Daily Prayers

Prayer is Love, I want to Love

Tag: Covid 19

  • After The Pandemic!

    1962, seventeen years after end of World War II. There had been strong growth in the Church – vocations to the religious life, the priesthood and missionary religious orders, the building of new churches – but only until the late 1950’s and then a decline became noticeable. In the Nottingham diocese in 1962, 72,000 people…

  • Love And Understanding – Covid 19

    As I begin to write the news comes of two clothes’ chains (Peacocks and Jaegar) going into administration, with the fear of over 4,000 job losses, and Eon laying off over 700 workers. Poor people. All of us who have know unemployment in our families know the worry, the strains of looking for new work…

  • Covid 19 – You Can’t Smile Alone

    At the hospital, the lady was crying for her mother. She was in her early 80’s. The nurses thought it was a touch of dementia. But it wasn’t! Her mother was still alive, she was 103, and she came to the hospital to cradle and comfort her child. Moments ago on Radio 4, we shared…

  • Covid 19 – Church Reopening

    Bishop Patrick is exploring possibilities for the opening of churches in the diocese and some of you have been asking about this. There are many considerations and here are answers to some of the questions I’ve been asked about the church’s being open for quiet prayer and open for mass: (1) Quiet Prayer. (a) We…

  • Our Inner Self

    Are you praying more in these quiet days? Are you thinking, reading, more? Are you glad of the slowing down of life so that you have more time, or worried by the slowing down because you don’t know what to do with the extra time? In the film ‘Educating Rita’ a lady in a rowdy…

  • Covid 19 – NHS Applause

    At 8.00 pm on Thursday evening, we rang the church bell and lit the beautiful windows which light out across the traffic lights junction. It was our parish way of applauding the NHS and all who serve us in this difficult time by continuing at their work. It was good to know that around the…

  • Covid 19 – Coronavirus

    God our Father, look kindly upon your people at this time of great world need, calm our thoughts and inspire our hearts. Holy Spirit, pour your wisdom upon us, make our hearts one, with God the Father. Jesus, you suffered to the point of death, giving your life in the hope that all would listen…