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THE PORVOO PRAYER CALENDAR 2008
(Invitation to Prayer 2007)
Introduction
The Porvoo Declaration commits the churches which have signed it 'to share a common life' and 'to pray for and with one another'. An important way of doing this is to pray through the year for the Porvoo churches and their Dioceses.
This new format Prayer Calendar replaces the Prayer Diary which was used during the first ten years after the signing of the Porvoo Declaration in 1996.
We have simplified the content, providing a list of Dioceses or churches covering each Sunday of the year, mindful of the many calls upon compilers of intercessions, and the environmental and production costs of printing a more elaborate list.
Those using the calendar are invited to choose one day each week on which they will pray for the Porvoo churches. It is hoped that individuals and parishes, cathedrals and religious orders will make use of the Calendar in their own cycle of prayer week by week.
In addition to the churches which have approved the Porvoo Declaration, we continue to pray for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia and the Church of Denmark. Observers from both churches attend all the meetings held under the Agreement.
The Calendar may be freely copied or emailed for wider circulation.
Published on behalf of the Porvoo Contact Group by the Council for Christian Unity of the Church of England, October 2007.
Canon Charles Hill, Anglican Co-Secretary of the Porvoo Contact Group.
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JANUARY
- 6/1 For the Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, Scotland and for the Diocese of Porvoo (Borgå), Finland
- 13/1 For the Diocese of Chester, England and for the Diocese of Kuopio, Finland
- 20/1 For the Diocese of Southwell, England and for the Diocese of Borg (Frederikstad), Norway
- 27/1 For the Diocese of Oslo, Norway, for the Diocese of Durham, England and for the Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness, Scotland
FEBRUARY
- 3/2 For the Diocese of Oulu, Finland and for the Diocese of Coventry, England
- 10/2 For the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, England, for the Diocese of Lapua, Finland and for the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney, Scotland
- 17/2 For the Diocese of Tampere, Finland, and for the Diocese of Manchester, England
- 24/2 For the Diocese of Birmingham, England and for the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, Ireland
MARCH
- 2/3 For the Diocese of Bangor, Wales and for the Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough, Ireland
- 9/3 For the Diocese of Worcester, England and for the Diocese of Hamar, Norway
- 16/3 For the Diocese of Bradford, England and for the Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe, Ireland
- 23/3 For the Diocese of Peterborough, England and for the Diocese of Meath and Kildare, Ireland
- 30/3 For the Diocese of Canterbury, England and for the Diocese of Tunsberg, Norway
APRIL
- 6/4 For the Diocese of Chelmsford, England, and for the Diocese of Karlstad, Sweden
- 13/4 For the Diocese of Lichfield, England, for the Diocese of St Davids, Wales and for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia,
- 20/4
For the Diocese of Lund, Sweden and for the Diocese of Cashel and Ossory, Ireland
- 27/4
For the Diocese of Lincoln, England and for the Diocese of Armagh, Ireland
MAY
- 4/5 For the Archdiocese of Uppsala, Sweden and for the Diocese of Llandaff, Wales
- 11/5 For the Diocese of Derby, England and for the Diocese of Clogher, Ireland
- 18/5 For the Diocese of Blackburn, England and for the Diocese of Brechin, Scotland
- 25/5 For the Diocese of Gothenburg, Sweden and for the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway, Scotland
JUNE
- 1/6 For the Diocese of Southwark, England and for the Diocese of Bjørgvin (Bergen), Norway
- 8/6 For the Diocese of Gloucester, England and for the Diocese of Västerås, Sweden
- 15/6 For the Diocese of Guildford, England, and for the Church of Denmark.
- 22/6 For the Diocese of Exeter, England and for the Diocese of North-Hålogaland (Tromsø), Norway
- 29/6 For the Diocese of Hereford, England and for the Lusitanian Church, Portugal
JULY
- 6/7 For the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland and for the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
- 13/7 For the Diocese of Chichester, England and for the Diocese of Mikkeli, Finland
- 20/7 For the Diocese of for the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, Scotland, for the Diocese of Connor, Ireland, and for the Diocese of South-Hålogaland (Bodø), Norway
- 27/7 For the Anglican Diocese in Europe, for the Diocese of Down and Dromore, Ireland, and for the Diocese of Visby, Sweden
AUGUST
- 3/8 For the Diocese of Ely, England and for the Diocese of Härnösand, Sweden
- 10/8 For the Diocese of St Albans, England, and for the Diocese of Linköping, Sweden
- 17/8 For the Diocese of Newcastle, England and for the Diocese of Møre (Molde), Norway
- 24/8 For the Diocese of Turku, Finland and for the Diocese of Wakefield, England
- 31/8 For the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania and for the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe, Ireland
SEPTEMBER
- 7/9 For the Diocese of Bristol, England and for the Diocese of Helsinki, Finland
- 14/9 For the Diocese of Portsmouth, England and for the Diocese of Stockholm, Sweden
- 21/9 For the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds, England and for the Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, Ireland
- 28/9 For the Diocese of Skara, Sweden and for the Diocese of Edinburgh, Scotland
OCTOBER
- 5/10 For the Diocese of York, England and for the Diocese of Espoo, Finland
- 12/10 For the Diocese of Salisbury, England and for the Diocese of St Asaph, Wales
- 19/10 For the Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry, Ireland and for the Diocese of Bath and Wells, England
- 26/10 For the Diocese of Sheffield, England and for the Diocese of Sodor and Man, England
NOVEMBER
- 2/11 For the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon, Wales and for the Diocese of Leicester, England
- 9/11 For the Diocese of Liverpool, England and for the Diocese of Monmouth, Wales
- 16/11 For the Diocese of Nidaros (Trondheim), Norway and for the Diocese of London, England
- 23/11 For the Diocese of Truro, England, and for the Diocese of Strängnäs, Sweden
- 30/11 For the Diocese of Växjö, Sweden and for the Diocese of Oxford, England
DECEMBER
- 7/12 For the Diocese of Carlisle, England and for the Diocese of Stavanger, Norway
- 14/12 For the Diocese of Winchester, England and for the Diocese of Agder (Kristiansand), Norway
- 21/12 For the Diocese of Norwich, England, and for the Diocese of Luleå, Sweden
- 28/12 For the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia and for the Diocese of Rochester, England
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