Services

Thursday 3 April 2025 Silent Prayer from 13.00-13.30

You are invited to join others in church on 3 April for our monthly silent prayer session. You may find this prayer sheet helpful – please bring a copy with you. If you are not able to join us, we hope you will pray with us wherever you are.

Our text for April: ‘God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that everyone who believes may not perish but may have everlasting life.”              John 3 v16

Let us pray for the church and the world and thank God for his goodness. Heavenly Father we pray for the fellowship of the church that supports and helps us to put our faith into practice.

Strengthen us Lord in your service that we may be an encouragement to others and hold fast to all that is good.

As we come to Passiontide, Palm Sunday and Holy Week may we continue our journey with Christ in his suffering and look forward to celebrating his glorious resurrection on Easter Day.

We pray for Christians worldwide remembering those who are persecuted for their faith and for all who will be baptised or confirmed at this time.

We pray for Fr Jack as he prepares for his 3 month ‘Sabbatical’ leave starting after Easter that it may be a fulfilling time of study, travel and refreshment.

We give thanks for our Church Wardens and members of the PCC for their dedication and all they do for us at St Giles’. We remember those who will be standing for election/re-election at the Annual Parish Church Meeting on Sunday 6 April.

We pray for all who died, were injured or lost their homes in the recent huge earthquakes in Myanmar and Thailand and for those working to find survivors, clear areas of damaged buildings and to provide care and support for all affected by the disaster.

We pray for those seeking solutions to bring peace and reconciliation in the dangerous places in the world especially in the Middle East and Ukraine.

We pray for the Lord Mayor of London, Sheriffs, Aldermen and those Common Councillors recently elected to represent residents and businesses in the City of London especially in Aldersgate and Cripplegate Wards.

Comfort and heal all who suffer in body mind or spirit, remembering all who live with autism spectrum disorder and those who care for them. Give them courage and comfort in their troubles and bring them the joy of your salvation. We pray for those known to us who need our prayers. 

We give thanks for God’s beauty around us at this time of the year, for the blossom on the trees, including the magnolias beside the church and in the Barbican and St Alphege gardens.

Give grace to us, our families, our friends and all our neighbours that we may serve Christ in one another and love as he loves us.

Merciful Father, accept our prayers for the sake of your Son our Savour Jesus Christ Amen

We finish by saying the Lord’s Prayer.

A Prayer for all the people of the Holy Land

God of mercy and compassion, of grace and reconciliation, pour down your power upon all your children in the Holy Land: Jews, Muslims, Christians, Palestinians, Israelis.

Let hatred be turned into love, fear to trust, despair to hope, oppression to freedom, occupation to liberation, that violent encounters may be replaced with loving embraces, and peace and justice can be experienced by all. Amen

Prayer for Peace in Ukraine 

God of peace and justice, we pray for the people of Ukraine today.

We pray for peace and the laying down of weapons.

We pray for all those who fear for tomorrow, that your Spirit of comfort would draw near to them.

We pray for those with power over war or peace, for wisdom, discernment, and compassion to guide their decisions.

Above all, we pray for all your precious children, at-risk and in fear, that you would hold and protect them.

We pray in the name of Jesus, the Prince of Peace. Amen 

Lectionary for Sunday Parish Eucharists at 10am for April and May  2025

20th April Easter Day

Acts 10. 34-43

1 Corinthians 15. 19-26

Luke 24. 1-12

27th April 2nd Sunday of Easter

Exodus 14. 10-31; 15. 20-21

Acts 5. 27-32

John 20. 19-31

4th May 3rd Sunday of Easter

Acts 9. 1-6 (7-20)

Zephaniah 3. 14-20

John 21. 1-19

11th May 4th Sunday of Easter

Genesis 7. 1-5, 11-18; 8. 6-18; 9. 8-13

Acts 9. 36-43

John 10. 22-30

18th May 5th Sunday of Easter

Genesis 22. 1-18

Acts 11. 1-18

John 13. 31-35

25th May 6th Sunday of Easter

Ezekiel 37. 1-14

Acts 16. 9-15

John 14. 23-29