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Say prayer for me..clergy visit shops
CLERGY from churches across the Diocese of Wakefield will set up prayer stalls in two busy shopping centres.
Members of the Cathedral Chapter and vicars from churches across Wakefield will run a stall in the Ridings Shopping Centre, Wakefield, while the vicar of Huddersfield, the Rev Simon Moor and members of Churches Together in Huddersfield will set up a stall just outside Huddersfield Parish Church, on Byram Street.
The events take place today, the start of Lent from 11.30am to 1.30pm.
The Bishop of Wakefield, the Rt Rev Stephen Platten said: “We’ve all had someone shout at us “say one for me vicar” and while it may be said off the cuff, it underlies the fact that people feel a need to pray.
“We live in tough times and this is a very good and simple way for us to engage with people where they are, listen to their hopes and fears and help them say a prayer if they wish,” he said.
It is the third year the diocese has run the initiative which in the past has included prayer boxes in pubs and doctors’ surgeries for people to post their prayers. They are collected in and offered up at one of the weekly cathedral services.
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