Praying for those displaced by conflict, persecution, and disaster; for just asylum systems, safe welcome, and the church’s vocation as a place of refuge.
Theme Index
BrowseExplore weekly themes across the liturgical year and open any week directly.
Advent
Weeks 1 - 4Reflecting on diplomacy, partnership, aid, and peacebuilding as ways nations seek the good of others beyond their own borders.
Anticipating the renewal of creation while praying for moral seriousness about climate change, carbon reduction, stewardship, and justice for vulnerable peoples and future generations.
Week 4
Housing and Homelessness
Praying for emergency shelter, homelessness services, dignified temporary accommodation, and compassionate response to those without a secure home.
Christmas and Epiphany
Weeks 5 - 6Giving thanks for Christ made flesh, the light of the world, and the public implications of God dwelling among the lowly.
Celebrating Christ revealed to the nations and exploring how worship forms gratitude, hospitality, witness, and public vocation.
Ordinary Time (First Section)
Weeks 7 - 14Praying for children, teachers, early intervention, inspection, play, and strong foundations for learning and life.
Focusing on secondary schools, SEND provision, governance, universities, discernment, and equitable access to education.
Praying for young people at risk, early intervention, diversion, mentoring, rehabilitation, and restored futures.
Praying for healing, trauma-informed care, advocacy, fair laws, and justice systems that do not abandon mercy.
Remembering the sick, the NHS, public health, healthcare staff, funding, stewardship, and the vocation of care.
Lent
Weeks 15 - 20Praying for compassionate mental health systems, social care, carers, CAMHS, adult support, and lives held with dignity.
Praying for social security, anti-poverty policy, child poverty reduction, council services, and practical support for vulnerable households.
Praying for children in care, foster families, adoptive families, social workers, and the church’s responsibility toward children needing safety and permanence.
Reflecting on border policy, detention, lawful control, welcome, integration, and the dignity of migrants under the power of the state.
Praying for renewable energy, wise stewardship, affordability, fuel poverty responses, and just access to warmth and power.
Focusing on rail, roads, cycling, walking, accessibility, safety, and the public systems that enable movement and participation.
Week 18
Food Systems and Agriculture
Praying for food security, ethical farming, resilient supply chains, land stewardship, agricultural labour, and hunger relief.
Easter
Weeks 21 - 26Praying for rivers, seas, land, biodiversity, conservation, flood response, and local environmental stewardship.
Seeking wisdom for industry, productivity, innovation, retraining, labour dignity, sustainable jobs, and community benefit.
Praying for planning, regeneration, urban design, safe communities, sustainable development, and places that enable flourishing.
Reflecting on trade, production, fair exchange, workers, post-border relationships, and the justice implications of global economic interdependence.
Praying for transparent national leadership, anti-corruption, responsible stewardship of natural resources, and moral seriousness in governing.
Encouraging local leadership, councils, SMEs, civic participation, neighbourhood stewardship, and economic life rooted in place.
Praying for integrity in elections, wise leadership, civic literacy, voter engagement, and peaceful democratic participation.
Praying for scientific work, discovery, bioethics, research governance, and innovation ordered toward neighbour-love and the common good.
Pentecost
Weeks 27 - 33Praying for a society in which disabled people are not marginal afterthoughts but kin; for access, dignity, design, participation, and just systems.
Praying for responsible digital government, ethical AI, secure systems, data stewardship, cybersecurity, and digital inclusion.
Praying for integrity in journalism, truthful speech, media literacy, resistance to misinformation, and wise Christian witness in public discourse.
Reflecting on resilience, geopolitics, infrastructure, affordability, workforce transition, and the moral burdens of energy policy.
Remembering first responders, crisis leadership, civil contingencies, disaster recovery, and the role of churches and communities in emergencies.
Celebrating generosity while praying for wise service, safeguarding, volunteer support, and partnership between civil society and public institutions.
Praying for freedom of worship, conscience, peaceful coexistence, interfaith neighbourliness, and bold Christian witness without coercion.
Ordinary Time (Second Section)
Weeks 34 - 42Praying for restraint, civilian protection, ethical defence, resilient infrastructure, peacekeeping, and the pursuit of peace in a dangerous world.
Praying for humanitarian systems, refugee education, child protection, international burden-sharing, and compassionate response to large-scale displacement.
Reflecting on taxation as justice, stewardship, and the resourcing of public responsibility; praying for fairness, trust, and wise use of public money.
Praying for equal dignity, safety, belonging, and just responses to the many ways people are ranked, excluded, or diminished by sex, race, class, disability, or social status.
Praying for reform of education systems, adult learning, vocational access, inclusion, and education as empowerment across the life course.
Praying for good training, proper oversight, protection, justice, restraint, and restored trust between police and communities.
Praying for medical research, equitable access, neglected conditions, prevention, health education, and the fair distribution of care.
Focusing on rural transport, innovation, mobility inclusion, connectivity, and the way access shapes participation in society.
Reflecting on poverty, hunger, education, environment, partnership, and how global commitments become local discipleship and action.
Christ the King
Weeks 43 - 47Week 43
Arts, Culture and Heritage
Praying for creativity, cultural life, beauty, preservation, imagination, and the public value of culture.
Celebrating physical activity, teamwork, recreation, youth engagement, public health, and equitable access to spaces of play and wellbeing.
Praying for honest regulation, consumer protection, anti-corruption measures, clean markets, and trustworthy stewardship in finance.
Addressing supply, rents, tenure, social housing, financing, affordability, and systemic solutions to the housing crisis.
Praying for the Church’s public witness, for Christians serving in institutions, and for civil servants and public administrators who devote themselves to governing and serving the common good.
Kingdom Dedication and Reflection
Weeks 48 - 52Praying for wise macroeconomic stewardship, cost-of-living responses, wage justice, support for families and small businesses, and protection of the poor.
Encouraging entrepreneurs, social enterprises, inclusive growth, local wealth-building, and generous leadership in economic life.
Praying for integrity, disclosure, whistleblowing protections, clean procurement, truthfulness, and institutions worthy of trust.
Returning to Advent hope, repentance, longing, renewal, and readiness for Christ’s reign in every sphere of life.
A final week of prayer that God’s kingdom would shape all of life and governance: justice, peace, service, truth, unity, and hope.