Calendar of Intercessions Passiontide – Trinity 2020

to the Prayer Calendar for the Diocese of

Rochester.

A shared calendar of prayer is one of the many small ways we ̀ can keep a sense of community

in these challenging times and I hope you will find this useful in your prayer

networks.

You may want to supplement this cycle with the Anglican Communion cycle of

prayer which is tweeted at @ACOffice and posted on PrayerMate.

Similarly prayers from the World Council of Churches (WCC) are tweeted at

@WCCprayers and on the PrayerMate app.

In its current form, the calendar has two cycles: Parish and Community. The

Community cycle includes any church schools attached to the parishes we pray

for, day by day, but also includes other aspects of parish and diocesan life. When parishes have a link set up with another parish, we also include them in

our prayers.

For this edition I’ve included a weekly cycle of prayer, based on the list of professions who are working to keep this country afloat during this time of crisis.

Sunday entries cover some of the bigger pictures in our Diocese (sometimes

geographical, sometimes issues or activities). These are usually simply one or

two lines of text, but occasionally have fuller entries.

Finally, there is space in the daily entries for you to note any prayer requests that have been made to you or your parish, or any special interests you want

to remember in your prayers.

This prayer calendar can also be found in the

PrayerMate app (http://praynow4.org/rochester), on the diocesan website

(http://rochester.anglican.org/ministry/prayer-amp-

intercessions/intercessions/), on Twitter and on

Facebook.

Please contact Rev Lindsay Llewellyn-MacDuff, Bishop’s Chaplain, with any

comments or suggestions – bishopscourt@rochester.anglican.org or 01634

814439. Large print copies can be provided to any who would find that

helpful. |

Cover photo: by Revd Rachel Phillips

Welcome

Weekly cycle during the pandemic.

This is a suggested additional cycle so that we can pray for those ‘key workers’ holding the burden of keeping the country running during the crisis.

Monday

Health and social care

Tuesday

Education and childcare

Wednesday

Key public services as well as Local and national government

Thursday

Food and other necessary goods

Friday

Public safety and national security

Saturday

Transport

Sunday

Utilities, communication and financial services

God of compassion,

be close to those who are ill, afraid or in isolation. In their loneliness, be their consolation;

in their anxiety, be their hope; in their darkness, be their light;

through him who suffered alone on the cross,

but reigns with you in glory, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen. From Church of England Coronavirus (COVID-19) liturgy and prayer resources.

Sunday

5 April

Palm Sunday

Liturgy of the Palms: Matthew 21.1-11 Psalm 118.19-24 Liturgy of the Passion: Isaiah 50.4-9a Psalm 31.9-16 Philippians 2.5-11 Matthew 27.11-54

Sevenoaks Deanery The Rev Michael Gentry, Area Dean; Brig Ian Dobbie, Lay Chair Prayer Requests:

Monday 6 April Holy Monday

Rochester Diocese:

For all Christians as they prepare to keep this week holy

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 7 April Holy Tuesday

Rochester Diocese:

For all approaching Easter with faithful eyes for the first time

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday

8 April Holy Wednesday

Rochester Diocese: For those struggling with faith: for those who cannot believe, or who wish they did not, and for those who rage against the faith of others

Prayer Requests:

Thursday 9 April Maundy Thursday

Rochester Diocese: For all bishops, priests and deacons who are

encouraged to renew their ordination commitment this week

Prayer Requests:

Friday 10 April Good Friday

Rochester Diocese: For those who feel abandoned by God or who cannot see his face, for the despairing and the broken-hearted

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 11 April Holy Saturday/Easter Eve

Rochester Diocese: For the bereaved, for all waiting for new life

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

12 April

Easter Day

Jeremiah 31.1-6 Psalm 118.1-2,14-24 Acts 10.34-43 John 20.1-18

Easter Day Pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122) The Dean of Jerusalem, The Very Rev Hosam Naoum, Honorary Canon of Rochester Cathedral Prayer Requests:

Monday 13 April Easter Monday

Parish cycle: High Halstow, St Margaret, with All Hallows, All Saints, and Hoo St Mary, St Mary (redundant) Rector: The Rev Stephen Gwilt

Community Cycle: For all whose confirmations and baptisms have been postponed, that they may still know the joy of the risen Christ.

