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Prayer for a Pandemic (from St. Paul’s Church, Lexington, Ken., shared by the Primate, Archbishop Linda Nicholls)

May we who are merely inconvenienced

Remember those whose lives are at stake.

May we who have no risk factors

Remember those most vulnerable.

May we who have the luxury of working from home

Remember those who must choose between preserving their health or making their rent.

May we who have the flexibility to care for our children when their schools close,

Remember those who have no options.

May we who have to cancel our trips

Remember those that have no safe place to go.

May we who are losing our margin money in the tumult of the economic market

Remember those who have no margin at all.

May we who settle in for a quarantine at home

Remember those who have no home.

As fear grips our country,

Let us choose love.

During this time when we cannot physically wrap our arms around each other,

Let us yet find ways to be the loving embrace of God to our neighbour.

Amen

Iona Prayers

Sing, my soul, when hope is sleeping,
sing when faith gives way to fears:
sing to melt the ice of sadness,
making way for joy to tears.

Sing, my soul, when sickness lingers,
sing to dull the sharpest pain;
sing to set the spirit leaping:
healing needs a glad refrain.

Sing, my soul, of him who shaped me,
let me wander far away,
ran with open arms to greet me,
brought me home again to stay.

Sing, my soul, when light seems darkest,
sing when night refuses rest,
sing though death should mock the future:
what's to come by God is blessed.
(John Bell and Graham Maule)

Amen

St. Peter's Anglican Church, Tyrconnell

Weekly Morning Prayer Services by telephone or internet at 10 a.m. on Sundays. Contact

Rev'd Canon Nick Wells by email: gwells1@teksavvy.com for connection details. All are welcome!

Prayer for a Pandemic (from St. Paul’s Church, Lexington, Ken., shared by the Primate, Archbishop Linda Nicholls)