tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4309088295549423922024-03-17T14:34:34.282+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group BlogNotes from meetings,diary dates and other useful information for members and friends of Theotokos Prayer GroupStephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.comBlogger679125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-47098375101781014062024-03-17T14:33:00.002+00:002024-03-17T14:33:46.299+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2024 - Fifth Sunday of Lent, St Patrick's Day - 17 March 2024<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="542454738" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/171347/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Glory to you, O Christ, you are the Word of God!</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Whoever serves me must follow me, says the Lord;</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>and where I am, there also will my servant be.</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Glory to you, O Christ, you are the Word of God!</em></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: John 12:20-33</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><a href="https://universalis.com/mass.htm#copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"></a>If a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it yields a rich harvest</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. These approached Philip, who came from Bethsaida in Galilee, and put this request to him, ‘Sir, we should like to see Jesus.’ Philip went to tell Andrew, and Andrew and Philip together went to tell Jesus. Jesus replied to them:</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">‘Now the hour has come</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">for the Son of Man to be glorified.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">I tell you, most solemnly,</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">unless a wheat grain falls on the ground and dies,</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">it remains only a single grain;</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">but if it dies,</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">it yields a rich harvest.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Anyone who loves his life loses it;</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">anyone who hates his life in this world</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">will keep it for the eternal life.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">If a man serves me, he must follow me,</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">wherever I am, my servant will be there too.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">If anyone serves me, my Father will honour him.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Now my soul is troubled.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">What shall I say:</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Father, save me from this hour?</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">But it was for this very reason that I have come to this hour.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Father, glorify your name!’</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">A voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.’ People standing by, who heard this, said it was a clap of thunder; others said, ‘It was an angel speaking to him.’ Jesus answered, ‘It was not for my sake that this voice came, but for yours.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">‘Now sentence is being passed on this world;</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">now the prince of this world is to be overthrown.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">And when I am lifted up from the earth,</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">I shall draw all men to myself.’</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">By these words he indicated the kind of death he would die.</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Notes from meeting on 12 March 2024</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Picture</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Picture of Jesus clothed in a blood soaked white garment, the garment is sticking to every welt on His body. He looks up and sees His Mother she is accompanied by many people. Jesus takes up His Cross. His Mother and the accompanying crowd follow Him, somehow seeing His Mother with us comforts Jesus. Although in great pain He gestures with His Hand to always follow His Mother.<br /><br />"My dear children,<br />I am your Mother and I always lead you to my Son.<br />Come with me on the road to Calvary which is the road to Heaven, accompany my Son and help Him like Simon did. This will give my Son the deepest comfort knowing that your hearts are entwined with His in this Lenten Season.<br />My little ones together we will carry Souls to Him who carries His Cross to save all from my adversary.<br />Be bold and be strong in your Faith, love your enemies, PRAY for them and together we will bring them to my Son who suffers so very much.<br />I Mary will be with you on this road, the Way of The Cross. Love conquers wrong-doing, bring my Son souls with your prayers this will comfort Him.<br />Mary"</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>We adore You O Christ and we praise You , because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world.</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Matthew 11 v 25- 29</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.<br />27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.<br />28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”</span><br /><br /></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">St Patrick, St Joseph and St Cuthbert pray for us.</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.<br />Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.<br /><br />Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus.<br /><br />Pray for healing for Anne Shepherd, Felicity, Jessica, Marie Bedingfield, Milo, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for Yvonne Plucknett who has injured her leg very badly and for her brother who is looking after her.<br />Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br />Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.<br />Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.<br />Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!<br />Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br />https://www.celebratetrust.org/<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 19 March 2024 </span><br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I am taking part in <span style="font-weight: 600;">Cafod's Big Lent Walk</span>. Any sponsorship will be gratefully received. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So far £85 raised and 160km walked. Thank you. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stephen.</h2><div>See link below:</div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">https://walk.cafod.org.uk/fundraising/stephens-big-lent-walk/posts/a6054223-aa49-4c2a-837e-2781b4b603f8</h2></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-68561584878637015152024-03-10T14:15:00.005+00:002024-03-10T14:15:57.004+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2024 - Fourth Sunday of Lent - 10 March 2024<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="541999863" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/56139/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Glory and praise to you, O Christ!<br />God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son:<br />everyone who believes in him has eternal life.<br />Glory and praise to you, O Christ!</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: John 3:14-21 </span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">God sent his Son so that through him the world might be saved</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />Jesus said to Nicodemus:<br />‘The Son of Man must be lifted up<br />as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,<br />so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.<br />Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son,<br />so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost<br />but may have eternal life.<br />For God sent his Son into the world<br />not to condemn the world,<br />but so that through him the world might be saved.<br />No one who believes in him will be condemned;<br />but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already,<br />because he has refused to believe in the name of God’s only Son.<br />On these grounds is sentence pronounced:<br />that though the light has come into the world<br />men have shown they prefer darkness to the light<br />because their deeds were evil.<br />And indeed, everybody who does wrong<br />hates the light and avoids it,<br />for fear his actions should be exposed;<br />but the man who lives by the truth comes out into the light,<br />so that it may be plainly seen that what he does is done in God.’</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>We adore You O Christ and we praise You because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world.</em></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray in thanksgiving for all Mothers</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.<br />Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.<br /><br />Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus.<br /><br />Pray for healing for Anne Shepherd, Felicity, Jessica, Marie Bedingfield, Milo, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.<br />Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br />Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.<br />Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.<br />Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!<br />Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br />https://www.celebratetrust.org/<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 12 March 2024 </span><br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I am taking part in <span style="font-weight: 600;">Cafod's Big Lent Walk</span>. Any sponsorship will be gratefully received. Stephen.</h2><div>See link below:</div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">https://walk.cafod.org.uk/fundraising/stephens-big-lent-walk/posts/a6054223-aa49-4c2a-837e-2781b4b603f8</h2></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-85134781068372508332024-03-03T17:55:00.001+00:002024-03-03T17:55:18.840+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2024 - Third Sunday of Lent, 3 March 2024<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="541496841" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/lent3371/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory!<br />I am the resurrection and the life, says the Lord;<br />whoever believes in me will never die.<br />Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory!</em><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: John 2:13-25 </span></h2><div><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Destroy this sanctuary and in three days I will raise it up</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting at their counters there. Making a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the money-changers’ coins, knocked their tables over and said to the pigeon-sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father’s house into a market.’ Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour me. The Jews intervened and said, ‘What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?’ Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary: are you going to raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words he had said.<br /> During his stay in Jerusalem for the Passover many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he gave, but Jesus knew them all and did not trust himself to them; he never needed evidence about any man; he could tell what a man had in him.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Notes from meeting on 27 February 2024</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Picture</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Picture of Jesus kneeling down in the sand, there is a long queue of people waiting to see Him, as each person approaches they kneel down and speak to Him. He looks down at the words written in the sand, smiles and brushes them away, so no words can be seen anymore. Jesus takes each person by the hand and together they stand up erect and tall feeling cleansed and as though a great weight has been lifted. The next person comes to Him who is so Merciful and all is repeated.<br /><br />"My dear little ones, come to the Font of All Forgiveness My Son Jesus, He Who Loves You with an Unending<br />Love, do not be afraid He welcomes you, He will give you words of wisdom and grace, He will help you in your endeavours to change for good. My Son loves you!<br />Mary"<br /><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Psalm 32 v 1 -7</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><sup><span style="font-weight: 600;"> </span></sup><span style="font-weight: 600;">Blessed is the one<br /> whose transgressions are forgiven,<br /> whose sins are covered.<br /><sup>2 </sup>Blessed is the one<br /> whose sin the Lord does not count against them<br /> and in whose spirit is no deceit.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><sup>3 </sup>When I kept silent,<br /> my bones wasted away<br /> through my groaning all day long.<br /><sup>4 </sup>For day and night<br /> your hand was heavy on me;<br />my strength was sapped<br /> as in the heat of summer.<sup><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+32&version=NIV#fen-NIV-14360b" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" title="See footnote b"></a></sup></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><sup>5 </sup>Then I acknowledged my sin to you<br /> and did not cover up my iniquity.<br />I said, “I will confess<br /> my transgressions to the Lord.”<br />And you forgave<br /> the guilt of my sin.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><sup>6 </sup>Therefore let all the faithful pray to you<br /> while you may be found;<br />surely the rising of the mighty waters<br /> will not reach them.<br /><sup>7 </sup>You are my hiding place;<br /> you will protect me from trouble<br /> and surround me with songs of deliverance.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Revelation 21 v 5</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">5 And the one who was seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new.”</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>We adore You O Christ and we praise You because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world.</em></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.<br />Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.<br /><br />Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus.