Sunday, 30 April 2023
Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Fourth Sunday of Easter - 30 April 2023
Pray for healing for Jeff, Owen McEneaney, Barry Lamb, Reese, Rosie, Charlotte, Tony, Joan, Sandy, Anthony, Peter, Mia, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.
Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 2nd May 2023.
A Mass for Pentecost: ‘Come Holy Spirit: Hope for the Present and Future’
Sunday, 23 April 2023
Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Third Sunday of Easter - 23 April 2023
Gospel Luke 24:13-35
They recognised him at the breaking of bread
Two of the disciples of Jesus were on their way to a village called Emmaus, seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking together about all that had happened. Now as they talked this over, Jesus himself came up and walked by their side; but something prevented them from recognising him. He said to them, ‘What matters are you discussing as you walk along?’ They stopped short, their faces downcast.
Then one of them, called Cleopas, answered him, ‘You must be the only person staying in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have been happening there these last few days.’ ‘What things?’ he asked. ‘All about Jesus of Nazareth’ they answered ‘who proved he was a great prophet by the things he said and did in the sight of God and of the whole people; and how our chief priests and our leaders handed him over to be sentenced to death, and had him crucified. Our own hope had been that he would be the one to set Israel free. And this is not all: two whole days have gone by since it all happened; and some women from our group have astounded us: they went to the tomb in the early morning, and when they did not find the body, they came back to tell us they had seen a vision of angels who declared he was alive. Some of our friends went to the tomb and found everything exactly as the women had reported, but of him they saw nothing.’
Then he said to them, ‘You foolish men! So slow to believe the full message of the prophets! Was it not ordained that the Christ should suffer and so enter into his glory?’ Then, starting with Moses and going through all the prophets, he explained to them the passages throughout the scriptures that were about himself.
When they drew near to the village to which they were going, he made as if to go on; but they pressed him to stay with them. ‘It is nearly evening’ they said ‘and the day is almost over.’ So he went in to stay with them. Now while he was with them at table, he took the bread and said the blessing; then he broke it and handed it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognised him; but he had vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, ‘Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?’
They set out that instant and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven assembled together with their companions, who said to them, ‘Yes, it is true. The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.’ Then they told their story of what had happened on the road and how they had recognised him at the breaking of bread.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Lord Jesus, explain the Scriptures to us.
Make our hearts burn within us as you talk to us.
Alleluia!
Lord help us recognise you as you walk with us on life's journey. Help us recognise your presence in the Scriptures, in the Eucharist and in the Church and one another.
Notes from meeting on 18th April 2023
A picture of people praying and a mighty wind swirling around them, the people are praising and singing out to God The Father and to Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
The wind seems to quieten and a stillness is felt, then the wind becomes like a gentle breeze that caresses each person deepening their prayer and praise!
"My Dear Children
When you pray in the Spirit of the Holy Trinity, nothing will distract you as all Angels descend to form a wall of love around you!
Pray my little one’s for my Son’s Church and my Priest sons.
Pray my little one’s for Mankind that the light of my Son will enter their hearts.
Pray my little one’s for those souls who seem to be so lost to my Son’s will.
Pray my little one’s for all families of all creeds and nationalities, that they will be drawn to my Son Jesus.
Pray my little one’s for young people that they can detach from the World, and so turn to my Son.
My Motherly Heart encompasses each of you and all of your families and presents them to the Holy Trinity, Be at Peace my children, do all that I have asked, pray, make sacrifice, be holy and all will be well.
Mary your Mother"
Intercessions
Pray for the soul of Julia Gallagher. May she Rest in Peace. Pray for comfort for Steve and the family.
Pray for those newly baptised and received into the Church this Easter.
Pray for healing for Jeff, Owen McEneaney, Barry Lamb, Reese, Rosie, Charlotte, Tony, Joan, Sandy, Anthony, Peter, Mia, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.
Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.
Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.
Pray for lost souls.
Pray for the conversion of the World.
Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and throughout the World.
Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.
Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.
Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.
Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.
Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.
Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.
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!
Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know
Resources
1.Theotokos Prayer Group:
https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415
/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/
2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:
https://universalis.com/mass.htm
3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -
https://www.cbcew.org.uk
4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:
Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)
5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:
http://www.ccr.org.uk/
6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International
https://www.charis.international/en/home/
7. Celebrate Conference Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/Celebratecommunity/
Events
No meeting on 25th April.
Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 2nd May 2023.
Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.
