Thought / Prayer for the Week

Thought for the Week is a theme that we can all focus on. The prayer and collect are taken from the Church in Wales website by kind permission of The Church in Wales.

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Sunday's Readings
Sunday, 23rd August 2026
THE TWELFTH SUNDAY after TRINITY
First Reading Psalm Second Reading Gospel Reading

Continuous:
Exodus 1.8 – 2.10 Psalm 124 Romans 12. 1-8 Matthew 16. 13-20
or Related:
Isaiah 51. 1-6 Psalm 138 Romans 12. 1-8

Matthew 16. 13-20

 

- Prayer for the week -

Merciful Redeemer, by the life and preaching of your servant Bernard you rekindled the radiant light of your Church: grant us, in our generation, to be inflamed with the same spirit of discipline and love and ever to watch before you as children of light; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

Bernard (1153), Abbot of Clairvaux and Teacher of the Faith 20 August

 ( by kind permission of The Church in Wales.)
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- Collect for the week -

O God, you declare your almighty power most chiefly in showing mercy and pity: mercifully grant to us such a measure of your grace, that we, running the way of your commandments, may receive your gracious promises, and be made partakers of your heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

 ( by kind permission of The Church in Wales.)
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Next Sunday's Readings:
Sunday, 30th August 2026
THE THIRTEENTH SUNDAY after TRINITY
First Reading Psalm Second Reading Gospel Reading

Continuous:
Exodus 3. 1-15 Psalm 105. 1-6, 23-26, 45c or 115

Romans 12. 9-21

 Matthew 16. 21-28
or Related:
Jeremiah 15. 15-21 Psalm 26. 1-8 Romans 12. 9-21

Matthew 16. 21-28


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