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 14 April Easter Tuesday

Parish cycle: Higham, St John and St Mary, with Merston Vicar: The Rev Canon James Southward

Community Cycle: Diocesan Dept: Safeguarding Lead Diocesan Safeguarding Advisor: Greg Barry

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 15 April Easter Wednesday

Parish cycle: Hoo St Werburgh Priest-in-Charge: vacancy

Community Cycle: Bishop’s Advisor for Ordained Women’s Ministry: The Rev Canon Mandy Carr

Prayer Requests:

Thursday 16 April Easter Thursday

Parish cycle: Strood, St Francis

Vicar: The Rev Sharon Copestake Community Cycle:

For all Associate Ministers Prayer Requests:

Friday 17 April Easter Friday

Parish cycle: Strood, St Nicholas, with St Mary (redundant) Vicar: The Rev David Green

Companion Parish: Harare, St Clare's Mangwende Mission District

Community Cycle: St. Nicholas CE Infants School, Strood Headteacher: Mrs Gisele Johnson

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 18 April Easter Saturday

Parish cycle: Aylesford, St Peter and St Paul Vicar: The Rev Ruth Peet

Community Cycle: St. Peter's CE Primary School, Aylesford Headteacher: Mr Jim Holditch St. Marks CE Primary School. Eccles Headteacher: Mr Jonathan Bassett

Prayer Requests:

Sunday 19 April

Easter 2

[Exodus 14.10-end;15.20-21] Acts 2.14a,22-32 Psalm 16 I Peter 1.3-9 John 20.19-end

Shoreham deanery The Rev Tim Hatwell, Area Dean; Mrs Jane Sankey, Lay Chair

Prayer Requests:

Monday 20 April

Parish cycle:

Barming, St Margaret and Longsole Mission Church Rector: The Rev Wil North

Community Cycle: For our Sisters and brothers in Armenian family of Churches

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 21 April Anselm, abbott, archbishop, teacher of the faith, 1109

Parish cycle: Birling, All Saints, Addington, St Margaret, Ryarsh, St Martin of Tours, and Trottiscliffe, St Peter and St Paul Rector: The Rev Linda Shuker

Community Cycle: Trottiscliffe CE Primary School, Trottiscliffe Headteacher: Mrs Lucy Henderson (Head of Sch)

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 22 April

Parish cycle: Burham, St Mary the Virgin (redundant) and Wouldham, All Saints Vicar: The Rev Mike Hayes

Community Cycle: All Saints CE Primary School, Wouldham Headteacher: Mr Carl Fitter

Burham CE Primary School, Burham Headteacher: Miss Michelle Grima

Prayer Requests:

Thursday 23 April

George, martyr, patron of England, c.304

Parish cycle: Coxheath, Holy Trinity, East Farleigh, Hunton, St Mary

Linton, St Nicolas, and West Farleigh, All Saints Rector: The Rev Peter Callway

Companion Parish: Estonia, Käsmu parish

Community Cycle: Hunton CE Primary School, Hunton Headteacher: Mr Stewart Murdoch

Prayer Requests:

Friday 24 April Mellitus, bishop, 624 Seven Martyrs of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 2003

Parish cycle: Ditton, St Peter ad Vincula Rector: The Rev Ross Terranova

Community Cycle: Ditton CE Junior School, Ditton Headteacher: Mrs Alex Smith

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 25 April Mark the Evangelist

Parish cycle: East Malling, St James the Great, and Teston, St Peter and St Paul Vicar: The Rev Nick Williams

Community Cycle: Wateringbury CE Primary School, Wateringbury Headteacher: Mrs Chasey Crawford-Usher

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

26 April

Easter 3 Zephaniah 3.14-end Psalm 116.1-7 Acts 2.14a,36-41 Luke 24.13-35

Sidcup deanery The Rev Mell Jemmett, Area Dean; Mr Andrew Young, Lay Chair Prayer Requests:

Monday 27 April Christina Rossetti, poet, 1894

Parish cycle:

