The Second Intercessions Handbook - (40) ALL SAINTS (AT ANY TIME)
The Second Intercessions Handbook - (40) ALL SAINTS (AT ANY TIME)
by SPCK - John Pritchard
(40) ALL SAINTS (AT ANY TIME) All Saints Day on 1 November isn’t the only time to celebrate the saints of the Church, large and small, local and universal. But if this is the chosen time there’s an interesting symbiosis between this remembrance and that of Guy Fawkes four days la…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - A Service of Remembrance
Times and Seasons - Full Service - A Service of Remembrance
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
A Service of Remembrance Service Contents: The following words may be used as an introduction leading to the two minutes’ silence: Let us remember the loss and pain of war. We remember with grief and anger… Two Minutes’ Silence The Last Post We will remember them: Hymn: O God our…
Times and Seasons - Lives laid down
Times and Seasons - Lives laid down
by Jan Berry
LIVES LAID DOWN “No one has greater love than this, than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (John 15:13) We remember the lives laid down in courage and comradeship, in futile battles at immense cost, in dreams of hope and glory. We remember the lives laid down without choi…
Echoing the Word - Words at the distribution
Echoing the Word - Words at the distribution
by SPCK - Paula Gooder & Michael Perham
19 The prayer of humble access There are two sets of words to consider at the time of the distribution: first, those spoken by the president to invite people to Communion; second, those spoken by those distributing the consecrated bread and wine to each communicant in turn, altho…
Times and Seasons - One hundred years ago
Times and Seasons - One hundred years ago
by Marjorie Dobson
One hundred years ago How brave they were, they thought, one hundred years ago. Enthusiastic, full of zeal and ready for the sport, one hundred years ago, they thought. How cheerfully they went, one hundred years ago, as town and village sent their companies of pals hell-bent for…
Times and Seasons - Foreign Fields
Times and Seasons - Foreign Fields
by Marjorie Dobson
Foreign Fields In mud-bespattered ranks men marched through foreign fields, once fertile as the farms at home: their hopes, once high, soon shattered by mud, gas, guns, barbed-wire and no-man’s land. The fields were wet with rain and scarlet blood and vomit; peppered with shells,…
Times and Seasons - Agony
Times and Seasons - Agony
by Marjorie Dobson
Agony Agony etched on faces. Pain screaming from tortured limbs. Blood running from open wounds, mingling with sweat, diluted by tears. Victims dying. Soldiers doing their duty. Enemies looking on with hatred blazing. Mothers weeping inconsolably. Friends standing, lost and helpl…
Meditation of a grandparent in a war zone
Meditation of a grandparent in a war zone
by Josephine M Smith
MEDITATION OF A GRANDPARENT IN A WAR TORN LAND I should be able to relax a little at my age. My children are grown up, happily married and with children of their own. Instead I live in a constant state of fear. The bombardment is relentless. A constant blast of missiles all aroun…
Remembering - Part of your memory
Remembering - Part of your memory
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Remembering - Part of your memory Third Sunday of Easter Luke 24. 13-35 Part of your memory will be rooted in this place – the time of sorrow that you thought would never end. Part of your life will always be linked to this pilgrimage – this remembrance...
Poem of Remembrance
Poem of Remembrance
by Michael Docker
We should remember them, all those who died in war; The soldiers, sailors, airmen and women, wardens And guards, the doctors and the ones whose gardens Grew the food; the wives and mothers; many more - We should remember them; although so long ago For us today what we have they g…
Remembrance Sunday: when fresh hostility is wrapped around old enmities
Remembrance Sunday: when fresh hostility is wrapped around old enmities
by David Perry
Remembrance Sunday: When fresh hostility is wrapped around old enmities Reflection accompanying image “barbed wire and poppies for remembrance sunday” Freshly placed barbed wire curls menacingly around the rusted remnant of a much older blood stained, hate ingrained, sorrow encr…
Prayers for All Occasions Book - Prayers for the Armed Forces