I have to be honest and confess that ‘fitness training’ has never been high on my list of priorities. Actually, let’s be honest, I’ve never done a work-out at a gym in my life – well, not since school anyway. (In case you are wondering, that was quite a long time ago!). So imagine my trepidation when I received a serious invitation to an on-line ‘cardio workout’ ‘Body Combat’ class. More of that in a moment. As a young adult, I never seemed to have to worry too much about fitness. I was as thin as the proverbial rake and could burn off the calories from a body that had a ‘high metabolic rate’. I think that was a euphemism for the fact that I sweated a lot! I played badminton quite a bit, which helped. I did a bit of cycle-touring. I enjoyed hill-walking when I could. I would bound up stairs at work, two or even three at a time. And I could climb with relative ease up vertical ladders on chemical plants and oil refineries. Middle age, a rather sedantary job, and the waining of the metabolic rate all seem to have conspired to produce what I suppose is known as ‘middle-age spread’. In my previous job, my Vicarage was about two miles from the church, so I cycled in and out six days a week, come rain or shine, and got a bit of exercise most days. The old ‘ticker’ was at least made to race a bit a couple of times a day. For a while we had a dog, so I’d take a brisk walk with him for an hour most days. But he died quite a few years ago, and changed circumstances meant we haven’t taken on another one. Arriving at the Cathedral however, where I live next to ‘the shop’ means that I can practically roll out of bed and into the workplace – well, in ‘normal’ times, of course. So one good by-product of the current lockdown has been that I’ve disciplined myself to take a brisk 45 minutes walk first thing most mornings. I didn’t ask it to, but my mobile phone decided to activate a step-counter, and I find myself referring to this periodically through the day to see how I’m getting on. Making it to 10000 steps is a bit of a challenge at the moment, but I’ve done it on a few days. I even topped 13000 last week. I am determined to do something about my fitness, however. As a thirty-something newly-ordained Curate I recall attending my first Clergy conference and being struck by the large number of rather corpulent male clergy in their 50s and 60s waddling around. I vowed that I did not want to join their ranks in due course. As I now move inexorably towards my late 50s I need to deliver on that vow! I do also know that the Bible encourages us to keep fit. St. Paul talked of the body as a ‘Temple of the Holy Spirit’ (1 Corinthians 6:19) so that what we do with it physically is important. Corinth in the time of St. Paul, in the first Century AD, was the venue for the Isthmian Games, second only to the Olympic Games in the ancient world. So Paul would have seen the athletes training and preparing themselves for the track or stadium. He used this as a metaphor for encouraging those who seek to follow Christ in their daily lives: “Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win it. Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable garland, but we an imperishable one. So I do not run aimlessly, nor do I box as though beating the air; but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified” (1 Cor. 9:24-27). Righto! Youch. I’m not too keen on the sound of ‘punishing’ and ‘enslaving’ my body! When Paul wrote to Timothy, a young church leader, he said ‘physical training is of some value’ (1 Tim. 4:8). ‘Some value’ – of course he was pointing out that spiritual training was even more important. Yet, we clearly must not discount the physical stuff either, especially as we are being made all the more aware that good physical and mental health are often connected. I know that, during this lockdown, many people are taking the opportunity to do some fitness training at home. A certain instructor called Joe has become quite a celebrity and popular with people of all ages. I can see the appeal, especially if you can do it in the privacy of your home, without having to parade yourself on the ‘catwalk’ of the local gym. I don’t think anyone wants to see me in lycra at 7.45am in the morning (or any other time for that matter). The invitation I’ve had is not from Joe, however, but from my younger daughter Rachel, who is living with us through the lockdown, as her acting work in London has come to a grinding halt. One other string to her bow is that she is a qualified fitness instructor. So it’s very hard to say ‘No’ to one’s offspring isn’t it? As it is, she can beat me at arm-wrestling so, being a typcial ego-tistical bloke, I know I need to do something about my upper-body strength in order to try and beat her on a re-match. So I will go for it later today for the first time by joining one of her weekly classes. If I put my back out, who do I blame? Perhaps some of you would like to join me? It’s all on Zoom – you could always make contact with me at [email protected] and I’ll pass on your enquiry. If that’s not your thing or not appropriate, nevertheless it is a good idea to be thinking during this lockdown how we can improve our physical fitness and develop some helpful habits that might last well beyond the current crisis. ‘Temples of the Holy Spirit’, remember! Canon Neal While you're here: Why not prepare for next Sunday's worship? Our preparation sheet for adults and for children can be accessed by clicking on the Resources tab of this website: https://www.prayerforliverpool.org/prayer-resources.html.