Bishop’s Mission Order: King’s Hill, St Gabriel’s Missioner: The Rev Mark Montgomery

Community cycle: For Diocesan Bishops, trying to coordinate the Church’s response to Covid-19

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 28 April Peter Chanel, missionary, martyr, 1841

Parish cycle: Larkfield, Holy Trinity Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Nick Williams

Community cycle: For all Church Army officers

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 29 April Catherine of Siena, teacher of the faith, 1380

Parish cycle: Leybourne, St Peter and St Paul Rector: The Rev Canon Matthew Buchan

Community Cycle: St Peter & St Paul CE Primary School, Leybourne Headteacher: Mrs Tina Holditch

Prayer Requests:

Thursday 30 April Pandita Mary Ramabai, translator, 1922

Parish cycle: Mereworth, St Lawrence, Wateringbury, St John the

Baptist, and West Peckham, St Dunstan Rector: vacancy

Community cycle: All who run Bible study groups within the diocese

Prayer Requests:

Friday 1 May Philip and James, Apostles

Parish cycle: Snodland, All Saints’, with Lower Birling, Christ Church, and St Benedict’s (redundant) Rector: The Rev Danielle Pearson-Smith

Community Cycle: Snodland CE Primary School, Snodland Headteacher: Mrs Holley Hunt

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 2 May Athanasius, bishop, teacher of the faith, 373

Parish cycle: West Malling, St Mary’s with Offham, St Michael’s Vicar: The Rev David Green

Companion Parish: Estonia, Jõhvi St Michael's

Community Cycle: West Malling CE Primary School, West Malling Headteacher: Mr Matthew Clark

Prayer Requests:

Sunday 3 May

Easter 4 Genesis 7 Psalm 23 Acts 2.42-end John 10.1-10

Mpwapwa Our Link Diocese, Mpwapwa: Bishop, The Rt Rev Jacob Chimeledya Prayer Requests:

Monday

4 May English saints and martyrs of the Reformation Era

Parish cycle:

Brenchley, All Saints Vicar: The Rev Campbell Paget

Companion Parish: Estonia, Hageri St Lambertus

Community Cycle: Brenchley and Matfield CE Primary School, Brenchley Headteacher: Jane Mallon (Head of School)

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 5 May

Parish cycle: East Peckham, Holy Trinity, with Nettlestead, St Mary the Virgin Rector: The Rev Anthony Carr

Community Cycle: For our Area Deans

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 6 May

Parish cycle: Hadlow, St Mary, and Golden Green Mission Church Vicar: The Rev Paul White

Companion Parish: Mpwapwa, Kibakwe Christ the King

Community Cycle: For our Brothers and sisters in the Pentecostal family

of Churches Prayer Requests:

Thursday 7 May

Parish cycle: Horsmonden, St Margaret

Rector: The Rev Tim ffrench Associate Rector: The Rev Trish ffrench

Community Cycle: Mother’s Union President: Mrs Julia Jamieson

Prayer Requests:

Friday 8 May Julian of Norwich, spiritual writer, c.1417

Parish cycle: Lamberhurst, St Mary and Matfield, St Luke Vicar: The Rev Andrew Axon

Community Cycle: St. Mary's CE Primary School, Lamberhurst Headteacher: Mrs Caroline Bromley

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 9 May

Parish cycle: Paddock Wood, St Andrew Vicar: The Rev Canon Bryan Knapp

Companion Parish: Kondoa, Bereko St Andrew

Community Cycle: For our Ordinands in training

Diocesan Director of Ordinands and Vocations: Rev Canon Pamela Ive

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

10 May

Easter 5

Genesis 8.1-19 Psalm 31.1-5,[15-16] Acts 7.55-end John 14.1-14

Strood deanery The Rev Sharon Copestake, Area Dean; Mr Ken Reynolds, Lay Chair Prayer Requests:

Monday 11 May

Parish cycle:

Pembury, St Peter and St Peter Vicar: The Rev Richard Worssam

Companion Parish: Kondoa, Maziwa St Stephen

Community Cycle: For the Companion Diocese steering group Companion Diocese Link Co-ordinator: Mike Fawcett

