Calendar of Intercessions

Trinity and the Kingdom Season 2015

to this edition of the prayer diary*, which takes us through the last two months of Ordinary Time

(the remaining Sundays after Trinity) as well as that nebulous period

sometimes referred to as the ‘Kingdom Season’. It’s still a sizable document,

designed to be quick and clear to read, and also to leave space for your own notes. Of course, you do not have to print it all out at once, and you’re

welcome to reformat it, if you wish.

Sunday entries are designed to look at some of the bigger pictures in our

diocese – sometimes geographical (deaneries, archdeaconries, link dioceses)

sometimes issues or activities (Diocesan Big Day Out). If there is an aspect of diocesan life that you’d like included on a Sunday, do let me know. These are followed through the week by daily prayers from all over the diocese, and across the Anglican Communion, including the calendar of saints and heroes

of the Church.

This month I have not included the Porvoo cycle of prayer, because I have the sense that it is not being used. If I am wrong in this, do let me know and I

will happily reinstate it.

Finally, there is space in the daily entries for you to note any prayer requests

that have been made to you or your parish, or any special interests you want

to remember in your prayers.

Please contact me with any comments or suggestions –

Lindsay@Rochester.Anglican.org or 01634 814439. I will also be pleased to

provide large print copies to any who would find that helpful.

The calendar is published on the Diocesan website, and also on

www.RochesterWorship.wordpress.com where you can find the next quarter’s

intercessions (hopefully) as this quarter starts to come to an end.

*I apologise for the name of this edition, which sounds like a bad film, but it

was the best I could come up with.

Welcome

mailto:Lindsay@Rochester.Anglican.orghttp://www.rochesterworship.wordpress.com/

Monday

31st August

Aidan, bishop, missionary, 651

Rochester Diocese:

For our honorary assistant bishops, and the work they do

in our parishes. Anglican Communion:

Sekondi (Ghana) - (West Africa) The Rt Revd Col John Otoo

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 1st September

Giles, hermit, c.710

Rochester Diocese: Snodland, All Saints’ and Christ Church, with St Benedict’s

(redundant) Rector: The Revd Hugh Broadbent

Anglican Communion:

Seychelles - (Indian Ocean) The Rt Revd James Richard Wong Yin Song

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

2nd September Martyrs of Papua New Ginea, 1901, 1942

Rochester Diocese:

Wrotham, St George, and for the Revd Edward Wright, instituted today

Anglican Communion: Sheffield - (York, England) The Rt Revd Steven Croft

Sheffield - Doncaster - (York, England) The Rt Revd Peter

Burrows

Prayer Requests:

“Leave me alone with God as much as may be...

Then with the turning of the tide prepare me to carry your presence to the busy world beyond, the world that rushes in on me till the waters come again and fold me back to you.” Aidan of Lindisfarne, d.651

Thursday 3rd September

Gregory the Great, bishop, teacher of the faith 604

Rochester Diocese: West Malling, St Mary’s with Offham, St Michael’s

Priest-in-Charge: The Revd David Green

Anglican Communion:

Shinyanga - (Tanzania) The Rt Revd Charles Kija Ngusa

Prayer Requests:

Friday 4th September

Birinus, bishop,

650

Rochester Diocese: Brenchly, All Saints

Vicar: The Revd Campbell Paget

Anglican Communion:

Shyira - (Rwanda) The Rt Revd Dr Laurent Mbanda

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 5th September

Rochester Diocese: For King’s School Rochester and their chaplain the Revd

Stephen Padfield, licensed today.

Also for Christ Church, Chislehurst and Dave Johnston, instituted today.

Also for Westerham, St Mary and Kevin Barnard, instituted today.

Anglican Communion:

Shyogwe - (Rwanda) The Rt Revd Jered Kalimba

Prayer Requests:

“Yet although I am unworthy, the creator and redeemer of us all has

given me the grace to see life whole and an ability to speak effectively

of it. It is for the love of God that I do not spare myself preaching

him.”

Gregory the Great c.540-604

Sunday

6th September

Trinity 14

Isiah 35; 4-7a

Psalm 146 James 2.1-10 [11-13] 14-17

Mark 7. 24-end (Proper 18)

Paddock Wood Deanery

Give thanks for St Andrew’s celebrating 60 years and for the missional opportunities it is taking (Experience Christmas) and All Saints Brenchley with

its Café church services. For our rural parishes and the pressures on clergy

and challenges of working in smaller communities.

Pray for Yalding with Laddingford and Collier St and Matfield and Lamberhurst

as they go into an interregnum. Praying for discernment and God’s wisdom for future appointments.

Pray for other faith communities that reside in deanery: Hospice in the Weald

and Liza Waller its Chaplain, Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Pembury and the Chaplaincy team, Kenward Trust in Yalding and Pepenbury Residential Care for

adult with learning difficulties.

Pray for St Peter’s Pembury as it seek a way ahead to enlarge its worship area

and hall facilities.

Finally, for the two new curates coming to the deanery and the parishes they

will be working in.

Rochester Diocese:

Paddock Wood Deanery: The Revd Bryan Knapp, Rural Dean; Mr John Kirby,

Lay Chair.

Anglican Communion:

Sialkot - (Pakistan) The Rt Revd Alwin Samuel

Prayer Requests:

Monday

7th September

Rochester Diocese:

Sundridge, St Mary with Ide Hill, St Mary, and Toys Hill

and The Revd Pamela Davies, instituted yesterday. Weald, St George and The Revd Mandy Carr, instituted

today.

