Sometimes in a project’s life the well-intentioned beginning is weighed down with repeated revisions, to the point of becoming hard to remember its original purpose. This might be the case with the diocesan prayer cycle.
All parochially attached clergy were added to the cycle; then long lists of clergy somewhere in the Lui Diocese. As the lists kept growing, the internal project to check and double check spellings and all the associated clergy became quite the cottage industry.
Curiously, or maybe not so, few are the parishes that actually include the diocesan prayer cycle in Sunday prayers.
In form, we are going back to prayer book basics.
Our diocesan cycle begins in Advent, and with the first founded parish, Christ Church (now Cathedral) in 1819. We continue through our most recent church plant, Columbia Hope in 2009.
We pray for the clergy and people of each parish, and add the first name of the person in charge, be it priest, rector, vicar, assisting, or senior warden.
The Diocese of Lui is made up of St. Frazer M Cathedral and seven archdeaconries: Lui, Mideh, B’uagyi (pronounced bwah’-gee), Minga, Wandi, Kediba, and Lakamadi. We pray for the clergy and people of the Diocese of Lui, and use a similar form to our own diocesan prayers.
We will add the appropriate weekly prayer to each iSeek newsletter, and into our Twitter account (more details in the following post.)
Many thanks to each one of you who has offered suggestions for prayer cycle revision, especially Kris Zapalac.
