Virtual Rememberance Service

Pause at 11 am for two minutes

Let there be peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57-0i7qghhU&app=desktop

O God our help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssr-Ga3Mz6Q

Prayer

God of justice and peace, we pray for those who have been injured
or disabled through war. For those who have lost homes and security through conflict; for those who have lost loved relatives in wars; for those who face danger and take risks for peace; for all those, especially children, caught up in current conflicts;
for refugees and all those in need of aid. God of encouragement
and Saviour of the despairing, comfort those who remember past sacrifices
and guide us in building a just and peaceful community for all.
Amen.

Robert Laurence Binyon, by artist William Strang.

Laurence Binyon composed his best known poem while sitting on the cliff-top looking out to sea from the dramatic scenery of the north Cornish coastline. A plaque marks the location at Pentire Point, north of Polzeath. However, there is also a small plaque on the East Cliff north of Portreath, further south on the same north Cornwall coast, which also claims to be the place where the poem was written.

“For the fallen” was written in mid September 1914, a few weeks after the outbreak of the First World War. During these weeks the British Expeditionary Force had suffered casualties following its first encounter with the Imperial German Army at the Battle of Mons on 23 August, its rearguard action during the retreat from Mons in late August and the Battle of Le Cateau on 26 August, and its participation with the French Army in holding up the Imperial German Army at the First Battle of the Marne between 5 and 9 September 1914. Laurence said in 1939 that the four lines of the fourth stanza came to him first. These words of the fourth stanza have become especially familiar and famous, having been adopted by the Royal British Legion as an Exhortation for ceremonies of Remembrance to commemorate fallen Servicemen and women. He was too old to enlist in the military forces but he went to work for the Red Cross as a medical orderly in 1916. Laurence lost several close friends and his brother-in-law in the war.

For the Fallen

Was published in The Times newspaper on 21 September 1914.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.

Mathew 5: 9 Jeusu Said

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”

Working on the Market we see all sorts of life people losing their rag, especially at the present time being stressed over the coronavirus; the ambassadors who patrol the market have to use a lot of peace reconciliation tactics. We are all able to be peace makers within our own families and communities, it takes a lot, some time we have to swallow our pride. Peace making is not easy Jesus carried the title Prince of peace. He is the first child of God.

My Peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVXAGqltPnM

John 14. 27

27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the

world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

John McCrae wrote

In Flanders fields the poppies blow between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky the larks, still bravely singing,

fly scarce heard amid the guns below.

John McCrae, M D (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War 1, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem . “In Flanders Fields” McCrae died of pneumonia near to the and of the war.

My Grandmother said that living in London during the first world war they could hear the distant sound of Gun fire from France. She and her Aunts would go to Church on Sundays

She always said a special prayers for her Husband, they had married in 1913. In 1916 she had recevied a letter saying her husband was missing in action, presumed dead.

When My Grandfather came home from a prison of war camp in 1918 Gran stood and screamed, she thought that he was a ghost as he had lost a lot of weight.

He had a lot of problems to prove that he was alive.

He spent the rest of his life helping others and working to bring peace into peoples lives.

He loved me singing the next song to him when I was young.

“Down By the Riverside” is a spiritual that was sung by slaves in the South as a work song. It dates back to before the American Civil War but remained unpublished until 1918, when it was included in “Plantation Melodies: A Collection of Modern, Popular and Old-time Negro-Songs of the Southland.”

The song refers to biblical imagery such as baptism (white robe), the River Jordan, Jesus (Prince of Peace) and heaven (road to heaven). “Down By the Riverside” also has been known by the alternative titles of “Ain’ Go’n to Study War No Mo,”

"Ain't Gonna Study War"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tmedW4n-0M

Prayer

Heavenly father, we thank you that you can give us peace in our hearts because of your son who is the Prince of Peace. We thank you that we can share his peace with others.

let there be peace shared among us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP8OVrWhTaA

Father God because of your love, you gave this world you only son so that whosoever belives in him shall not die but have eternal life.

We pray for peace for all nations …………pause for your own prayers.

In you mercy O God hear these prayers Amen

A tribute to all Nations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCmdhQLtwag

Christ is the answer when there is no peace

Christ is the answer he is the prince of peace

hearts filled with hatred battle cries of war

with Christ as saviour men shall fight no more

We now have the answer to know peace.

S.Youdan

make me a channel of your peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ4TK9xiAs

we pray for peace but not the cruel peace,

leaving God's poor bereft and dying in distress,
we pray for real peace, enriching all humanity

We pray for peace, and not the evil peace,
defending unjust laws and nursing prejudice,
but for the real peace of justice, truth and brotherhood

We pray for peace: holy communion
with Christ our risen Lord and all humanity
God's will fulfilled on earth and all his creatures reconciled.

We pray for peace, and for the sake of peace,
look to the risen Christ who gives the grace we need,
to serve the cause of peace and make our own self-sacrifice.

God, give us peace: if you withdraw your love,
there is no peace for us Nor any hope of it.
With you to lead us on, through death or tumult, peace will come.

Taken from singing the faith. Alan Gaunt 1935-

John Denver peace poem and peace song for you to listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea9U3E58HC8

God Bless you this day and always. Susannah