Photo Credit: Fr James Bradley

Remembrance Sunday at Warwick Street

14th November 2021, Remembrance Sunday. The 10.30 Mass was celebrated by the Rector, Fr Mark Elliott Smith. The setting was the Fauré Requiem. Black vestments were used as per special indult issued by Pope Benedict XV allowing for a Requiem Mass to be celebrated on Remembrance Sunday in Catholic churches of England and Wales.

O LORD our God, whose Name only is excellent and thy praise above heaven and earth: we thank thee for all those who counted not their lives dear unto themselves but laid them down for their friends; grant us, we beseech thee, that having them always in remembrance we may imitate their faithfulness and sacrifice; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

ALMIGHTY God, having remembered this day before thee thy servants who laid down their lives for the peace of mankind: we pray thee to grant them thy peace; and in thy loving wisdom and almighty power work in them the good purpose of thy perfect will; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord: and let light perpetual shine upon them.
O Lord Jesu Christ, King of glory, deliver the souls of all the faithful departed from the hand of hell, and from the pit of destruction: deliver them from the lion’s mouth; that the grave devour them not; that they go not down to the realms of darkness. But let Michael, the holy standard-bearer, make speed to restore them to the brightness of glory: which thou didst promise in ages past to Abraham and his seed.

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Monday,
15 November 2021