<br /><br />Pray for healing for Anne Shepherd, Felicity, Jessica, Marie Bedingfield, Milo, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.<br />Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br />Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.<br />Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.<br />Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!<br />Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br />https://www.celebratetrust.org/<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 5 March 2024 </span><br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I am taking part in <span style="font-weight: 600;">Cafod's Big Lent Walk</span>. Any sponsorship will be gratefully received. Stephen.</h2><div>See link below:</div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">https://walk.cafod.org.uk/fundraising/stephens-big-lent-walk/posts/a6054223-aa49-4c2a-837e-2781b4b603f8</h2></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-24262866234753003552024-02-25T14:12:00.002+00:002024-02-25T14:12:49.901+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2024 - Second Sunday of Lent, 25 February 2024<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="541014355" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/transfiguration554/full.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 379px;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><em>Glory and praise to you, O Christ!<br />From the bright cloud the Father’s voice was heard:<br />‘This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him.’<br />Glory and praise to you, O Christ!</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: Mark 9:2-10 </span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">This is my Son, the Beloved</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain where they could be alone by themselves. There in their presence he was transfigured: his clothes became dazzlingly white, whiter than any earthly bleacher could make them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus. Then Peter spoke to Jesus: ‘Rabbi,’ he said ‘it is wonderful for us to be here; so let us make three tents, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.’ He did not know what to say; they were so frightened. And a cloud came, covering them in shadow; and there came a voice from the cloud, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him.’ Then suddenly, when they looked round, they saw no one with them any more but only Jesus.<br /> As they came down from the mountain he warned them to tell no one what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. They observed the warning faithfully, though among themselves they discussed what ‘rising from the dead’ could mean.</span><br /><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Notes from meeting on 20 February 2024</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Picture</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A picture of the World, around its circumference are children from little to teens all praying the rosary with Blessed Mother, above them is the Cross with Our Lord upon it, chains come from the top of the Cross and meet down across the World attached to the many rosaries said by the children, these are chains of LOVE, this Love forms a barrier against the bitterness Our Lord feels when he looks at our World and He is comforted by His praying and loving children.<br /><br />"My dear little ones,<br />I see you each as my little child, for it is in smallness and humility that my adversary retreats. Your prayers are precious droplets of love like dew on a rose making freshness and a beautiful scent in My Sons Presence, this makes up for the stench of Evil that fills His nostrils and makes Him weep. My little ones when you become trusting like little children in your prayers my Son cannot metre out Justice fully and so by cooperating with Me you hold back the tide of Justice, then more and more of lost souls will come to Him asking for His Mercy.<br />Now is the time to pray like never before in this Lenten Season, help my Son by bringing souls in prayer. Dedicate yourselves, your families, friends but especially the lost souls to my Immaculate Heart and you will see great things. Trust me my little one’s, trust me.<br />Your Mother<br />Mary"</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>A Solemn Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary<br />Author: Venerable Pope Pius XII<br /></em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Most Holy Virgin Mary, tender Mother of men, to fulfil the desires of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the request of the Vicar of Your Son on earth, we consecrate ourselves and our families to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, O Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, and we recommend to You, all the people of our country and all the world.<br /><br />Please accept our consecration, dearest Mother, and use us as You wish to accomplish Your designs in the world.<br /><br />O Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, and Queen of the World, rule over us, together with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, Our King. Save us from the spreading flood of modern paganism; kindle in our hearts and homes the love of purity, the practice of a virtuous life, an ardent zeal for souls, and a desire to pray the Rosary more faithfully.<br /><br />We come with confidence to You, O Throne of Grace and Mother of Fair Love. Inflame us with the same Divine Fire which has inflamed Your own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Make our hearts and homes Your shrine, and through us, make the Heart of Jesus, together with your rule, triumph in every heart and home.<br /><br />Amen.</em><br /><br /></h2><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">James 5 v 2 -18</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Faith and Wisdom</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">2 My brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of any kind, consider it nothing but joy, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance; 4 and let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">5 If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you. 6 But ask in faith, never doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind; 7, 8 for the doubter, being double-minded and unstable in every way, must not expect to receive anything from the Lord.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Poverty and Riches</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">9 Let the believer who is lowly boast in being raised up, 10 and the rich in being brought low, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field. 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. It is the same way with the rich; in the midst of a busy life, they will wither away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Trial and Temptation</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">12 Blessed is anyone who endures temptation. Such a one has stood the test and will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. 13 No one, when tempted, should say, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one. 14 But one is tempted by one’s own desire, being lured and enticed by it; 15 then, when that desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and that sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death. 16 Do not be deceived, my beloved.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">17 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. 18 In fulfilment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.</span><br /><br /></h2><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Transfigure us Lord by your grace.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br />Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.<br />Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.<br /><br />Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus.<br /><br />Pray for healing for Felicity, Marie Bedingfield, Milo, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.<br />Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br />Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.<br />Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.<br />Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!<br />Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br />https://www.celebratetrust.org/<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 27 February 2024 </span><br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I am taking part in <span style="font-weight: 600;">Cafod's Big Lent Walk</span>. Any sponsorship will be gratefully received. Stephen.</h2><div>See link below:</div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">https://walk.cafod.org.uk/fundraising/stephens-big-lent-walk/posts/a6054223-aa49-4c2a-837e-2781b4b603f8</h2></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-79258965998096992552024-02-18T14:30:00.002+00:002024-02-18T14:30:50.937+00:00 Theotokos Prayer Group 2024 - First Sunday of Lent, 18 February 2024<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="540564431" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/lentrepentandbelieveinthegospel3/full.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 357px;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory!<br />Man does not live on bread alone,<br />but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.<br />Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory!</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: Mark 1:12-15 </span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Jesus was tempted by Satan, and the angels looked after him</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />The Spirit drove Jesus out into the wilderness and he remained there for forty days, and was tempted by Satan. He was with the wild beasts, and the angels looked after him.<br /> After John had been arrested, Jesus went into Galilee. There he proclaimed the Good News from God. ‘The time has come’ he said ‘and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Good News.’</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Help us Lord to resist temptation.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br />Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.<br />Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.<br /><br />Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus.<br /><br />Pray for healing for Marie Bedingfield, Milo, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.<br />Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br />Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.<br />Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.<br />Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!<br />Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br />https://www.celebratetrust.org/<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 20 February 2024 </span><br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-72293967709144770812024-02-11T14:07:00.001+00:002024-02-11T14:07:06.501+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2024 - Sunday 11 February 2024<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="540044122" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/221440/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>enlighten the eyes of our mind,</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>so that we can see what hope his call holds for us.</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia!</em></h2><div><br /></div><hr /><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: Mark 1:40-45<a href="https://universalis.com/mass.htm#copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"></a></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">The leprosy left the man at once, and he was cured</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">A leper came to Jesus and pleaded on his knees: ‘If you want to’ he said ‘you can cure me.’ Feeling sorry for him, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. ‘Of course I want to!’ he said. ‘Be cured!’ And the leprosy left him at once and he was cured. Jesus immediately sent him away and sternly ordered him, ‘Mind you say nothing to anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest, and make the offering for your healing prescribed by Moses as evidence of your recovery.’ The man went away, but then started talking about it freely and telling the story everywhere, so that Jesus could no longer go openly into any town, but had to stay outside in places where nobody lived. Even so, people from all around would come to him.</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Lord cleanse us of our sinfulness.</em></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Notes from meeting on 6 February 2024</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Picture</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Picture of Blessed Mother taking from her Immaculate Heart tiny budding flowers, Mother placed them in her Son’s Sacred Heart.<br />The Heart of Jesus seemed to glow and ignite into flames, He then retrieved them but instead of being burnt up, some of the buds stayed the same but the majority of buds bloomed into glorious magnificent flowers of every hue and smelling of Heavenly scent. Jesus fashioned them into a Crown and placed them on His Mothers head, her face became glowing and even more beautiful and she turned to face her Sons people, and they all threw more blooms her way shouting 'Thanks be to God for the Glorious Mother and her Most Holy Son', when finally everything was quiet, she held out her Golden Rosary!<br /><br />"My dear little ones I have presented your prayers and petitions to my Son and He in His great Mercy has made your prayers bloom, those that are still in bud will be answered when the time is right, but you can be sure all will be answered, for my Motherly Immaculate Heart has embellished and magnified all the good in them.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">My dear ones keep up the prayers and sacrifices, one day you will see all that is hidden at the moment and all will become clear, so little ones I am so happy that you have answered my call but I ask you now to be even more heroic, offer up your work in the day and make all a sacrifice to my Son then on the Glorious Day of your homecoming you will not feel naked but will be clothed with a white garment of good deeds, gaining you admittance to Heaven and to Jesus and to me your so happy Mother.<br />Mary"</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Galatians 5 v 16 -26</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">The Works of the Flesh</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">16 Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, 21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.<br /><br />The Fruit of the Spirit<br />22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.</span><br /><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Romans 7 v 14 - 8 v 4</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.<br />21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!<br />So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.