Praying the Sunday Mass Readings with St Beuno’s Outreach

St Beuno’s Outreach is based in St Beuno’s Jesuit Spirituality Centre in the hills of North Wales, in the Diocese of Wrexham. The Outreach began in 1989, with the idea of helping people develop and maintain a personal relationship with God through Christ by praying the Word of God in the Sunday liturgy. From a prayerful awareness of the Spirit working in and through us will come a sense of mission, a desire to join Christ in his mission.

How to pray with Scripture - from St Beuno's Outreach
It is usually most helpful when entering into a formal period of prayer to spend some time quietening down and centring on God. The following indications, known as “Anchor Points” have been found to provide a good framework for your prayer. Particularly important after coming to some inner quiet is the slow entry and slow exit from prayer.

FOUR ANCHOR POINTS

  1. PREPARATION

Choose your place of prayer. Make yourself comfortable, you may like to light a candle. Get in touch with your feelings: What is my frame of mind? What do I want to say to the Lord; what do I desire?

  1. ENTRY INTO PRAYER

Become quiet and still. Relax. Try to put aside any distractions. Choose a passage of scripture. Make the sign of the cross, visibly or in your heart. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide your prayer. Read your chosen text slowly several times. Notice what comforts or disturbs you.

  1. SLOW EXIT FROM PRAYER

Speak to the Lord in your own words about this time of prayer, what has it meant to you. Perhaps finish with the Glory be to the Father or a favourite prayer of your own. Make a sign of the cross, internal or external. Leave your place of prayer, thanking God for the time he has spent with you.

  1. REFLECTION AFTER PRAYER

Ask for whatever grace you need to respond to our Lord, “with my whole heart, my whole soul, my whole mind”. If possible, do this in a different place. Recall the prayer period: Was it good to be at prayer?  Did you learn something; maybe feel that the Lord was asking something of you? Notice how you are feeling now. You may find it helpful to jot down your thoughts in a notebook.

Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King Of The Universe, Year A, 22nd November 2026

The Lord is my Shepherd

On the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, in this last Sunday of Year A, the image of a shepherd echoes throughout the readings. Christ’s Kingship is one of tender care and love of his flock. 

In the First Reading the prophet Ezekiel describes how the Lord will seek us out when we are lost. He will rescue, heal, care and feed us.

Psalm 23 affirms this prophecy. The Lord leads us to lush pastures, revives and anoints us with love. He desires that we dwell with him forever.

In the letter to the Corinthians (Second Reading) Paul teaches that Christ has overcome all things, even death. In Christ we are fully alive.  Christ is all, and Christ is in all.

In the Gospel, Jesus gives his disciples a powerful teaching about the nature of his kingship. Christ our King is to be found in the stranger, the outcast, the weak and the vulnerable. We will be judged by how we treat these amongst us.

This week, let us pray for the grace to become compassionate shepherds of one another, reverencing the presence of Christ within us, and serving Christ in the most vulnerable amongst us.

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