Remembrance Sunday Service
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The boarding school community were joined by many parents, Old Dauntseians and friends of the school for our Service of Remembrance. Wreaths were laid by the Vice-Chair of the Governors, the Head Girl and the Chair of the Old Dauntseians. Standing in the rain outside the Memorial Hall the Head Boy read out the many names of former pupils who died during the Second World War and the Korean War. Jack Mynott and Will Christofi shared the responsibility of playing the Last Post and the Reveille marking the start and end of the two minutes silence. During the service the choir sang two anthems: The Peace of God be with you by Alan Bullard and Da pacem Domine by Arvo Part. Alongside many well-known hymns, these anthems added great emotion to the prayers, the Act of Penitence and the Act of Commitment that we should all work for peace within this world. At the centre of the service were two addresses: a reflection on the reality of war by Captain Adam Lee, and a sermon from the Chaplain. Please use links below to read these addresses. |
A Reflection on the reality of war by Captain Adam Lee (Please Log In using your Intranet Username and Password)
Readings for Remembrance Sunday
Ecclesiastes 3.1-8
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to reap;
a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.
John 15.9-17
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
'This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.