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Morning Prayers

Autumn 2025 - Week 8 - 20th to 24th October

Our Spiritual Blog is updated with a new article or reflection every day!

Coming on the Spirituality Blog this week:

Monday – Pope Leo’s Message for World Mission Sunday

Tuesday – Pope Leo’s first encyclical “I Has Loved You”

Wednesday – The remains of St Francis of Assisi

Thursday – The Gospel writer St Mark and his links to Libya

Dates of Interest this week

  • 1st to 31st October – Black History Month (info)
  • 19th October – 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time (info)
  • 19th October – World Mission Day (info)
  • 19th to 25th October – Invisible Disabilities Week (info)
  • 20th October – World Statistics Day (info)
  • 22nd October – St John Paul II (info)
  • 22nd October – International Stammering Awareness Day (info)
  • 23rd October – St John of Capistrano (info)
  • 24th October – St Antony Mary Claret (info) 
  • 24th October – United Nations Day (info)
  • 26th October – 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time (info)
  • 1st November – All Saints Day (info)
  • 1st to 30th November – Islamophobia Awareness Month (info)
  • 1st to 30th November – Men’s Health Awareness Month (info)
  • 1st November – World Vegan Day (info)
  • 2nd November – All Souls Day (info)

Morning Prayers:

An act of worship should be made every morning.  This should include:

  1. a pause for reflection on the question for the day
  2. joint reading of the quote from the Bible
  3. an individual (a student or teacher) reading a prayer for the day
  4. End with "Bishop Richard Challoner" "Pray for Us"

The prayers/reflections can be taken from this resource or from:

Theme for the week - The Holy Rosary

Question for Day 1:

What aspect of Jesus’ life in the rosary do I relate to?

Bible Quote for Day 1:

 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. John 14:13

Prayer for Day 1:

Dear God, thank you for the gift of the rosary where I can contemplate Jesus’ life. Please help me spend time thinking of Jesus’ life from his conception to Ascension in heaven. Amen

Amen.

 

Question for Day 2:

What connection do I see between the love of Mary for her son, Jesus?

Bible Quote for Day 2:

But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart. Luke 2:19

Prayer for Day 2:

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word incarnate, despise not my petitions, but, in your mercy, hear and answer me.

Amen.

 

Question for Day 3:

What do I understand about the power of the rosary?

Bible Quote for Day 3:

 “Pray without ceasing” 1 Thessalonians 5:17

Prayer for Day 3:

Lord Jesus Christ, I believe in You as my God and my Saviour. Make me more faithful to Your Gospel and commandments. By sharing in the Eucharist, may I come to live more fully in the life You have given me. Keep Your Love alive within my heart and soul so that I may become worthy of You. Teach me to value and be thankful for all of Your Gifts. Help us to strive for eternal life. Amen

 

Question for Day 4:

When can I spend a few minutes praying a decade of the rosary for peace?

Bible Quote for Day 4;

“I can do all things through him who strengthens me”. Philippians 4:13

Prayer for Day 4:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:

where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

where there is sadness, joy.

Amen  

(St Francis of Assisi)

 

 

Chaplaincy on Social Media:

"From a School Chaplain" on Facebook

"RC_Chaplaincy" on Twitter

"RCChaplaincy" on Instagram

“Prayerful Pause” on YouTube

 

Bishop Richard Challoner

During his lifetime and after his death, he was considered not only as a model of every virtue but as a saint. We are asked to pray that our Blessed Lord, through the Pope, may reward him further, by raising him to the altars of the Church as a Saint.

Prayer for the Beatification of Bishop Richard Challoner

O God who made your servant Richard,

a true and faithful pastor of your little flock in England,

raise him, we beseech you, to the altars of thy Church,

that we, who have been taught by his word and example

may invoke his name in heaven,

for the return of our country to belief in the Gospel,

and to the unity of all Christians in the one Church of Jesus Christ.

We ask this through the same Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Bishop Richard Challoner

Pray for us

 

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