<br /><br /></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">8 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.</span><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Heal us Lord.</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for the protection of the unborn, and for all women and men affected by abortion.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br />Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.<br />Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.<br /><br />Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus.<br /><br />Pray for healing for Milo, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.<br />Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br />Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.<br />Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.<br />Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!<br />Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br />https://www.celebratetrust.org/<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 13 February 2024 </span><br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><span style="color: #b34ec5;">Ash Wednesday - 14 February 2024</span></span></h2></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-78841305183926831232024-02-04T14:09:00.002+00:002024-02-04T14:09:16.860+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2024 - Sunday 4 February 2024<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="539541174" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/221426/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />I am the light of the world, says the Lord;<br />anyone who follows me will have the light of life.<br />Alleluia!</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: Mark 1:29-39 </span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">He cast out devils and cured many who were suffering from disease</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />On leaving the synagogue, Jesus went with James and John straight to the house of Simon and Andrew. Now Simon’s mother-in-law had gone to bed with fever, and they told him about her straightaway. He went to her, took her by the hand and helped her up. And the fever left her and she began to wait on them.<br /> That evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were sick and those who were possessed by devils. The whole town came crowding round the door, and he cured many who were suffering from diseases of one kind or another; he also cast out many devils, but he would not allow them to speak, because they knew who he was.<br /> In the morning, long before dawn, he got up and left the house, and went off to a lonely place and prayed there. Simon and his companions set out in search of him, and when they found him they said, ‘Everybody is looking for you.’ He answered, ‘Let us go elsewhere, to the neighbouring country towns, so that I can preach there too, because that is why I came.’ And he went all through Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out devils.</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Lord grant us your healing in body, mind and spirit.</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Notes from meeting on 30 January 2024</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Picture </span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Picture of Blessed Mother kneeling in front of her Son in the Blessed Sacrament, she is surrounded by others who are praying with her.<br /><br />"My children, come and pray with me and assuage the complete indifference of many toward my Son Jesus!<br />His Heart is broken and His tears fall for Mankind who turn away from His Love!<br />Help me my children to bring Him souls who have hearts of ice.<br />May our prayers melt their indifference and may our prayers bring them conversion to the Light of my Son, He Who is The Way, The Truth and The Life.<br />Pray with your Mother, together let us action graces from the Holy Spirit to bring true Life to those who are so very far away, Let us dry my Son’s tears with our heartfelt prayers.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I love you my little ones, my maternal blessing always leads you to Jesus.<br />Mary."<span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Romans 5 v15<br />Ephesians 4 v17-32</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Heal us Lord.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for the protection of the unborn, and for all women and men affected by abortion.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br />Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.<br />Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.<br /><br />Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus.<br /><br />Pray for healing for Milo, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.<br />Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br />Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.<br />Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.<br />Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!<br />Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br />https://www.celebratetrust.org/<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 6 February 2024 </span><br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-47138444333247086342024-01-28T14:25:00.002+00:002024-01-28T14:25:57.644+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2024 - Sunday 28 January 2024<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="539041279" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/prayerfortheunborne1627339675590300x196/full.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />Blessed are you, Father,<br />Lord of heaven and earth,<br />for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom<br />to mere children.<br />Alleluia!</em><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: Mark 1:21-28 </span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Unlike the scribes, he taught them with authority</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />Jesus and his disciples went as far as Capernaum, and as soon as the sabbath came he went to the synagogue and began to teach. And his teaching made a deep impression on them because, unlike the scribes, he taught them with authority.<br /> In their synagogue just then there was a man possessed by an unclean spirit and it shouted, ‘What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God.’ But Jesus said sharply, ‘Be quiet! Come out of him!’ And the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and with a loud cry went out of him. The people were so astonished that they started asking each other what it all meant. ‘Here is a teaching that is new’ they said ‘and with authority behind it: he gives orders even to unclean spirits and they obey him.’ And his reputation rapidly spread everywhere, through all the surrounding Galilean countryside.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Notes from meeting on 23 January</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Picture</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Picture of Our Blessed Mother shining in darkness, her Immaculate Heart aflame with the Love of Jesus and us her beloved children.<br />Many Angels come to her and light lamps from the flame of her Heart, they return to earth looking for the lost souls, showing them the way back to Jesus. They form a line of light each side of a narrow lane which leads to Jesus, many many people of all nations creeds and colours are led to the narrow lane and follow the lamps to the Light, which is the Aflame Heart of Jesus entwined with the Mothers Immaculate Heart.<br /><br />"Oh my dear little children<br />Keep your eyes fixed on my Son, do not look left or right but fix your gaze upon Him.<br />If you keep your eyes hearts and souls fixed on Him you cannot be led astray.<br />I your loving Mother will always show you and lead you to my Son Jesus.<br />Pray that others will see the light as there is now much urgency in my request, my Son suffers that His people are being lead astray.<br />I say again keep your eyes and hearts upon Him and your soul then cannot be led astray.<br />I hold you each in my Immaculate Heart and I bless you with my Maternal Blessing, like chicks under the mothers wing I protect you.<br />Mary"<br /><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">John 1 v 5</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />Intercessions</span><br /><br />Release us Lord from all evil,</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for the protection of the unborn, and for all women and men affected by abortion.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br />Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.<br />Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.<br /><br />Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus.<br /><br />Pray for healing for Stephen, Milo, Stephen & Christine, Adam, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.<br />Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br />Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.<br />Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.<br />Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!<br />Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br />https://www.celebratetrust.org/<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 30 January 2024 </span><br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-64278454298999899332024-01-21T14:55:00.002+00:002024-01-21T14:55:50.836+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2024 - Sunday 21 January 2024<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="538572247" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/141563/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />The kingdom of God is close at hand:<br />repent, and believe the Good News.<br />Alleluia!</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: Mark 1:14-20 </span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">I will make you into fishers of men</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />After John had been arrested, Jesus went into Galilee. There he proclaimed the Good News from God. ‘The time has come’ he said ‘and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Good News.’<br /> As he was walking along by the Sea of Galilee he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net in the lake – for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, ‘Follow me and I will make you into fishers of men.’ And at once they left their nets and followed him.<br /> Going on a little further, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John; they too were in their boat, mending their nets. He called them at once and, leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the men he employed, they went after him.</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Lord help us to repent and believe in the Good News that you bring.</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Lord help us listen for your call.</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Lord help us to follow you.</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span><br /><br />Pray that all may repent and believe in the Good News.<br /><br />Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.<br />Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.<br /><br />Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus.<br /><br />Pray for healing for Milo, Stephen & Christine, Adam, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.<br />Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br />Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.<br />Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.<br />Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!<br />Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br />https://www.celebratetrust.org/<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 23 January 2024 </span><br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-1905068321283121402024-01-14T14:01:00.000+00:002024-01-14T14:01:03.443+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2024 - Sunday 14 January 2024<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="538126200" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/1110236/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />Speak, Lord, your servant is listening:<br />you have the message of eternal life.<br />Alleluia!</em><br /><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel John 1:35-42 </span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">'We have found the Messiah'</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />As John stood with two of his disciples, Jesus passed, and John stared hard at him and said, ‘Look, there is the lamb of God.’ Hearing this, the two disciples followed Jesus. Jesus turned round, saw them following and said, ‘What do you want?’ They answered, ‘Rabbi,’ – which means Teacher – ‘where do you live?’ ‘Come and see’ he replied; so they went and saw where he lived, and stayed with him the rest of that day. It was about the tenth hour.<br /> One of these two who became followers of Jesus after hearing what John had said was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter. Early next morning, Andrew met his brother and said to him, ‘We have found the Messiah’ – which means the Christ – and he took Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked hard at him and said, ‘You are Simon son of John; you are to be called Cephas’ – meaning Rock.</span><br /><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Jesus you are the Messiah, the Christ, the Redeemer, the Saviour - save us from all our sins and all our weaknesses, heal us of our infirmities of body, mind and spirit. </em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Bring us your Peace. </em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Lead us into the fullness of life with You. Amen.</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span><br /><br />Pray for Peace and Justice throughout the World.<br /><br />Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.<br />Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.<br /><br />Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus.<br /><br />Pray for healing for Milo, Stephen & Christine, Adam, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.<br />Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br />Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.<br />Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.<br />Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!<br />Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span><br /><br />Resources<br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br />https://www.celebratetrust.org/<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 16 January 2024 </span><br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-65158466601280346822024-01-07T12:41:00.002+00:002024-01-07T12:41:52.677+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2024 - The Epiphany of the Lord - Sunday 7 January 2024<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="537675669" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/72773/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />We saw his star as it rose<br />and have come to do the Lord homage.