Prayers for use in church or home


These prayers and intercessions start at Advent 1 2025 and will be updated weekly as we go through 2025 (Liturgical Year C)

They are suitable for use in church worship on Sundays through the year, or your own private prayer.


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Praying together with Mike and Janet Warren for Advent 3 (14 December 2025)

During Advent we will often sing the well-known hymn ‘O Come, O Come Emmanuel’. Using this as our prayer we pray:

  • O Come Emmanuel to bring justice and equity to the people of your world; to those in poverty, hungry, stateless and forgotten.
  • O Come Emmanuel to bring healing to the people of your world; to those who suffer, in pain, alone, anxious and in fear.
  • O Come Emmanuel to bring love and joy to the people of your world; to the lonely, unloved, bereaved, homeless, and neglected.
  • O Come Emmanuel to bring Peace to the people of your world; to the war-torn, racially divided, marginalised and oppressed.
  • O Come Emmanuel to restore the beauty of Your creation; make us instruments of peace, love, joy and hope.



Praying together with Mike and Janet Warren for Advent 2   (7 December 2025)

As we continue through Advent we reflect this week on the Prophets and those today who tell out the news of Christ and warn us of the impacts of our behaviour on humankind. We pray:

  • Come, Lord Jesus, to your Church; strengthen and encourage all those who preach and teach that Your Word may be heard and understood. We pray for our own Ministers and our Church Family at St Mark’s that we may respond to Your call.
  • Come, Lord Jesus, to those who teach young people; guide all teachers of Religious Education that they may inspire and encourage those they teach to hear the Gospel and have the courage to follow a life of faith. We pray for the young people in our church, pre-school and our local schools.
  • Come, Lord Jesus, to all those whose ministry is to write or provide Christian material; enlighten their writings that they may communicate the Gospel of Christ with faith, truth and clarity. We pray for the work of the Scripture Union, SPCK, the Gideon Society and organisations supplying religious books and bibles.
  • Come, Lord Jesus, to those whose work is to protect and restore your created world; Help us to hear their call for change and be willing to respond in ways that we can.


Praying together with Mike and Janet Warren for Advent 1  (30 November)

We pray this first week of Advent, to our God of time and space, in whose love we exist and by whose love we are saved.

  • As we prepare ourselves for the time when Christ will come again in glory, we pray for the grace and honesty to see what needs transforming in our lives as individuals and as members of the church of God: We pray for your Holy Spirit to inspire and guide Your church.
  • May the leaders of this nation and of all the nations be drawn increasingly to understand God’s ways of justice and righteousness, and that those who are suffering may know that you are in their midst.
  • May all the families on earth be blessed with mutual love and caring consideration one for another. May arguments and misunderstandings be properly resolved, difficult relationships healed and that those who face this time of preparation with deep apprehension find peace.
  • We pray for those for whom the days and nights creep by in pain or sadness, may they be given hope and comfort. May the frightened find reassurance and the anxious peace of mind. We remember those we know and for those known only to you.
  • We pray for those who have reached the point of death that they may be given the knowledge of God’s closeness on that last journey and for those who have died, that they may know the eternal peace and joy of heaven.