Reading this week's prayers is the Revd Linda Le Vasseur "I live in Guernsey. For the first years of my ordained ministry, I worked as a self-supporting priest, alongside being a very part-time hospital chaplain. For the last ten years, I have been Lead Chaplain for Health and Social Care Guernsey, working in acute, continuing care, mental health services and supporting chaplaincy at Le Mignot Hospital, Alderney. I work with a team, which, alongside supporting patients and staff at the hospital, is a real privilege and pleasure."
Read this month's prayers here.
Monday 30 March: Sherborne Deanery
Almighty God,
We pray today for your blessing on the communities of Sherborne Deanery, for all who live, work, pray and play there. We raise to you the Rural Dean, Tim Greenslade, and Lay Chair, Andrew Graham. We thank you for their service and dedication and ask for your blessing on them.
Amen
Tuesday 31 March: Melbury, Sherborne Deanery
Jesus, Our Saviour,
In your name, we pray for the community of Melbury: for the people who live and work there, and those who minister to them. We thank and praise you for your blessing on them, including the clergy, Tim Greenslade and Dan Ingles. We raise to you the staff, pupils and families of Maiden Newton Greenford Primary School and Sticklands Primary School.
Amen
Wednesday 1 April: Queen Thorne, Sherborne Deanery
Living Lord,
We pray for your blessing on the community of Queen Thorne and for the ministry of the Revd David Bond. We pray for all who worship in this place and for the children, staff and families of. Trent Young’s primary school
We pray for the Rt Revd Mamer Manot, Bishop of Wanyjok in South Sudan.
Amen
Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday
Sherborne with Castleton, Lillington and Longburton, Sherborne Deanery
On Maundy Thursday, we pray:
Loving Lord,
We raise to you in prayer the people and communities of Sherborne with Castleton, Lillington and Longburton. We pray for all in this place that they may be refreshed and blessed in their ministry, including the clergy, Martin Lee and Jim Edie.
We raise to you: Sherborne Abbey Primary School and The Gryphon School.
Amen
Friday 3 April: Good Friday
Three Valleys, Sherborne Deanery
On Good Friday, we pray:
Heavenly Father,
We thank you for all who worship and serve in the parish of the Three Valleys. We pray for your blessing over all those who lead, lay and ordained, including the Revd George Moody, that you would equip them for the work you have called them to do.
We raise to you: Yetminster St Andrew's, Bishop's Caundle All Saints, Bradford Abbas St Mary's and Thornford Primary Schools.
Amen
Saturday 4 April: Easter Eve Blackmore Vale Deanery
Almighty God,
We pray for your blessing on Blackmore Vale Deanery and raise to you the Rural Dean, Tim Heaton, and Lay Chair, Pauline Batstone. May your peace be felt by all who enter this place and your presence known.
Amen
Sunday 5 April: Easter Day
Hazelbury Bryan and the Hillside Parishes, Blackmore Vale Deanery
On Easter Day we pray:
God of glory,
by the raising of your Son
you have broken the chains of death and hell:
fill your Church with faith and hope;
for a new day has dawned
and the way to life stands open
in our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen
Lord God, Prince of Peace,
We raise to you the communities of Hazelbury Bryan and the Hillside Parishes, and all who live and work there, especially in this time of vacancy.
In our Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we pray for La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico .
Amen