VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and healthy and enjoying these summer days even if they are producing weather as changeable as England’s form in the football. To those readers who are fathers, I wish You a very Happy Father’s Day. The task of fathering can sometimes seem like the easier of the two tasks! At other times … Continue reading A Prayer for Fathers
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well. As these hot summer days continue, I pray that You are getting some downtime and that work is going well. This week I would like to focus on a prayer that You can learn off by heart to add to your daily prayers. Prayer isn’t a ritual that depends on closing our … Continue reading A Prayer for Every Need & Situation
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and have been able to get outside and enjoy the beautiful weather. You likely did not notice but last Thursday was Corpus Christi. I have been asked to explain what the day represents and why some European countries have a bank holiday for it. Corpus Christi is mainly celebrated in the Roman … Continue reading A Prayer for Corpus Christi
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your families are well. As we look around us on this sunny bank holiday weekend, we see Nature’s glory emerging. I trust that You get a chance to get out and about this weekend and get to enjoy the flowers in the parks and meadows. What does the Bible say about nature and … Continue reading A Prayer for Nature
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that I find You well and healthy. As I look outside it seems more November than May. I hope that You are enjoying life and that any troubles can be put aside this Sunday. This week I would like to give thanks for the artists. I read something beautiful this week written by an artist that … Continue reading A Prayer for the Artists
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine I trust that You are well and that Your loved ones are healthy and happy too. This week I would like to pray for peace. As violence once again sweeps the Middle East and We see conflicts across other parts of the world continuing, We should feel grateful that in our country there is relative peace and calm. … Continue reading A Prayer for Peace
Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well. As I sit here writing this weekly prayer, I see the cushions from our garden chairs flying at head height across the garden while tiles from a nearby barn are being prized off by a series of squalls and gusts. I thought We were in May? The weather is somewhat ‘biblical’ today. I … Continue reading A Prayer for the Faithless
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that my weekly message and prayer find You well. I hope that You are enjoying this bank holiday weekend so far. I enjoyed hearing the comments yesterday from the students who attended the ‘trial night club’ in Liverpool. There was one student who declared the experiment ‘the greatest day of her life’. Her words reminding us … Continue reading A Prayer for Freedom
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and enjoying the upturn in weather. I know You farmers are suffering, so I am praying for some rain for You. Either which way there seems to be a feeling of optimism around, as We all hope the virus has left us. Please remember India and Brazil in Your prayers. The Editor … Continue reading A Prayer for Best Friends
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and healthy. I hope Your families are enjoying the emergence from lockdown and looking forward to the rest of the decade with relish and hope. This week I would like to focus on rural communities, many who have suffered terribly over the last few years. In particular I would like You to … Continue reading A Prayer for Rural Communities
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