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It is now a week since we clapped on our doorsteps for all on the front line. Thursdays have become known to me as ‘Thank you Thursday.’ Today is the day when we give thanks for the front line workers, the NHS, the social care workers and all those who supply our basic needs. When I undertook my regular walk around St James’ Garden, the other day, I came across the flowers in the picture, which I think are call ‘Forget-me-nots.’ As I reflected upon them I was thinking of all those whose lives have influenced me for the good and I no longer see because they have died. It is so important to remember our loved ones and the many people who give sacrificially to others. Today, in the life of the Church and in the life of this country we remember the life and witness of St George, Patron Saint of England. St George is from the second century. He was a soldier and he was martyred for his faith. There are a number of myths around him being a knight and slaying a dragon, but the reason he became a saint was because of his great virtue and his great holiness. England adopted him as their patron saint, even though he was not born in England, along with Venice, Genoa, Portugal and Catalonia. So as we give thanks let us remember the life and witness of St George, let us pray for all affected by Covid 19 whether in this country or in Venice, Genoa, Portugal or Catalonia. And let us say THANK YOU to the St George’s of our own day. And as we say thank you may we like those flowers never forget the sacrifice of others. Dean Sue While you're here: Why not prepare for next Sunday's worship? Our preparation sheet for adults and for children can be accessed by clicking on the Resources tab of this website: https://www.prayerforliverpool.org/prayer-resources.html. Well I guess we are all coming to terms with a Social Media Easter! Over the last few weeks Facebook and YouTube have made very interesting viewing. Over the years I have detected something of a division over how churches approach and then celebrate Easter. There are those who could not wait for the festival – almost literally! Bunnies, eggs, and other confectionary appear on the agenda on the Saturday before Easter and brightly coloured notices advertise ‘Easter Services’ even though most of them take place during Holy Week! On the other hand there are those who wallow in the soul searching, inward looking, self- flagellating sheer misery of Holy Week and for whom Easter Day becomes something of an inconvenient intrusion of happiness. And yet perhaps this of all years might give us an insight into how you or I would have coped if we had been with the disciples that first Eastertide. It was hardly a hotbed of faith that Jesus invaded when he bypassed the locked door and found them self- isolating because of their fear. No wonder his first words were the traditional Jewish greeting of peace, or that they didn’t perk up until he had shown them his hands and his side. Then we are told they rejoiced, although even after other resurrection appearances, St Luke tells us the disciples were ‘disbelieving’ in their joy. This year in our church buildings there has been no ringing of bells or exchanging hugs of joy. It has been much more like the first Easter when it took a long time for the message to sink in. It is enlightening I think to look at the words the various Gospel writers use to describe the feelings and actions of those first witnesses. They include – perplexity, terror, hiding their faces with fear, weeping, shaking, not understanding, alarm, disbelief, going home alone, amazement. The fear and confusion has driven them behind locked doors which is where many of us now are. I saw a documentary once about ‘locked in’ syndrome whereby people get locked into a body which cannot move even though their minds may be active. My experience of grief is that it can take away energy and motivation and result in a kind of lethargy and heaviness of heart that can entrap us. And the disciples have got themselves literally ‘locked in.’ Even that first appearance of Jesus doesn’t appear to have freed them as here we are a week later and those doors are still firmly locked and they certainly haven’t been able to convince Thomas. What I warm to about Thomas is that even if he doesn’t have the assurance for himself about Jesus being risen, he stays around people who do, and they stick with him. Some find it overwhelmingly tempting that, when a friend expresses genuine and heartfelt doubts, they rush in with reassurance rather than let doubt run its necessary course with the resulting possibility of an opening up in greater depth to God’s presence. After all, just because Thomas hasn’t seen Jesus didn’t mean that Jesus wasn’t risen; it was just that Thomas hadn’t seen him yet. And if at times we doubt that God is with us and doesn’t respond to our prayers as we would wish – doesn’t mean that God isn’t there, it is just that we are not aware of His presence. And of course there are no easy answers and I would much rather be part