Simon casts a vision for St Peter's to be a praying people, responding to the disorder of the world with an uprising of prayer, to use the words of theologian Karl Barth. He teaches us that, in line with our vision, our prayers are in and for Bury, and at the same time from and for heaven. Finally, prayer transforms us into the image of the one we pray to, God himself, and catches us up in the activity of heaven, where we'll spend all eternity.