Our Daily Prayers today are going live on our Facebook Page at noon with Alastair. The order is taken from A Disciples Prayer Book of the Anglican Council of Indigenous People and can be downloaded below. As part of the service there is an opportunity to reflection on the Gospel of the Day -
Mark 8.31-35
Jesus began to teach his disciples that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, ‘Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.’ He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.’
Then three questions are offered us:
Reflect and Respond to the Gospel of the Day:
1. What word(s), idea(s), or sentence(s) stand out for you in the Gospel of the Day?
2. What is Jesus (the Gospel) saying to you?
3. What is Jesus (the Gospel) calling you to do?