Anglican Communion:

Singapore - (South East Asia) The Rt Revd Rennis

Ponniah

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday

8th September Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Rochester Diocese:

For our maternity wards, midwifery led units, paediatricians, midwives, and the chaplains who serve

them.

Anglican Communion: Sittwe - (Myanmar) The Rt Revd Dr James Min Dein

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

9th September Charles Fuge Lowder, priest, 1880

Rochester Diocese:

For the Bishop’s Conference and all the diocesan clergy gathered there this week.

Anglican Communion: Sodor & Man - (York, England) The Rt Revd Robert

Paterson

Prayer Requests:

“I would go willingly to prison – nay even if it were needed to death

itself – if I believed it were to lead to your salvation and

sanctification.”

― C.F. Lowder, 1820-1880

Thursday

10th September

Rochester Diocese:

East Peckham, Holy Trinity, with Nettlestead, St Mary the

Virgin. Rector: The Revd Anthony Carr

Anglican Communion: Sokoto - (Kaduna, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Augustin Omole

Prayer Requests:

Friday 11th September

Rochester Diocese: Hadlow, St Mary, and Golden Green Mission Church

Vicar: The Revd Paul White

Anglican Communion:

Soroti - (Uganda) The Rt Revd George Erwau

Prayer Requests:

Saturday

12th September

Rochester Diocese:

Horsmonden, St Margaret

Rector: The Revd Sue Fauchon-Jones

Anglican Communion:

South Ankole - (Uganda) The Rt Revd Nathan Ahimbisibwe

Prayer Requests:

Lord, come to me, my door is open.

Michel Quoist 1918-97

Sunday

13th September

Trinity 15

Isaiah 50.4-9a

Psalm 116.1-8 James 3.1-12

Mark 8.27-end (Proper 19)

Pilsdon Community

The Pilsdon at Malling Community is a place where those living with mental

health issues, addiction, family breakdown or other life crisis can find a place

of safety and acceptance for a time, and rebuild their lives.

We give thanks for all those who support us in so many ways – financially,

practically and through prayer.

We pray for our new Guardian designate, the Revd Viv Ashworth and her

husband Tim as they move to Pilsdon in September and settle in, and for the

Revd Pam and Dennis Rink as they move on to new challenges.

We pray that the Community may grow and flourish and thus be able to offer

hospitality to more who are in need, and we pray for all who live and work

here.

We give thanks for the generosity of local churches that support our food bank

and pray for all the recipients of food parcels.

Rochester Diocese:

The Pilsdon Community: The Revd Pam Rink, Guardian.

Anglican Communion: South Dakota - (VII, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd John Tarrant

Prayer Requests:

Monday

14th September

Holy Cross Day

Rochester Diocese:

Lamberhurst, St Mary and Matfield, St Luke.

Vicar: vacant

Anglican Communion:

South Kerala - (South India) The Rt Revd Dharmaraj Rasalam

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday

15th September Cyprian, bishop, martyr, 258

Rochester Diocese:

Paddock Wood, St Andrew Vicar: The Revd Bryan Knapp

Anglican Communion: South Rwenzori - (Uganda) The Rt Revd Jackson

Nzerebende

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

16th September

Ninian, bishop, .432

Edward Bouverie

Pusey, priest, 1882

Rochester Diocese:

Pembury, St Peter and St Peter

Vicar: The Revd Douglas Robertson

Anglican Communion:

South West Tanganyika - (Tanzania) The Rt Revd Matthew Mhagama

Prayer Requests:

“Work thy holy will in my and through me this day. Protect me, guide me, bless me, within and without, that I may do something this day for love of thee.” E. Pusey 1800-82

Thursday

17th September

Hildegaard, abbess, visionary, 1179

Rochester Diocese:

For organists, worship bands, choirs, and all responsible

for the music of the worship of their church.

Anglican Communion:

The Most Revd Francisco De Assis Da Silva, Primate of Brazil & Bishop of South-Western Brazil

Prayer Requests:

Friday

18th September

Rochester Diocese:

Tudeley, All Saints, cum Capel, St Thomas à Becket, with Five Oak Green United Reform Church.

Vicar: The Revd Dr Jeremy Ive

Anglican Communion: Southeast Florida - (IV, The Episcopal Church) The Rt

Revd Leopold Frade and the Rt Revd Peter Eaton

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 19th September

Theodore,

archbishop, 690

Rochester Diocese: Yalding, St Mary, and St Peter and St Paul with Collier

Street, St Margaret Vicar The Revd Paul Filmer

Anglican Communion:

Southeastern Mexico - (Mexico) The Rt Revd Benito Juarez-Martinez

Prayer Requests:

“Angels, living light most glorious!

Beneath the Godhead in burning desire

in the darkness and mystery of creation

you look on the eye of your God

never taking your fill:

What glorious pleasures take shape within you!”

Hildegaard of Bingen 1098-1179

Sunday

20th September

Trinity 16

Wisdom of Solomon 1.16-2.1, 12-22 Psalm 54

James 3.13-4.3, 7-8a Mark 9.30-37

(Proper 20)

Beckenham Deanery

Beckenham Deanery is the C of E in microcosm and as such seeks to care for

the wealthy and the poor, the liberal and the conservative, the charismatic

and the Prayer Book, the catholic and the reform. However we are a deanery

that is seeking to find fellowship and value in each-others challenges, joys and

traditions. 2015 will see some changes in the deanery some sad and some a

cause for rejoicing. After several years as Lay Minister at St. John’s Penge

Nigel Poole will be ordained Deacon next weekend and will continue there as

Curate in Charge. A fond farewell will be said by all at St. George’s Beckenham

to Canon Paul Francis who will become Canon for Discipleship at Rochester

Cathedral. The deanery has been sad to say goodbye to Fr. Paul Keon at St

Michael’s which is to join with St. James Elmers End under the care of Fr. Leon

Carbury. There is also a new Area Dean, Rev Rob Hinton vicar of Christ Church

Beckenham. Christ Church also welcomes a new Deacon, Dennis Woodward.

