The Barefoot Evangelist

Trinity Sunday Opening Prayer Prayer written by Hildegarde of Bingen The words God speaks are the life and sustenance of all that exists.  The life Jesus gives is the re-creation and renewed birth of all that is broken and worn. The Spirit’s stirring in our souls is the inspiration for creativity, compassion, joy, and community. Life-giving, life-restoring, life-fulfilling God; may our…

Pentecost Sunday Opening Prayer Prayer written by Hildegarde of Bingen When Pentecost Day arrived, they were all together in one place. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them to speak. Come, Holy Spirit, come! Holy Spirit, making life alive, moving in all things, root of all being, cleansing the cosmos…

Ascension Sunday Opening Prayer Why are we looking up to heaven?Christ has come; Christ has risen; Christ will come again. Why are we looking ahead to the future?The Holy Spirit is among us now. In our baptism, we have already died and risen with Christ. Why are we afraid of death and dying?God’s love casts out our fear.…

Christ is risen! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer Easter is the season of new life and so we give thanks for our new life in Christ Jesus. Bring us once again into Your presence through Your indwelling Spirit that comforts and sustains us throughout our lives. May we find the quiet centre of Your love today as…

Christ is risen! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer At times it can be difficultto look forward in hope,to face the future,to trust that God is working for us. But in this space,God is with us.Offering us a glimpse of heaven, a teaser of what is to come. So, however difficult, however challenging, however uncomfortable, put your trust…

Christ is risen! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer We are God’s church. We come together in worship. We are followers of Christ. We come together to learn from his words. We are joined together by the Spirit. We come together to celebrate. God has freed us from our past. We come together to move forward. We are…

Christ is risen! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer Easter is not an event that has occurred, it is an adventure that has begun. Not a place that we have visited, but a path on which we stand. The Resurrection story is not complete, but unfolding. Characters still breathing, stations still teeming with the promise of new life,…

Christ is risen! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer Lord Jesus Christ, on the second Sunday of Easter,the light of Your love shines on!Your light has come into the world, and neither darkness, nor evil, nor even death itself could overcome it. And we (like Mary, like the disciples, like “doubting” Thomas) who have been there with You through Holy…