It's Ascension Day!
As well as celebrating Jesus' Ascension today, it's also the start of Thy Kingdom Come...
from the Thy Kingdom Come website:
'Thy Kingdom Come is a global prayer movement that invites Christians around the world to pray for more people to come to know Jesus. What started in 2016 as an invitation from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to the Church of England has grown into an international and ecumenical call to prayer.'
So, for the next 11 days this blog will change format slightly; each of the three posts each day will focus on prayer.
To begin with...
Getting into a pattern of prayer, or prayer habit, can be an amazing and transformative experience.
There will be loads of suggestions for prayer over the next week or so, but here are a few you might like to try that are designed to be daily:
Morning prayer, evening prayer and night prayer services each day, from the Church of England website:
Daily prayer
And some resources specially made for Thy Kingdom Come this year:
Prayer Journal
Journey with Mary
Novena
As every post will focus on prayer, there won't be a 'prayer suggestion' in its usual place just before the music. Instead, there will be a short Bible reading that you might like to read, pray with, and reflect on as you go about the rest of the day.
Here's today's:
As the apostles were watching, Jesus was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. While he was going and they were gazing up towards heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. They said, 'Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up towards heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.'
Acts 1.9b-11
♫ Another way to pray is through music, so every day in Thy Kingdom Come there will be a music suggestion to reflect on and pray with.
As it's a feast day, here's a selection!
God is gone up - Finzi
Viri Galilaei - Gowers
Christ Triumphant, Ever Reigning
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