Thetford Remembrance Sunday Order Of Service

LEST WE FORGET

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY Sunday 12th November 2023 at 10.00 am Market Place, Thetford, Norfolk

Order of Service The National Anthem God save our gracious King, long live our noble King, God save the King.

Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us: God save the King.

Thy choicest gifts in store On him be pleased to pour, Long may he reign: May he defend our laws, And ever give us cause To sing with heart and voice: God save the King!

Welcome and Introduction

An Act of Repentance

Leader: In gratitude for the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, by which he offers us forgiveness, let us confess to God the sins and shortcomings of the world; and our own share in what is wrong, as we pray: All: Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned in thought and word and deed.

We have not loved you with our whole heart.

We have not loved our neighbours as ourselves.

In your mercy forgive what we have been, help us to amend what we are, and direct what we shall be; that we may do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with you, our God. Amen.

Leader: May the God of love bring us back to himself, forgive us our sins, and assure us of his eternal love in Jesus Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.

Hymn

Dear Lord and Father of mankind, forgive our foolish ways; reclothe us in our rightful mind, in purer lives thy service find, in deeper reverence, praise.

Drop thy still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease; take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace.

Breathe through the heats of our desire thy coolness and thy balm; let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire, O still, small voice of calm!

Bible Reading and Words of Reflection

Hymn

I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above, entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love; the love that asks no questions, the love that stands the test, that lays upon the altar, the dearest and the best; the love that never falters, the love that pays the price, the love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.

And there’s another country, I’ve heard of long ago, most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know; we may not count her armies; we may not see her King; her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering; and soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase, and her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are peace.

Prayers

concluding with

The Lord’s Prayer

All: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.

Amen.

Hymn

During the singing of the following hymn, a collection will be taken for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home: Under the shadow of your throne your saints have dwelt secure; sufficient is your arm alone, and our defence is sure.

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

A thousand ages in your 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 its sons 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: O be our guard while troubles last, and our eternal home.

The Act of Remembrance

Leader: Let us then remember all those who have given their lives in war and conflict in the cause of justice and peace.

RBL: 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.

All: We will remember them.

The Last Post

Two Minutes’ Silence

The Reveille and Kohima Epitaph

A Prayer of Blessing

Wreath Laying Ceremony led by the Mayor of Thetford

After the wreath laying ceremony, the congregation is asked to remain in the same position until the main parade has marched off towards the saluting base in King Street.

THANK YOU ALL FOR ATTENDING.

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