Prayer Team adds Monthly Meeting and Monthly Intercessory Service
Beloved Ascension Community,
“When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him,
and he helps in this prayer. ”
Our parish Prayer Team met on Tuesday, January 18th to discuss the direction of the ministry in the new year. As you are aware the 15 members of our Prayer Team have been praying daily for our community for the past year since the ministry was formed. We thank them for the gift of their prayer and love. As each of us look back on the past year, perhaps we can see more clearly how our burdens have been lifted, hopes come to fruition and healing through Christ’s mercy have been affected through their prayers.
Our meeting was a wonderful and inspiring discussion with two great developments:
The Prayer Team will offer a monthly meeting on the 3rd Tuesday of the Month at 7:30 PM. Meetings will discuss the enrichment and enlivening of our prayer life with an on-going study of the lives of the saints as inspiration. Our next meeting is Tuesday, February 15th.
The Prayer Team will also organize a monthly intercessory prayer service (a paraklesis or akathist for various needs) on the 4th Friday of the Month at 6:30 PM. Our first service will be Small Paraklesis on Friday, January 28th at 6:30 PM in the Cathedral. The Small Paraklesis is an intercessory service to the Virgin Mary, the Most Holy Theotokos. At this service we offer prayers for the living, asking her assistance.
We continue to thank the Prayer Team for their important service confident that “the prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective” (James 5:16). If you also feel so moved to pray for our community or are in need of prayer please reach out to our Prayer Team at ascensionprayers4700@gmail.com.
In Christ,
Fr. Tom, Fr. Nick & The Prayer Team
