Some devotional resources for Lent

March 2, 2023 by

In addition to our video for Station of the Cross, we commend to your reading these articles that also appear on our website, but which may be difficult to find because of more recent posts:

Prayer to Our Lady of Mount Carmel;

A prayer in time of great sickness and mortality (posted during the COVID epidemic, but still a salutary reminder of our own mortality).

Watch for more as Lent progresses.

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The Stations of the Cross

February 25, 2021 by

Can’t be present on Friday nights at 6 o’clock to pray the Stations of the Cross with Saint Michael’s? Join Father Fraser here as he leads us in this most beautiful series of prayers to help us on our Lenten Journey.

Please note: This video was produced during the COVID restrictions and mentions being unable to gather together to pray the Stations. This is not the case this year. Stations of the Cross will be prayed on Friday evenings during Lent at 6 o’clock. If you are able to join us in person we will welcome you.

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A Prayer in Time of Great Sickness and Mortality

April 3, 2020 by

O MOST mighty and merciful God, in this time of grievous sickness, we flee unto thee for succour. Deliver us, we beseech thee, from our peril; give strength and skill to all those who minister to the sick; prosper the means made use of for their cure; and grant that, perceiving how frail and uncertain our life is, we may apply our hearts unto that heavenly wisdom which leadeth to eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

This prayer is taken from the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer. According to Massey Shepherd’s Commentary on the American Prayer Book (Oxford, 1944), p. 45, “This prayer is the substitute of the 1928 Revision Commission for the one on this subject in the 1789 Book. The latter form was in its turn a replacement of a prayer introduced at the end of the Litany in the 1552 Book as a consequence of the dread experience in England in 1551 of the ‘Sweating Sickness’ and of dearth. The final clause of the prayer is taken from Psalm xc, 12.”

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