Marking Pentecost through praying Thy Kingdom Come
Published: 4th May 2022The Day of Pentecost, this year on 5 June, marks fifty days since Easter Day and brings the Easter season to an end.
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The Day of Pentecost, this year on 5 June, marks fifty days since Easter Day and brings the Easter season to an end.
Bishop John calls on all in the Diocese of Worcester to pray for the people of Ukraine and for peace, and for the leaders of the West as they deliberate on how to respond to the terrible unprovoked aggression of Russia.
Throughout Autumn, Bishop Martin will be journeying around the diocese in a pilgrimage of prayer and hope, spending two days in each of our deaneries and visiting as many churches as possible.
The five people who will be licensed as Lay Ministers (Readers) in the Cathedral on 18 September, are taking part in a two-day pilgrimage from Birmingham to Worcester.
Bishop John has appointed Mary Flitcroft as his new Adviser for Spirituality. Mary will take over from Sue Perry, who is stepping down from 1 August.
The Tent of Nations is an educational & environmental family farm a few kilometres from Bethlehem. They have asked us to pray after a bulldozer & Israeli soldiers were sent to the farm.
Watch our diocesan prayer for Pentecost, filmed across our six new deaneries.
St Stephen’s in Redditch are inviting people to come & pray during the ten days of Thy Kingdom Come from Ascension Day to Pentecost with 12 Covid-safe prayer stations inside the church.
Every term, a group comes together on Zoom to pray for the schools across our diocese. Could you join them?
There are lots of ways to get involved in Thy Kingdom Come from Ascension Day to Pentecost this year, praying for more people to come to faith.
On Thursdays during Lent, members of the Halas Team in Halesowen will gather online to offer to pray for their local community.
This Sunday, 10 January, four people will be ordained deacon in the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in Lima. Please pray for all the candidates.
During the third week of Advent our growing as Kingdom People prayer focus is around sharing hope.
The second week in our Advent prayer focus on growing as Kingdom People is all about making disciples.
Our first week of prayer during Advent focusses on worshipping God creatively.
In our partner Diocese of Peru, Bishop Jorge has particularly asked for our prayers for the country at a time of national crisis.
During lockdown Fairfield Church in Evesham began and nurtured a friendship with Christians in Pakistan, supporting them in dealing with the effects of the pandemic.
The Bishop and the Dean have ‘taken the knee’ outside the Cathedral to pray for all those affected by repression, discrimination and injustice in a special video ahead of the protest planned in Worcester over the weekend.
Margie Schutte is the Managing Chaplain at HMP Hewell in Redditch. She tells us how their work has changed over the past few months of the Covid-19 crisis.
A blog for Mental Health Awareness Week from the Revd Cassius Francis, Just Finance Development Worker for the Black Country.