Praying in Church

Everyone is welcome to use our churches for prayer, both in and out of service time. In Blewbury and Hagbourne there are opportunities to offer candles in prayer, and prayer boards where you can add prayer requests. All prayers from the prayer boards are included in the intercessions at one of our weekday celebrations of the Eucharist.

In all seven of our churches, the Blessed Sacrament is reserved for the purposes of taking communion to the sick and as a focus for prayer: a light is kept burning by the place of reservation to mark this.

Daily Prayer

Clergy and lay people come together every day in our Benefice to pray Morning and Evening Prayer. In parishes, the Church of England uses a gentle, simplified version of the monastic cycle of prayer, following the rhythms of the day and the flow of the year's seasons. All are very welcome to join us.

If you would like to join in the Church's practice of Daily Prayer at home you can see Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer for today. If you want to develop this as a regular habit, the clergy will be able to advise you on an appropriate printed book containing Morning and Evening Prayer.

Places to pray elsewhere on the Internet

i-church: The Diocese of Oxford's internet church
Sacred Space: ten-minutes of guided prayer every day, from the Irish Jesuits

(Daily Prayer provided by the official Church of England web site, © The Archbishops' Council of the Church of England, 2002-2004.)