Good morning and welcome to our service of Holy Communion for Remembrance Sunday 2023, which concludes with our Act of Remembrance. Rev Sue will preach and preside. We begin with the hymn “God is my strength and refuge”: The full service was livestreamed here, and begins at 6’40”: https://fb.watch/ogtTjV-flQ/ The readings are: Wisdom 6:12-16 I … More Remembrance Sunday 2023
The Act of Remembrance I’m sure many of us know was actually begun in 1919 by King George V to recall the end of the first World War hostilities, which formally ended at the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th Month in 1918, when the Peace Treaty was signed, although the war officially ended with the Treaty of Versailles on 28TH June, 1919 … More Remembrance Sunday Sermon
Good morning and welcome to our service of Holy Communion for Remembrance Sunday 2022. Rev Sue will preside, Reader Christine will preach, and the act of remembrance will be at the end, near to 11:00am … More Remembrance Sunday 2022
In the church calendar November is a sombre time of the year. Although it starts with a celebration on All Saints Day, we quickly move to remembering the departed on All Souls and then to Remembrance Sunday … More Rev Sue’s November letter to the parish
November is truly a time of remembrance, and a few years ago Rev Debby wrote this song to help us remember all that should be remembered … More The November Song – D Plummer
Remembrance Day was marked with a very moving service at 9.45 on Sunday 11 November 2018 … More Remembrance Day 2018
The 9.45am service at St Margaret’s began with an Act of Remembrance, in which the names of all the fallen from our parish were read out and remembered … More Remembrance Day 2017
This sermon was preached by Rev Deborah on Remembrance Sunday 2016.
All of us are aware of what silence is and yet there are many types of silence. There is the silence of glorying in a dawn of a new day.There is the companionable silence of two people being together and not having to say anything to each other. There is the silence and stillness of our souls that comes from being in the presence of God – whether that is through prayer, reflection, meditation or simply being … More Remembrance Sunday 2016
St Margaret's Church Prestwich 