Saturday 18 May 2013

Day 8: Dreaming & Reimagining

 Acts 10. 9-16 "The voice said to him again, a second time, ‘WhatGod has made clean, you must not call profane.’...This happened three times."


Come Holy Spirit, renew your calling and breathe new life within us.


  • We thank you for breaking into our closed minds with an ‘upside- downness’
  • We listen for signs that interrupt our expectations and assumptions
  • We wait upon your spirit to weigh us down with burdens which only you can bear
  • We seek your daringness that swells our imagination to bursting.

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Friday 17 May 2013


Day 8: Trusting & Accepting
Acts 1.21-26: Show us which one of these two you have chosen to take the place in this ministry. ... And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles.

Come Holy Spirit, renew your calling and breathe new life within us.

  • We thank you for the trust you show in our hidden capacities to serve
  • We listen together for the signs and hunches that signify a calling
  • We wait in anticipation that you will show us how to ‘be chosen’ for unsought tasks
  • We seek your discerning will in the ordinary choosing we do together and alone


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Wednesday 15 May 2013

Day 7: Affirmed & Challenged


John 21.15-19 ‘Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you loveme more than these? … Feed my lambs. … Tend my sheep. … Feed my sheep. … Follow me.”’

Come Holy Spirit, renew your calling and breathe new life within us.
  • We thank you that you speak into our empty promises and resurrect our capacity to love
  • We listen and seek to share your overwhelming compassion for each person on this planet
  • We wait together for your calling that stretches us beyond our imagination, that only you can fulfil
  • We seek a love that grows as we give it away in trust
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Day 6: Letting God and Witnessing
John 20.16-18 'Do not hold on to me, ...but go to my brothers'.


Come Holy Spirit, renew your calling and breathe new life within us.

  • We thank you for unimaginable surprises that set us towards unforeseen directions
  • We listen and let go of the controlling impulses to stay where we are
  • We wait upon your resurrection presence pressing us to tell new stories of hope
  • We seek your inner life/intimate nearness to speak the unspeakable reality of you
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Day 5: Hoping and Expecting
Luke 2.36-38 (Anna, as a widow to the age of eighty-four, never left the temple but worshipped there with fasting and prayer night and day). Anna began to praise God and to speak about the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

Come Holy Spirit, renew your calling and breathe new life within us.

  • We thank you for those called to be steadfast witnesses of praise in every age
  • We listen in search of patience where change seems far away
  • We wait with you to see signs of hope and to share the truth of what we see
  • We seek your grace to align ourselves with those who yearn for signs of new life
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Monday 13 May 2013

Day 4: Believing and Repenting
Jonah 3.1-5: 'The people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth'.

Come Holy Spirit, renew your calling and breathe new life within us.


  • We thank you for unsuspecting messengers of light- a light that draws us to life
  • We listen for a new music that connects us to all that is truly life giving
  • We wait together in repentance, seeking to shed everything that keeps us from your power to heal
  • We ask for grace to respond deeply to your alternative vision for humanity


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Sunday 12 May 2013

Day 3: Sunday 12 May : Attending and listening 

I Sam 3.1-10 "Now the Lord came and stood there, calling as before, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’ And Samuel said, ‘Speak, for your servant is listening.’"
In the poetry of St John of the Cross, God's voice calling in the night elicits from the listening contemplative the language of love, the sensuality of a lover's blossoming desire. For the contemplative discovers that the One he loves, in the darkness of night, has secretly made the creature his beloved. His senses become sharpened by a single-minded focus, his heart is fuelled by passion, and he himself becomes transformed in the embrace of the Beloved. "Oh night that guided! oh night dearer than the dawn! Oh night that joined the Lover with beloved, beloved in the Lover transformed!" In the image above, the flame is no ordinary source of warmth: to be found near it is to have shadows dispelled in its light and to be drawn into the heat of a consuming fire. In the passage narrative of the biblical Samuel, to hear God's voice, to be named by the voice of Love, is to fall into an unexpected innocence: for without yet knowing the full extent of his calling, we simply say, 'Here I am, you called me' (1 Sam 3.5).



Come Holy Spirit, renew your calling and breathe new life within us.
  • We thank you that your inextinguishable light gives us hope in dark times
  • We listen through surrounding noises and silences for the sound of our name
  • We wait in barren and unexpected places for your renewing work
  • We seek courage and knowledge to help one another hear God’s word  

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Friday 10 May 2013


Day 2 — Saturday 11 May: Going & Risking

Exodus 3.9-12 "Moses said to God, 'Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?' ...God said, 'I will be with you."










Come Holy Spirit, renew your calling and breathe new life within us.
  • We thank you for your direction- however unable we feel to respond 
  • We listen with you to the heartfelt cry of your people for justice and freedom
  • We wait together with our brothers and sisters to discern courageously where each step leads
  • We seek your grace to be undaunted by the powers and principalities that enslave your people 

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Thursday 9 May 2013

Day 1: 10th May — Being & Belonging

Genesis 1.27-31 "So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. ... And it was very good."



Come Holy Spirit, renew your calling and breathe new life within us.      

  • We thank you that we can gaze together upon the wondrous mystery of creation·
  • We listen for your calling to ‘be’ amidst the chaotic voices that would be worshipped·
  • We wait for a reimagined sense of what we as a renewed humanity might be·
  • We seek an interconnectedness that empowers us to dance with all creation.
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Nine Days of Prayer/Novena 2013Friday May 10th to Saturday May 18th

Nine biblical stories that invite us to ‘re-imagine our calling’, to reimagine how we in our communities are called and can respond to the ever beckoning Spirit of God.

 ‘Jesus ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father…All these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer.’ Acts 1

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