Compline (night prayer) - Thursday, 30 September 2021

The image is that of Jerome - Bible translator, teacher of the Faith - a theologian.
Offering God all we are, as finding ourselves faced with the decisions made this day,
we pray that you forgive our failings, increase our successes and give us a true theology. Amen.

Compline (night prayer) - Wednesday, 29 September 2021

Angels, those celestial beings over whom so many struggle are the focus of this day.
May we learn, understand and cherish all of God's creation - and sleep in the assurance of God's grace and love. Amen.

Compline (night prayer) - Tuesday, 28 September 2021

Filled with blessings and foolhardiness, generosity and selfish ambition (our and others).
We lay all before You lord - forgiving others and seeking forgiveness too.
May we rest and sleep and wake and, tomorrow, serve You and all humanity. Amen.

Compline (night prayer) - Monday, 27 September 2021

Vincent de Paul was ordained at the age of nineteen. He was something of a token priest until his conversion nine years later.

If this catches on it might revolutionise the Church!

Lord, even now we pray - fill us and use us. Amen!

Compline (night prayer) - Sunday, 26 September 2021.

Celebrating our Creator God and all that is,
we reflect on all the day has been and give thanks for His all encompassing Grace and love.
May we sleep safely in the knowledge that we, and all creation, are Gods possession. Amen.

Compline (night prayer) - Saturday, 25 September 2021

As we lay the day to rest, the realisation that through the blood of Jesus, the Christ,
we are one with the Godhead and one another.
Koinonia is more than tea, coffee and cake - it is family, it is belonging.
Take the burdens of the day from us and bring us to rest this night we pray.

 

 The images are: Lancelot Andrewes and Sergei of Radonezh

Compline (night prayer) - Friday, 24 September 2021

Tonight we reflect on memory;
for the days, months and years and all that remembering brings us in our emotions.
As we commend those gone into your care, we entrust also ourselves. Amen.

Compline (night prayer) - Thursday, 23 September 2021

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep this night,
and give your angels charge over those who sleep.
Tend the sick, give rest to the weary, sustain the dying, calm the suffering,
and pity the distressed; all for your love's sake, O Christ our Redeemer. Amen.

Compline (night prayer) - Tuesday, 21 September 2021

Contemplating the call of Matthew, we respond to the Father's call on our own lives

Compline (night prayer) - Monday, 20 September 2021

As we reflect on those who have given their lives for the Gospel,
forgiving those who have wounded us,
we gather the fragments of the day and commit our lives to serve the Lord.

May we wake refreshed and offer all we are in His service tomorrow. Amen.

The image is that of John Coleridge Patteson

Compline (night prayer) - Sunday,19 September 2021

God calls us to be one with those around us.
Help us not to strive for power and position but to live united, whole and healthy
that the love of God might be seen in us and the kingdom grown. 

May we wake to be a blessing to this world. Amen.

Compline (night prayer) - Saturday, 18 September 2021

O Lord, we beseech you mercifully to hear the prayers of your people who call upon you;
and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do,
and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil them;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen.

Compline (night prayer) - Saturday, 11 September 2021

As we lay ourselves in our beds we reflect on Jesus being laid in the tomb.
Lord, You who died for us that we might be reconciled to the godhead and have eternal life made real for us - Be with us as we, and all creation, comes to its rest we pray.


The image is Jesus at the Tomb by Jean Jacques Henner

Compline (night prayer) - Friday, 10 September 2021

Assured of our own forgiveness and cradled in the love that was willing to die for us, we lay down all hostility and irritation and enter into God's peace.

Compline (night prayer) - Thursday, 9 September 2021

Reflecting on the day and the life and ministry of Charles Fuge Lowder, a man who served God in the difficult places. May we be Your Church, Lord, in the places where need is obvious and the love of Christ is needed. Amen.

Compline (night prayer) - Wednesday, 8 September 2021

As we prepare for our beds we reflect on those moments of silence and stillness in the busyness of this day. We give thanks for the silence that draws us into communion with You, bringing us healing and a sense of all You are for, and in, and with, us. Amen.

Compline (night prayer) - Tuesday, 7 September 2021

God's love is new every morning. As the day ends there's the temptation to see it as, "The same old, same old." Help us to see uniqueness in creation, ourselves and the ending day.

Tomorrow may rejoicing be ours whether we wake or sleep.

 The image is Dürer's cross of Christ  

Compline (night prayer) - Sunday, 5 September 2021

Reflecting on the the Proverbs and James readings from today,
we look at all the day has held,
the small acts ofd kindness received and the challenge to serve those around us.

Lord change us and heal us we pray.

Compline (night prayer) - Saturday, 4 September 2021

This night as we head for bed, we pray that our theology, our hearts and lives might be true as we seek to follow Jesus, the Christ. laying all the day has been before the Lord, we head for bed, sleep in the hope of a new day tomorrow.

The image depicts Birinus being sent to evangelise Britain

Compline (night prayer) - Friday, 3 September 2021

God has destined us not for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live with him.

1 Thessalonians 5.9,10

Compline (night prayer) _ Thursday, 2 September 2021

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep this night,
and give your angels charge over those who sleep.
Tend the sick, give rest to the weary, sustain the dying,
calm the suffering, and pity the distressed;
all for your love's sake, O Christ our Redeemer. Amen.

Compline (night prayer) - Wednesday, 1 September 2021

In this day we have seen sorrow and joy, challenges and opportunities;
yet out busyness has perhaps distracted us from serving other.

May the ministry of Giles encourage us in serving those in need we pray.

The image is that of Giles of Provence, c.710