Articles - Miscellaneous

Prayer for Change

The Prayer for Change is printed simultaneously in the magazines of Lidgett Park, St Andrew's and St Edmund's

May, a joyous month, when we continue to celebrate Easter and our thoughts turn to Ascension and Pentecost and to Julian of Norwich who was assured that "All shall be well". This year, however, it is tinged with sorrow. The bicentenary of the Act for the abolition of the Slave Trade, reminds us that slavery still persists. Women and children are enslaved by trafficking and workers are made slaves by exploitation. These are our neighbours, as are people enslaved by drug and alcohol addiction and by illness in body or mind.

We pray that we can continue our efforts, however small, to be part of the movement striving for change, for the coming of God's Kingdom of justice so that all shall indeed "be well."

Holy God,
Whose name is not honoured
Where the needy are not served,
And the powerless are treated with contempt;
May we embrace our neighbour
With the same tenderness
That we ourselves require,
So your justice may be fulfilled in love;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

(Collect for the 3rd Sunday before Advent)

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