nov    for the work of Christian Aid in Gaza

7 Nov   for the CrossReach ministry of Cunningham House, Edinburgh. Cunningham House offers supported hostel accommodation for men and women experiencing homelessness.

8 Nov    for all the activities taking place in our church halls

9 Nov    for wise use of the funds raised in the annual Poppy Appeal

10 Nov  Remembrance Sunday

11 Nov  for Chaplains working with the armed forces

12 Nov  for all those in our community struggling with health issues

13 Nov  for the King, Queen and the royal family

14 Nov  for the Moderator

15 Nov  for the Prime Minister and the Cabinet

16 Nov  for those recently bereaved

17 Nov  Pray for our services at Cramond and Pennywell

18 Nov for Julia and family

19 Nov  for the many Ukrainians still with us in Scotland

20 Nov  for the First Minister and Cabinet

21 Nov  for the Elders of the Kirk

22 Nov  for David Haggarty and his team

23 Nov  for Julia and her family

24 Nov  Pray for our services at Cramond and Pennywell

25 Nov  for the Session meeting tonight

26 Nov  for all those seeking to bring peace to the Middle East

27 Nov  the ministry of our local hospices

28 Nov  for Louise in the Kirk Office

29 Nov  for Edinburgh Street Pastors

30 Nov  for the encouragement of the Holy Spirit in our churches

 

REFLECTION

Martyn Percy

former Dean of Christ Church, Oxford

When we encounter Jesus in the gospels, we often find him eating or dining with the wrong kind of people. Dining with the right people was normal, and ancient symposiums were often occasions around food, conversations and interactions that required people to pass things to one another, to share and enjoy company in the midst of debate. That is why I think we have something going on with Jesus eating in the homes of other people. It is what one theologian (Johan Baptist Metz) has called “the dangerous memory” of Jesus. When we gather as a body, we break bread, we share wine, we remember conversations, instructions and teaching – and all gathered around food. We are called to share our common life with other people...

Love is not just a single-minded concern. It is never (just) about friendship, marriage or filial obligation. It is about bestowing love on others. Somehow in the mystery of all of this we are mandated to love one another, even those who do not love us.

For this reason, Paul says, “bear with one another; forgive one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also do the same” (Colossians 3:13). (Likewise, Paul’s invocation in Ephesians 4:32 is to be kind and generous to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God and Christ have forgiven you).

Love is a work of patience, and to practise patience is to suffer the flow of time and space, recognising our inability to rush redemption. Church is a work of patience too. The only thing to do is work ceaselessly, putting love into practice and action in the most concrete ways possible, whilst simultaneously leaving the outcome of that entirely in the hands of God. We simply cannot make love do its work. It must be done for its own sake, and maybe then its fruits will flourish. The Gospel of John tells us that God chose to abide with us; to dwell with us and make his home amongst us in the person of Jesus. God chose to be at home with us in Jesus, so that we might be at home with God for eternity. Our hope and prayer for our churches, and our vision for being the Rainbow Church that Desmond Tutu spoke of, is that our places of worship will be a foretaste of the heavenly home to which God invites all. There is no place like God’s home. All are welcome, and our churches must only issue the invitations. So come, let us Tutufy our churches.

(https://modernchurch.org.uk/martyn-percy-embrace-the-tutufication-ofthe-church-of-england-finale)

 

 

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