St Patrick's Breastplate

Christ be with me,Christ within me,
Christ behind me,Christ before me
Christ beside me, Christ to win me 
Christ to comfort and restore me,
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger:
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

Praying in Christ

Eternal Spirit

Life-giver, Pain-bearer, Love-maker,

Source of all that is and shall be,

Father and Mother of us all,

Loving God, in whom is heaven.

The hallowing of your Name

echo through the Universe.

The way of your Justice

be followed by the peoples of the world.

 Your heavenly Will

be done by all created beings.

Your Commonwealth of Peace and Freedom

sustain our hope and come on earth. 

With the bread we need for today

feed us.

In the hurts we absorb from one another,

forgive us.

From trials too sharp to endure,

spare us

From the grip of all that is evil,

free us.

For you reign in the glory

of the power that is love.

Now and forever.

 Amen                                                       by Jim Cotter, By heart for the Millennium

"Let go, let God."
                        Annette Jackson

Do we remember this?

¹ Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; ⁴ perseverance, character; and character, hope. ⁵ And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us