of a Christian community that admits to times when they are clinging on to faith by their fingertips rather that one who believes that they have arrived and possess the formula to the mind of God. My experience is that it is when we are at our lowest and most vulnerable and prone to doubt that seeds of hope are sown. And again bearing in mind our present circumstances, for many the turning point is the trauma of bereavement when, like the disciples at the crucifixion and faced with an empty tomb, life is turned horrifically upside down. Once during a Lent course I asked those present how they came to faith. It was enlightening that a third of those present said it was through the Church’s presence with them during bereavement whether through a death, the loss of a job, or divorce. The way the church community had reacted to their pain and bewilderment had the effect of them want to belong. The temptation is to read the stories of the resurrection and to consign them to history. But the truth is they are timeless. The past and the present touch each other and we are caught up in it too. We are in the story here and now physically isolated as we are. We are called to live as Easter people – not perfect or other worldly but as a community who attempt to reflect God’s love to those with whom we are in contact and to look for and affirm signs of the resurrection revealed all around us. I think the hope is that if we have been aware of the resurrection in this life we shall be able to receive the final resurrection after physical death. For then we will recognise it as a country we have already entered and in whose light and warmth we have already lived. Canon Bob While you're here: Why not prepare for next Sunday's worship? Our preparation sheet for adults and for children can be accessed by clicking on the Resources tab of this website: https://www.prayerforliverpool.org/prayer-resources.html. ‘It’s the evenings which are the worst!’ Certainly that’s my reaction after four weeks of lockdown. During the day I find no difficulty in keeping busy and active, but the evenings are a different matter altogether. Generally I spend them watching something entertaining on the computer before having a commendably sensible early night. One evening this week, I settled down to watch a fascinating documentary about the reconstruction of Notre Dame in Paris. It is exactly a year since the disastrous fire engulfed and nearly managed to destroy the building. The documentary focused on the painstaking work – now at a complete standstill – to secure the building and make it safe, and to undertake a great deal of research as they begin the long process of rebuilding and restoration. The programme made it clear that while this task will certainly be thorough, no one can expect it to be quick. Notre Dame has 850 years of history, and even the charred beams and the stone debris, fallen to the ground in the fire, all have many secrets to unfold, and much to teach those who are working to restore. A tempting and easy response might be to send in the diggers and bulldozers and to cast the debris aside as so much rubbish. But this would actually prove as destructive, and possibly just as much as a catastrophe, as the fire itself. Political leaders at the time of the fire may have promised restoration within a particular time-frame. The reality is that the work must go on for as long as it takes, if ‘the splendour of this latter house will surpass the splendour of the former’ as the prophet Haggai puts it in the Old Testament. (Haggai 2. 9) People all over the world are asking for an answer to just one question: ‘how long?’ They could be asking about the present lockdown, or social distancing, or the production of an effective vaccine to bring the pandemic to an end. They could be asking about the economic consequences across the world, not least for the poor and the powerless, both near and far. The response to such life-changing questions, if we are honest, is that we cannot yet know, but we must be prepared to be patient and to wait in hope. At times of uncertainty in my own life, I have always found the words of the Psalms which in normal times we sing each day at Evensong, have been a great source of comfort. May I leave you with words from one such psalm today? ‘I waited patiently for the Lord: and he inclined unto me, and heard my calling. He brought me also out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay: and set my feet upon the rock, and ordered my goings.’ (Psalm 40. 1 – 2) Canon Myles While you're here: Why not prepare for next Sunday's worship? Our preparation sheet for adults and for children can be accessed by clicking on the Resources tab of this website: https://www.prayerforliverpool.org/prayer-resources.html. One of the many things I love about the cathedral is its beautiful chapels, sculptures and memorials. So painstakingly thought through and designed; and such an inspiration when, often in conversation with visitors, you encounter someone who actually had a hand in making them or one of their relatives did! The lunchtime eucharist is often taken in the Lady Chapel; a wonderful place in itself and such an honour to celebrate there at the altar…..the best seat in the house! Yesterday should have been a Sunday when we offer the ministry of healing. A