Sunday, 16 April 2023
Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Divine Mercy Sunday (Second Sunday of Easter) 16 April 2023
Jesus, I Trust in You
Gospel John 20:19-31
Eight days later, Jesus came again and stood among them
In the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, the doors were closed in the room where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood among them. He said to them, ‘Peace be with you’, and showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy when they saw the Lord, and he said to them again, ‘Peace be with you.
‘As the Father sent me,
so am I sending you.’
After saying this he breathed on them and said:
‘Receive the Holy Spirit.
For those whose sins you forgive,
they are forgiven;
for those whose sins you retain,
they are retained.’
Thomas, called the Twin, who was one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. When the disciples said, ‘We have seen the Lord’, he answered, ‘Unless I see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.’ Eight days later the disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. ‘Peace be with you’ he said. Then he spoke to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; look, here are my hands. Give me your hand; put it into my side. Doubt no longer but believe.’ Thomas replied, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him:
‘You believe because you can see me.
Happy are those who have not seen and yet believe.’
There were many other signs that Jesus worked and the disciples saw, but they are not recorded in this book. These are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing this you may have life through his name.
1 Peter 1:9
You did not see him, yet you love him; and still without seeing him, you are already filled with a joy so glorious that it cannot be described, because you believe; and you are sure of the end to which your faith looks forward, that is, the salvation of your souls.
Notes from meeting on 11 April 2023
Picture
Picture of our World in gloom and darkness, above is Our Lord Jesus on His Cross,
Then the Cross fades away and Jesus is before the World full of light and triumphant, from his Wounds pours unctuous oil, the precious oil flows down to parts of the globe where Christians reside, the blessed people become ecstatic as they can see Our Lord above them, and they can see light pouring through the oil as it pours upon them. After the anointing the Christians feel able to see all truth, it is as though all doubt all regrets all discouraging thoughts disappear in an instant, they start raising there hands and praising, others see them some who have been lukewarm, others who didn’t believe, atheists all turn to the Son of God in the sky, and the few Christians become a mighty throng, jumping throwing their arms towards the sky, tears and smiles on the faces.
The Mighty God has sent His Son the Saviour.
"My dear children,
Look to my Son Jesus, do not lose hope, do not lose joy, do not lose faith and you will see the love of my Son move mountains, truly grasp that all is not as my adversary would have you believe!
Prayer and Love are the keys.
I am with you in these troubling times, but Joy will be yours in the end.
Mary"
Psalm 95
1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving
and extol him with music and song.
3 For the Lord is the great God,
the great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5 The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;
7 for he is our God
and we are the people of his pasture,
the flock under his care.
Today, if only you would hear his voice,
8 “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,
as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 where your ancestors tested me;
they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’”
Intercessions
Lord have Mercy on us all.
Pray for those newly baptised and received into the Church this Easter.
Pray for healing for Owen McEneaney, Barry Lamb, Reese, Rosie, Charlotte, Tony, Joan, Sandy, Anthony, Peter, Mia, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.
Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.
Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.
Pray for lost souls.
Pray for the conversion of the World.
Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and throughout the World.
Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.
Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.
Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.
Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.
Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.
Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.
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!
Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know
Resources
1.Theotokos Prayer Group:
https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415
/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/
2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:
https://universalis.com/mass.htm
3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -
https://www.cbcew.org.uk
4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:
Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)
5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:
http://www.ccr.org.uk/
6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International
https://www.charis.international/en/home/
7. Celebrate Conference Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/Celebratecommunity/
Events
Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 18th April 2023.
Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.
Sunday, 9 April 2023
Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Easter Sunday 9 April 2023
Happy Easter to you all. He is Risen. Alleluia!
Gospel John 20:1-9
He must rise from the dead
It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved. ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb’ she said ‘and we don’t know where they have put him.’
So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb. They ran together, but the other disciple, running faster than Peter, reached the tomb first; he bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in. Simon Peter who was following now came up, went right into the tomb, saw the linen cloths on the ground, and also the cloth that had been over his head; this was not with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in; he saw and he believed. Till this moment they had failed to understand the teaching of scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
O God, who on this day, through your Only Begotten Son, have conquered death and unlocked for us the path to eternity, grant, we pray, that we who keep the solemnity of the Lord's Resurrection may, through the renewal brought by your Spirit, rise up in the light of life. 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.
Notes from meeting on 4 April 2023
Picture of many priests in a circle praying, looking at them and waiting for the right time to attack were a pack of wolves, one wolf seemed to be the master of the others.
