Spirit Prayer Ministry:
Are you committed to regular prayer and fasting?
Do you identify yourself as a Spirit-filled Christian who believes
in spiritual warfare? Father Michael is introducing a new
opportunity in the church family known as the Holy Spirit Prayer
Ministry. Persons who are involved in this new ministry will
dedicate themselves (on behalf of our church family) to praying for
our church family on a daily basis, fasting in whole or in part one
day a week (health permitting), and to attending a monthly Corporate
Prayer time. This ministry will normally meet from 7:30 p.m. –
9:00 p.m. on the third Wednesday of the month; usually at Holy
Trinity Anglican Church. Are you being called to this
ministry? If so, please let Father Michael
know.
Prayer Calendar, Lent, from
the Bishop's Lenten Letter (which may be found here)
...... I am calling on all of us to add one extra
exercise to our Lenten Devotions. It makes no difference if you
prefer formal liturgical prayers or free flowing extemporary ones –
or hopefully a healthy combination of both. But it will be a
powerful witness if all of us add the Collect for Ash Wednesday into
our daily prayer life. I ask that this be prayed sometime during
every service, every bible study, every prayer group gathering, and
above all when we say our own personal
prayers.
I want us to do this, not just because the words are so very
meaningful, but also because as we move forward, still in our
infancy as a new expression of Anglicanism, every member of ANiC,
from coast to coast, will be offering the same prayer to our
Heavenly Father for the forty day period.
That being involved in praying in this manner will put us in
the right spiritual atmosphere for this Season, while at the same
time drawing us closer to one another and to HIM is the heartfelt
desire and petition of
Your friend and Moderator,
+Donald
Almighty and everlasting
God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the
sins of
all them that are penitent:
Create and make in new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily
lamenting
our sins, and acknowledging
our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy,
perfect
remission and forgiveness;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
