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  • Armistice Day

    Armistice Day


    11/11/2019

    So what about the silence?

     

     

    This is one of the most famous poems of the First World War - CLICK HERE to listen to In Flanders' Fields.

    Here's how this poem came to be written:

    A PRAYER FOR THIS DAY

    Lord of the nations -

    We remember with grateful hearts

    the men and women of our country

    who went forth to protect the liberty we enjoy

    but who did not return!

     

    Help us recognise the debt we owe them

    so that we may strive, in our own lives,

    to protect the freedoms

    that were won at so great a cost.

     

    And so we commit to your safekeeping

    those who have died in war;

    those whose memory we treasure;

    those who have sacrificed themselves

    in the service of humankind.

     

    Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord

    And let perpetual light shine upon them.

    May they rest in peace.  AMEN

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Anniversary of the murder of 6 Jesuits and their 2 companions in El Salvador

    Anniversary of the murder of 6 Jesuits and their 2 companions in El Salvador


    16/11/2019

    On the morning of November 16, 1989, an elite battalion of the Salvadoran Army entered the grounds of the Jesuit University of Central America, with orders to kill Father Ignacio Ellacuría—an outspoken critic of the Salvadoran military dictatorship—and leave no witnesses.

    When it was all over, the soldiers had killed six Jesuit priests, a housekeeper and her 16 year old daughter in cold blood.  The Jesuits Massacre is one of most notorious crimes of El Salvador’s 12-year civil war, which left over 75,000 people dead including most famously Archbishop (now Saint) Oscar Romero.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    A PRAYER FOR TODAY

    God, Creator of life and human dignity,

    we celebrate the witness of your martyrs

    for faith, for peace, and for justice.

    Have mercy on the souls of these departed ones and grant them peace.

    May the memory of the Jesuits and the members of the Ramos family

    who died in El Salvador in 1989

    help us move to a deeper understanding of the demands of justice

    and guide us to speak your truth to those in power.

     

    Give us the courage to raise our voices for those who suffer oppression and violence.

    Grant us your joy as we work to bring your kingdom to this world. Amen.

     

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