St Paul's
Beaconsfield

Anglican Church near Fremantle, Western Australia

22 August Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost

Our parish is a community that seeks God and the fullness of creation by finding ourselves in relation to others. Our giving to the common, to the other, our sharing of ourselves is our commitment to this endeavour.

Collect

God of Awe and Wonder,
We are formed in the fire of your passion,
We are given life in the fire of your consuming Love.
In the Spirit of Christ we shall stand straight
and know freedom from the bondage of all that leads to death.
Living God, in your Divine Love we hope and trust in and through
Christ, your fire of perfection revealed in all.

Amen.

Pray with thanks for God’s forming of our being and for our consecration. For the insight we have in knowing the grace that gives life to all peoples. Give thanks for the healing hand that reaches from the Body of Christ – our hands.

Pray that we can share our Journey with others and together create new life. Pray for those who assist in our parish life and for all who bring life to others. Give thanks for the spirit of generosity and open us to giving and sharing with all peoples.

Pray we will attend to the Divine in all Life, seeking that which is good for benefit of all. Pray with thanks for the Divine Spirit – the gift of Christ that abides in us. Give thanks for each other, for all that we have to share and for all who bring light into our lives.

Pray for families in crisis and for those who are hurt, afraid or alone, that God’s love will arise and give life - And for refugees who experience the struggle and desire for new life.

Pray for all whose peace is disturbed by the noise of war. For those finding life a struggle and hope diminishing, that we may hear their cry. Give thanks for the Divine fullness that we glimpse as we share together in worship….

A Thanksgiving for Wilderness

Creator God, we thank you that you show your face to us in wilderness and desert places. We praise you for the deep places of the sea, and for coastlines smashed by surf and caressed by gentle waves. We praise you for the sun-baked, wind-swept lands, and for rocks and mountains older than human memory. We praise you for the rivers that sculpt the plains, and for salt lakes that wait for the blessing of times of flooding. We praise you for the fragile life that flourishes in places too hot, too cold, or too dry for human comfort, and for forests rising through tropical rain and cool southern mist.

We thank you for showing your glory in creation to the first people of Australia, and for their long and careful custody of the land. We thank you for new ways of protecting the land so that future generations may also rejoice in your handiwork.

Give us grace to recognise your wonders in the dust at our feet and the haze on the horizon, and in all the creatures you have made, in their astonishing diversity. And give us voices to praise you in awe and gratitude, both now and for evermore. Amen

[This prayer was drafted by the Anglican General Synod Liturgy Commission in 2006. It is freely available for anyone to use. Please note that it complements the prayer resources already available in A Prayer Book for Australia (1995).]

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A Sesquicentenary Prayer

Lord of all generations
Bless our celebration of 150 years of ministry with the Diocese of Perth.
We give thanks for those whose dedication and vision enabled the foundation and development of this diocese.
Guide those of us now entrusted with this responsibility.
Encourage us and give us the commitment, enthusiasm and inspiration we need.
May we have breadth of vision and generosity that will enable us to provide a solid foundation of faith for future generations.
We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Daily Prayer from Perth Anglican Diocese See left hand column

Prayer in the tradition of St Paul

Creator of Life, of light and all Love, we pray thee
to fill this house with thy Spirit.
Here may the strong renew their strength and seek
for their working lives a noble consecration.
Here may the poor find succour and the friendless
friendship.
Here may the tempted find power, the sorrowing
comfort and the bereaved find the truth that death
hath no dominion over their beloved.
Here let the fearing find a new courage and the
doubting have their faith and hope confirmed.
Here may the careless be awakened and all that are
oppressed be freed.
Hither may many be drawn by thy love and go
hence, their doubts resolved and faith renewed,
their sins forgiven and their hearts aflame with thy
love.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

From the Chapel porch, Pleshey Retreat House, with amended
divine address.

The Creed

We believe that in the Child of Bethlehem
all love and grace
is gathered for the world.
Here God entered our life
in a way which honoured forever
our struggle to survive
our possibilities for newness
and our ordinary human journey
Here we see our God
in a surprising way
a God who travels with us
a God who loves us to the death
and a God who comes among us
as a small and vulnerable child
This God we Praise
This God we welcome into our life
This God we celebrate today.

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Gâyatrî Mantra

We meditate on the glory of the Creator;
Who has created the Universe;
Who is worthy of Worship;
Who is the embodiment of Knowledge and Light;
Who is the remover of all Sin and Ignorance;
May the Divine enlighten our Intellect.

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May creatures all abound in wealth and peace;
May all be blessed with peace always;
All creatures weak or strong,
All creatures great and small;
Creatures seen or unseen,
Dwelling afar or near.
born or awaiting birth,
May all be blessed with peace!

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We meditate on the glory of the Creator;
Who has created the Universe;
Who is worthy of Worship;
Who is the embodiment of Knowledge and Light;
Who is the remover of all Sin and Ignorance;
May The Divine enlighten our Intellect.