Prayer and Song choice 27-02-14

Night-time prayer 27/02/14

Dear God,

My head is heavy, the body weary. It’s time for sleep and I succumb. I am thankful O God  for rest and renewal. A time to re-charge. A time to dream. A time of quiet. I am thankful for all I have.

Amen

My Song Choice for tonight 

Libera - Prayer

Evening Prayer and Music choice 26-02-14

Evening Prayer & Music  26/02/2014

Oh Lord, we pray you to visit this home and drive from it all snares of the enemy. Let Your holy angels dwell in it to preserve us in peace; and let Your blessing be always upon us. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

My chosen music piece tonight is Sanctus sung by the amazingly talented Libera 

Enjoy 

Evening Prayer 23-02-14

Evening Prayer for 23/02/14

O my good Angel, 

whom God has appointed to be my guardian, 

watch over me during this night.

All ye Angels and Saints of God, 

pray for me.

May our Lord bless us, 

and preserve us from all evil, 

and bring us to life everlasting. 

Amen.

Sunday Morning Prayer

             A morning prayer

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ I will begin this day. I thank you, Lord, for having preserved me during the night. I will do my best to make all I do today pleasing to You and in accordance with Your will. My dear mother Mary, watch over me this day. My Guardian Angel, take care of me. St. Joseph and all you saints of God, pray for me...

Amen 

I am being called

In this document I have tried to explain when and where my calling towards ministry in the SICM has come from and what my calling and faith means to me, also I have explored what inspires me to want to seek ordination as a Reverend.

Ever since I came out as an openly gay teenager at the age of fifteen I knew there was a purpose to my being here on earth, I knew why the lord our god had placed me and I quickly set about living my life first as a passionate supporter and activist of human rights and equality for everyone no matter what race, belief, orientation they maybe all people in my view were to be and deserved to be seen as equal which is the way our father would have wanted things to be.

I lived my teenage years fighting for one cause or another and then I found religion. I have always been spiritual and believed that we are put here for a reason but wasn’t entirely sure how to follow up these thoughts and feelings let alone know what I was being called upon to do. To me I was just like every other teenager a little rebellious at times but hand on heart who wasn’t.

It wasn’t till the death of my first actual boyfriend that I explored my actual spiritual feelings and thoughts which I am now guessing all these years later was the start of a calling but back then in hindsight I didn’t realize this. Friends came and went in and out of my life like busboys do in restaurants. I soon realized my political side to me spurred on by the belief I could make a difference in what I was doing at the age of 25 I started to consider my political views but it was to be a long journey lasting a further 2 years.

All the time throughout the two years I was aware of my spirituality and started to discover what I believed and what I wanted to do, I never really followed it up though until some very close friends of mine started to develop illnesses which led to their time on the lord’s earth being ended. It was recently that a very very close friend and soul mate passed away and it started me thinking and considering my calling in his memory.

I feel my purpose hasn’t changed at all if anything the calling has become clearer and stronger to the point whereby its undeniable therefore I started to become a regular attendee at a local church and now feel I am ready for a journey along the path of becoming firstly an ordinand working towards being a Reverend.

My calling to Ministry would be firstly to work with Homeless Teenagers and secondly working with Homeless youth’s that identify as part of the LGBT community. In fact my calling to Ministry is to support anyone and everyone who is in need of spiritual guidance.

I hope by writing this I have explained a bit about me as a person and as a potential Reverend.

  

Take this and eat

At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his Passion, he took bread and, giving thanks, broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying: 

TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND EAT OF IT, FOR THIS IS MY BODY, WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU.

In a similar way, when supper was ended, he took the chalice and, once more giving thanks, he gave it to his disciples, saying:

TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND DRINK FROM IT, FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD, THE BLOOD OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL COVENANT, WHICH WILL BE POURED OUT FOR YOU AND FOR MANY FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.

DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME

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All are welcome

     All are welcome at The Lord's table, 

Glory to God in the highest,

and on earth peace to people of good will.

We praise you,

we bless you,

we adore you,

we glorify you,

we give you thanks for your great glory,

Lord God, heavenly King,

O God, almighty Father.

Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son,

Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father,

you take away the sins of the world,

have mercy on us; 

you take away the sins of the world,

receive our prayer; 

you are seated at the right hand of the Father,

have mercy on us.

For you alone are the Holy One, 

you alone are the Lord, 

you alone are the Most High,

Jesus Christ,

with the Holy Spirit,

in the glory of God the Father.

Amen.