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Prayer

A church that prays together, stays together.

When we, as a family of Christians, gather together to worship God, we pray for:

  • The world and all of creation

    • The leaders of the nations, that they may strive for peace, concord and goodwill, and have a heart for the least among us​

    • Those places ravaged by upheaval, violence, calamity and catastrophe

    • The beauty and preservation of the whole of God's created world

    • All those parts of creation scarred by humanity's greed and thoughtlessness

  • God’s church

  • Our parish in Brimsdown and Enfield Highway

    • The people who live in our neighbourhoods (focussing on several streets in the parish each week)

    • Schools, organisations and institutions in the community

    • The many ministries in which our faith family serves at church

  • Those who are suffering in body, mind or spirit—those known to us, and countless others known only to our loving and merciful God

  • Those who have died and have entered the larger life with God

Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert and always persevere in supplication for all the saints.

(Ephesians 6.18)

Praying throughout the day in the Anglican tradition of the Church of England

Much of the rhythm of prayer is something very ancient, passed down through the centuries.  In monasteries and convents, in which people devoted themselves to a life of prayer, Christians would come together to pray at several times during the day:

  • before sunrise,

  • mid-morning,

  • at noontime,

  • in the afternoon,

  • at dusk, and

  • just before bedtime.

These prayer times, called ‘hours’ or ‘offices’, served to structure the day, and to keep in rooted in prayerfulness.

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In the Church of England, these Offices or Hours of prayer continue their legacy in:

  • Morning Prayer (traditionally called ‘Matins’),

  • Prayer during the Day (the hours of ‘Terce’, ‘Sext’ and ‘None’

  • Evening Prayer (traditionally called ‘Vespers’) and

  • Night Prayer (also called ‘Compline’).

Each have special prayers appropriate for the time of day as well as the time of year, readings from the Bible, including the psalms (the scriptural ‘songbook’ of the Jewish and Christian faiths), and space to pray for the world.

You can pray with us at St James’s, too!  We have Night Prayer four evenings a week online, and Morning Prayer in church and online on Saturdays.  If you would like join us and know more, clicking here will take you to that dedicated page on our website.

 

You can also pray the ‘offices’ online at your leisure by yourself.  Below are links to the ‘Daily Offices’ of the Church of England, which change every day, if you would like some structure to your prayers:

Prayer and Healing ministry at St James’s

We have a group at St James’s committed to the power of prayer to transform, to bring comfort and relief, dedicated to praying especially for those in urgent circumstances.

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On the final Saturday of every month at 11am, we come together in church to lift up prayers for our community, our church and for the world.

St James’s also has a team dedicated to focussed and prayerful healing ministry, which is available at the 10am worship service on the last Sunday of the month.  When that last Sunday of the month is a fifth Sunday, the healing ministry replaces the intercessory prayers, and added ministry of anointing by the clergy and accompanied by the prayers of our healing ministry team.

Prayer Request

If you would welcome prayer for yourself or someone you know, please let us know via by clicking on this link to send an email to our parish administrator.

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