Chapel netting calls to prayer
HISTORIC Rosslyn Chapel in
Midlothian has launched a new scheme to take up prayer requests from around the
world.
Many of the 40,000 people
who visit the site every year already write prayer requests in a book provided
in the chapel.
But now international
requests for prayers can be posted on a special part of the Scottish Episcopal
Church’s website -
http://www.scotland.anglican.org/aboutus_general_prayerrequests.html
And the concerns will be
included in a short prayer session at
noon each day.
The Rev Michael Fass,
worker priest in charge of the chapel, said: "This adds to our efforts to make
Rosslyn Chapel a place of Christian pilgrimage and prayer."
© The Scotsman Publications Ltd
The Scotsman.
21st August 2002
‘E-prayers’ from around world flood into chapel
HISTORIC Rosslyn Chapel
has been inundated with prayer requests from around the world since launching
its new online prayer service.
More than 280 e-mails with
prayer requests were received within the first 12 hours of going live. And now
organisers say new prayer volunteers might have to be sought to avoid a long
waiting list of requests.
The ancient chapel in
Midlothian, which is one of Scotland’s oldest and most mysterious churches, is
thought to be the first church to take e-prayer requests over the internet.
At
noon every weekday, the
prayer requests are printed off and offered to God in the chapel by a member of
the congregation. Requests have been received from the United States, the West
Indies and Australia as well as the UK.
Organisers have promised
to keep specific requests confidential, but areas covered so far have ranged
from exam results to relationships, job interviews to crises of faith, and two
people who wanted to win the lottery.
The Rev Michael Fass, the
minister in charge of Rosslyn Chapel, said the e-prayer requests were connecting
people to the church who would not be connected in any other way.
And he said people were
particularly attracted by the anonymity of the service.
Requests can be made
through the Scottish Episcopal Church’s main website -
© The Scotsman Publications Ltd
Edinburgh Evening News
4th September 2002
Below is a notice intimating Episcopalian services at Rosslyn Chapel
(The Scotsman, Saturday, 15th January 2005