Above all Dorchester Abbey is a place of prayer. For centuries men and women have brought their joys and sorrows to this building and before God. Visitors, villagers and regular worshippers all find a real sense of peace within these prayer-soaked walls.
Everyone who visits has their favourite place of prayer in the Abbey. We try to keep the Birinus Chapel quiet for personal prayer and you will find a prayer board in the chapel for your personal prayer requests. The Dorchester Abbey prayer card with guidance for your prayers may be found in the Birinus Chapel. On summer weekends Evening Prayer is said in the Birinus Chapel at 4.45pm whenever possible.
The Lady and Memorial Chapels and the Birinus Shrine area are also beautiful and quiet spots in the Abbey.
Wherever you turn in Dorchester Abbey you will find a memory, sight or sound to prompt your prayers. A recent development is the Prayer Pilgrimage – a tour of the Abbey with a difference offering the opportunity to stop at different places in the building to remember particular people, events or situations. The Prayer Pilgrimage leaflet is a companion leaflet to the Welcome Leaflet and follows a similar route. Both leaflets are available free of charge in the Abbey or may be downloaded.
Download Welcome leaflet [291Kb Acrobat file]
Download Dorchester Abbey Prayer Card [to follow]
Download Pew Prayer Sheet [110Kb Acrobat file]
Download Prayer Pilgrimage [to follow]
Calm me, O Lord,
as you calmed the storm.
Still me, O Lord,
keep me from harm.
Let all tumult within me cease.
Enfold me, Lord, in your peace.
For forgiveness
Humbly, O Lord,
I ask forgiveness:
For every weakening thought
to which my mind has roamed
For every word spoken in
hastiness and passion,
For every failure of self control,
For...
Grant thy pardon and thy peace that I may be cleansed from all my sins and serve thee with a quiet mind, Amen.
In Thanksgiving
O God whose love is beyond measure, I praise and bless you, giving most humble and hearty thanks for all your goodness and loving kindness and especially for...
Grant that I may show forth your love not only with my lips but in my life. Amen.
At a time of Anxiety
O God of love, whose compassion never fails, lift up the light of your countenance upon me and enfold me in the comfort of your love this day and for evermore. Amen.
For the lonely and the sick
Lord Jesus by the loneliness of your suffering on the cross be near to ...
and all who are desolate and in pain or sorrow this day. May your presence transform their sorrow into comfort and in fellowship with you may they find peace for your mercy's sake. Amen.
For families and loved ones
Merciful God, we bring to you all whom we love knowing that your love for them is greater than ours and that you want only good things for them. Hold them safe in the palm of your hand and give them now and always the blessing of your peace and the comfort of your Spirit. Amen.
For a loved one departed
Eternal God, by whose mercy and grace your saints remain in everlasting light and peace: I remember with thanksgiving ... And all those whom I love but see no longer committing them to your love and peace. Amen.
Dedication and Commitment
O Lord my God, grant me grace to desire thee with my whole heart; that so desiring thee I may seek and find thee; and so finding thee may love thee, and loving thee may hate those sins from which thou hast redeemed me; Saint Anselm
(from the Dorchester Abbey Prayer Card)
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