VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your families are well this Sunday. Where is the sun?! This week I’d like to focus on those of You, or those You know, who suffer with addictions. These addictions may involve drugs or alcohol or gambling or cigarettes, or some other form of addiction. For as long as addictive substances and behaviours … Continue reading A Prayer for Addicts
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your families are well and that Your Vitamin D levels have finally risen after We saw the sun this week. This week’s topic is cancer. If You’ve been diagnosed and ever wanted to voyage back in time and start over, hear the words of Joel 2: “I will restore to you the years … Continue reading A Prayer For Those With Cancer
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well this Sunday and enjoyed getting reacquainted with the Sun again yesterday. Lambing this year has been a struggle. Heavy rainfall has had a devastating impact on lambing and also on crops. If lambs do not have dry ground to lie on, hypothermia often affects newborns and can be fatal. Word from farmers … Continue reading A Prayer for Lambing
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and healthy and that You enjoyed Easter celebrations last weekend. The Sunday after Easter is unofficially called “empty pew Sunday”. Everybody and their brother comes to church on Easter Sunday and it is the highest attendance in the year other than Christmas Eve. The Sunday after Easter is almost a ghost town, … Continue reading A Prayer for Low Sunday
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I wish You a very Happy Easter this Easter Sunday! I trust that You are well and in celebratory mood despite the ongoing rains. Easter Sunday marks Jesus’s resurrection. After Jesus was crucified on the Friday his body was taken down from the cross and buried in a cave tomb. The tomb was guarded by Roman soldiers and … Continue reading Happy Easter
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well. Today is Palm Sunday and holy week begins for Christians across the globe. Obviously let us spare a thought and a prayer for those Christians in Ukraine this week. What is Palm Sunday and why is it considered important? On Palm Sunday Jesus arrived in Jerusalem to crowds and cheers. His triumphant entry … Continue reading Palm Sunday
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well. This week I’d like to give You a prayer for Truth. This seems particularly relevant right now as there have been interesting developments in recent weeks where liars have been exposed and those who were accused of lying about them have been shown to be truthtellers. Nothing from a biblical point of … Continue reading A Prayer for Truth
VICAR This Sunday I am publishing a prayer found in a hotel across the pond. It’s a simple and beautiful prayer which I am sure many guests read and appreciated. I particularly like the line, “We are all travellers”. I wish you and your loved ones a Blessed Sunday. Continue reading A Short Sunday Prayer
Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your families are well. This week I’d like once again to focus on Britain’s lonely. There seem to be so many people out there who suffer from loneliness and it’s such a sad feature of our country. Loneliness can affect anyone. Experiences of loneliness can vary, but its effects can be profound and wide-ranging. … Continue reading A Prayer for the Lonely
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine I trust that You are well. I thought that perhaps You might need some encouragement to continue with Your Lenten promises and so this week I will give You a short prayer to keep on track. Here are 4 areas to concentrate on: Sanctify your lifePrayer sanctifies Your life. Now is the time to pray. I recommend keeping … Continue reading A Prayer for Lent
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your families are well. If You are away on a half term holiday, enjoy and relax. I am writing this message to You last Tuesday as by the time You read it I will be on the beach in Dubai. Today We heard of the death of the DJ Steve Wright, who touched … Continue reading A Prayer for the Dead
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that my Sunday message finds You well and relaxed this February weekend. This week I ask You to spare a few minutes to pray for political prisoners around the world. Jesus himself became a political prisoner. We should look into each case and decide for ourselves whether prisoners merit their sentences. In the case of political … Continue reading A Prayer for Political Prisoners
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and happy. This week I’d like You to focus on hopes and courage. What the Bible says: “I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33) Jesus knew that if … Continue reading A Prayer for Hope & Courage
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and having a relaxing weekend. I know that weekends and holidays do not count for farmers. They are always at work and, judging by an editorial in this magazine last Thursday, they are having a tough time of things right now, so particularly deserve Our support and prayers. If farmers are stressed, … Continue reading A Prayer for Our Farmers
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I hope that my weekly note and prayer find You well. It has been a very cold week and I trust that You have been able to keep warm and healthy. This week it is Our turn to focus on Christian unity and solidarity. The parable of the Good Samaritan is one of the best known passages of … Continue reading A Prayer for Unity
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well this January Sunday morning. As I sit here the temperature outside is in the minus and I fear for our homeless who I pray have found somewhere warm to bed down overnight. This week I would ask that You pray for the hungry. 49 million people in 43 countries across the globe … Continue reading A Prayer for the Hungry
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, Happy Christmas and Happy New Year! I trust that You are ready for some work on Wednesday and that You realise today is Sunday. This week I ask You to look around. It may be that there is an elderly neighbour who has been visited by no-one this Christmas. Perhaps a foreign student is sat there in a … Continue reading A Prayer for the Lonely this Christmas
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that this message and prayer find You well on this last, the fourth Sunday of Advent 2023. Today we light the final purple candle to mark the final week of prayer and penance as we wait for the birth of our Saviour. In the fourth week of Advent, we relight the three candles of HOPE, PEACE, and … Continue reading Fourth Sunday of Advent
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well. Gaudete Sunday has arrived this Sunday. The third candle is lit on this day along with the first two. It is the Shepherds’ candle, reminding that God sent the angels to proclaim His arrival to common man and that He still uses ordinary people today to spread the good news of Christ. … Continue reading Prayer for Gaudete Sunday
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and busy, that You are somewhat prepared for the Christmas holidays which loom before us. What does the 2nd week of Advent represent? Isaiah 9:6 – For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, … Continue reading Second Sunday of Advent Prayer
