Wounded
Trilogy of Love · Part II · June 20, 2026
St Mary & St Mina Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Bexley
The day booklet carries everything prepared for the Wounded Servants Spiritual Day — gathered into a single document for use during the day and for continued reflection in the weeks that follow.
- ✠ Objective, Aim & Theme
- ✠ Welcome Message
- ✠ 3 Core Contemplations & Facilitator Talk
- ✠ Workshop 1 — The Anatomy of the Wound
- ✠ Workshop 2 — The God Who Speaks in the Wound
- ✠ 8 Further Contemplations for Personal Reading
- ✠ Iconography Section
- ✠ Five Prayers for the Wounded Servant
- ✠ Closing Message
Five Prayers for the Wounded Servant
To be prayed alone — in the quiet before the day begins, in the dark of a difficult season, or at the close
Before the Day Begins
Lord Christ, I come to this day carrying what I always carry — the weight of faces I could not reach, of seasons that bore less than I had hoped, of prayers that seemed to pass through empty air...
In the Season of Darkness
Lord, You have gone quiet. I know, because the tradition tells me so, that You have not gone absent — that this silence is not the silence of indifference but the silence of a love that is doing its deepest work in the dark...
For the One Who Has Wounded Me
Lord, I bring before You the one who wounded me. I confess that I have spent more time rehearsing this wound than I have spent praying for the one who gave it...
When the Fruit is Hidden
Lord, I have served faithfully and I cannot see what it has given. The years of investment in faces that have moved on. The prayers offered in the dark for people who do not know I prayed them...
At the Close of the Day
Lord, the day is closing. I am not the same as when it began, though I may not yet know how I am different. Something has shifted, however quietly, in how the wound is held...
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