Prayer List -- August 7, 2020

Members and friends are encouraged to remember the intentions on the prayer list in their own prayers throughout the week.

You are welcome to add your intercessions and thanksgiving., by contacting one of the clergy, or email Wendy Shepherd at wshepherd@holyapostlesnyc.org, or call the parish office (212) 807-6799 with your prayer requests. They will remain on the list for two weeks. Names may be added to the long-term list and will then remain there until the end of the current calendar quarter.

The prayer list is read at Morning Prayer on Wednesday and is also prayed daily by all the members of the parish Prayer Chain. If you would like to join the prayer chain, committing to praying the prayer list every day for a month at a time, please let Mother Susan know at shill@holyapostlesnyc.org.
Dear Holy Apostles Family,

If you would like to have individual healing prayer with Deacon Bob or one of the Lay Eucharistic Visitors, please leave a message on Deacon Bob’s church phone: 646-998-6107 or 212-807-6799 ext. 107. State who you are and the number where you may be reached, and a Healing Team member will contact you.

This form of prayer will be available for the duration of the time services are suspended. We are still worshiping as a community, just in a different way. Simply click here for information on Zoom worship services.
Meditation from Mother Susan
I spent a few days of my vacation on a virtual retreat through Holy Cross Monastery. The theme was “Praying with the Spanish Mystics” and we spent a day each with Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila, and John of the Cross. (My niece, upon hearing the names of the mystics, wondered if someday she could be known as “Audrey of Manhattan”?!) 

Toward the end of the retreat, the leader gave us some quotes to meditate by, and I was particularly struck by this one from John of the Cross:

"That which God seeks to do is make us gods through participation, as [God] is God by nature, even as fire converts all things into fire." (from Maxims on Love) 

Yesterday the church marked the Feast of the Transfiguration, when Jesus was filled with the dazzling light and fiery glory of God on top of a mountain for his closest disciples to see. The story shows Jesus participating fully in God’s very being, illuminating for the disciples that even in his human-ness, Jesus was also divine, ablaze with the bright fire of God.

As John of the Cross reminds us, though, the fire of God is burning within each of us as well -- even if it is not yet as bright as the dazzling flame that shone through Jesus. Just as fire converts all things into fire, so the glory of God that shone through Jesus that day is also shining more and more in each one of us. We are each, little by little, being transfigured and glorified and divinized, though the power of God.

How might your life be different if you noticed how you yourself are being transfigured, little by little, by the glory of God? How can you let a bit more of God’s light shine out from you?!
-- Susan
For the Church
We pray for all God’s people throughout the world; and in the Anglican Cycle of prayer this week we pray for the Province de L'Eglise Anglicane au Rwanda, the Most Reverend Laurent Mbanda, Archbishop of L'Eglise Episcopal au Rwanda & Bishop of Shyira.

We pray for Michael, our Presiding Bishop; Andrew, Allen, and Mary, our own Bishops.

We pray for our parish clergy, Anna, Bob, Susan, and Peter; for our director of music, Tim; for our director of children’s ministries, Ellen; and for our parish administrator, Wendy.
For Our Nation and the World
We pray for Donald, our President; for Andrew, our Governor; and for Bill, our Mayor; for Congress and local leaders; that they may lead with compassion and do justice.

We pray for healing, reconciliation, economic justice, and peace in our nation and all the nations of the world.

We pray that we may reflect the wonderful diversity of your creation among us; your loving compassion through the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, Ecclesia, and our outreach efforts, and your justice through being a community that strives for peace and social and economic justice.

We pray for all those affected by COVID-19, throughout the world, and their caregivers, healthcare workers, first-responders, essential workers, and social service agencies, especially our own Holy Apostles staff.
For Health and Well Being
For the week of 8/9/2020:
Raymond Scott and his family
Violet Swardenski
Craig Bishop

For the week of 8/2/2020:
Patrick Finnegan

Long Term (7/5/20 through 9/30/20):
Barbara Davison
Tallu Schuyler Quinn
Carl Anderson
Grace Murray
Joe Murray
Franz Klein
Tracy Carden
David Natoli & Father Peter Carey
Larry Gifford
Paul LoBello
Carl Johnson
Glenn Pennoyer
Kristine and Brent Sundberg
Mary Cole
Barbara Engler
Ethan Gibson and Linda Gibson
Roseanne Kelleher Heinricks
Norma Moy-Chin
For Those Who Have Died
The departed:
for all who have died of COVID-19 virus

We pray for all those killed serving in the armed forces; and for all others killed in conflicts around the world, both civilians and combatants, unknown to us but precious to God.

We pray for the bereaved.
In Thanksgiving
We pray for the ministry of Flora Labora and all who tend to the altar flowers on Sundays.