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Remembrance Prayer
Tuesday October 28 2014
A remembrance prayer from the Rt Rev John Chalmers, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends.
(St John 15 vs 13, The Message)
Almighty God, when we close our eyes and think; a great panoply of humanity, sacrificed to war, enters our consciousness.
Some we have known;
most we have not known,
but you know them all.
Grant that in this season of remembrance we may pay fitting tribute and honour to those:
Who never saw the peace they fought for on the battlefields and in the trenches a century ago
Who gave their lives in resistance to a tyranny that would have overwhelmed us in the Second World War
Who live in the streams of our memory and who have died in modern day conflicts seeking to make the world a safer place for us all
May we be so inspired by the spirit of their love and courage that, forgetting all selfish and unworthy motives we may live only to your glory and in the service of others.
We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Almighty God, may we who desire peace be willing to work for justice throughout the world, and so we pray for all those still caught up in conflicts across the world and we ask that by inches and by degrees you, O God, would bring us to a place where war will be no more
God of peace, whose Son Jesus Christ proclaimed the kingdom and restored the broken to wholeness of life: look with compassion on the anguish of the world, and by your healing power make whole both people and nations; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen
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