|
Source: (consider it)
|
Thread: General Prayers for your Vicar ...
|
Pyx_e
Quixotic Tilter
# 57
|
Posted
... or ministers.
I am trying to increase the prayer support for my ordained sisters and brothers and I am not so good at hitting the right note.
So what sort of things do you / would you pray for those in leadership? I am looking for spiritual reality not tweeness and I recognise that Vicars needs to pray for the congregation and parish too. I also am pretty passionate about leading teams (it's not hero worship).
I am looking for a patchwork from you. Full prayers, snippets, random thoughts, jokes all welcome.
I will put back into this thread the finished prayer.
Many thanks. Pyx_e.
--------------------
It is better to be Kind than right.
Posts: 9778 | From: The Dark Tower | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Offeiriad
Ship's Arboriculturalist
# 14031
|
Posted
'Lord, we ask for a poor, humble minister. You keep him humble: we'll keep him poor'?
Posts: 1426 | From: La France profonde | Registered: Aug 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Raptor Eye
Shipmate
# 16649
|
Posted
Lord, bless the minister with the strength and courage to challenge all that's wrong in the church, while being endowed with sufficient kindness and compassion to do it gently.
--------------------
Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46.10
Posts: 4359 | From: The United Kingdom | Registered: Sep 2011
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
I couldn't possibly improve on Cranmer's matchless prose, from the Prayer for the Church Militant in the Book of Common Prayer:
quote:
Give grace, O heavenly Father, to all Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, and specially to thy servant [N]. our Bishop, that they may both by their life and doctrine set forth thy true and living Word, and rightly and duly administer thy holy Sacraments ...
substituting whatever titles your clergy have, if they're not called bishops, priests and deacons.
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Chorister
Completely Frocked
# 473
|
Posted
Well ours is starting this week. So initially I'd pray for him and his family to settle in well and feel at home in the church and community. I'll have another think about more general stuff later.
--------------------
Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
Posts: 34626 | From: Cream Tealand | Registered: Jun 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Leorning Cniht
Shipmate
# 17564
|
Posted
I often find myself praying for our priest during his sermon - that his voice hold out long enough to finish preaching.
Or, sometimes, the opposite ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
Posts: 5026 | From: USA | Registered: Feb 2013
| IP: Logged
|
|
L'organist
Shipmate
# 17338
|
Posted
Many years ago a residentiary canon at St Albans Abbey stopped in mid-sermon and then said "I wonder how many of you have prayed for your preacher tonight" - and then dropped down dead.
Some presentiment, perhaps?
Caused quite a stir ...
--------------------
Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet
Posts: 4950 | From: somewhere in England... | Registered: Sep 2012
| IP: Logged
|
|
JoannaP
Shipmate
# 4493
|
Posted
I generally go vague and just ask God to "bless" the clergy team - on the basis that He knows their needs batter than I do.
--------------------
"Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow." R. H. Tawney (quoted by Isaiah Berlin)
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
Posts: 1877 | From: England | Registered: May 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Zoey
Broken idealist
# 11152
|
Posted
Currently, my prayers quite often include 'Dear God, thank you for St X's'. St X's being the church I've now managed to attend for about 6 months after not regularly attending church for about 15 years before that. Mostly I'm thankful that St X's seems to be a good fit for me / good for me spiritually, so maybe the appropriate wider prayer point is that ministers will be able to know and meet their congregants' spiritual needs.
--------------------
Pay no mind, I'm doing fine, I'm breathing on my own.
Posts: 3095 | From: the penultimate stop? | Registered: Mar 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
The Intrepid Mrs S
Shipmate
# 17002
|
Posted
Pyx-e - our ministry team (Vicar, Hon. Curate and 3 Readers) are prayed for more or less as a matter of course at morning and evening services (can't vouch for 8 am communion ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) ), along with residents of one or two roads in the parish, another parish or two in the Deanery, etc etc. These prayers are led by members of the congregation on a rota, which makes it easier, I suspect, than the Vicar having to lead prayers for himself.
I'm not on that particular rota, heaven be praised, but if I were I'd say something like this -
'Dear Lord, we ask your blessing on Arthur, James, April, May and June, as they seek to serve You, and us, in this parish. You know their needs, Lord, better than we do; please protect and support them, and fill them with your Holy Spirit so that they can best fulfil their work for You in this world.'
Or words to that effect!
(I just love that phrase, 'Lord, you know our needs' - it doesn't absolve us from enumerating what we perceive our needs to be, but it does show our awareness that God Knows Best!)
Mrs. S, on too many rotas already ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
--------------------
Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
Posts: 1464 | From: Neither here nor there | Registered: Mar 2012
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
... I just love that phrase, 'Lord, you know our needs' ...
Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts ...
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
squidgetsmum
Apprentice
# 17708
|
Posted
at the moment I'm praying a lot for Fr D's family - wife and 2 boys, to settle in (they're fairly new) and find friends and just generally enjoy life down here. Fr D kind of had an open slot, but I think for families it's a bit harder.
Posts: 13 | Registered: May 2013
| IP: Logged
|
|
Rev per Minute
Shipmate
# 69
|
Posted
Not sure about the main part of the prayer, but surely it should end with
"... and may God have mercy on their souls"
![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
--------------------
"Allons-y!" "Geronimo!" "Oh, for God's sake!" The Day of the Doctor
At the end of the day, we face our Maker alongside Jesus. RIP ken
Posts: 2696 | From: my desk (if I can find the keyboard under this mess) | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Zappa
Ship's Wake
# 8433
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
Many years ago a residentiary canon at St Albans Abbey stopped in mid-sermon and then said "I wonder how many of you have prayed for your preacher tonight" - and then dropped down dead.
Some presentiment, perhaps?
Caused quite a stir ...
Some people will do anything for a bit of attention.
--------------------
shameless self promotion - because I think it's worth it
and mayhap this too: http://broken-moments.blogspot.co.nz/
Posts: 18917 | From: "Central" is all they call it | Registered: Sep 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
# 4927
|
Posted
in a closed Brethren Assembly down here many years ago, an elderly man gave thanks for the bread and wine and it was passed around. As he took the wine, he collapsed and died.
[ 18. February 2015, 21:57: Message edited by: Lothlorien ]
--------------------
Buy a bale. Help our Aussie rural communities and farmers. Another great cause needing support The High Country Patrol.
Posts: 9745 | From: girt by sea | Registered: Aug 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
Printer-friendly view
