The Most Rev Mark Strange, Bishop of Moray, Ross & Caithness and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church calls for prayers for Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing the horrific attacks in Sri Lanka and the immediate responses that many of us made both on Social Media and during our Easter sermons and intercessions, I have continued to listen as the death toll has risen and the fear of the local people has been reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe authorities are still not able to say the attacks are over and, as people begin to bury their dead, the fear of simply attending the church is palpable. I ask that as many of our church congregations as possible gather to say prayers for the people of Sri Lanka, for the families around the world affected by this attack and for those attempting to bring peace and security.<\/p>\n
\u201cI suggest that where possible people in our churches could gather around our paschal candles, symbols of the resurrection, on Sunday at the end of worship and offer the prayers of all our people for the people of Sri Lanka and for the many others who lost loved ones on Easter Day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
\nwhere there is hatred, let me sow love;
\nwhere there is injury, pardon;
\nwhere there is doubt, faith;
\nwhere there is despair, hope;
\nwhere there is darkness, light;
\nand where there is sadness, joy.<\/p>\n
O Divine Master,
\ngrant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
\nto be understood, as to understand;
\nto be loved, as to love;
\nfor it is in giving that we receive,
\nit is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
\nand it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.<\/p>\n
Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Most Rev Mark Strange, Bishop of Moray, Ross & Caithness and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church calls for prayers for Sri Lanka. \u201cFollowing the horrific attacks in Sri Lanka and the immediate responses that many of us made both on Social Media and during our Easter sermons and intercessions, I have continued to […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}