small team of us offer such ministry in pairs, with prayers and anointing for those coming forward asking for healing. Healing in all its senses of the word, no restriction is put on what situation a person brings forward for prayer – for themselves or for others. A very important ministry at the present time – and so disappointing that it and the ultimate of healing ministry, the Eucharist, can’t take place right now in our cathedral. But when it does, the members of the healing ministry team gather in the Lady Chapel for prayers before hand – and that aspect of the ministry did take place yesterday, albeit online using videoconferencing facilities, as suggested by one of our members. Brilliant idea; strange sensation; comforting and reassuring – certainly a new way of doing things, but nonetheless still the same precious time together, to pray in confidence for individuals who ask for prayers, for those who are ill at present and especially for those friends and families grieving the loss of loved ones by this terrible situation. Healing is needed in all of its senses at present, for such situations. Many of us were gathered together using the technology, some prayed ‘alongside’ at the same time in their own space – all of us, full in the knowledge that the voice of prayer is never silent whether we pray individually or are gathered together physically or virtually. And when the cathedral does reopen again, and we can gather once more in the Lady Chapel, what a blessing it will be. Praying in the wonderful space, alongside memorials like the one shown in my (poor!) photo above, taken nearly six months ago when I was preparing for the honour of preaching at our Remembrance Day service. It is the memorial to the Nurses of Liverpool. Designed by Giles Gilbert Scott himself and dedicated in May 1929 during the annual Nurses’ service to the 20 nurses who gave their lives in WWI. Sculpted by David Evans in Nebrasina Marble, it shows a nurse tending to a wounded soldier. Who would have thought that within six months or so, we would go from remembering the nurses who gave their lives in the world wars….to praying for and supporting those now fighting on the frontline itself? We pray for them and all caring for others now. With my love and prayers for you all; stay safe…. Canon Mike While you're here: Why not prepare for next Sunday's worship? Our preparation sheet for adults and for children can be accessed by clicking on the Resources tab of this website: https://www.prayerforliverpool.org/prayer-resources.html. Our cafe-style informal worship continues in a virtual cafe on Facebook. Hre you can get a flavour of this great community connecting with Go. Find out more about www.facebook.com/welcometozone2/ Today we celebrate the Second Sunday of Easter, the Sunday that completes the Easter Octave. Last Sunday, Easter Sunday drew to a close in the evening when Jesus appeared to the disciples who had locked themselves away behind closed doors. Jesus broke through the locked doors, and suddenly they too knew the power of the Easter resurrection. But you will remember that not all the disciples were there. Thomas had gone missing, and Thomas refused to believe the account that the others gave to him. Thomas needed to see for himself. Today's Gospel reading (John 20: 19-31) tells us what happened on the Easter Octave. The disciples were there once again, but this time Thomas was with them. Thomas saw and Thomas believed. Now the Easter story is complete. The Second Sunday of Easter is 'commonly called Low Sunday' as set out in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. That name puzzled me when I was a curate, and I remember being told then that it was called Low Sunday because the numbers were down after Easter Sunday and because the vicar was away on holiday leaving the services in the hands of the curate. But that is not the best explanation of the name Low Sunday. A better explanation is that Low is a simple corruption of the Latin laudo (the verb to praise). The Easter Octave is the Sunday when the Easter celebration reaches its climax in praise to God for the good news of the resurrection, good news that has not only reached Thomas, but in the words of John's Gospel has reached all those 'who have not yet seen and yet come to believe'. The note of Low Sunday or Praise Sunday may be particularly poignant this weekend, the weekend when we have been told that we have another three weeks of lockdown. We have a choice now as to whether we respond to that news in the spirit of Low Sunday or in the spirit of Praise Sunday. What the good news of the Easter resurrection does is to assure us that the darkness and the lockdown of Holy Week and of Good Friday, through the grace of God, leads us into the release and resurrection of the Easter season. As we step out into this new week launched by Praise Sunday, amid the fear and lockdown of Covid 19, the Church encourages to keep on our lips the greatest of Christian hymns of praise: We praise you, O God, we acknowledge you to be the Lord (Te Deum Laudamus). Please join in our praise of God this morning here: If you would like to follow along with the order of service for the liturgy, you'll find it here (in addition to the subtitles at the bottom of the screen): ![]()
