Revd Liz Newman leads Morning and Evening prayer this week. Morning Prayer – Liz our Rector considers a passage from Matthew’s Gospel chapter 4, verse 23 – to chapter 5, verse 12. This scripture describes Jesus teaching his disciples about his response to encountering and healing so many followers; “‘Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.'”