Rochester Diocese: Beckenham Deanery: The Revd Rob Hinton, Area Dean; Mrs Sarah Poole, Lay

Chair.

Anglican Communion: Southern Brazil - (Brazil) The Rt Revd Humberto Maiztegue

Prayer Requests:

Monday

21st September Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

Rochester Diocese:

Shoreham, St Peter and St Paul, and the Revd Dianne

Rees, instituted today

Anglican Communion:

Southern Highlands - (Tanzania) The Rt Revd John Mwela

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday

22nd September

Rochester Diocese:

Brasted, St Martin Rector: The Revd Linda Green

Anglican Communion:

Southern Nyanza - (Kenya) The Rt Revd James Ochiel

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

23rd September Ember Day

Rochester Diocese:

For the ordination retreat, beginning today, and for the ordinands, as they prepare for Saturday.

Anglican Communion: Southern Philippines - (Philippines) The Rt Revd Danilo

Labacanacruz Bustamante

Prayer Requests:

“And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 28.20

Thursday 24th September

Rochester Diocese:

Chevening, St Botolph

Rector: The Revd Chris Smith

Anglican Communion:

Southwark - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, Southwark - Croydon - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd Johnathan Clark; Southwark - Kingston - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd Richard Cheetham; Southwark - Woolwich - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd Michael Ipgrave

Prayer Requests:

Friday

25th September

Lancelot Andrews, bishop, spiritual writer, 1626; Sergei of Radonezh, monastic reformer, teacher of the faith, 1392; Ember Day

Rochester Diocese:

For the diocese’s training incumbents, and all who support

them.

Anglican Communion:

Southwell & Nottingham - (York, England) The Rt Revd Paul Gavin Williams

Southwell & Nottingham - Sherwood - (York, England)

The Rt Revd Anthony Porter

Prayer Requests:

Saturday

26th September

Wilson Carlile, founder of the Church Army, 1942; Ember Day

Rochester Diocese:

For the training parishes, receiving today new curates, or

newly priested curates.

Anglican Communion:

Southwest Florida - (IV, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Dabney Smith

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

27th September

Trinity 17 Numbers 11. 4-6, 10-16, 24-29

Psalm 19. 7-end James 5. 13-end

Mark 9.38-end

(proper 21)

Newly Ordained

Rosheen Browning

Nigel Griffths

James Harratt

Andrea Leonard

Michael Payne

Ruth Peet

Nigel Poole

Helen Reeves

Matthew Robinson

Karen Seggie

Carrie Walshaw

Dennis Woodward

Almighty God, the giver of all good gifts, by your Holy Spirit you have

appointed various orders of ministry in the Church: look with mercy on your

servants now called to be deacons and priests; maintain them in truth and

renew them in holiness, that by word and good example they may faithfully

serve you to the glory of your name and the benefit of your Church.

Andrew Bond

James Crockford

David Howarth

Melanie Jemmett

Catherine Knight-Scott

Willem Mauritz

Muriel McGarvey

Stephen Niechcial

Nathan Ward

Jane Winter

Clive Wood

Mandy Young

Rochester Diocese: For the newly ordained in our diocese.

Anglican Communion:

Spokane - (IX, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd James Waggoner

Prayer Requests:

Monday 28th September

Rochester Diocese: Strood, St Francis, and for the Revd Sharon Copestake,

collated today.

Anglican Communion:

Springfield - (VI, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd

Daniel Martins

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 29th September

St Michael and All Angels

Rochester Diocese: The King’s Hill estate, and for the Revd Mark

Montgomery, commissioned today.

Anglican Communion: St Albans - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd Alan

Smith; St Albans - Bedford - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd Richard Atkinson; St Albans - Hertford -

(Canterbury, England) The Revd Canon Dr Michael

Beasley

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 30th September Jerome, translator, teacher of the faith, 420

Rochester Diocese:

For the new canons installed in the Cathedral this month, especially the Revd Paul Francis, residentiary canon.

Anglican Communion: St Asaph - (Wales) The Rt Revd Gregory Cameron

St David's - (Wales) The Rt Revd Wyn Evans

Prayer Requests:

“Lord, thou hast given us thy Word for a light to shine upon our path;

grant us so to meditate on that Word, and to follow its teaching, that

we may find in it the light that shines more and more until the perfect

day; through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Jerome, c.342-420

“Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so

that they may be one, as we are one.”

John 17.11

Thursday

1st October Remigius, bishop, 533; Anthony Ashley Cooper, social reformer, 1885

Rochester Diocese:

Kippington, St Mary Vicar: The Revd Canon David Kitley

Anglican Communion:

St Edmundsbury & Ipswich - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd Martin Seeley

St Edmundsbury & Ipswich - Dunwich - (Canterbury, England) Vacant

Prayer Requests:

Friday

2nd October Rochester Diocese:

Knockholt, St Katherine with Halstead, St Margaret Rector: The Revd John Benson

Anglican Communion: St Helena - (Southern Africa) The Rt Revd Richard Fenwick

Prayer Requests:

Saturday

3rd October George Bell, bishop, ecumenist, peacemaker, 1958

Rochester Diocese:

For our Local Ecumenical Projects.

