Archbishop Chris Harper, Author at Anglican Journal

The blessings and challenges of reconciliation ministry

Archbishop Chris Harper October 31, 2024

Almighty, today we the children of your creation gather in humility and wonder at your hand in creation and with us in our journey of life and faith. We lift our prayers of thanksgiving for blessings seen and unseen. Forgive us where we have failed and offended, lift us to be renewed in our call and ministry, strengthen and embolden us to not only proclaim, but to live out our faith for all to see, that your grace and mercy might flow out over the land and to all peoples.

On giving thanks for Christ-centred community

Archbishop Chris Harper September 26, 2024

FEATHER (Prayer): Creator God, we the children of your creation lift the prayer feather of Thanksgiving. In this season that you have so freely gifted,

A prayer and offering for the Season of Creation

Archbishop Chris Harper August 30, 2024

FEATHER (Prayer): Creator of all, the seasons stand to glorify your name through every passing moment and all creation lifts up thanksgiving for your handiwork.

"Help us human beings to lay to rest the weapons of word and hand, and instead lift up the feather of prayer and love." Photo: Ondrej Posicky/Shutterstock

A call to ‘lift up the feather of prayer and love’

Archbishop Chris Harper May 31, 2024

Creator God, we the children of your creation lift our prayer for those whose voices have been silenced, for those lost to the struggles of change and control, for the peoples suppressed for just existing. We pray to you and lift up to you our relatives in the Indigenous circles across the land: the many caught up in the Sixties Scoop; the survivors—or conquerors, you could also call them, because they were undefeated—of the Indian residential schools, industrial schools and day schools. We pray for those who keep going, despite the legacy of the processes of assimilation and the resultant effects. We pray for those searching for lost family and identity, the wounded, rejected and broken.

A Pentecost prayer for courage and bravery

Archbishop Chris Harper May 1, 2024

Feather (prayer): Creator God, we the children of your creation stand humbled as your grace is revealed before us, in the change of seasons and the promise in your Word given. Forgive us as we have failed you and Creation by losing sight of you and straying from the good road. Grant us courage to meet this day with open hearts that we can speak truthfully and go forward with bravery, knowing that your guiding hand and strength are with us. Bless us that we might be a blessing to others. In Jesus we pray. Amen.

Our call to humility in a time of sacred beginning

Archbishop Chris Harper April 1, 2024

Creator God, we, the children of creation, lift our prayers of thanksgiving and praise as we take our beginning steps in this new Easter and the continuance of the season of spring. Humble our hearts and strengthen our spirits as we seek your face in the change of the world around us. Embolden us that we might invite and welcome you to guide and awaken us from the long slumber of our winter season of heart and mind. Open our eyes that we might see your light and peace, that we together, walking in truth and faith, might be drawn as one to new life and hope. May your word speak to our witness and ministry as we remember our beginning in you. This we pray in Christ, Amen.

A prayer for Lenten humility

Archbishop Chris Harper March 1, 2024

FEATHER: Creator God, we, your children of creation, come before you in this prayer with humble and open hearts. Continue, we pray, to open our

A call to prayer amid the world’s rush and roar

Archbishop Chris Harper February 1, 2024

FEATHER: Creator God, we thank you for the rising sun and its course through the day, reminding us of the significance of every moment and

In 2024, let us each be a living sermon for others

Archbishop Chris Harper January 3, 2024

FEATHER: Almighty Creator, we the children of your creation lift up our thanksgiving for all that you are and all that you reveal in this

On sharing the gifts of our time—and ourselves

Archbishop Chris Harper December 1, 2023

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 Time and season are constants in the sea of

The church is lifted up by each of us

Archbishop Chris Harper November 1, 2023

FEATHER: Today my feather prayer lifted up is that we together take a moment to close our eyes, take a cleansing calming breath, and empty

On being thankful in a time of anxiety and loss

Archbishop Chris Harper September 29, 2023

In this month of October, it is hard not to be anxious as wildfires this summer have ravaged homes and lands; floods and strong storms,

Bringing justice and peace to a new season

Archbishop Chris Harper August 31, 2023

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. —Amos 5:24 The Season of Creation, a globally and ecumenically recognized time

On walking the good path in our meetings

Archbishop Chris Harper June 1, 2023

The end of all things is near; therefore be serious and discipline yourselves for the sake of your prayers. Above all, maintain constant love for

Opening our hearts to the springtime of the spirit

Archbishop Chris Harper May 1, 2023

Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some

New beginnings

Archbishop Chris Harper March 31, 2023

For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of

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