<br />Alleluia!</em><br /><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: Matthew 2:1-12 </span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">The visit of the Magi</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />After Jesus had been born at Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of King Herod, some wise men came to Jerusalem from the east. ‘Where is the infant king of the Jews?’ they asked. ‘We saw his star as it rose and have come to do him homage.’ When King Herod heard this he was perturbed, and so was the whole of Jerusalem. He called together all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, and enquired of them where the Christ was to be born. ‘At Bethlehem in Judaea,’ they told him ‘for this is what the prophet wrote:<br />And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,<br />you are by no means least among the leaders of Judah,<br />for out of you will come a leader<br />who will shepherd my people Israel.’<br />Then Herod summoned the wise men to see him privately. He asked them the exact date on which the star had appeared, and sent them on to Bethlehem. ‘Go and find out all about the child,’ he said ‘and when you have found him, let me know, so that I too may go and do him homage.’ Having listened to what the king had to say, they set out. And there in front of them was the star they had seen rising; it went forward, and halted over the place where the child was. The sight of the star filled them with delight, and going into the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, and falling to their knees they did him homage. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh. But they were warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, and returned to their own country by a different way.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>On this day, Lord God, by a guiding star you revealed your Only-Begotten Son to all the peoples of the world.<br />Lead us from the faith by which we know you now to the vision of your glory, face to face.<br />Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.<br />Amen.</em><br /><br /><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span><br /><br />Jesus, Light of the World shine upon us. Lift us out of darkness.<br /><br />Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.<br />Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.<br /><br />Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus.<br /><br />Pray for healing for Milo,Stephen & Christine, Adam, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.<br />Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br />Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.<br />Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.<br />Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!<br />Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span><br /><br />Resources<br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br />https://www.celebratetrust.org/<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is now on 16 January 2024 and not 9 January as planned.</span><br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-27599732996863974972023-12-31T14:03:00.002+00:002023-12-31T14:03:45.013+00:00 Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Feast of the Holy Family, 31 December 2023<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="537281151" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/171230holyfamily13/full.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 353px;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />At various times in the past<br />and in various different ways,<br />God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets;<br />but in our own time, the last days,<br />he has spoken to us through his Son.<br />Alleluia!</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: Luke 2:22-40 </span></h2><div><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">My eyes have seen your salvation</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />When the day came for them to be purified as laid down by the Law of Moses, the parents of Jesus took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, – observing what stands written in the Law of the Lord: Every first-born male must be consecrated to the Lord – and also to offer in sacrifice, in accordance with what is said in the Law of the Lord, a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.<br /> Now in Jerusalem there was a man named Simeon. He was an upright and devout man; he looked forward to Israel’s comforting and the Holy Spirit rested on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death until he had set eyes on the Christ of the Lord. Prompted by the Spirit he came to the Temple and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the Law required, he took him into his arms and blessed God; and he said:<br />‘Now, Master, you can let your servant go in peace,<br />just as you promised;<br />because my eyes have seen the salvation<br />which you have prepared for all the nations to see,<br />a light to enlighten the pagans<br />and the glory of your people Israel.’<br />As the child’s father and mother stood there wondering at the things that were being said about him, Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, ‘You see this child: he is destined for the fall and for the rising of many in Israel, destined to be a sign that is rejected – and a sword will pierce your own soul too – so that the secret thoughts of many may be laid bare.’<br /> There was a prophetess also, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was well on in years. Her days of girlhood over, she had been married for seven years before becoming a widow. She was now eighty-four years old and never left the Temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayer. She came by just at that moment and began to praise God; and she spoke of the child to all who looked forward to the deliverance of Jerusalem.<br /> When they had done everything the Law of the Lord required, they went back to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. Meanwhile the child grew to maturity, and he was filled with wisdom; and God’s favour was with him.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span><br /><br />May the Holy Family bless all our families throughout the coming year.<br /><br />Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.<br />Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.<br /><br />Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus.<br /><br />Pray for healing for Milo (a small child in RVI his family have just been told that he has a large stomach tumour, and they are trying to get a team together to do an operation, situation is very grave, and they are worried that they can get the right people because of Christmas and the strikes.),<br />Stephen & Christine, Adam, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.<br />Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br />Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.<br />Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.<br />Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br />If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!<br />Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know<br /><br />Resources<br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br />https://www.celebratetrust.org/<br />8. Reflections on the Season of Advent - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br /><br />Events<br />Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 9 January 2024.<br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.<br /><br /><span style="color: #ba0b19;">Wishing you all a Happy and Holy Christmas and all best wishes for 2024.</span></h2></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-43190509530757830022023-12-23T17:54:00.003+00:002023-12-23T17:54:42.838+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Fourth Sunday of Advent - Christmas Eve - 24 December 2023<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="537036627" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/311336/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />I am the handmaid of the Lord:<br />let what you have said be done to me.<br />Alleluia!</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel Luke 1:26-38 </span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">'I am the handmaid of the Lord'</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />The angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. He went in and said to her, ‘Rejoice, so highly favoured! The Lord is with you.’ She was deeply disturbed by these words and asked herself what this greeting could mean, but the angel said to her, ‘Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God’s favour. Listen! You are to conceive and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David; he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and his reign will have no end.’ Mary said to the angel, ‘But how can this come about, since I am a virgin?’ ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you’ the angel answered ‘and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God. Know this too: your kinswoman Elizabeth has, in her old age, herself conceived a son, and she whom people called barren is now in her sixth month, for nothing is impossible to God.’ ‘I am the handmaid of the Lord,’ said Mary ‘let what you have said be done to me.’ And the angel left her.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Picture</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Picture of Blessed Mother carrying her child in her arms! She is searching and when finding doors trying to open them, The little King is crying as He can’t gain entry, finally Our Mother gains entry to all the doors and the little King gurgles and smiles in great Joy.<br /> <br />"My little ones, open the doors of your hearts and let my Son Jesus gain entry and He will reside within, in Joy and Peace. My word to you is, let the King Of All Glory enter, then you shall know such Joy and such Peace, and all shall recognise my Son within you.<br />Go in the Peace of my Son Jesus.<br />Mary"<br /><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Come, Lord Jesus, come. Give us Joy in our hearts.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for healing for Milo (a small child in RVI his family have just been told that he has a large stomach tumour, and they are trying to get a team together to do an operation, situation is very grave, and they are worried that they can get the right people because of Christmas and the strikes.), </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stephen & Christine, Adam, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #016099;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br /><a class="breakwords" href="https://www.celebratetrust.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="hyphens: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.celebratetrust.org/</a></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">8. Reflections on t<a href="https://diocesehn.org.uk/news/the-season-of-advent-2/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">he Season of Advent - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)</a> </span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 9 January 2024.<br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><span style="color: #ba0b19;">Wishing you all a Happy and Holy Christmas and all best wishes for 2024.</span></span></h2></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-29310086347615044412023-12-17T14:11:00.004+00:002023-12-17T14:11:31.560+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday) 17 December 2023<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="536662891" data-type="photo" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/231270/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gaudete</span><span style="font-weight: 600;"> Sunday </span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"></span>The third Sunday of Advent tells us ‘Gaudéte, rejoice!’ because the Lord is near.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />The spirit of the Lord has been given to me.<br />He has sent me to bring the good news to the poor.<br />Alleluia!</em></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: John 1:6-8,19-28 </span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />'There stands among you the one coming after me'</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />A man came, sent by God.<br />His name was John.<br />He came as a witness,<br />as a witness to speak for the light,<br />so that everyone might believe through him.<br />He was not the light,<br />only a witness to speak for the light.<br />This is how John appeared as a witness. When the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, ‘Who are you?’ he not only declared, but he declared quite openly, ‘I am not the Christ.’ ‘Well then,’ they asked ‘are you Elijah?’ ‘I am not’ he said. ‘Are you the Prophet?’ He answered, ‘No.’ So they said to him, ‘Who are you? We must take back an answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself?’ So John said, ‘I am, as Isaiah prophesied:<br />a voice that cries in the wilderness:<br />Make a straight way for the Lord.’<br />Now these men had been sent by the Pharisees, and they put this further question to him, ‘Why are you baptising if you are not the Christ, and not Elijah, and not the prophet?’ John replied, ‘I baptise with water; but there stands among you – unknown to you – the one who is coming after me; and I am not fit to undo his sandal-strap.’ This happened at Bethany, on the far side of the Jordan, where John was baptising.</span></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Notes from meeting on 12 December 2023:</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Picture of the Holy Family, the shepherds are reluctantly leaving, in the distance are three camel approaching, it is the three Wise Men.<br />The Wise Men arrive and get down from the camels, and go in to worship the little Saviour,<br />Placing their gifts before Him, they each seem to be in some kind of ecstasy at the site of the Holy Mother and her child. One of the Wise Men seems to see that many people in the future will come to this little Saviour, casting their hearts before Him. The Saviour will in turn relieve them of the chains that bind them and replace them with cords of Hope, Love, Courage and Faithfulness.<br /><br />"My dear children,<br />My Son Jesus loves you so much, come open your hearts to Him who is Love personified, and He will fill your hearts with wonder and awe and so you will realise that this really is a Blessed Season, He releases you from your bonds and any iniquity, for in His love for you He cannot deny you, even to the cost of His life. Come bask in the radiance of His Love, the Peace Child says “Come”.<br />Mary"</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">John 3 v16-21</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Come, Lord Jesus, come. Give is Joy in our hearts.