Anglican Communion: St Mark the Evangelist - (Southern Africa) The Rt Revd

Martin Breytenbach

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

4th October

Trinity 18

Genesis 2. 18-24

Psalm 8 Hebrews 1. 1-4, 2.5-12

Mark 10. 2-16 (Proper 22)

Bromley Deanery

Please pray for new appointments with the Revd Alan Keeler - Area Dean, the

Revd Alison Newman - Vicar at Biggin Hill, the Revd Dave Johnson - Vicar at

Christ Church, Chislehurst, the Revd Ruth Peet - Curate at St Mary, Bromley

and the Revd Richard Finch - Chaplain at Bishop Justus. Also for churches

working in cooperation, some with a new arrangement. The Bromley North

Cluster, St Andrew, St John and St Mary. The Bromley Common Group St

Luke, St Augustine and Holy Trinity. The South Bromley Cluster Hayes, Keston

and Biggin Hill. More generally across the Deanery for our ministry as we look

at our practices around funerals and the continued growth of the inter-church

youth group called Bromley Youth Net. The Annunciation, Chislehurst is

celebrating 145 years on 25 October.

Rochester Diocese:

Bromley Deanery: The Revd Canon Katrina Barnes, Area Dean; and Mr Richard Latteman, Lay Chair.

Anglican Communion: Sunyani (Ghana) - (West Africa) The Rt Revd Dr Festus Yeboah-Asuamah

Prayer Requests:

Monday 5th October

Rochester Diocese: Riverhead, St Mary, with Dunton Green, St John the Divine

(redundant) Vicar: The Revd Martin Booth

Anglican Communion:

Swansea & Brecon - (Wales) The Rt Revd John Davies

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday

6th October

William Tyndale, translation, martyr, 1536

Rochester Diocese:

For all involved in the teaching of the Scriptures in this

diocese.

Anglican Communion:

Swaziland - (Southern Africa) The Rt Revd Ellinah Ntfombi Wamukoya

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

7th October

Rochester Diocese:

Seal, St Lawrence

Vicar: The Revd Carol Kitchener

Anglican Communion:

Sydney - (New South Wales, Australia) The Most Revd Dr Glenn Davies Sydney - Liverpool - (New South Wales, Australia) The Rt Revd Peter Tasker; Sydney - North - (New South Wales, Australia) The Rt Revd Chris Edwards; Sydney - South - (New South Wales, Australia) The Rt Revd Robert Forsyth Sydney - West - (New South Wales, Australia) The Rt Revd Ivan Lee; Sydney - Wollongong - (New South Wales, Australia) The Rt Revd Al Stewart

Prayer Requests:

Thursday

8th October

Rochester Diocese:

Seal, St Peter and St Paul

Vicar: The Revd Anne Le Bas

Anglican Communion:

Tabora - (Tanzania) The Rt Revd Elias Chakupewa

Prayer Requests:

Friday 9th October

Denys, bishop, and companions, martyrs, c.250; Robert Grossetest, bishop, scientist, 1253

Rochester Diocese: Sevenoaks, St John the Baptist

Vicar: The Revd Robin Jones

Anglican Communion:

Taita-Taveta - (Kenya) The Rt Revd Dr Samson Mwaluda Coadjutor Bishop of Taita-Taveta - (Kenya) The Rt Revd Liverson Mng’onda

Prayer Requests:

Saturday

10th October Paulinus, bishop, missionary, 644; Thomas Traherne, poet, spiritual writer, 1674

Rochester Diocese:

For all our lay ministers.

Anglican Communion:

Taiwan - (IX, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd David Lai

Prayer Requests:

“Is not sight a jewel? Is not hearing a treasure? Is not speech a glory?

O my Lord, pardon my ingratitude and pity my dullness who am not

sensible of these gifts.”

Thomas Traherne, 1636-74

Sunday

11th October

Trinity 19

Amos 5. 6-7, 10-15

Psalm 90. 12-end Hebrew 4. 12-end

Mark 10. 17-31 (proper 23)

Harare

We have much to be thankful for as the Harare Link develops between people.

There are have been a number of visits in both directions, and relationships

are growing. We pray for the painful journey that the Zimbabwe community

are travelling as the country faces continuing crises, including food shortages,

economic troubles and political turmoil. We pray for the children and families

amidst the breakdown of societal groups and the struggling school system.

We give thanks for the church leadership and pray for all the countries leaders

that they might reach out beyond limits and create a shared and healthy

future. We give thanks and pray particularly for +Chad and the team in Harare

as they build on their experiences to grow the presence of God in the

community.

Rochester Diocese: Our Link Diocese of Harare: The Rt Revd Chad Gandiya, Diocesan Bishop

Anglican Communion: Tamale (Ghana) - (West Africa) The Rt Revd Dr Jacob Ayeebo

Prayer Requests:

Monday

12th October

Wilfrid, bishop, missionary, 709; Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer, 1845; Edith Cavell, nurse, 1915

Rochester Diocese:

Sevenoaks, St Luke

Vicar: The Revd Canon Mark Griffin

Anglican Communion:

Tanga - (Tanzania) The Rt Revd Maimbo Mndolwa

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 13th October

Edward the Confessor, king, 1066

Rochester Diocese: Sevenoaks, St Nicholas

Rector: The Revd Angus MacLeay

Anglican Communion:

Tarime - (Tanzania) The Rt Revd Dr R Mwita Akiri

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

14th October Rochester Diocese:

Underriver, St Margaret

Vicar: The Revd Carol Kitchener

Anglican Communion:

Tasmania - (Ex-P, Australia) The Rt Revd John Harrower

Prayer Requests:

“Never speak evil. ... I have seen so many sorrows which could have

been avoided or lessened if a little word had not been breathed here

and there, perhaps without evil intention, and thus destroyed the

happiness or even the life of someone.”

