VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your loved ones are keeping well. I am sure You are looking forward to getting a haircut over coming days. Finally, it seems our imprisonment is coming to an end! Let us pray that our freedom returns and stays. This week it would be amiss of me not to focus on the life … Continue reading A Prayer for Prince Philip
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, Happy Easter to You and Your nearest and dearest. Easter is the greatest of all Christian feasts, and the happy season of Eastertide lasts 50 days from Easter Day until the Feast of Pentecost. St Gregory of Nazianzus said that Easter was ‘like the sun among the stars’ of the other festivals. It is the heart of the sacred … Continue reading Happy Easter 2021
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well. I welcome You to a one-hour abbreviated Palm Sunday as Holy Week gets going across the globe. Today is the first day. What is Palm Sunday and why is it considered important? On Palm Sunday Jesus arrived in Jerusalem to crowds and cheers. His triumphant entry into Jerusalem has been celebrated on … Continue reading A Prayer for Palm Sunday
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your loved ones are safe and well. As the Spring emerges in daffodil blossoms across the land, let us hope and pray that together soon We shall be able to emerge from this forced lockdown and return to something of the freedom of our past. This week on the 5th Sunday of Lent … Continue reading A Prayer for Rebirth
Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your loved ones are well. Today is Mothering Sunday – a day when We honour mothers and mother churches, celebrated on the fourth Sunday in Lent since the Middle Ages. On Mothering Sunday, Christians have historically visited their mother church—the church in which they received the sacrament of baptism. So for this week’s prayer I’d like to focus on women – on the … Continue reading A Prayer for Women
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and that You are enjoying the beginnings of spring. The daffodils are starting to blossom and I see a carpet of snowdrops from my window. Spring brings hope. This week I would like to pray for the tired. The tired may be workers coming off night shifts, nurses overworked by Covid and … Continue reading A Prayer for the Tired
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your loved ones are well. This week I’d like to focus on those poor souls who have lost dogs and other pets to thieves, or simply lost their beloved creatures. I know how cruel such situations can be on people, as well as the missing creatures. Those who are engaged in the business … Continue reading A Prayer for the Lost & Stolen
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well. I know how hard these months have been for many of You and now hope for an end to lockdown and vaccine success. There is nothing wrong with praying for national prosperity. For example, a wealthy Britain affords her citizens vaccines and hospitals. What can be wrong with that? Proverbs 23:5 says: “Cast … Continue reading A Prayer for Prosperity
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and healthy. I trust that You have survived this cold spell intact. At times the weather has been more like Chicago than Suffolk around here. I wonder whether that is the end of it and We can start working on our gardens this week. This week I would like You to consider … Continue reading A Prayer for Our World
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your loved ones are well and warm. It seems We name even the slightest storm these days but the Beast from the East does have a certain ring about it that makes one bring in sufficient logs for the fire. This week I would like to focus on patience. “Rejoice in hope, be … Continue reading A Prayer for Patience
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your loved ones are well. As we approach the second month of the third lockdown I can understand why You may not be feeling one hundred percent and I send You my heartfelt empathy. It is at times like this that We must remember that without light there is no darkness and without … Continue reading A Prayer for Hope
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and healthy. I write this as the snow falls. Be careful out there. This week I would like You to consider the angry. All of us know angry people. There are a few around here. One fellow in his fifties spends all his days on his computer then stomps around the village … Continue reading A Prayer for the Angry
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your loved ones are safe and well. There are still several weeks left of what We hope will be the final lockdown. There are some doing better than others. Let Us think of our neighbours, friends and family. Let us reach out as best We can to those who are struggling the most. … Continue reading A Prayer for the Departed
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are coping with the current lockdown and that Your hearts are full of hope for the future. It is freezing cold outside and it’s too easy to feel despondent. For those of You not working from home, take care out there. It is tragic seeing so many lives lost to Covid. This week I … Continue reading A Prayer for Healing
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and that You enjoyed Christmas festivities this year. I trust that You managed time to put Your feet up. I hope the coming year is a good and healthy one for You and Your family. The twenties started badly. Coronavirus has killed too many. Still, We should not be despondent. Just remember that … Continue reading A Prayer for the New Year