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 12 May Gregory Dix, priest, monk, scholar, 1952

Parish cycle: Tudeley, All Saints, Capel, St Thomas à Becket, and Five Oak Green United Reform Church Vicar: The Rev Dr Jeremy Ive

Community Cycle: For clergy new in post

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 13 May

Parish cycle: Yalding, St Mary, and St Peter and St Paul with Collier Street, St Margaret Vicar: The Rev Paul Kish

Community Cycle: St. Mary's CE Primary School, Laddingford Headteacher: Mrs Gemma Hitch St. Peter & St. Paul CE Primary School, Yalding Headteacher: Mrs Sarah Friend

St. Margaret's CE Primary School, Collier Street Headteacher: Mr Paul Ryan

Prayer Requests:

Thursday 14 May

Matthias the Apostle

Parish cycle: Brasted, St Martin

Rector: The Rev Linda Green Community Cycle:

For those vacancies extended by the quarantine Prayer Requests:

Friday

15 May

Parish cycle: Chevening, St Botolph Rector: vacancy

Companion Parish: Kondoa, Mpendo St John

Community Cycle: Chevening St Botolph's CE Primary School, Chevening Headteacher: Miss Karen Minnis

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 16 May Caroline Chisholm, social reformer, 1877; Bertha of Kent (also Aldeberge) Queen and Confessor, c. 565 – c601

Parish cycle: West Sevenoaks Team Ministry: Kippington, St Mary; Riverhead, St Mary, with Dunton Green, St John the Divine; Sevenoaks, St Luke Team Rector: vacancy Team Vicar: vacancy

Companion Parish: Estonia, Harju-Risti Harare, Marondera All Saints

Community Cycle: For clergy who are delayed from taking up their new post by the pandemic

Prayer Requests:

Sunday 17 May

Easter 6 Genesis 8.20-9.17 Psalm 66.7-end Acts 17.22-31 John 14.15-21

Bromley & Bexley Archdeaconry

The Ven Dr Paul Wright, Archdeacon Prayer Requests:

Monday 18 May Rogation Day

Parish cycle: Seal Chart, St Lawrence, and Underriver, St Margaret Vicar: The Rev Serena Willoughby

Community Cycle: St Lawrence CE Primary School, Stone Street Headteacher: Mrs Alison Saunders

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 19 May Rogation Day Dunstan, archbishop, monastic reformer, 988

Parish cycle: Seal, St Peter and St Paul Vicar: The Rev Canon Anne Le Bas

Community Cycle: Seal CE Primary School, Seal Headteacher: Mrs Liz Mitchell

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 20 May Rogation Day Alcuin, deacon, abbott, 804

Parish cycle: Sevenoaks, St John the Baptist Vicar: The Rev Robin Jones

Community Cycle: St John's CE Primary School, Sevenoaks Headteacher: Mrs Sally Quirk

Prayer Requests:

Thursday 21 May

Ascension Day

Parish cycle: Sevenoaks, St Nicholas

Rector: The Rev Canon Angus MacLeay Community Cycle:

Lady Boswell's CE Primary School, Sevenoaks Headteacher: Mrs Sharon Saunders

Prayer Requests:

Friday 22 May

Parish cycle: Sundridge, St Mary’s, with Ide Hill, St Mary’s, and Toys Hill Rector: The Rev Pam Davies

Community Cycle: Ide Hill CE Primary School, Ide Hill Headteacher: Mrs Louise Hillman Sundridge & Brasted CE Primary School, Sundridge Headteacher: Mr Anil Gaind

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 23 May

William of Perth Pilgrim, Martyr d. c.1201

Parish cycle: Weald, St George’s Vicar: The Rev Canon Mandy Carr

Community Cycle: For struggling families, and those who support them Diocesan sponsored charity: Home for Good

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

24 May Sunday after Ascension Day John and Charles Wesley, Evangelists, Hymn Writers, 1791 and 1788

Easter 7 [Ezekiel 36.24-28] Acts 1.6-14 Psalm 68.1-10,32-end [or 68.1-10] I Peter 4.12-14,5.6-11 John 17.1-11