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus. </h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for healing for Adam, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #016099;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span></span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br /><a class="breakwords" href="https://www.celebratetrust.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="hyphens: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.celebratetrust.org/</a></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">8. Reflections on t<a href="https://diocesehn.org.uk/news/the-season-of-advent-2/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">he Season of Advent - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)</a> </span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 9 January 2024.<br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Wishing you all a Happy and Holy Christmas and all best wishes for 2024.</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fundraiser.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Until the end of 2023 I am helping fundraise for the Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool, this facility cared for my wife Ann during her last month of illness before she passed away. The Hospice relies on donations to keep running so please be as generous as you are able. </h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So far I have raised £105 - and walked 160 miles.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">See link below.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stephen.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://alicehousehospice.enthuse.com/pf/stephen-allison-79736" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Alice House Hospice fundraise</a></div><div><br /></div></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-41014447397064643132023-12-09T18:04:00.003+00:002023-12-09T18:05:30.315+00:00 Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Second Sunday of Advent, 10 December 2023<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="536195908" data-type="photo" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/151451/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />Prepare a way for the Lord,<br />make his paths straight,<br />and all mankind shall see the salvation of God.<br />Alleluia!</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel Mark 1:1-8 </span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">A voice cries in the wilderness: prepare a way for the Lord</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />The beginning of the Good News about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It is written in the book of the prophet Isaiah:<br />Look, I am going to send my messenger before you;<br />he will prepare your way.<br />A voice cries in the wilderness:<br />Prepare a way for the Lord, make his paths straight.<br />and so it was that John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. All Judaea and all the people of Jerusalem made their way to him, and as they were baptised by him in the river Jordan they confessed their sins. John wore a garment of camel-skin, and he lived on locusts and wild honey. In the course of his preaching he said, ‘Someone is following me, someone who is more powerful than I am, and I am not fit to kneel down and undo the strap of his sandals. I have baptised you with water, but he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit.’</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Notes of meeting on 5 December 2023:</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Picture of Jesus as shepherd, He is surrounded by His sheep, He is carrying under His arms two wounded lambs and another on His shoulders, He soothes and tends them, these are His own and He guards them at all times, the three injured had left the field, but He went to find them and brought them home!<br />Then Jesus appears as a King, upon His head is a crown with many jewels, at the back of the base of the crown is a beautiful embedded stone of blue, engraved is a word, it is Theotokos! Many people follow Him with their heartfelt prayers, He is very much aware of the requests for countries, family and friends.<br /><br />"My people, I Am your Good Shepherd and I will never leave you orphan, you pray for graces for your countries families and friends. I hear your requests and I will take care of all at the appointed time, but now I require you to be My Vanguard and to pray for the lost sheep in all spheres of life, rich, poor, atheistic, those enmeshed so deeply in sin they see no way out and many more who are so far from My Father. I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life, none can come to My Father except through ME. There is no other way, you must try to be holy and we together with the Holy Spirit and My Mother will form an army, I will be with you, you must fight against evil with humility and with your prayers surrounding you like a uniform, then others will see the good and so turn from the evil. Put on the full armour of My Father and My Mother’s cohort of angels will defend you!<br />I Jesus, your King and Brother will always love you and lead you! </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bring Me souls, bring Me souls, Ah in your love for Me, Bring Me souls.<br />Jesus."<br /><br /></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Come, Lord Jesus, come.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for healing for Adam, Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #016099;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br /><a class="breakwords" href="https://www.celebratetrust.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="hyphens: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.celebratetrust.org/</a></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><span style="color: #ba0b19;">8. Reflections on t<a href="https://diocesehn.org.uk/news/the-season-of-advent-2/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">he Season of Advent - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)</a> </span></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 12 December 2023.<br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><span style="color: #ba0b19;">This is our last meeting of the year - we meet again on 9 January 2024. Wishing you all a Happy and Holy Christmas and looking forward to the New Year.</span></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fundraiser.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Until the end of 2023 I am helping fundraise for the Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool, this facility cared for my wife Ann during her last month of illness before she passed away. The Hospice relies on donations to keep running so please be as generous as you are able. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So far I have raised £105 - and walked 156 miles.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">See link below.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stephen.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><div><a href="https://alicehousehospice.enthuse.com/pf/stephen-allison-79736" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Alice House Hospice fundraise</a></div><div><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;" /></div></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-16490725966057861282023-12-03T14:21:00.001+00:002023-12-03T14:21:16.417+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - First Sunday of Advent, 3 December 2023<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="535757840" data-type="photo" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/46054/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">God of hosts, bring us back; let your face shine on us and we shall be saved.</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />Let us see, O Lord, your mercy<br />and give us your saving help.<br />Alleluia!</em></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: Mark 13:33-37 </span></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">If he comes unexpectedly, he must not find you asleep</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Be on your guard, stay awake, because you never know when the time will come. It is like a man travelling abroad: he has gone from home, and left his servants in charge, each with his own task; and he has told the doorkeeper to stay awake. So stay awake, because you do not know when the master of the house is coming, evening, midnight, cockcrow, dawn; if he comes unexpectedly, he must not find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake!’</span></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Grant, almighty Father,<br />that when Christ comes again we may go out to meet him<br /> bearing the harvest of good works achieved by your grace.<br />We pray that he will receive us into the company of the saints<br /> and call us into the kingdom of heaven.<br />Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,<br />who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,<br />God, for ever and ever.<br />Amen.</em><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Come, Lord Jesus, come.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus. </h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for healing for Bob, Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #016099;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span></span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br /><a class="breakwords" href="https://www.celebratetrust.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="hyphens: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.celebratetrust.org/</a></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><span style="color: #ba0b19;">8. Reflections on t<a href="https://diocesehn.org.uk/news/the-season-of-advent-2/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">he Season of Advent - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)</a> </span></span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 5 December 2023.<br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fundraiser.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Until the end of 2023 I am helping fundraise for the Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool, this facility cared for my wife Ann during her last month of illness before she passed away. The Hospice relies on donations to keep running so please be as generous as you are able. </h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So far I have raised £105 - and walked 146 miles.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">See link below.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stephen.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://alicehousehospice.enthuse.com/pf/stephen-allison-79736" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Alice House Hospice fundraise</a></div><div><br /></div></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-85653905572274846272023-11-26T14:16:00.002+00:002023-11-26T14:16:28.467+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe - 26 November 2023<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="535228680" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/122836/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Almighty, ever-living God, it is your will to unite the entire universe under your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, the King of heaven and earth.<br />Grant freedom to the whole of creation, and let it praise and serve your majesty for ever.<br />Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.<br />Amen.</em><br /><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord!<br />Blessings on the coming kingdom of our father David!<br />Alleluia!</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: Matthew 25:31-46</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />I was naked and you clothed me; sick, and you visited me</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />Jesus said to his disciples: ‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, escorted by all the angels, then he will take his seat on his throne of glory. All the nations will be assembled before him and he will separate men one from another as the shepherd separates sheep from goats. He will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left.<br /> ‘Then the King will say to those on his right hand, “Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take for your heritage the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you made me welcome; naked and you clothed me, sick and you visited me, in prison and you came to see me.” Then the virtuous will say to him in reply, “Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you; or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and make you welcome; naked and clothe you; sick or in prison and go to see you?” And the King will answer, “I tell you solemnly, in so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me.”<br /> ‘Next he will say to those on his left hand, “Go away from me, with your curse upon you, to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you never gave me food; I was thirsty and you never gave me anything to drink; I was a stranger and you never made me welcome, naked and you never clothed me, sick and in prison and you never visited me.” Then it will be their turn to ask, “Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty, a stranger or naked, sick or in prison, and did not come to your help?” Then he will answer, “I tell you solemnly, in so far as you neglected to do this to one of the least of these, you neglected to do it to me.”<br /> ‘And they will go away to eternal punishment, and the virtuous to eternal life.’</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Notes from meeting on 21 November:</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Picture of Our Lord on the Cross, He is in anguish and tears are pouring down His face!<br />At the foot of the Cross is Our Mother kissing His feet!<br />There are many people arriving at the Cross in terrible sorrow at the sight of the Saviour.<br />Angels appear and as each person arrives they spiritually take them to kiss the wounds of Our Lord Jesus, and just as a mother kissing her wounded child, this comforts Him and strengthens Him to carry out the Fathers wishes to save His children from their sins.<br /><br />"My dear children,<br />Draw near to my Son, comfort Him with your heartfelt love, come stay with Him, by His Wounds all are healed! By His Wounds all are saved from their sins! There is no sin so terrible that He cannot forgive you, turn to Him and repent, my Child look at Him on this Cross, this Cross that bears such love of you! Bring with you those in your hearts that need to be saved, kiss Him who is love and Saviour of all mankind.<br />I am your Mother and I will always direct you to my Son, and do so powerfully in front of His Cross.<br />Mary"<br /><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Merciful Saviour, hear our humble prayer for all your servants passed beyond life's care; though sin has touched them, yet their weakness spare. O grant them pardon, Jesus Saviour blest and give their spirits light and endless rest.