Mothering Sunday

This Mothering Sunday Worship at Home Service has been prepared for you by Revd Ruth Simpson with prayers by ​Revd Phillip Warrey.

A Children's Prayer for Ukraine
Loving God, we pray for peace in Ukraine.
Help keep people safe and protect them from being hurt.
Please care for children separated from their families,
Please help people who have had to leave their homes.
We pray for love and peace, everywhere.
In the name of Jesus, the Prince of Peace,
Amen.

StF 416 ​There's a wideness in God's mercy

*Prayers
Lord we pray on this Mothering Sunday for Mothers all over the world including our own. We pray for mothers where life is difficult, trying to protect their children in places of strife, famine, and war, for mothers despairing in poverty, for mothers facing illness or bereavement. We give thanks for mothers and all their love and care. We give thanks for new mothers and pray for strength and grace in caring for their children. We grieve for those who have not known their mothers, have had difficult relationships with their mother, or lost their mother. We pray for those who have been unable to be mothers or had opportunities to mother snatched from them. 
Lord we pray your love and grace, comfort, and healing into all the places and situations it is needed. Amen

The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father ……

StF 443 ​Come let us sing

​Reading Luke 15:11-32

​Sermon - Revd Ruth Simpson

StF 594 Lord Jesus Christ

StF 409 Let us build a house 

*​Blessing
May God Almighty, Father and Mother to us all, make her face shine upon us all. May Jesus, our high priest, and brother, walk with us always. May the Holy Spirit of God fill us and help us to minister to others to his praise and glory. Amen.

*Prayers by Revd Phillip Warrey