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If you want to continue to reflect on today’s themes, then please do use ‘Exploring the Sunday Gospel at Home.’ The aim of ‘Exploring the Sunday Gospel at Home’ is for people and families to look at the Sunday Gospel in advance of Sundays and to prepare themselves for the coming Sunday worship. So do please look out for next Sunday’s material from tomorrow onwards. You’ll find the “Exploring the Sunday Gospel at Home” documents on the “Prayer Resources” page and under the “Worship” column: https://www.prayerforliverpool.org/prayer-resources.html. You will also find Children’s activities from the Cathedral Education Team on the “Prayer Resources” page of this website under the “Education” column: https://www.prayerforliverpool.org/prayer-resources.html. Have a good Low Sunday. Dean Sue
I have lived by the cathedral for four years. Getting in and out of the carpark, through barriers and into our parking space means we have to negotiate the Queens Walk on a daily basis - and it’s not always an easy negotiation! A combination of carpark, walk-through and meeting spot the Queens Walk is always busy - A hive of activity. Well, it has been until the last few weeks. Now it is very quiet. The space has been handed back to pedestrians, cyclists, and those who make their way walking to work from Toxteth to town. The only cars that are here are those who belong to residents, the few people left working here and ambulance/NHS staff who are receiving extra training at the community college. There is a pleasant peaceful sense of stillness out on the Queens Walk. But, I can’t help but think it misses the hubbub. I miss the hubbub. I miss the people who park here to go to work in town. The shoppers. The students. Those staying in the local hotels. People who go to see a show in the evening, who are going out for a meal, or to a concert at the Phil. I miss people who pop into the cathedral bookshop and only stay for 20 mins. I miss those who park up overnight and come back to get their cars the next day. I miss the Sunday congregation who come for the services and some who stay all day and come to everything. I miss the parents of children who attend LIPA primary. I miss St Mellitus students and staff. I miss people who park here for the many events that take place at the cathedral – concerts, big services, exhibitions, celebrations. I miss the vans that bring in food, equipment and deliver essential items. I miss the staff that park here every day and wave to me as they exit. It is quiet on the Queens Walk without you. I miss you. So, today I am giving thanks for the peace and quiet and also acknowledge the sadness I feel about missing the everyday hubbub. I pray for everyone who is missing being here – who miss going about their everyday business on the Queens Walk. Canon Ellen While you're here: Why not prepare for next Sunday's worship? Our preparation sheet for adults and for children can be accessed by clicking on the Resources tab of this website: https://www.prayerforliverpool.org/prayer-resources.html. A notable feature of the current crisis and lockdown has been the number of posts on-line of virtual choirs and ensembles. I’m certainly impressed by the creative contributions that I’ve seen, and also am in awe of the techy folk who know how to stitch and ‘sync’ it all together. Mention should obviously also be made of those ‘off-line’ acts of community cooperation where people have stood outside their homes to join their individual efforts into one corporate one. Many of us have participated in the Thursday evening clap. I’ve also heard of on-street dancing, the ‘Sing Resurrection’ initiative on Easter morning and (and I think winning my vote for the most creative) the ‘Belper Moo’ at 6.30pm each day. (If you haven’t a clue what that is you will have to Google it.) One of the relaxing pleasures that I have discovered in recent months is joining the Maghull Wind Orchestra, and re-connecting with my flute-playing. Sadly, it has been rather neglected for several decades, ever since I left a job in engineering (with evenings generally free) and turned my shirts around to become a priest (with evenings generally filled with meetings). So it’s been such a gift to be able to head up to Maghull and spend Tuesday evenings tooting along with a very enthusiastic and friendly bunch of local people who love making music. Naturally, the MWO is on hold for the moment – it’s very hard to practise social distancing when everyone’s blowing through their instruments and sharing germs around! I was delighted, therefore, to receive an email recently from them, inviting me to take part in a ‘virtual windband’ recording of a special piece of music. Following the instructions, I downloaded the ‘dots’ and located the link to a keyboard accompaniment and a ‘click-track’ (my new word for the week) to play along to. All good fun. Although we are all stuck in our homes, and very much not an ‘ensemble’ in the literal sense we can nevertheless, with a bit of help from technology, bring many ‘voices’ to sound as one voice. It reminds me of one of the great paradoxes of the Christian faith; that the church is one body but many members. The church may have many different expressions of faith and practice throughout the world, but we still proclaim, in the Nicene