Come, Jesus be out guest,
stay with us for the day is beginning/ending
with friend, with stranger,
with neighbour, and the well known ones, be among us
For the doors of our house we open
And the doors of our hearts we leave ajar.
Song “I will praise you in this storm”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YUGwUgBvTU
We say the Lord’s Prayer in our own language
Psalm 55
My heart is in anguish within me;
the terrors of death have fallen on me.
5 Fear and trembling have beset me;
horror has overwhelmed me.
6 I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.
7 I would flee far away
and stay in the desert;
8 I would hurry to my place of shelter,
far from the tempest and storm.”
We pray for all those we know who need our help and prayers who we carry in our hearts today. For those who can’t afford fuel, food or housing, for those on strike, those suffering in the floods, heatwaves and fires, for the Ukraine and Russia, for Palestine and Gaza, Myanmar, Hong Kong, India, Myanmar, the Rohingyas, the Uyghurs, Belarus, Iran, US, Afghanistan, for UK, for our own country, doctors and nurses, carers, teachers, those confronting injustice, and pressing issues of climate change, for the millions of refugees, our own families, friends and ourselves…Spirit of the Living God present with us now enter our bodies, minds and spirits and heal us of all that harms us. Let your angels be beside us at this time. Amen
Song “Lord I come to you”
This is the day that God has made
I will rejoice and be glad in it
I will not offer to God
Offerings that cost me nothing
I will go in Peace
To love and serve the Lord
Amen
Iona Community (c) adapted
