Regular Prayer Activities
- The Ministry of Prayer is offered in the Lady Chapel every Sunday during the
10am Eucharist Service, and during the 6pm Holy Communion with Healing Prayer, held on the last
Sunday of each month.
Prayer may be for yourself or on behalf of another.
- There is a prayer corner in the Lady Chapel with a box for prayer requests and candles to light
- A Prayer Group meets for about 45 mins most Mondays to pray together for the community
(Fairford as a town and the Church Community) and also praying for the requests that have been
placed in the prayer box in the Lady Chapel and Park Close Stores. Anyone is welcome to join in with this.
- There are also several bible study /house groups taking place in Fairford. One on a Monday evening,
another on a Tuesday morning, and one that Kathleen and Sarah run that meets roughly monthly. If you
want to know more about these then Denise Hyde (01285 713285) is the person to talk to.
Prayer and Healing Group
This is a small group (7 people) who meet monthly to look at ways of encouraging and healing
people on their spiritual journeys and to pray together.
- They are regularly involved in the Prayer in pairs at the 10.00am service and 6.00pm Healing
service on the last Sunday of each month.
- They are also involved in the actual running of the Healing Service, leading, reading,
intercessions, chalice.
- They manage the prayer corner in the Lady Chapel - the prayer request box, and prayer cards
for people to take away.
- They organize events like the Lent Daily Prayer and Lent Courses and The Annual Parish Retreat
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February Prayer Focus
Give to receive:
Love is quite something; you give it away, it comes right back to you.
“Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.”
Matthew 10: 8
At St Mary’s this month we shall be especially remembering the following groups of people and areas of our town:
Hilary Cottage Surgery, Cottage Hospital, The Toddler Group, Baptism Team, Bishops Michael and John,
Parish Office and the Parish News Team
Grove Place, White Hart Court, London Street, Back Lane, River Walk, Wesson Place, Courtbrook, Moor Lane,
Moor Lane Court, The Plies, and Hyperion House.
If you would like someone to pray with you in your home, please contact the Parish Office.
Prayer For The Month (February)
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Intimate God, you are able to accept in us what we cannot even acknowledge; you have named in us what we
cannot bear to speak of; you hold in your memory what we have tried to forget; you will hold out to us a glory
we cannot imagine. Reconcile us through your cross to all that we have rejected in ourselves, that we may
find no part of your creation to be alien or strange to us, and that we ourselves may be made whole, through
Jesus Christ, our Lord and our friend.
"Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap.
For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
Luke 6: 38
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