With Mary Magdalene and all holy women, let us praise God and call upon him in prayer: Lord, direct our thoughts, and teach us to pray. Lift up our hearts to worship you in spirit and in truth, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Our Gospel reading for today immediately follows on from the report of what the disciples had been doing – preaching, casting out demons and healing the sick.

Lord, direct our thoughts, and teach us to pray. Lift up our hearts to worship you in spirit and in truth, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Someone I was listening to described herself as being ‘all at sea’ when speaking of a time in her life when she wasn’t sleeping well.