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for healing for Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems.</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #016099;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br /><a class="breakwords" href="https://www.celebratetrust.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="hyphens: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.celebratetrust.org/</a></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 28 November 2023.<br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ba0b19;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Next Sunday 1 December 2023 is the First Sunday of Advent!</span></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fundraiser.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Until the end of 2023 I am helping fundraise for the Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool, this facility cared for my wife Ann during her last month of illness before she passed away. The Hospice relies on donations to keep running so please be as generous as you are able. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So far I have raised £105 - and walked 140 miles.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">See link below.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stephen.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><div><a href="https://alicehousehospice.enthuse.com/pf/stephen-allison-79736" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Alice House Hospice fundraise</a></div></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-60325715022921523022023-11-19T14:10:00.003+00:002023-11-19T14:10:30.573+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Sunday 19 November 2023<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="534880382" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/82199/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />Even if you have to die, says the Lord,<br />keep faithful, and I will give you<br />the crown of life.<br />Alleluia!</em><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel<br />Matthew 25:14-30</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />You have been faithful in small things: come and join in your master's happiness</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />Jesus spoke this parable to his disciples: ‘The kingdom of Heaven is like a man on his way abroad who summoned his servants and entrusted his property to them. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to a third one; each in proportion to his ability. Then he set out.<br /> ‘The man who had received the five talents promptly went and traded with them and made five more. The man who had received two made two more in the same way. But the man who had received one went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.<br /> ‘Now a long time after, the master of those servants came back and went through his accounts with them. The man who had received the five talents came forward bringing five more. “Sir,” he said “you entrusted me with five talents; here are five more that I have made.”<br /> ‘His master said to him, “Well done, good and faithful servant; you have shown you can be faithful in small things, I will trust you with greater; come and join in your master’s happiness.”<br /> ‘Next the man with the two talents came forward. “Sir,” he said “you entrusted me with two talents; here are two more that I have made.” His master said to him, “Well done, good and faithful servant; you have shown you can be faithful in small things, I will trust you with greater; come and join in your master’s happiness.”<br /> ‘Last came forward the man who had the one talent. “Sir,” said he “I had heard you were a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered; so I was afraid, and I went off and hid your talent in the ground. Here it is; it was yours, you have it back.” But his master answered him, “You wicked and lazy servant! So you knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered? Well then, you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have recovered my capital with interest. So now, take the talent from him and give it to the man who has the five talents. For to everyone who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough; but from the man who has not, even what he has will be taken away. As for this good-for-nothing servant, throw him out into the dark, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.”’</span></h2><div><br /></div><div><b><em>Lord help us to do all we can , whatever our situation in life, to fulfil the task you have given to us to be faithful to You and work for the spreading of the Kingdom by our works of love and service. Amen</em></b></div><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Notes from meeting on 14 November</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Picture of Jesus His Hand is on His Heart which is wide open, as He looks at us he asks us to open our hearts and listen not with the ears of our body but the spiritual ears of our hearts, as He looks at us He asks us to open our spiritual eyes and look deeply at the state of our hearts, Jesus then sends from His Heart a cascade of light which enters every heart that opens up to Him. He says ‘Receive and be filled’ !<br /><br />"My People, turn to Me your loving Saviour, come dwell with Me in My Heart, here you will find solace, here you will find courage, here you will find strength, here you will find boundless love. Yes My People look to Me, I will comfort you and send the Holy Spirit to guide you, yes guide you to Me your love, I love you with an unending love which has always been and will always be for you!<br />Nothing will separate Me from you, because I ache for your love, as a mother aches for her child, you each are My child, look to Me only, just as My Mother did and still does, she is your pattern, I love you little one, I love you!<br />Please My child don’t turn away from Me but come be with Me, I thirst for you like parched land, irrigate My Heart with your love.<br />Your Jesus"</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Hebrews 10 v 19-25</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">19 Therefore, my friends, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh), 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Merciful Saviour, hear our humble prayer for all your servants passed beyond life's care; though sin has touched them, yet their weakness spare. O grant them pardon, Jesus Saviour blest and give their spirits light and endless rest.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for healing for Rosie, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for Disha for his employment and personal needs.</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for Cathleen with mental health issues because of family problems</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #016099;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br /><a class="breakwords" href="https://www.celebratetrust.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="hyphens: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.celebratetrust.org/</a></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 22 November 2023.<br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fundraiser.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Until the end of 2023 I am helping fundraise for the Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool, this facility cared for my wife Ann during her last month of illness before she passed away. The Hospice relies on donations to keep running so please be as generous as you are able. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So far I have raised £105 - and walked 135 miles.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">See link below.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stephen.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><div><a href="https://alicehousehospice.enthuse.com/pf/stephen-allison-79736" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Alice House Hospice fundraise</a></div></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-67886163955697903122023-11-05T14:37:00.002+00:002023-11-05T14:37:23.782+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Sunday 5 November 2023<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="533958499" data-type="photo" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/122834/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />Speak, Lord, your servant is listening:<br />you have the message of eternal life.<br />Alleluia!</em><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel Matthew 23:1-12 </span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">They do not practise what they preach</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />Addressing the people and his disciples Jesus said, ‘The scribes and the Pharisees occupy the chair of Moses. You must therefore do what they tell you and listen to what they say; but do not be guided by what they do: since they do not practise what they preach. They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but will they lift a finger to move them? Not they! Everything they do is done to attract attention, like wearing broader phylacteries and longer tassels, like wanting to take the place of honour at banquets and the front seats in the synagogues, being greeted obsequiously in the market squares and having people call them Rabbi.<br /> ‘You, however, must not allow yourselves to be called Rabbi, since you have only one master, and you are all brothers. You must call no one on earth your father, since you have only one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor must you allow yourselves to be called teachers, for you have only one Teacher, the Christ. The greatest among you must be your servant. Anyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and anyone who humbles himself will be exalted.’</span><br /><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Notes from meeting 31 October 2023</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Picture of a stormy sea, floating in the sea and nearly drowning is a woman, she can see land but as much as she tries to push herself she cannot get past the tide which is taking her further and further out, in deep trouble she calls upon the Almighty God and asks for help. She sees a huge piece of wood floating towards her and she somehow manages to hang on to it, when she looks back at the wood she can see many many people clinging on for their lives. The people all start in unison to make their feet work and paddle towards shore and with the aid of a strong wind they start to make headway!<br />On the shore is a great light so bright it is hard to see but there are figures in the light, one in particular is raising His Hand and the sea settles to a gentle roll, as the wood nears the shore many hands reach out to help those who were nearly lost, as they look back at the wood they see they were holding on to the Cross of Christ.<br /><br />"My dear children<br />So close to my Heart, when all things around seem grim and all seems lost, cling to the Cross of my Son Jesus, His Cross will bring you home to us, His Cross will deliver you from all evil. </h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you make His Cross the altar of your life upon which you offer all your sacrifices, good works, sorrows, joys and especially your love for Him, then along with prayer from the heart you will bring souls to the Saviour, then through my Immaculate Heart all will be magnified, the child that has gone astray, the family at odds within, all shall come right, and you will see miracles wrought by that which you have offered my Son! </h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NOTHING is impossible with God, have faith my little ones, you are each so dear to my Heart, I leave you with my Motherly Blessing through my Son’s Heart..<br />Mary"</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Luke 4 v 18-19<br />18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,<br /> because he has anointed me<br /> to proclaim good news to the poor.<br />He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners<br /> and recovery of sight for the blind,<br />to set the oppressed free,<br />19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.”</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Merciful Saviour, hear our humble prayer for all your servants passed beyond life's care; though sin has touched them, yet their weakness spare. O grant them pardon, Jesus Saviour blest and give their spirits light and endless rest.</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus. </h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for healing for Fr John Cooper in hospital for a hip replacement, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br />If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #016099;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span></span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br /><a class="breakwords" href="https://www.celebratetrust.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="hyphens: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.celebratetrust.org/</a></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 7 November 2023.<br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fundraiser.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Until the end of 2023 I am helping fundraise for the Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool, this facility cared for my wife Ann during her last month of illness before she passed away. The Hospice relies on donations to keep running so please be as generous as you are able. </h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So far I have raised £105 - and walked 120 miles.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">See link below.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stephen.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://alicehousehospice.enthuse.com/pf/stephen-allison-79736" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Alice House Hospice fundraise</a></div><div><br /></div></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-11971168281423782792023-10-29T14:22:00.002+00:002023-10-29T14:22:17.278+00:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Sunday 29 October 2023<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="533465269" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/181244/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />Open our heart, O Lord,<br />to accept the words of your Son.<br />Alleluia!</em><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"> <br />The commandments of love</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to disconcert him, one of them put a question, ‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’ Jesus said, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets also.’</span><br /><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Do we Love God with all our heart, soul and mind?</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Do we love our neighbour as our self?