Prayer
Everyone is welcome to use our churches for prayer, both in and out of service time. There are opportunities to offer candles in prayer, and prayer boards where you can add prayer requests. All prayers from the prayer boards are included in the intercessions at one of our weekday celebrations of the Eucharist.

In all three of our churches, the Blessed Sacrament is reserved for the purposes of taking communion to the sick and as a focus for prayer: a light is kept burning by the place of reservation to mark this.

Daily Prayer
Clergy and lay people come together every day in our Benefice to pray Morning and Evening Prayer. In parishes, the Church of England uses a gentle, simplified version of the monastic cycle of prayer, following the rhythms of the day and the flow of the year's seasons. All are very welcome to join us.

If you would like to join in the Church's practice of Daily Prayer at home you can see Morning Prayer
and Evening Prayer for today. If you want to develop this as a regular habit, the clergy will be able to
advise you on an appropriate printed book containing Morning and Evening Prayer.

An Ancient Tradition
From the beginning of the Church prayer has been a central part of Christian living and Church life. St Luke wrote that the newly baptized devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and prayers(Acts 2:42). St Paul encourages us to pray without ceasing_to _give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you
(1 Th 5:17-18).

The Anglican Rosary, also known as Anglican Prayer Beads, is relatively a newcomer to the world of Christian rosaries (it’s been in existence for two decades), but the practice is very popular throughout the Episcopal Church of the United States of America and is spreading to Christians of other denominations, especially those of the mainline Protestant tradition, such as Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, and Presbyterians. It is used in both private and group settings for prayer.

There are many reasons for this resurgent popularity among non-Roman Catholic Christians of the ancient practice of using beads in prayer, and one of the main features that attracts Christians is that utilizing a rosary in one’s life of prayer is very satisfying because it is tangible. Holding a rosary in your hands can bring great peace and comfort simply because the rosary serves as a point-of-contact with God, particularly during times of great sorrow and anxiety. It is a physical reminder of the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ in our lives; even though Christians realize that Jesus is always with us in the midst of our problems, it is still empowering to feel the touch of the sacred. The rosary has filled the needs of Christians for many centuries by providing a means for us to use our senses in prayer and not solely our minds.