8:30 am Morning Prayer

10:30 am BAS Eucharist

Readings
1 Samuel 16:1-13; Psalm 23; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41

The Men and Women's Bible Studies will take place at 10:30 am in the hall. 

Rev Irene Gifford-Cole will lead the Compline Service starting at 7:00 pm.

Thank you all for your support of our Coldest Night of the Year Walk. Our St. Peter’s Comox team of 6 walkers raised $3,930.00 thanks to your generous donations. Our little team placed 11th out of 76 teams. If donating slipped your mind, it’s not too late! Donations can be made until March 31st.

Loaves and Fishes supports communities on Vancouver Island through food recovery. We are part of the 40 communites supported by the work of Loaves and Fishes. Their deliveries support both our community lunches and our food shelf.

Speaker series at St Mary’s Anglican Church of the Incarnation in Metchosin on Tuesdays in March, 7:00-8:30pm. Topics include Endangered Species and Ecosystems, Threats to What We Thought We Had Protected, Changes to Power Structure in Canada, and The Effective Resistance.

Last Sunday, in his Prayers for the People, Tony shared a prayer (author unknown) from the volume of printed prayers at the front of the church. A number of people asked for a copy, so we wanted to share it here. 

Jesus, Word of the Father, speak for those who have no voice and stand by powerless while others play with their lives.
Lord, graciously hear us.

Jesus, Child of Bethlehem, remember now those children who are born to struggle, whose mothers have no milk and whose fathers have no bread.
Lord, graciously hear us.

Jesus, refugee in Egypt, remember those who have been terrorized out of their homes and now try to sing their own song in a foreign land.
Lord, graciously hear us.

Jesus, Carpenter of Nazareth, remember now those who work with their hands but see their jobs being taken over by computers and technology.
Lord, graciously hear us.

Jesus, teacher of Galilee, remember now those children who think they cannot learn, that success is always for someone else, that theirs’s is a lost cause.
Lord, graciously hear us.

Jesus, friend of the poor, be a friend to those invisible poor in our neighborhood, those we never notice, the empty and the lonely ones, the exhausted and silent ones.
Lord, graciously hear us.

Jesus, healer of the sick remember now our broken humanity, and touch with your tender love all those who cannot trust their bodies to be whole.
Lord, graciously hear us.

Jesus, light of the world, remember now those who sight is growing dim, and who fear the dying of the light.
Lord, graciously hear us.

Jesus, profit of Jerusalem, speak judgment to our complacency, cry aloud to our disobedience, that the manipulator, the torturer, the abuser, the destroyer, may turn back to your ways of justice and peace.
Lord, graciously hear us.

Jesus, victim on the cross, remember well those who hang there beside you, martyrs and fools, heroes and villains, victims of murderous regimes and people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Lord, graciously hear us.

Jesus Christ, ascended Lord, work through and watch over our bewildered society, that the kingdoms of this world may become the Kingdom of our God and of His Christ.
Lord, graciously hear us.

Jesus Christ, Lord of all, Son of Righteousness, Rock of Ages, Lamb of God, Living Water, True Vine, Day Spring, Messiah, Lord and King.

Come again, come again in glory.

Amen.