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May 07, 2015

Prayers of the People Hit Social Media for General Convention

Cambridge, Mass. – Use #prayersof to add your prayer to Prayers of the People at this year’s triennial gathering of The Episcopal Church in Salt Lake City, June 25-July 3. The Brotherhood of St. John the Evangelist (SSJE) will host a site to aggregate the prayers offered during General Convention. Each day will be a different theme: thanksgiving, forgiveess, celebration.

 

Prayers can be words or images submitted via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, and should be tagged with #PrayersOf and the day’s theme – for example, #PrayersOf #Thanksgiving. All of the prayers will be read, and prayed, by members of The Episcopal Church. Each day some will be chosen to be read aloud as part of General Convention’s worship services.

 

#PrayersOf was created by SSJE, an Episcopal monastic community in Cambridge, Massachusetts. SSJE launched a similar campaign in the season leading up to Christmas 2014, #adventword, the world’s first crowd-sourced Advent Calendar.

 

“Our world needs prayer, not just from monks, but from as many people as possible,” said Brother Geoffrey Tristram, Superior of SSJE. “The hashtag #PrayersOf allows us all to join in prayer, to know what is on each of our hearts and offer that to God and one another.”

 

PrayersofthePeople.org is the online home of #PrayersOf, including a live stream of all submitted prayers, links to resources and the option to subscribe via e mail to free morning and evening audio reflections containing meditations, prayer and music from SSJE.