Creed, that the church is ‘one holy catholic and apostostolic’. St. Paul, writing to the church in Corinth nearly 2000 years ago – a church which was clearly riven with splits – reminds his readers, “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ” (1 Cor. 12:12). Jesus, on the night before his crucifixion held up bread at the Last Supper and said, “This is my body”. Then he broke it and shared it with his disciples to show that they too were invited to be part of his body, his brokenness and his resurrection. St. Paul, elsewhere in his first letter to the Corinthians says, “The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread” (1 Cor. 10:16b-17). Christians have always believed that, wherever and whenever the Lord’s Supper is celebrated, by a great and mysterious act of God, we are all somehow part of the one body, and that body is Christ’s. Surely, at this time of all times, we need to hold on to that truth? We may be unable physically to gather for worship in our church buildings but, if we take Scripture at face value, we are still part of the one body. It’s as if some divine process has ‘synched’ us all together, blended our many offerings of individual worship into one great paeon of praise and adoration. It may not feel like that from your lounge or kitchen on an April morning in England, but in cosmic terms, that is what is happening! Like so much in our faith, we cannot begin to comprehend it, but perhaps it is something for which to give thanks to God this day as we seek to live out what it means to be ‘Christ’s body’ in these uncharted waters? We can surely also look ahead to the time when we can be visibly and tangibly ‘one body with many members’ as we meet to break bread together in this Cathedral and in other places of worship. Well, if you’ve managed to stick with my blog this far, you may just be wondering what special piece of music it is that the Maghull Wind Orchestra had asked us to record? It’s a piece that is so significant for Liverpool, and with a particular poignancy at this time of year. It’s one that has the potential to speak to us in a fresh and powerful way as we chart our solitary journeys through the crisis caused by the Covid-19 virus. It contains a deep promise and one worth holding on to. As you may have guessed, it was “You’ll never walk alone!” And by a complete coincidence (honest, it is!), the video was released last night in a special broadcast for the Liverpool University Hospitals Trust as a ‘thank you’ to the NHS. You can view it here: I so look forward to the day when I will once again be able to travel up to Maghull on a Tuesday evening to toot my flute in company with lots of fellow music-makers. I suspect that, when we do so, and play ‘You’ll never walk alone’, there will not be a dry eye in the house. Canon Neal While you're here: Why not prepare for next Sunday's worship? Our preparation sheet for adults and for children can be accessed by clicking on the Resources tab of this website: https://www.prayerforliverpool.org/prayer-resources.html. I have begun to call Thursdays ‘Thankyou Thursday’. It’s the day when we remember and give thanks for all those on the front line in the NHS and those care workers working in hospices and nursing homes. It is also the day when we should be thinking about those who have the responsibility for delivering our food to the supermarkets, for those who continue to empty our bins and so many other people who are keeping the infrastructure of society going. Last Thursday, as you can see from the photograph, Stella Barnes organised and designed a thank you from the Cathedral Car Park. She got some of the residents in the close to add their own contribution to the thankyou at specific times during the morning so that we kept the Government rules on social-isolation. The whole experience brought fun and laughter to us all, so improving our mental health. As the weeks go on I think it is becoming harder to keep ourselves isolated form others. I have tried different ways of engaging with my friends. I have regular catch ups with my friends through FaceTime or Teams, when we have a drink together, me in front of my screen and my friends in front of theirs. It does work, but I have to say I miss the physical contact of the greeting, the hug, the hand shake or the kiss. So when I think about Jesus and his resurrection I can quite understand Thomas who does not believe until he sees or touches Jesus. I think I too will not believe in the resurrection from Covid 19 until I can sit with my friends and have a face-to-face conversation in person. Or until I feel that kiss of peace or hug of welcome. So on this ‘Thankyou Thursday,’ as we physically use our hands to clap, let us hope and pray for an end to this pandemic. Let us be grateful and say thankyou to all who offer the healing touch in our hospital and care homes. Let us be grateful for all who supply our basic needs. And let us pray for and give thanks for the physical touch of our family and friends that we so long for. Dean Sue While you're here: Why not prepare for next Sunday's worship? Our preparation sheet for adults and for children can be accessed by clicking on the Resources tab of this website: https://www.prayerforliverpool.org/prayer-resources.html. |
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