You can join the service via YouTube.
The service will be live-streamed, beginning a bit before 10 am EDT; you’ll be able to watch live, or or re-watch the service at this link on YouTube at any time.
The order of service is available here.
You may want to have it handy while joining the stream. The order of service includes the readings and responses, and the words to the hymns, to make it easier to join in participating via the live stream. It also includes prayers you may wish to use during the reception of the Eucharist.
We begin our service this week with an Act of Remembrance. We remember with thanksgiving and sorrow all who died in conflicts past and present, and we pray for those who suffer now. We keep two minutes of silence, as we remember. We pray for peace, and we commit ourselves to responsible living and faithful service. To remember is to work for peace.
Following the Act of Remembrance, we’ll continue with our celebration of the Eucharist on the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost. Sundays and Seasons offers this reflection on the readings that we’ll hear:
We worship on the first day of the week because Jesus was raised on that day. Every Sunday is a little Easter. This Sunday feels more like Easter than many as the appointed texts celebrate the reality of the resurrection. Live it up this Lord’s day. Our God is the God of the living.
Our cover image this morning is the painting “The Place of Meeting” by Thomas Noyes Lewis (1862 – 1946). It depicts the priest’s communion at the requiem mass, and, in the cloud of incense above, military figures. Those in the front row (including a sailor and a chaplain) wear First World War uniforms; each rank behind them takes the viewer further back into the past.
The photograph of the river of poppies at the entrance to the Church of the Nativity was taken by Mr. William Pleydon, ON. The almost 2,500 poppies were knitted and crocheted by parishioners and friends of the parish. To remember is to work for peace.