</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for healing for Fr John Cooper in hospital for a hip replacement, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #016099;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br /><a class="breakwords" href="https://www.celebratetrust.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="hyphens: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.celebratetrust.org/</a></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 31st October 2023.<br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wednesday 1 November - Feast of All Saints - Holy Day of Obligation.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Thursday 2nd November - Feast of All Souls.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fundraiser.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Until the end of 2023 I am helping fundraise for the Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool, this facility cared for my wife Ann during her last month of illness before she passed away. The Hospice relies on donations to keep running so please be as generous as you are able. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So far I have raised £105 - and walked 111 miles.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">See link below.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stephen.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><div><a href="https://alicehousehospice.enthuse.com/pf/stephen-allison-79736" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Alice House Hospice fundraise</a></div></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-3761475768186660552023-10-22T14:42:00.003+01:002023-10-22T14:42:53.418+01:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Sunday 22 October 2023<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="532995725" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/5c5105c3b4ebfbffebe9a297cfd812404/full.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 263px;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />Your word is truth, O Lord:<br />consecrate us in the truth.<br />Alleluia!</em><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel<br />Matthew 22:15-21</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"> <br />Give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />The Pharisees went away to work out between them how to trap Jesus in what he said. And they sent their disciples to him, together with the Herodians, to say, ‘Master, we know that you are an honest man and teach the way of God in an honest way, and that you are not afraid of anyone, because a man’s rank means nothing to you. Tell us your opinion, then. Is it permissible to pay taxes to Caesar or not?’ But Jesus was aware of their malice and replied, ‘You hypocrites! Why do you set this trap for me? Let me see the money you pay the tax with.’ They handed him a denarius, and he said, ‘Whose head is this? Whose name?’ ‘Caesar’s’ they replied. He then said to them, ‘Very well, give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar – and to God what belongs to God.’</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Lord help us to offer ourselves to You as a living sacrifice, help us give you Praise and Worship.</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Help us serve you and our brothers and sisters.</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for healing for Fr John Cooper in hospital for a hip replacement, Pauline with cancer and on her end of life journey, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Sandy, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #016099;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br /><a class="breakwords" href="https://www.celebratetrust.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="hyphens: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.celebratetrust.org/</a></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 24th October 2023.<br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fundraiser.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Until the end of 2023 I am helping fundraise for the Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool, this facility cared for my wife Ann during her last month of illness before she passed away. The Hospice relies on donations to keep running so please be as generous as you are able. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So far I have raised £105 - and walked 105 miles.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">See link below.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stephen.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><div><a href="https://alicehousehospice.enthuse.com/pf/stephen-allison-79736" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Alice House Hospice fundraise</a></div></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-72572758972005689112023-10-15T14:52:00.002+01:002023-10-15T14:52:15.378+01:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Sunday 15 October 2023<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="532538007" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/psalm23v6/full.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 315px;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />The Word was made flesh and lived among us:<br />to all who did accept him<br />he gave power to become children of God.<br />Alleluia!</em><br /><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: Matthew 22:1-14</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"> <a href="https://universalis.com/mass.htm#copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"></a></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Invite everyone you can to the wedding</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Jesus began to speak to the chief priests and elders of the people in parables: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a feast for his son’s wedding. He sent his servants to call those who had been invited, but they would not come. Next he sent some more servants. “Tell those who have been invited” he said “that I have my banquet all prepared, my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, everything is ready. Come to the wedding.” But they were not interested: one went off to his farm, another to his business, and the rest seized his servants, maltreated them and killed them. The king was furious. He despatched his troops, destroyed those murderers and burnt their town. Then he said to his servants, “The wedding is ready; but as those who were invited proved to be unworthy, go to the crossroads in the town and invite everyone you can find to the wedding.” So these servants went out on to the roads and collected together everyone they could find, bad and good alike; and the wedding hall was filled with guests. When the king came in to look at the guests he noticed one man who was not wearing a wedding garment, and said to him, “How did you get in here, my friend, without a wedding garment?” And the man was silent. Then the king said to the attendants, “Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the dark, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.” For many are called, but few are chosen.’<br /></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Notes from meeting on 10 October 2023:</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Picture of Our Blessed Lord, He is resting His Hands on a book it is the Bible, around Our Lord Jesus is a strong light and from the Bible streams of light and water issue.<br /><br />"My People My Word enlightens your minds, your hearts and your very souls.<br />My People My Word irrigates your minds, your hearts and your very souls.<br />My People I Am the Word and you are My Body which I feed and nurture.<br />My People I love you, so much so, that I suffered and died for each of you.<br />I ask you with My bruised and loving Heart turn to Me, listen to Me, I ask that you try to do My Will and with the aid of the Holy Spirit you will receive from My Heart the warmth of My light and the water to keep your spiritual life alive.<br />Read My Word, live it, act on it, for My Word is real food for your soul.<br />My People I love you so, do not abandon Me or My Word!<br />Your Loving Jesus."</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">John 14 v 8 - 17</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><sup>8 </sup>Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><sup>9 </sup>Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? <sup>10 </sup>Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. <sup>11 </sup>Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. <sup>12 </sup>Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. <sup>13 </sup>And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. <sup>14 </sup>You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><sup>15 </sup>“If you love me, keep my commands. <sup>16 </sup>And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— <sup>17 </sup>the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you</span></h2><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Mighty God, Father, Son and Spirit keep us faithful to You.</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Open our hearts and minds to the living Word of the Scriptures.</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Keep us faithful to your commands and ever hopeful of your promises.</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Fill us with Your Holy Spirit, confirm us in your Truth. Amen</em></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for healing for Fr John Cooper in hospital for a hip replacement, Pauline with cancer and on her end of life journey, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Sandy, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #016099;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br /><a class="breakwords" href="https://www.celebratetrust.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="hyphens: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.celebratetrust.org/</a></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 17th October 2023.<br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fundraiser.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Until the end of 2023 I am helping fundraise for the Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool, this facility cared for my wife Ann during her last month of illness before she passed away. The Hospice relies on donations to keep running so please be as generous as you are able. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So far I have raised £105 - and walked 97 miles.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">See link below.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stephen.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><div><a href="https://alicehousehospice.enthuse.com/pf/stephen-allison-79736" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Alice House Hospice fundraise</a></div></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-29700100915507206562023-10-08T14:31:00.002+01:002023-10-08T14:31:22.142+01:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Sunday 8 October 2023<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="532084364" data-type="photo" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/91829/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />I call you friends, says the Lord,<br />because I have made known to you<br />everything I have learnt from my Father.<br />Alleluia!</em><br /><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel<br />Matthew 21:33-43<br />This is the landlord's heir: come, let us kill him<br />Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people, ‘Listen to another parable. There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug a winepress in it and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants and went abroad. When vintage time drew near he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his produce. But the tenants seized his servants, thrashed one, killed another and stoned a third. Next he sent some more servants, this time a larger number, and they dealt with them in the same way. Finally he sent his son to them. “They will respect my son” he said. But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, “This is the heir. Come on, let us kill him and take over his inheritance.” So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?’ They answered, ‘He will bring those wretches to a wretched end and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will deliver the produce to him when the season arrives.’ Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read in the scriptures:<br />It was the stone rejected by the builders<br />that became the keystone.<br />This was the Lord’s doing<br />and it is wonderful to see?<br />‘I tell you, then, that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.’</span></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><em><br /></em></span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Lord may we produce fruit for the Kingdom.</em></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Notes from meeting on 3 October 2023</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Ephesians 4 v 17- 32</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>The Old Life and the New</b><br /><b>17 Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. 19 They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 That is not the way you learned Christ! 21 For surely you have heard about him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus. 22 You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.</b><br /><br /><b>Rules for the New Life</b><br /><b>25 So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours, for we are members of one another. 26 Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and do not make room for the devil. 28 Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labour and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. 29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. 31 Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, 32 and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.</b></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Lord lead us from darkness into your Light and Truth.</em></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Lord redeem us, forgive us, fill us with your Holy Spirit.</em></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Help us love you and love one another. Amen</em></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus. </h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for healing for Fr John Cooper in hospital for a hip replacement, Pauline with cancer and on her end of life journey, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Tony, Joan, Sandy, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #016099;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span></span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br /><a class="breakwords" href="https://www.celebratetrust.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="hyphens: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.celebratetrust.org/</a></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 10th October 2023.