Edith Cavell 1865-1915

“Trust in God/ Let nothing disturb you,/ let nothing frighten you;/ All

things pass:/ God never changes./ Patience achieves/ all it strives

for./ He who has God/ finds he lacks nothing,/ God alone suffices.”

Teresa of Avila, 1515-82

Thursday

15th October Teresa of Avila, teacher of the faith, 1582

Rochester Diocese:

For our healthcare chaplains, meeting today.

Anglican Communion:

Temotu - (Melanesia) The Rt Revd George Takeli

Prayer Requests:

Friday 16th October

Nicolas Ridley and Hugh Latimer, bishops, martyrs, 1555

Rochester Diocese: Borough Green, Church of the Good Shepherd

Vicar: The Revd Canon Tony Powell

Anglican Communion: Tennessee - (IV, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd John

Bauerschmidt

Prayer Requests:

Saturday

17th October Ignatius, bishop, martyr, c.107

Rochester Diocese:

For the new Diocesan Synod, for new and returning

members.

Anglican Communion:

Terekeka - (Sudan) The Rt Revd Paul Modi

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

18th October Luke the Evangelist

Trinity 20

Isaiah 53. 4-end Psalm 91.9-end

Hebrews 5.1-10

Mark 10.35-45 (Proper 24)

Cobham Deanery

Please pray for the Cobham Deanery, especially for 'new beginnings' that

occur at the start of a new academic year. We pray for our work with schools

and young people, and for those children beginning new schools in

September. Please give thanks for rest and refreshment over the summer

break but also praying for those who have had a difficult Summer. We give

thanks for the working together in our Deanery, particularly with Deanery

Synod and our Clergy Chapter. Please give thanks for the Cobham group that

attended the 'Leading your Church into Growth' course and how we now put

these ideas in to practice in our Parishes. Please pray for our PCC's as they

hear about these new possibilities, but also for courage to implement them.

Bless those in leadership, especially those being ordained and those starting

diocesan ministry courses.

Help us Lord, in encouraging and enabling new vocations and give us wisdom

and courage in our outreach work to those in our communities. Help us Lord,

in implementing the plans on our DMMP and also being more aware of where

you are leading us.

Rochester Diocese:

Cobham Deanery: The Revd Jim Fletcher, Area Dean; Mrs Norma Crowe, Lay

Chair.

Anglican Communion: The Arctic - (Rupert's Land, Canada) The Rt Revd David Parsons

Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of the Arctic - (Rupert's Land, Canada) The Rt Revd Darren McCartney

Prayer Requests:

“Lord, I am blind and helpless, stupid and ignorant. Cause me to

hear; cause me to know; teach me to do; lead me.”

Henry Martyn, 1781-1812

Monday

19th October

Henry Martyn, translator, missionary, 1812

Rochester Diocese:

Eynesford, St Martin, with Farningham, St Peter and St Paul,

and Lullingstone, St Botolph Rector: The Revd Gary Owen

Anglican Communion: The Episcopal Church in South Carolina - (IV, The Episcopal

Church) The Rt Revd Charles VonRosenberg

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 20th October

Rochester Diocese: Ightham, St Peter

Rector: The Revd Tim Hatwell

Anglican Communion:

The Murray - (South Australia, Australia) The Rt Revd John

Frank Ford

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

21st October Rochester Diocese:

Kemsing, St Mary the Virgin, with Woodlands St Mary the Virgin

Priest-in-Charge: The Revd James Oakley

Anglican Communion:

Thika - (Kenya) The Rt Revd Julius Njuguna Wanyoike

Prayer Requests:

Thursday

22nd October

Rochester Diocese:

Kingsdown, St Edmund, King and Martyr

Rector: The Revd Sarah Corry

Anglican Communion:

Thoothukudi - Nazareth - (South India) Vacant

Prayer Requests:

Friday

23rd October

Rochester Diocese:

Otford, St Bartholomew Vicar: The Revd Richard Worssam

Anglican Communion:

Tirunelveli - (South India) The Rt Revd Jayaraj Christdoss

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 24th October

Rochester Diocese: For our Church Schools and those who support them.

Anglican Communion:

Toamasina - (Indian Ocean) The Rt Revd Jean Paul Solo

Prayer Requests:

“I pray you, Christ, to change my heart,

To make it whole;

Once you took on flesh like mine,

Now take my soul.”

Anon.

Sunday

25th October

Bible Sunday

Last Sunday afterTrinity

Jeremiah 31.7-9 Psalm 126

Hebrews 7.23-end Mark 10.46-end

(Proper 25)

Dartford Deanery

St Edmund, Temple Hill is celebrating is its 60th anniversary in September.

