St Michael & All Angels Church, Helensburgh Intercessor: Joan Sadden Prayers for a bruised planetIn our prayers today we are going to try to link our individual needs with the whole of creation. Imagine standing outside this church of ours, and think of all it represents, the worship week by week, the daily prayer which…

ST. MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS’ CHURCH, HELENSBURGH Charity Registered in Scotland SC006468  Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost INTROIT HYMN – 103 Christ triumphant COLLECT Almighty and everliving God, increase in us your gift of faith, that forsaking what lies behind and reaching out to what is before, we may run the way of your commandments and win…

ST. MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS’ CHURCH Charity Registered in Scotland SC006468  Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost INTROIT HYMN 834 Will you come and follow me COLLECT Almighty God, in our baptism you adopted us for your own. Quicken, we pray, your Spirit within us, that we, being renewed both in body and mind, may worship you in…

ST. MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS’ CHURCH, HELENSBURGH Charity Registered in Scotland SC006468  Harvest Festival INTROIT HYMN – 144 Come, ye thankful people, come COLLECT Creator of the fruitful earth, you made us stewards of all things. Give us grateful hearts for all your goodness, and steadfast wills to use your bounty well, that the whole human…

ST. MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS’ CHURCH, HELENSBURGH Charity Registered in Scotland SC006468  INTROIT HYMN 844 Ye watchers and ye holy ones COLLECT Eternal God, you have ordained and constituted in a wonderful order the ministries of angels and mortals. Grant that as your holy angels stand before you in heaven, so at your command they may…

ST. MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS’ CHURCH, HELENSBURGH Charity Registered in Scotland SC006468   Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost INTROIT HYMN 14 All hail the power of Jesus’ name COLLECT Almighty God, you have created the heavens and the earth, and ourselves in your image. Teach us to discern your hand in all your works and to serve…

Seventeenth after Pentecost Intercessor: Richard Smith In the confidence of faith, let us pray to the Lord.  The response to “We call upon your name, O Lord” is “Incline your ear to our prayer.” Lord, you set your cross before us as the pathway to salvation. Give your Church, especially Kevin, our Bishop, Dom, our Rector…

ST. MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS’ CHURCH, HELENSBURGH Charity Registered in Scotland SC006468  Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost INTROIT – 97 Christ is our cornerstone COLLECT Almighty God, you call your Church to witness that in Christ we are reconciled to you. Help us so to proclaim the good news of your love, that all who hear it…

Sea Sunday Charity Registered in Scotland SC006468 INTROIT 547 O God, our help in ages past COLLECT Almighty Father, creator of the Oceans and Land whose Son sailed the seas and calmed the storms. Anoint all seafarers with your Holy Spirit, that as it breathed over the waters of creation, so may you bring newness…

Sea Sunday These intercessions are in the form of a litany. I will say a short prayer and the response will be “In your mercy, Lord Hear us”. There will be a number of silences for you to make your own petitions on the subject. Merciful and gracious God we pray for the worldwide Christian…