Prayer Ring

All our retreat days end in our chapel with a Prayer Service organised by the young people who come here.

  
Everyone at the Prayer Service will be bringing their own intentions into that special time. We believe that praying with and for others, is an important way of supporting one another, but sometimes people aren't comfortable saying their intentions out loud in a group.  One of the things that we decided to do was to invite each person to write their intention on a strip of paper instead. 

Then we invite them to staple their prayer strip onto a ring, with the prayer facing inwards so that no-one else can read it .

When all the prayers are attached to the ring, it is placed in the centre of the FOCUS.  It is a visual reminder that each one of us has need of the encouragement and support of each other in prayer. 

The ring itself symbolises the group, united in prayer for one another, AND the ceaseless love of GOD, which holds us all.

At this point in the Liturgy we pray together for each other, in the words that Jesus taught us...

Our Father, who art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy name.

Thy Kingdom come,

Thy will be done on earth

As it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread

And forgive us our trespasses,

As we forgive those who trespass against us

And lead us not into temptation,

But deliver us from evil.

Amen