Many of the churches have been running summer holiday clubs for children

and some have put on a “holiday at home” for the elderly. There was a

Christian service as part of the Dartford Festival in July supported by various

churches in the deanery. Ecumenically, the churches are pursuing the idea of a

hostel for the homeless. Housing developments are changing the landscape

especially in the northern part of the deanery. Crockenhill, Hextable and Stone

continue to work on building plans. The three churches of Darent Valley

benefice are establishing a new pattern of services, rotating between the

churches. Deanery confirmation preparation begins in September for a service

at the end of November.

Rochester Diocese:

Dartford Deanery: The Revd Kenneth Clark, Area Dean; Mr Jim Tuhey, Lay Chair.

Anglican Communion:

Tohoku - (Japan) The Rt Revd John Hiromichi Kato Tokyo - (Japan) The Rt Revd Andrew Yoshimichi Ohata

Prayer Requests:

Monday

26th October

Alfred, king, scholar, 899; Cedd, abbot, bishop, 664

Rochester Diocese:

For all involved discerning the right person to be the next

Bishop of Tonbridge

Anglican Communion:

Toliara - (Indian Ocean) New Diocese Awaiting Details

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday

27th October

Rochester Diocese:

Platt, St Mary the Virgin

Vicar: The Revd Canon Liz Walker

Anglican Communion:

Torit - (Sudan) The Rt Revd Bernard Oringa Balmoi

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 28th October

Simon and Jude, Apostles

Rochester Diocese: Shipbourne with Plaxtol

Rector: The Revd Andrew Procter

Anglican Communion:

Toronto - (Ontario, Canada) The Most Revd Colin Robert Johnson Toronto - (Ontario, Canada) The Rt Revd Maurice Philip Poole; Toronto - Trent Durham - (Ontario, Canada) The Rt Revd Linda Carol Nicholls; Toronto - York - Scarborough - (Ontario, Canada) The Rt Revd Patrick Tin-Sik Yu Toronto - York - Simcoe - (Ontario, Canada) The Rt Revd Peter Fenty Prayer Requests:

“Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you

stand without blemish in the presence of his glory with rejoicing, to

the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory,

majesty, power, and authority, before all time and now and for ever.

Amen.” Letter of Jude vv 24,25

Thursday

29th October

James, Hannington, bishop, martyr, 1885

Rochester Diocese:

Stansted, St Mary, with Fairseat, Holy Innocents, and Vigo

Rector: The Revd Chris Noble

Anglican Communion:

Toungoo - (Myanmar) The Rt Revd Dr Saw Wilme

Prayer Requests:

Friday

30th October

Rochester Diocese:

Chiddingstone, St Mary the Virgin, with Chiddingstone Causeway, St Luke

Rector: The Revd Martin Beaumont

Anglican Communion:

Trichy-Tanjore - (South India) The Rt Revd Dr Gnanamuthu

Paul Vasanthakumar

Prayer Requests:

Saturday

31st October Martin Luther, reformer, 1546

Rochester Diocese:

For Bishop Brian, in thanks for his ministry in this diocese, and for a good retirement.

Anglican Communion: Trinidad & Tobago - (West Indies) The Rt Revd Claude

Berkley

Prayer Requests:

“And now, where I had once hated the phrase, ‘the righteousness of

God’, so much, I began now to love and extol it as the sweetest of

words, so that this passage in Paul [Romans 1.17] became the very

gate of paradise for me.”

Martin Luther, 1483-1586

Sunday

1st November

All Saints Day

Wisdom 3.1-9 Psalm 24. 1-6

Revelation 21. 1-6a John 11.32-44

Mpwapwa

Praise God for the wonderful response from our Diocese, both in prayer and financial support, for Mpwapwa Diocese (and Kondoa Diocese) experiencing

drought. They know now they are not alone, and shall have food to eat and

seed to sow in the autumn.

Pray for refreshment and renewed strength for Archbishop Jacob as he leads

the Anglican Church in Tanzania as well as continuing in his role as Bishop of Mpwapwa. Also pray for his wife, Mwezwa, in her role as National Advisor to

the Mothers' Union and in the new initiative of annual gatherings for Bishops'

wives. Give thanks for the clergy, the MU and Diocesan team and schools staff.

Many teams will be visiting Mpwapwa Diocese this summer and early autumn: pray for safe travel and that the partnerships represented will be strengthened

and will grow. Praise God for the lives that have been touched over the past 10 years of this Diocesan partnership, which will be celebrated in early

October in Mpwapwa and here during our Partner Diocese Celebration Service

on 13 September. Please pray for wisdom and God's guidance for those seeking partnerships as they explore how to move forward. Please pray for the

national elections in Tanzania on Sunday 25th October.

Rochester Diocese: Our Link Diocese of Mpwapwa: The Most Revd Jacob Erasto Chimeledya,

Diocesan Bishop and Archbishop of Tanzania

Anglican Communion:

Truro - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd Timothy Thornton Truro - St Germans - (Canterbury, England) The Revd Christopher David

Goldsmith

Prayer Requests:

Monday 2nd November

All Souls Day

Rochester Diocese: For those who attend our graveyards and crematoria, who

keep the places of our remembrance beautiful.

Anglican Communion:

Tuam, Killala & Achonry - (Armagh, Ireland) The Rt Revd

Patrick William Rooke

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday

3rd November Richard Hooker, priest, teacher of the faith, 1600; Martin of Parres, friar, 1639

Rochester Diocese:

South Gillingham: Hempstead, All Saints; Wigmore, St

Matthew; Bredhurst, St Peter; and Parkwood, St Paul, and for the Revd Brian Senior instituted today.

