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Morning Prayers

Autumn 2025 - Week 11 - 17th to 21st November

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

Coming on the Spirituality Blog this week:

Monday - Pope Leo’s favourite films

Wednesday – Pope Leo’s recent comments on Fraternity

Thursday – The Shrine in Syria that has had its first Mass in 15 years

Friday – Pope Leo’s message about Blessed Elisva Vakha’i

Dates of Interest this week

  • 1st to 30th November – Islamophobia Awareness Month (info)
  • 1st to 30th November – Men’s Health Awareness Month (info)
  • 14th Nov to 20th Dec – Disability History Month (info)
  • 16th November – 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (info)
  • 16th November – World Day of the Poor (info)
  • 16th November – International Day of Tolerance (info)
  • 17th November – St Elizabeth of Hungary (info)
  • 17th November – St Hugh of Lincoln (info)
  • 19th November – World Toilet Day (info)
  • 19th November – International Men’s Day (info)
  • 21st November – Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (info)
  • 21st November – World Philosophy Day (info)
  • 22nd November – St Cecilia (info) 
  • 21st November – World Philosophy Day (info)
  • 23rd November – Christ the King (info)
  • 23rd November – Youth Sunday (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 – For Those Who Mourn

Question for Day 1:

How can I help others who have lost a loved one?

Bible Quote for Day 1:

‘Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will run their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow’

Jeremiah 31:13

Prayer for Day 1:

Loving Father.

To you the dead do not die and in death our life is changed not ended.

We believe that all that binds us together in love and friendship does not end with death.

Hear our prayers for those close to us who have died.

Hold them safe in your love in your kingdom of light, happiness and peace.

Jesus told us that those who mourn are blessed, because only those who love greatly can mourn.

Bless us this day with the warmth of your love as we mourn those that we have lost.

Amen   

(Nicholas Hutchinson)

 

Question for Day 2:

What support do people who are grieving need?

Bible Quote for Day 2:

‘I called in your name, o Lord, from the depths of the pit’? Lamentations 3: 55

Prayer for Day 2:

Lord Jesus,

You wept at the death of your friend Lazarus whom you loved.

We pray for our friends in their loss;

Give courage and companionship as they adjust to their situation, and be with them as they grieve.

(Angela Ashwin)

 

Question for Day 3:

Where do those who have died go after death?

Bible Quote for Day 3:

‘Who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God ‘ 

2 Corinthians 1:4

Prayer for Day 3:

Draw us closer to you Lord, so that we may know

that we are nearer to our loved ones who are with you.

And while you prepare a place for us as you have promised

prepare us also for that happy place that where you are, we may be also

with those that we have loved, forever. Amen   

(Nicholas Hutchinson)

 

Question for Day 4:

Why does death shake the faith of people?

Bible Quote for Day 4:

‘Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort’

2 Corinthians 1:7

Prayer for Day 4:

What is dying?

The ship sailed away, and I stand watching until it fades on the horizon.

And someone at my side says, ‘The ship is gone.’ Gone where?

Gone from my sight, that is all; The ship is just as large as when I saw it.

As I see the ship grow smaller and go out of sight, it is just at that moment that there are others in a different place who say: ‘Watch – here the ship comes.’

And other voices will take up the glad shout: ‘You have arrived!’ and that is what dying is about.

(Based on words by William Penn)

 

Question for Day 5:

What hope can I share with those who are grieving?

Bible Quote for Day 5:

‘Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you’

2 Corinthians 13:11

Prayer for Day 5:

God of hope,

in the midst of my grief,

I cling to the hope that one day

I will be reunited with my loved one

in your eternal presence.

Grant me the faith

to believe in the promise of everlasting life

and the courage to face each day

with hope in my heart.

Amen.

(Author unknown)

 

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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