A handy guide compiled by Mother Katie to services and resources on the internet to support your spiritual life.
Live Streaming
We thought you might like to know about the various places you can find worship and prayer at this time. The doors of the church are shut but many new doors are opening and we encourage you to link in to one of these groups.
St James Malden are publishing a Sunday sermon on our website https://stjamesmalden.org/ and live streaming Evening Prayer every night from Sunday-Thursday on the Facebook page at 7pm. These are short 5 minute services to end your day in peace. https://www.facebook.com/stjamesmalden/
Southwark Cathedral clergy are live streaming morning prayer at 9.00 am and Compline at 8.00pm daily on their Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/southwarkcathedral/
The Bishop of Southwark is live streaming and praying from his Twitter account and encouraging us all to pray the Lord’s prayer at 1pm and 7pm every day. https://twitter.com/BishopSouthwark
And The Church of England is putting out a Sunday service each week led by our Archbishops and Bishops. https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/church-online
Resources for Prayer and worship
There are many, many resources available online to aid with prayer and worship. Here are just a few that you might like.
The Church of England have full services of Morning, Evening and Night Prayer (Compline) available online each day for you to read or download. https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/join-us-service-daily-prayer
The BBC is organising extra religious programming at this time, Songs of Praise is every Sunday at 13.15 and more information about radio programmes can be found here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnds
The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) is uploading a hymn for the day for us to sing along to as well as a Sunday service for each week. https://www.rscm.org.uk/our-resources/hftd/
The Church of England’s Going for Growth project has lots of faith resources for using with children at home – including the “Worship at Home” service designed to help families worship together. http://www.going4growth.com/growth_in_faith_and_worship/faith-in-the-home
Resources for children and young people
Several websites that normally charge for their content are making items free during this time enabling access to high quality content. A few are listed below.
Illustrated Children’s Ministry is mailing out weekly activity sheets – they’re good for all ages, but particularly for older children, youth and adults as they are quite intricate (requires you to join a free mailing list).
https://www.illustratedministry.com/flattenthecurve
Roots are uploading activity and colouring sheets each week based on the lectionary readings. They also have an accompanying sheet for adults.
https://www.rootsontheweb.com/
Blackburn Diocese Board of Education produce a short bible-based podcast each Friday for children and their families to listen to together. There are suggested activities and discussion starters and a downloadable sheet to accompany each episode. https://www.bdeducation.org.uk/podcasts/bible-podlets/
Engage Worship are uploading a daily prayer and worship activity that can be done with young children (and those young at heart)! https://engageworship.org/engage-at-home-daily-family-prayer-and-worship-activities
We hope you find these of use, we are praying for you at this time.
Mother Katie and the Web Team.