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.
A daily prayer office for public life, following the Church's year.
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.
Week 10
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.
Week 15
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.
Week 22
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.
Week 30
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.
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.
Week 46
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.
Week 51