Prayers for Remembrance Sunday

This morning I shall be preaching at St Saviour's Presbyterian Church in Midrand, and then at the Bryanston Methodist Church. I shall be using excerpts from this wonderful liturgy in the service.

This Sunday is remembrance Sunday - let us never forget that the way of Christ is love and peace. Let us pray against war and violence, and remember those who have died at the hands of others.

Ever-living God
we remember those whom you have
gathered
from the storm of war into the peace of
your presence;
may that same peace
calm our fears,
bring justice to all peoples
and establish harmony among the nations,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

The following hymn, or another that
similarly expresses hope in God and
trust for the future, may be sung:

O God, our help in ages past,
our hope for years to come,
our shelter from the stormy blast,
and our eternal home;

Beneath the shadow of thy throne
thy saints have dwelt secure;
sufficient is thine arm alone,
and our defence is sure.

Before the hills in order stood,
or earth received her frame,
from everlasting thou art God,
to endless years the same.

A thousand ages in thy sight
are like an evening gone;
short as the watch that ends the night
before the rising sun.

Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
bears all our years away;
they fly forgotten, as a dream
dies at the opening day.

O God, our help in ages past,
our hope for years to come,
be thou our guard while troubles last,
and our eternal home.

You can download the complete copy of the liturgy from this link:Remembrance_Sunday_service_freeversion.rtf