Welcome to the Saturday Examine.

In the Saturday Examin.

In the church calendar, we are preparing to focus on all souls and all saints' days.

We read in Revelation, Day and night without ceasing they sing, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord

God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.

We begin our prayer today picturing this scene.

Try to imagine your presence in prayer with the Lord, becoming part of the worship of heaven.

Let some of the faces of the saints you have encountered come to mind. Give thanks to God for those who have loved you and have influenced your life. As we begin to reflect on the past week, a selection of readings will be read.

Try to let each of these scenes come alive to you as you listen.

When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said,

Woman, you are set free from your ailment.

Then he laid his hands on her.

Immediately she stood up straight and began praising God.

So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints,

and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,

with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought,

but that very spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Just then, in front of him, there was a man who had dropsy, and Jesus asked the lawyers and Pharisees,

is it lawful to cure people on the Sabbath or not?

But they were silent.

So Jesus took him and healed him and sent him away.

Which Which one of these readings feels most meaningful to you today? Stay with this reading for a while. The

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