Remembrance Sunday

Readings for the 10am Service

A reading from the book of Romans

What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?  He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.  Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  As it is written,

‘For your sake we are being killed all day long;    we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.’

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8: 31 - end

A reading from the gospel of John

As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.

‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

John 15: 9-17

Hymns

153 Eternal Father

553 Peace is Flowing like a River

494 O God Our Help

554 Peace, Perfect Peace

186 For the Healing of the Nations

National Anthem at end

Choir (after 2 min silence): "We will Remember Them" by John Madden

Choir Communion Anthem:  "Thou Knowest Lord, the Secrets of Our Hearts" by Henry Purcell

Evensong:

Hymns: 554 Peace Perfect Peace

378 Lead Kindly Light

Introit: God be in My Head

Anthem: Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace

Mag and Nunc: Hylton Stewart

Psalm: 70

Responses: Ferial