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Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh
Sunday 12th November 2023 at 10.30am
Remembrance Sunday
In-Person and Livestreamed Act of Remembrance
Worship Leader: Rev Julia A. Cato
Organist: Alberto Massimo
Order of Service (Hymns are from CH4 and Readings are from NRSV)
Organ: For the Fallen, by Sir Edward Elgar (arr. H. Oxley); Solemn Melody, by Sir Henry Walford Davies
Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship
Hymn 161: O God, our help in ages past [Tune: St Anne]
Prayers of Adoration and Confession, singing Kyrie Eleison at Hymn 777
The Lord’s Prayer
Young Church Focus – Portrait: Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Movement [Matthew Esser]
Hymn 707: Healing river of the Spirit [Tune: Joel]
Remembering Greenbank’s Fallen [Hugh Cowan]
Call to Remembrance
Hymn 706: For the healing of the nations [Tune: Picardy (CH4 666)]
Act of Remembrance
The Laying of Wreaths at the War Memorial Window
The Exhortation
Two Minute Silence
Reading: Isaiah 25: 4–9 (OT p662) [Reader: Katie Harling-Lee]
Choir Anthem: They shall grow not old, by Alan Irvine
Reading: Romans 8: 35–39 (NT p154) [Reader: Josh Harling-Lee]
Sermon
Offering, during which we sing Hymn 713: Come, all who look to God today [Tune: Gonfalon Royal]
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession, led by Nora Kellock
Hymn 710: ‘I have a dream’, a man once said [Tune: Repton]
Commitment
Benediction, with sung Amen at Hymn 822
The National Anthem: Hymn 703 v1
Organ: March from Scipio, by G.F. Handel
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