Presented to TSA Alberni Valley Ministries, Remembrance Sunday, 09 November 2025, by Major Michael Ramsay, Royal Canadian Legion Chaplain (Padre), Branch 293.
Prayer
of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Where there is offence, let me bring pardon.
Where there is discord, let me bring union.
Where there is error, let me bring truth.
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.
Where there is despair, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, let me bring your light.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
O Master, let me not seek as much
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that one receives,
it is in self-forgetting that one finds,
it is in pardoning that one is pardoned,
it is in dying that one is raised to eternal life.
INVOCATION: Grace
be unto you and peace, from God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ. The
souls of the righteous are in the hand of God. Their bodies are buried in
peace; but their name liveth forever more.
Today
as at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, time stands still for a
moment; and we remember those who died, not for war, but for a world that would
be free and at peace.
Those
who lay down their lives in battle are almost never those who put their lives
at risk by declaring war. Those who choose to fight a war are rarely those who
fight in that war. Those who tell us why they send people to fight rarely stop
and ask the person on the front why they are in the fight. Those who decide
that soldiers will die at war almost never themselves die at war.
Remembrance
Day is a lamentation. It is when we remember our family members, community
members, loved ones and others who are no more because they died, and were in a
position to die, before peace could be obtained in a quarrel they did not pick.
We will remember them.
Psalm
116:3-4:
The
cords of death entangled me,
the
anguish of the grave came over me;
I was
overcome by distress and sorrow.
Then I
called on the name of the Lord:
“Lord,
save me!”
Isaiah
2:4:
He
will judge between the nations
and
will settle disputes for many peoples.
They
will beat their swords into plowshares
and
their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation
will not take up sword against nation,
nor
will they train for war anymore.
PRAYER:
Almighty God. You are our refuge and strength; we humble ourselves in Your
presence, and, remembering the great things you have done for us, we lift up
our hearts in adoration and praise. As you have gathered us together this day,
we give You thanks for all who served in time of trial.
In
remembrance of those who made the supreme sacrifice, make us better men and
women, and give us peace in our time, O Lord.
VIDEO:
Last Post, 2min. Silence, Reveille, Piper’s Lament,
Act of Remembrance
Laying
of the poppies
BENEDICTION:
Almighty God, as You have gathered your people together this day in hallowed
remembrance, we give You thanks for all who laid down their lives for our sake,
and whom You have gathered from the storm of war into the peace of Your
presence. Let the memory of their devotion ever be an example to us, that we at
the last. Being faithful unto death, may receive with them the crown of life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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