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September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Some 2,000 young people are diagnosed each year in the UK with specific childhood cancers, which differ in significant ways from adult cancers, but have a much higher cure rate. Pray for children and families, for the cure rate to continue to improve, and for good provision for parents to remain with their children when in hospital.
There are at present some 26 million refugees around the world, many hosted by countries that can hardly afford to provide for their own people. About half of these are children, many of whom will have been through horrors that we can scarcely imagine. People become refugees because of conflict, persecution, severe poverty and the degradation of land, and as the result of natural disaster. Many have lost loved ones or are separated from families
Pray for aid agencies and workers, that people displaced in this way may find compassion and understanding, and for all that helps restore hope and dignity to those forced to leave their homes and lands. Tearfund notes: “If we cannot have compassion upon refugees, we cannot call ourselves Christians. If we do not help refugees, we cannot call ourselves the church.”
This Week Hildegard of Bingen (remembered on Tuesday), born in 1098 in Germany to noble parents, was a prioress and then abbess, an able poet, a composer of music, a mystic and visionary, and wrote on medicine and natural history. She seems to have travelled widely in Germany on what were effectively preaching tours. Give thanks for those who push the boundaries and challenge norms; pray too for all who express faith and praise God using poetry and music.
Pray for all who live with rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune condition in which the immune system impacts on healthy bones, tendons, ligaments and cartilage in ways that cause severe pain and often deformity. Pray for research into ways to reduce pain and repair damage, and for all who work in this field
This year’s Great British Beach Clean begins on Friday. Give thanks for all who volunteer to help this project, and for the work round the year of the Marine Conservation Society to keep beaches clean and reduce the impact of plastic and pollution on our inshore waters.
Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist is commemorated on Saturday. Give thanks for the Gospel that bears his name, and for the apostolic commission we inherit from those who were first sent by Christ “into all nations, to make them my disciples” Matt 28.19.
Pray for the agricultural markets that serve our communities, and for the work of auctioneers, together with those who ensure the safety, welfare and hygiene necessary where animals are bought and sold.
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