<br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fundraiser.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Until the end of 2023 I am helping fundraise for the Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool, this facility cared for my wife Ann during her last month of illness before she passed away. The Hospice relies on donations to keep running so please be as generous as you are able. </h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So far I have raised £75 - and walked 90 miles.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">See link below.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stephen.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://alicehousehospice.enthuse.com/pf/stephen-allison-79736" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Alice House Hospice fundraise</a></div><div><br /></div></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-65496930028406660992023-10-01T14:07:00.002+01:002023-10-01T14:07:15.992+01:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Sunday 1 October 2023<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="531605140" data-type="photo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/crownedmary/full.png" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">October - Month of the Holy Rosary</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>If anyone loves me he will keep my word,</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>and my Father will love him,</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>and we shall come to him.</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia!</em></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel: Matthew 21:28-32<a href="https://universalis.com/mass.htm#copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"></a></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people, ‘What is your opinion? A man had two sons. He went and said to the first, “My boy, you go and work in the vineyard today.” He answered, “I will not go,” but afterwards thought better of it and went. The man then went and said the same thing to the second who answered, “Certainly, sir,” but did not go. Which of the two did the father’s will?’ ‘The first’ they said. Jesus said to them, ‘I tell you solemnly, tax collectors and prostitutes are making their way into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you, a pattern of true righteousness, but you did not believe him, and yet the tax collectors and prostitutes did. Even after seeing that, you refused to think better of it and believe in him.’</span></h2><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Notes from meeting 26 October 2023</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A picture of Jesus on top of high mountain, He is calling His sheep to safety.<br />At the base of the mountain and as far as the eye can see are sheep milling about, but at the call of His Voice they immediately start to come toward the mountain.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The sheep cannot find a safe path and because of the darkness fear overcomes them. Then all of a sudden all the Saints, Martyrs and Angels, in fact all the Holy One’s from Heaven form a corridor of light by lining up in two lines from the top of the mountain to the base, and so the sheep move towards the light and onto the path with the Holy Ones encouraging them on either side!<br />At the very base of the mountain are Our Blessed Mother and St Pio who do not leave until the last sheep is safe.<br /><br />"My dear children<br />Come to the refuge of my Son’s Heart, here you will find security and love, keep your eyes fixed on Him, do not look right or left at all that is going on to distract you, My adversary tries to lure you away from the path to Heaven, but all of Heaven at this time is set to aid you and guide you, pray with the heart my little ones, your Mother is here to help and guide you to Jesus, He Who is Constant Love, listen to His Voice and ignore false voices! I am with you and cover you with my Motherly Mantle, all will be well!<br />Mary"</h2><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I cover all hesitancy and shame with the courage of my love (The Cross) .</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Let your faces not be abashed.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Psalm 34 v5 Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered in shame</span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jesus' love and his sacrifice on the Cross take away our shame. We should not be hesitant in looking to Him for with Him is mercy and love.</h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for healing for Pauline with cancer and on her end of life journey, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Charlotte, Tony, Joan, Sandy, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #016099;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span></span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br /><a class="breakwords" href="https://www.celebratetrust.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="hyphens: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.celebratetrust.org/</a></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 3rd October 2023.<br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fundraiser.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Until the end of 2023 I am helping fundraise for the Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool, this facility cared for my wife Ann during her last month of illness before she passed away. The Hospice relies on donations to keep running so please be as generous as you are able. </h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So far I have raised £55 - and walked 85 miles.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">See link below.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stephen.</h2><h2 style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><div><a href="https://alicehousehospice.enthuse.com/pf/stephen-allison-79736" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Alice House Hospice fundraise</a></div></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430908829554942392.post-83942304083906693282023-09-24T14:50:00.003+01:002023-09-24T14:50:23.135+01:00Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Sunday 24 September 2023<p> </p><div class="email_item item_type_photo" data-itemid="531119923" data-type="photo" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="https://d6iyrqjd26xke.cloudfront.net/40mat2015/full.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 306px;" /></div><div class="email_item item_type_text" data-itemid="" data-type="text" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Alleluia, alleluia!<br />Blessings on the King who comes,<br />in the name of the Lord!<br />Peace in heaven<br />and glory in the highest heavens!<br />Alleluia!</em><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Gospel Matthew 20:1-16 </span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Why be envious because I am generous?</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><br />Jesus said to his disciples: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner going out at daybreak to hire workers for his vineyard. He made an agreement with the workers for one denarius a day, and sent them to his vineyard. Going out at about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place and said to them, “You go to my vineyard too and I will give you a fair wage.” So they went. At about the sixth hour and again at about the ninth hour, he went out and did the same. Then at about the eleventh hour he went out and found more men standing round, and he said to them, “Why have you been standing here idle all day?” “Because no one has hired us” they answered. He said to them, “You go into my vineyard too.” In the evening, the owner of the vineyard said to his bailiff, “Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last arrivals and ending with the first.” So those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came forward and received one denarius each. When the first came, they expected to get more, but they too received one denarius each. They took it, but grumbled at the landowner. “The men who came last” they said “have done only one hour, and you have treated them the same as us, though we have done a heavy day’s work in all the heat.” He answered one of them and said, “My friend, I am not being unjust to you; did we not agree on one denarius? Take your earnings and go. I choose to pay the last comer as much as I pay you. Have I no right to do what I like with my own? Why be envious because I am generous?” Thus the last will be first, and the first, last.’</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Notes from meeting on 19th September 2023</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A Picture of Blessed Mother resplendent in gold.<br />She has in her arms her child Jesus, Our Mother lifts Him up and He holds out his little arms in welcome. The Child Jesus becomes full of light, so much so that His body can no longer be distinguished from the light. The light pulses and a small white lamb can be seen within the light, the lamb is spotless and without blemish, it is as though the Blessed Mother has become the surrounding Monstrance of her Son Jesus. Then gently the pulsing stops and Blessed Mother and Child recede back upwards.<br /><br />"My dear little children.<br />My Son reaches out to each of you, He pours the light of His Love upon all who visit and reach out to Him, His Love pulses out upon you, He who is all Love all Purity calls to each of you to immolate your lives in Him, let your will be made holy by conforming your will to His Holy Will, then you will in time become within your heart and soul more perfected!<br />My little ones be careful of my adversary, he who sows pride and sin to bring my little ones down, turn to your Mother and I will always lead you to my Son who is all Holiness and all Love! </h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray my children for those who are led astray, pray that they would look to Jesus and be saved. Pray for my Son’s Church and all Religious, they are in need of your heartfelt and holy prayer, love conquers all, especially the Love of my Son’s Sacred Heart!<br />Mary, Mother of All."</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Open your hearts to my love.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Open your hearts that you may Praise and Worship Me.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I knock on your hearts, open your hearts to My Love</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Psalm 95<br />1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;<br /> let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.<br />2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving<br /> and extol him with music and song.<br />3 For the Lord is the great God,<br /> the great King above all gods.<br />4 In his hand are the depths of the earth,<br /> and the mountain peaks belong to him.<br />5 The sea is his, for he made it,<br /> and his hands formed the dry land.<br />6 Come, let us bow down in worship,<br /> let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;<br />7 for he is our God<br /> and we are the people of his pasture,<br /> the flock under his care.<br />Today, if only you would hear his voice,<br />8 “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,<br /> as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,<br />9 where your ancestors tested me;<br /> they tried me, though they had seen what I did.<br />10 For forty years I was angry with that generation;<br /> I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,<br /> and they have not known my ways.’<br />11 So I declared on oath in my anger,<br /> ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”</span><br /><br /></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Intercessions</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus. </h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for healing for Pauline with cancer and on her end of life journey, John Joynes, Vanessa, Cathy, Matthew, Gina Hardy, Jeff Shore, Owen McEneaney, Reese, Rosie, Charlotte, Tony, Joan, Sandy, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek, Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.<br /><br />Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.<br /><br />Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.<br /><br />Pray for lost souls.<br /><br />Pray for the conversion of the World.<br /><br />Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.<br /><br />Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.<br /><br />Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.<br />Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.<br />Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.<br /><br /><span style="color: #016099;">If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #016099;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know</span></span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 600;">Resources</span><br />1.Theotokos Prayer Group:<br />https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415<br />/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/<br />2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:<br />https://universalis.com/mass.htm<br />3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -<br />https://www.cbcew.org.uk<br />4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:<br />Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)<br />5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:<br />http://www.ccr.org.uk/<br />6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International<br />https://www.charis.international/en/home/<br />7. Celebrate Conference website<br /><a class="breakwords" href="https://www.celebratetrust.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="hyphens: auto; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.celebratetrust.org/</a></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Events</span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 26th September 2023.<br />Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fundraiser.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Until the end of 2023 I am helping fundraise for the Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool, this facility cared for my wife Ann during her last month of illness before she passed away. The Hospice relies on donations to keep running so please be as generous as you are able. </h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So far I have raised £55 - and walked 75 miles.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">See link below.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stephen.</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://alicehousehospice.enthuse.com/pf/stephen-allison-79736" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Alice House Hospice fundraise</a></div><div><br /></div></div>Stephen Allison (Blogmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01737368816826108476noreply@blogger.com0