This week in prayer

Prayers and readings for Sunday 25 January 2026 and the following week: 

We pray for Anna, our bishop, and Allen, our rector. In our parish cycle of prayer, we pray for the music teams.

This week our diocese prays for the people of  St Saviour, Denman Island    and their lay leaders and visiting clergy.

In our ecclesiastical province's cycle of prayer, we pray for the Diocese of Kootenay and Bishop Lynne McNaughton.

This week the Anglican Church of Canada prays for The Most Rev. David Edwards, Metropolitan, and the people and clergy of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada.

In the Anglican Communion cycle of prayer, we pray for Iglesia Anglicana de Chile.

Collect: God of all people, you sent your Son into our shadowed world. May his dawning light give hope to the broken, the persecuted, the alien and the excluded, so that we might feel the kingdom drawing near and turn to follow him; through Jesus Christ, the morning star.  Amen. (Prayers for an Inclusive Church, 2009).

Anglican Communion Cycle of Prayer for the week:

• Mon 26 Jan The Diocese of Sur – Iglesia Anglicana de Chile
• Tues 27 Jan The Diocese of Del Sureste – La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico
• Wed 28 Jan The Diocese of Swansea and Brecon – The Church in Wales
• Thurs 29 Jan The Diocese of Sydney – The Anglican Church of Australia
• Fri 30 Jan The Diocese of Tabora – The Anglican Church of Tanzania
• Sat 31 Jan Te Pihopatanga o Te Tai Tokerau – The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

BIBLE READINGS FOR THE WEEK 

Lectionary for Sunday 25 January: Isaiah 9:1-4; Psalm 27:1, 4-9; 1 Corinthians 1:10-18; Matthew 4:12-23

• Mon 26 Jan Psalm 27:7-14; Judges 6:11-24; Ephesians 5:6-14
• Tues 27 Jan Psalm 27:7-14; Judges 7:12-22; Philippians 2:12-18
• Wed 28 Jan Psalm 27:7-14; Genesis 49:1-2, 8-13, 21-26; Luke 1:67-79
• Thurs 29 Jan Psalm 15; Deuteronomy 16:18-20; 1 Peter 3:8-12
• Fri 30 Jan Psalm 15; Deuteronomy 24:17-25:4; 1 Timothy 5:17-24
• Sat 31 Jan Psalm 15; Micah 3:1-4; John 13:31-35

Sources:

• Diocese of BC:  website | cycle of prayer
• Ecclesiastical Province of BC & Yukon: website 
• Anglican Church of Canada: website | cycle of prayer
• Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP): website 
• Worldwide Anglican Communion:  website | cycle of prayer
• For daily/weekly Bible readings and liturgical notes:
  • Revised Common Lectionary
  • Daily readings from the RCL
  • Online Lectionary (Anglican Church of Canada)
  • NRSV and many other searchable Bible versions at bible.oremus.org

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