St. Mary’s Anglican Church, Canon Claude Schroeder
Ordinarily, today we would have been attending to the cycle of readings appointed for Trinity XXIV in our church calendar.
But today is not an ordinary day.
Today is November 11, a day in our civic calendar that is given over to ceremonies and prayers in remembrance of the war dead.
We will be engaging in such a ceremony at the end of our service.
But this November 11 is also the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, and so it seemed good and right that we should interrupt our cycle of readings, and attend to the readings assigned for services for peace.
I want to begin this morning by discharging my duty and responsibility to you on this Remembrance Sunday to announce and declare to you the good news that the war is over. Continue reading “Remembrance Sunday – November 11, 2018”