Full Service - WW1 Commemoration

WW1 Commemoration - Year A

Please note
1) that traditional components of a Remembrance Service are not included here, are readily available elsewhere, and can be incorporated if wished;
2) that a time of silence can be observed at any appropriate point in the service but perhaps before or after the reading from Isaiah or following the sermon;
3) the copyright notices relating to Once crimson poppies bloomed & A century passes, memories will fade as royalties, including those from CCL, for these two items will go to SSAFA.

Service Contents:
Openning Hymn: O God our help in ages past or Once crimson poppies bloomed
Reading: Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23
Prayers: So easy now to judge – original sin?
Prayer based on Romans 12:9-21 - Human instincts
Hymn: Make me a channel of your peace or I have a dream that on a day
Reading: Isaiah 2:3-4
Hymn: Behold the mountain of the Lord or One after another we wait on the warnings
Reading: John 15:12 - 17
Sermon ideas:
Meditation/poem based on Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23 - Wiping out the past
No armistice- A soldier from the First World War told the story of holding the hand of his dying friend:
Hymn: For the healing of the nations or When nations are healed and all warfare is banished
Prayer: Agony
Hymn: O God our Father, who dost make us one or A century passes, memories will fade
Blessing: May love be woven into the tapestry of the days.

Andrew Pratt (born 1948)

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