Anglican Communion: Udi - (Enugu, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Chjioke Augustine Aneke; Ughelli - (Bendel, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Cyril Odutemu

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

4th November

Rochester Diocese: For the Bishop’s Staff’s administrators.

Anglican Communion: Ukhahlamba - (Southern Africa) The Rt Revd Mazwi Tisani

Prayer Requests:

“Doth not he which drinketh behold plainly in this cup, that his soul is

bathed in the blood of the Lamb? O beloved in our Lord and saviour

Jesus Christ, if ye will taste how sweet the Lord is, if ye will received

the King of Glory, ‘build yourselves.’”

Richard Hooker c.1554-1600

Thursday

5th November

Rochester Diocese:

Crockham Hill, Holy Trinity

Vicar: The Revd Sue Diggory

Anglican Communion:

Ukwa - (Aba, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Samuel Kelechi Eze

Prayer Requests:

Friday 6th November

Leonard, hermit, 6th cent; William Temple, archbishop, teacher of the faith, 1944

Rochester Diocese: Edenbridge, St Peter and St Paul

Vicar: The Revd Dr Stephen Mitchell

Anglican Communion:

Umuahia - (Aba, Nigeria) The Most Revd Dr Ikechi

Nwachukwu Nwosu

Prayer Requests:

Saturday

7th November Willibrord, bishop, 739

Rochester Diocese:

For all involved in ministry to the bereaved.

Anglican Communion:

Umzimvubu - (Southern Africa) The Rt Revd Mlibo Ngewu

Prayer Requests:

“May the God of love who is the source of all our affection for each

other formed here on earth take our friendships into his keeping, that

they may continue and increase throughout life and beyond it, in

Jesus Christ, our Lord.”

William Temple, 1881-1944

Sunday

8th November

Remembrance Sunday

Jonah 3. 1-5,10 Psalm 62. 5-end

Hebrews 9. 24-end Mark 1. 14-20

Remembrance Sunday

Is a cause of great contention, year after year, and if we are not careful the

day becomes a day of strife.

Pray for peace, that peace which the world cannot give.

Pray for those whose lives have been torn apart by war.

Pray for the peacemakers, and those who put their lives in danger for the

sake of others.

Pray for our military chaplains, that they may hold for soldiers the light of the

Prince of Peace.

Rochester Diocese:

For military chaplains in this diocese.

Anglican Communion:

Upper Shire - (Central Africa) The Rt Revd Brighton Vitta Malasa

Prayer Requests:

Monday

9th November

Margery Kempe, mystic, c.1440

Rochester Diocese:

Hever, St Peter,Four Elms, St Paul, and Mark Beech, Holy

Trinity Rectory: The Revd Jane Weeks

Anglican Communion: Upper South Carolina - (IV, The Episcopal Church) The Rt

Revd Andrew Waldo

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday

10th November Leo the Great, bishop, teacher of the faith, 461

Rochester Diocese:

Hildenborough, St John the Evangelist Vicar: The Revd Tim Saiet

Anglican Communion: Uruguay - (South America) The Rt Revd Michael Pollesel Suffragan Bishop of Uruguay - (South America) The Rt Revd Gilberto Obdulio Porcal Martínez

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 11th November

Martin, bishop, c.397

Rochester Diocese: Leigh, St Mary

Vicar: The Revd Lionel Kevis

Anglican Communion: Utah - (IX, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Scott

Hayashi

Prayer Requests:

“Ah, blessed Lord, I wish I knew how I might best love you and

please you, and that my love were as sweet to you as your love is to

me.”

Margery Kempe, c.1373-c.1432

“What is before us, we know not, whether we shall live or die; but this

we know, that all things are ordered and sure.”

Charles Simeon, 1759-1836

Thursday

12th November

Rochester Diocese:

For those involved in planning the Chatham Town Centre Project.

Anglican Communion: Uyo - (Niger Delta, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Prince Asukwo

Antai

Prayer Requests:

Friday 13th November Charles Simeon, priest, evangelical divine, 1836

Rochester Diocese: Penshurst, St John the Baptist and Fordcombe, St Peter

Rector: The Revd Tom Holme

Anglican Communion: Vanuatu - (Melanesia) The Rt Revd James Ligo

Prayer Requests:

Saturday

14th November

Samuel Seabury, bishop, 1796

Rochester Diocese:

Tonbridge, St Andrew, St Peter and St Paul, St Philip, and

St Saviour Vicar: The Revd Mark Brown

Anglican Communion: Vellore - (South India) The Rt Revd A Rajavelu

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

15th November

2nd Sunday before Advent

Daniel 12.1-4 Psalm 16

Hebrews 10. 11-14 [15-18] 19-25 Mark 13. 1-8

Erith Deanery

Erith Deanery comprises 13 parishes in the north of the London Borough of

Bexley. It covers Barnehurst, Belvedere, Bexleyheath, Bostall Heath, Crayford,

Erith, Falconwood, Northumberland Heath, Slade Green and Welling. The area

has a mix of urban and suburban communities and generally the population is

growing and changing. The levels of deprivation are high in a number of the

parishes.

Please pray for the following initiatives that are being planned across the

Deanery:

Erith and Thamesmead CAP Debt Centre

Rough sleepers winter shelter initiative

Age UK Bexley Men in Sheds Project

Credit Union Bus Project

Please also pray for the ongoing work of Bexley Foodbank in our Deanery and

for Erith Deanery Youth Trust.

Finally – Bishop Ridley Church in Falconwood is currently in interregnum –

please pray for the congregation there, especially the PCC , wardens and

parish reps.

