SouthWest Remembrance Day Service 2020

Here is a link to our Remembrance Day service filmed live this morning, November 8, 2020. Many thanks to our visitors from Verdun Legion #4: Stan Kirkoff, President, and Anthony J. Bruce, Sergeant at Arms, as well as our own Douglas Hastie, for the laying of the wreaths.

The Gathering hymn is VU 682, O Day of Peace, and is sung to the tune of Jerusalem by C. Hubert H. Parry.

O day of peace that dimly shines
through all our hopes and prayers and dreams,
guide us to justice, truth and love,
delivered from our selfish schemes.
May swords of hate fall from our hands,
our hearts from envy find release
till by God’s grace our warring world
shall see Christ’s promised reign of peace.

Then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb,
nor shall the fierce devour the small,
as beasts and cattle calmly graze,
a little child shall lead them all.
Then enemies shall learn to love,
all creatures find their true accord,
the hope of peace shall be fulfilled,
for all the earth shall know the Lord.