The 76th General Convention of the Episcopal Church will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in the environs of Los Angeles, California, from July 8-17, 2009. Father Rob Eaton is recruiting intercessors and posting updates at GC 09 Intercessors.
Resources
Deputation listing
General Convention schedule
Fr Rob Eaton’s essay on how to pray for General Convention.
Fr Timothy Fountain’s reflection on praying for General Convention.
The Anglican Ecumenical Society has a chat room prayer session on Wed, Thur, and Fri at 1 p.m. Pacific time. Also, they offer bulletin inserts.
Anglicans in the Wilderness is offering a skype-based group prayer.
Twitter users: #pray4TEC
Prayers
Lord of the breakthrough
Ruled by the peace of Christ
Plant in tears
Perez
Priests clothed in righteousness
Ask
Crown of pride
The road to Damascus
Keep Your children faithful
Deliver us from intellectualism
Forgive us for profaning our bodies
The presence of the Lord
Between the narrow places
Is there no balm?
Accept our prayers
1 Samuel 15:22-30
A word received
Jehovah-jireh
Psalm 119/Blessing from Ceylon
Confession regarding The-Right-to-Choose
There is no barrier
A receptive heart
Do not withold good
Deliver us from paralysis
Witnesses
Mysterious tremors
Even at night
Psalm 20:7-9
The name of the Lord
Release
Deliver us from our enemies
Petition for godly deputies and bishops
Petittion for intercessors
Psalm 149
Our hearts are parched
I will be with you
Petition to Jesus
Let our home be a haven
Gideon
July 3, 2009 at 1:00 pm |
[...] in comments to commit to a time period to take part in the vigil – at GC 09 Intercessors. Lent & Beyond is also posting prayers for General Convention and some other [...]
July 3, 2009 at 3:26 pm |
We will be praying for GC at http://anglicanecumenicalsociety.wordpress.com in a special project combining IRC, http, and Second Life – making it easier for a large number of people to come together to pray – see also a project done by Anglicans in the Wilderness at http://anglicanvalues.com/files/pray4tec.html – a skype group-chat based prayer for GC.
Both of us are encouraging people to pray on twitter using the hashtag #pray4tec
July 5, 2009 at 9:36 pm |
Prayer for the Church:
O GRACIOUS Father, we humbly beseech thee for thy holy Catholic Church; that thou wouldst be pleased to fill it with all truth, in all peace. Where it is corrupt, purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where in anything it is amiss, reform it. Where it is right, establish it; where it is in want, provide for it; where it is divided, reunite it; for the sake of him who died and rose again, and ever liveth to make intercession for us, Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord. Amen.
The Book of Common Prayer (USA, 1928)
O GOD, who hast made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the whole earth, and didst send thy blessed Son to preach peace to them that are far off and to them that are nigh; Grant that all men everywhere may seek after thee and find thee. Bring the nations into thy fold, pour out thy Spirit upon all flesh, and hasten thy kingdom; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Book of Common Prayer (USA, 1928)
A Heritage Reflection
“We are desirous of seeing forth in our churches the true doctrine of God, and have no wish to adapt it to all tastes, or to deal in ambiguities; but, laying aside all carnal considerations, to transmit to posterity a true and explicit form of doctrine agreeable to the rule of the sacred writings; so that there may not only be set forth among all nations an illustrious testimony respecting our doctrine, delivered by the grave authority of learned and godly men, but that all posterity may have a pattern to imitate.”
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)
a letter to John a Lasco, 4 July 1548
From: http://prayer.united-anglicans.org/
July 6, 2009 at 3:17 pm |
Jill, I’m so thankful for all you and Rob+ are doing to lead prayer and organize and publicize resources. May the Lord encourage and strengthen your hearts daily and may He strongly support all those whose hearts are His who are at Anaheim for GC09.
–Karen