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Choose Peace Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. Ephesians 4: 2–3 NIV® Alfred Nobel made a fortune from the invention of dynamite, which changed the course of warfare. Perhaps because of the horrors that...
Good morning, Cornerstone friends. The trees are mostly bare now and we are moving closer to Advent. It feels more like winter, and in a normal year we would be counting shopping days before Christmas. Let us stop thinking of counting and spend time on more important things. Hold not your peace, O God, do not...
In the past few days our thoughts have been with the thousands of men and women who through two world wars and more recent conflicts have sacrificed their lives in the cause of justice and peace. The poignancy of this Remembrance season has been heightened by news this week that deaths in the UK from Coronavirus...
Led by Revd George Mwaura Preacher: Revd David Moore Prelude: Humoresque – L’organo primativo Introit: The life I now live is not my life The life I now live is not my life, [×2] but the life which Christ lives in me. [×2] This is the purpose of God for all, now disclosed to his people: Christ...
By Revd David Moore Psalm 123 A Prayer for Mercy 1 Lord, I look up to you, up to heaven, where you rule. 2 As a servant depends on his master a maid depends on her mistress, so we will keep looking to you, O Lord our God, until you have mercy upon us. 3 Be merciful to us,...
God of all time, you made time and you entered time to be with us.
We move from ordinary time to extraordinary time, and in all this, we wait for you.
Keep our hearts aflame with the things that please you: mercy, humility, justice.
And as we turn to worship you, we worship you in time, in spirit and in truth.
Amen
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Friday evening’s prayers. Do you remember getting lost? Perhaps this happened to you as a child, or perhaps you remember panicking when a child was lost while in your care. It’s many, many years ago when that last happened to me, but I still recall what it felt like, and even...
Welcome to Friday morning, almost halfway through November. Let us greet the day in prayer. Creator God, we thank you for today and its promise of renewal, its significant hope. May we take up your invitation to live as people of hope, to greet everyone we meet today, online or in the real world, with a...
A reading from Psalm 40 1 I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. 2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. 3 He put a new song in my mouth,...
Where to find hope? And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. Romans 5: 5 NIV® The announcement of this second lockdown set me thinking on how to approach the situation positively. The word ‘Hope’ came to mind. Hope,...
Good morning on Armistice or Remembrance Day. Some familiar lines from wartime poets: 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. Laurence Binyon When you go home tell...
Let us remember with gratitude those who in the course of peace and the service of others, died in time of war. The Last Post Two minutes’ silence Reveille 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...
[The Act of Remembrance will be found right at the foot of this post.] Prelude Improvisation on “O Valiant Hearts” Tune SUPREME SACRIFICE Composed by Charles Harris. Improvisation on the piano by Adrian Boynton, Director of Music of the Church of Christ the Cornerstone. Preacher: Revd Paul Le Sueur Celebrant: Revd Ernesto Lozada-Uzuriaga Introit: Justorum animae...
By Revd Paul Le Sueur It is 1950 and a twelve-year old boy is standing with others in his school quadrangle on a cold and bleak November morning. It is 11.00 am in the morning and high up on the school tower a bugler is playing The Last Post. A solemn silence falls and for two minutes...
Living God, you call us into a deeper relationship with you.
You hear the cry of the weak and you value each of us, whatever our circumstances.
We praise you for your abundant generosity, for your astonishing grace
and we give thanks that we are called to reflect those qualities in our own lives.
Remember us Lord as we remember those who have fought the good fight
and now rest in your love and peace.
Amen
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