Rochester Diocese:

Erith Deanery: The Revd Canon Anthony Lane, Area Dean; Mr Peter Green,

Lay Chair

Anglican Communion:

Venezuela - (V, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Orlando Guerrero

Prayer Requests:

“Lord, since you exist, we exist. Since you are beautiful, we are

beautiful. Since you are good, we are good. By our existence we

honour you. By our beauty we glorify you. By our goodness we love

you.”

Edmund Rich, c.1180-1240

Monday

16th November

Margaret, queen, philanthropist, 1093; Edmund Rich, archbishop, 1240

Rochester Diocese:

Biggin Hill, St Mark, and for the Revd Alison Newman,

collated yesterday.

Anglican Communion:

Vermont - (I, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Thomas Ely

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday

17th November Hugh, bishop, 1200

Rochester Diocese:

Tonbridge, St Stephen Vicar: The Revd Mark Barker

Anglican Communion:

Victoria Nyanza - (Tanzania) The Rt Revd Boniface Kwangu

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 18th November

Elizabeth, princess, philanthropist, 1231

Rochester Diocese: Langton Green, All Saints

Vicar: The Revd Michael Gentry

Anglican Communion:

Prayer Requests:

“Beloved, do not be hard on yourself,

No one can burn truth.” Mechtild, c.1207-1280

Thursday

19th November Hilda, abbess, 680; Mechtild, beguine, mystic, 1280

Rochester Diocese:

Rusthall, St Paul Vicar: The Revd Ronnie Williams

Anglican Communion: Virgin Islands - (II, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd

Ambrose Gumbs

Prayer Requests:

Friday 20th November

Edmund, king, martyr, 870; Priscilla Lydia Sellon, religious, 1876

Rochester Diocese: Southborough, St Peter with Christ Church and St

Matthew, and Bidborough, St Lawrence

Team Rector: The Revd Gerald Hovenden

Anglican Communion:

Virginia - (III, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Shannon Johnston

Suffragan Bishop of Virginia - (III, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Susan Ellyn Goff

Southwestern Virginia - (III, The Episcopal Church) The Rt

Revd Mark Allen Bourlakas

Prayer Requests:

Saturday

21st November

Rochester Diocese:

For our sisters and brothers in the Baptist family of Churches.

Anglican Communion:

Waiapu - (Aotearoa NZ & Polynesia) The Rt Revd Andrew Hedge

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

22nd November

Christ the King

Sunday next before Advent

Daniel 7.9-10, 13-14 Psalm 93

Revelation 1. 4b-8 John 18. 33-37

Bromley and Bexley Archdeaconry

Within the Archdeaconry it would be good pray for the two new Area Deans:

Alan Keeler looking after Bromley, and Rob Hinton looking after Beckenham. Also for the churches which are working more collaboratively with those of

other traditions or within Anglican 'clusters'. Within the London Borough of Bexley, pray for those churches working with the CreditWise Team as they

continue to develop the "responsible credit" initiative. Within the London

Borough of Bromley, to pray for those being trained as church volunteers and staff who will be running from September Archbishop Justin Welby's

'Lifesavers' pilot project, providing financial education for primary age children and their parents. To remember those involved in the redevelopment of the

RAF Chapel at Biggin Hill as the Diocese, along with the local authority and RAF, work to find an effective solution for the use of the building in the long-

term, and for ministry provision through the Chapel.

Rochester Diocese: Bromley and Bexley Archdeaconry: The Ven Paul Wright, Archdeacon

Anglican Communion: Wangaratta - (Victoria, Australia) The Rt Revd John Parkes

Prayer Requests:

Monday

23rd November

Clement, bishop, martyr, c.100

Rochester Diocese:

Southborough, St Thomas

Vicar: vacant

Anglican Communion:

Warri - (Bendel, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Christian Esezi Ideh

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday

24th November

Catherine,

martyr, 4th cent.;

Isaac Watts,

hymn writer,

1748

Rochester Diocese:

For those involved in the writing of hymns and liturgy, to

the glory of God.

Anglican Communion:

Washington - (III, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Mariann Edgar Budde

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

25th November

Rochester Diocese:

Speldhurst, St Mary the Virgin, with Groombridge, St John the Evangelist, and Ashurst, St Martin of Tours

Rector: The Revd Douglas Wren

Anglican Communion:

Wau - (Sudan) The Rt Revd Moses Deng Bol

Prayer Requests:

“If you are wise, then display your wisdom by good deeds; and if you

are modest, let others speak of your modesty instead of proclaiming

the fact yourself.

To God we owe everything, and therefore on every count we are

under obligation to thank him, glory be to him for ever and ever.

Amen.”

Clement of Rome, 1st century.

Thursday

26th November

Rochester Diocese:

Tunbridge Wells Holy Trinity with Christ Church

Vicar: The Revd Howard Flint

Anglican Communion:

Wellington - (Aotearoa NZ & Polynesia) The Rt Revd Justin Duckworth

Prayer Requests:

Friday

27th November

Rochester Diocese:

Tunbridge Wells, King Charles the Martyr Vicar: The Revd Robert Avery

Anglican Communion: West Ankole - (Uganda) The Rt Revd Yona Katoneene

Prayer Requests:

Saturday

28th November

Rochester Diocese:

Tunbridge Wells, St Barnabas Priest-in-Charge: The Revd John Caster

Anglican Communion: West Buganda - (Uganda) Vacant

Prayer Requests:

Lord, make me see thy glory in every place. Michaelangelo, 1475-1564