Visiting preacher Grace Bally joins us at St Peter’s for this musical and celebratory Parish Eucharist. Local carnival troupe Tropical Isles will entertain Noisy Church and sing at the end of the service.

Everyone is invited to dress brightly!

Home Worship

Home Worship

Intercessions

From Paul Snow

Let us pray together, giving thanks for God’s blessings and for our celebrations today.

Let us pray for all who minister to us, giving thanks for their ministry and let us pray also for their families.

Lord, in your mercy … hear our prayer.

We pray for the leaders of all nations of the world and especially for the leaders and peoples of Russia and Ukraine.

Lord, in your mercy … hear our prayer.

Let us give thanks for the work of all who make things happen in and around St Peter’s.

Lord, in your mercy … hear our prayer.

Let us hold in our prayers the troubled or sick in body or mind.  May faith in God calm their fears and give them hope.

Lord, in your mercy … hear our prayer.

We remember those who have died recently especially for those who have died alone or in tragic circumstances.

Let us also remember those whose year’s mind falls at this time including Lee Dorking, Joseph Chamberlain, Lisa Lyons, Edmund Munro, Ebo Bart -Plange and Rose McAllister.

Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord … and may thy light perpetual shine upon them.

Let us pray for all who mourn the loss of those they love.

Lord, in your mercy … hear our prayer.

Let us pray that the glory of God may shine through our words and in what we do in the coming weeks.

Merciful Father, accept these prayers for the sake of your Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Amen

Later on Sunday:

At 5.30pm, there will be a prayer gathering at St Peter’s to pray for peace in Ukraine.