Our Lady was in the centre of a circle of praying people they were with her saying the Rosary, they were deep in prayer connected to the Holy Spirit.
The wolf growled and suddenly writhing snakes came past the wolves toward the priests, then as the people prayed louder, a circle of armoured Angels enclosed around the priests and the Angels turned their shields outwards and the light of the Spirit together with the prayers from the people seemed to hit the shields and so blind the snakes and the wolves, the light actually made them spring back and the snakes disappeared and the wolves slunk away.
"My children,
With humble hearts pray to the Holy Spirit for my priest sons, my adversary is prowling around them trying to confuse them and to attack them!
My little ones your prayers and praise will raise a mighty army of Light which the Holy Spirit will use to protect my sons and to keep them in the Peace of my Son Jesus.
Pray with me, Llift up your hearts to the Father and together we will call down on my Son’s Holy Church all holiness from the Holy Trinity.
My Mothers Heart entreats you to come pray and my Immaculate Heart will sustain you in all things for the good of my Son’s Church and it’s sons, in turn you and your families will be blessed too. I am the Mother of the Church and I call you my little ones to pray pray pray!
Mary"
Mary, Mother of the Church pray for us!
Intercessions
Pray for those newly baptised and received into the Church this Easter weekend.
Pray for healing for Barry, Reese, Rosie, Charlotte, Tony, Joan, Sandy, Anthony, Peter, Mia, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek Malcolm, Hollie, and Harlan Moon.
Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.
Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.
Pray for lost souls.
Pray for the conversion of the World.
Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and throughout the World.
Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.
Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.
Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.
Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.
Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.
Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.
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!
Resources
1.Theotokos Prayer Group:
https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415
/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/
2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:
https://universalis.com/mass.htm
3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -
https://www.cbcew.org.uk
4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:
Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)
5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:
http://www.ccr.org.uk/
6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International
https://www.charis.international/en/home/
7. Celebrate Conference Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/Celebratecommunity/
Events
Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 11th April 2023.
Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.
I've now finished the CAFOD Big Lent Walk - Total distance walked 241.9km and raised £150 so far:
https://cafod.enthuse.com/pf/stephen-allison
Sunday, 2 April 2023
Theotokos Prayer Group 2023 - Palm Sunday - Passion Sunday - 2nd April 2023
Gospels
Matthew 21:1-11
Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord!
‘Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest!’
Matthew 26:14-27:66
The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
✠ Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
That is, ‘My God, my God, why have you deserted me?’
Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory!
Christ was humbler yet,
even to accepting death, death on a cross.
But God raised him high
and gave him the name which is above all names.
Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory!
Intercessions
Pray for Jimmy Docherty who died last Sunday morning may he Rest in Peace. Please pray for the comfort of Pauline his wife & family.
Please pray for Reece, he is 21 years old and has learning difficulties. He was beaten by so call 'friends' on an evening out who had taken drugs and tried to rob him. They left him in a ditch. Reece is now blaming himself.
Please pray for complete healing for this young man.
Pray in thanksgiving for Canon John Stephen Cooper. 50 years a Priest - 11th March 1973-2023. May the Lord continue to bless him and his ministry.
Pray for those killed in the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, those who grieve, those who are injured and those left to rebuild their lives.
We have been praying for Liah with terminal cancer she has now passed away. May she Rest in Peace. Pray for her family.
Pray for healing for Rosie, Charlotte, Tony, Joan, Sandy, Anthony, Peter, Mia, Jackie, Nathan, Jessica, Alan Guile, David, Derek Malcolm, Hollie, also for Harlan Moon who is still in a coma from over three months ago.
Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.
Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.
Pray for lost souls.
Pray for the conversion of the World.
Lord we continue to pray for Peace in Ukraine and throughout the World.
Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.
Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.
Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.
Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.
Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.
Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.
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!
Resources
1.Theotokos Prayer Group:
https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415
/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/
2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:
https://universalis.com/mass.htm
3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -
https://www.cbcew.org.uk
4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:
Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)
5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England:
http://www.ccr.org.uk/
6. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International
https://www.charis.international/en/home/
7. Celebrate Conference Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/Celebratecommunity/
Events
Next meeting of Theotokos Prayer Group is on 4th April 2023.
Meet at St Mary's Presbytery, Major Street, Stockton on Tees at 7.30PM. All welcome.
I'm taking part in the CAFOD Big Lent Walk - So far I've walked 213km and raised £110 - please sponsor me if you can (thank you for donations given so far):
https://cafod.enthuse.com/pf/stephen-allison
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