Tonbridge deanery

The Rev Dr Miriam Barker, Area Dean; Dr Sally Musson, Deanery Lay Chair Prayer Requests:

Monday 25 May The Venerable Bede, monk, scholar, historian, 735; Aldhelm, bishop, 709

Parish cycle:

Knockholt, St Katherine with Halstead, St Margaret Rector: The Rev Tim Edwards

Community Cycle: St Katharine's Knockholt CE Primary School, Knockholt Headteacher: Miss Sarah-Jane Tormey

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 26 May Augustine, Archbishop, 605. John Calvin, reformer, 1564 Philip Neri, founder of the Oratorians, spiritual guide, 1595

Parish cycle: Westerham, St Mary the Virgin Vicar: The Rev Kevin Barnard

Community Cycle: Churchill CE Primary School, Westerham Headteacher: Ms Kathy Jax

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 27 May

Parish cycle: Borough Green, Church of the Good Shepherd Vicar: The Rev Chris Turner

Community Cycle: Bishop’s Advisor for BAME Concerns: The Rev Canon Jeremy Blunden

Prayer Requests:

Thursday 28 May Lanfranc, monk, archbishop, scholar, 1089

Parish cycle: Eynsford, St Martin, with Farningham, St Peter and St

Paul, and Lullingstone, St Botolph Rector: vacancy

Community Cycle: Bishop’s Disability Advisor: The Rev Rachael Wilson

Prayer Requests:

Friday 29 May

Parish cycle: Ightham, St Peter Rector: The Rev Tim Hatwell

Community Cycle: For our Sisters and Brothers in the Reformed family of Churches

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 30 May Josephine Butler, social reformer, 1906 Joan of Arc, visionary, 1431 Apolo Kivebulaya, priest, evangelist, 1933

Parish cycle: Kemsing, St Mary the Virgin, and Woodlands St Mary the Virgin Priest-in-Charge: The Rev James Oakley

Community Cycle: Rochester Cathedral Dean: The Very Rev Phil Hesketh

Prayer Requests:

Sunday

31 May Whit Sunday

Pentecost

Numbers 11.24-30 Psalm 104.26-end Acts 2.1-21 John 20.19-23

For the unity of the Church.

Lord Jesus, who prayed that we might all be one,

we pray to you for the unity of Christians, according to your will, according to your means. May your Spirit enable us to experience the suffering caused by division, to see our sin and to hope beyond all hope.

(St Anselm’s Community) Prayer Requests:

Monday 1 June Visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth

Parish cycle: Kingsdown, St Edmund, King and Martyr Rector: The Rev Sarah Corry

Community Cycle: West Kingsdown CE Primary School, West Kingsdown Headteacher: Mrs Sonia Phillips

Prayer Requests:

Tuesday 2 June

Parish cycle: Platt, St Mary the Virgin Vicar: The Rev Lorraine Turner

Companion Parish: Harare, Budiriro St Faith’s

Community Cycle: Platt CE Primary School, Platt Headteacher: Mrs Hannah Walters

Prayer Requests:

Wednesday 3 June Martyrs of Uganda, 1885-7, 1977 Ember Day

Parish cycle: Otford, St Bartholomew Vicar: vacancy

Community Cycle: For all across the wider Church, responsible for

selecting and training our lay and ordained ministers Prayer Requests:

Thursday 4 June

Petroc, abbott, 6th cent.

Parish cycle: Shipbourne with Plaxtol

Rector: The Rev Dr Peter Hayler Community Cycle:

For the Pilsdon Community Chaplain: The Rev Viv Ashworth

Prayer Requests:

Friday 5 June Boniface (Wynfrith), bishop, martyr, 754 Ember Day

Parish cycle: Shoreham, St Peter and St Paul Vicar: The Rev Diane Rees

Companion Parish: Mpwapwa, Chunyu St Joseph’s

Community Cycle: For vocations to work across boundaries and at the edges

Prayer Requests:

Saturday 6 June Ini Kopuria, founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 Ember Day

Parish cycle: Stansted, St Mary, with Fairseat, Holy Innocents, and Vigo Rector: The Rev Chris Noble

Community Cycle: For vocations to ministry in the wider Church

Prayer Requests: