St. Giles’ Cathedral
Morning Service at 11:30am
Remembrance Sunday
Sunday 12th November 2023
Organ Music
Henry Walford-Davies Solemn Melody
C.H.H.Parry Elegy in A flat
Introit
They shall grow not old
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.
Text: Laurence Binyon 1869-1943
Music: Douglas Guest 1916-1996
Processional Hymn
Fill your hearts with joy and gladness,
sing and praise your God and mine!
Great the Lord in love and wisdom,
might and majesty divine!
He who framed the starry heavens
knows and names them as they shine!
Praise the Lord, his people, praise him!
Wounded souls his comfort know;
those who fear him find his mercies,
peace for pain and joy for woe;
humble hearts are high exalted,
human pride and power laid low.
Praise the Lord for times and seasons,
cloud and sunshine, wind and rain;
spring to melt the snows of winter
till the waters flow again;
grass upon the mountain pastures,
golden valleys thick with grain.
Fill your hearts with joy and gladness,
peace and plenty crown your days;
love his laws, declare his judgments,
walk in all his words and ways;
he the Lord and we his children:
praise the Lord, all people, praise!
Text: Timothy Dudley-Smith b.1926 from Psalm 147
Music: Rhuddlan CH4 103 Welsh Traditional Melody
Scripture Sentences
The Preces
O Lord open thou our lips
Heathcote Statham 1889-1973
Bidding
Prayer
Collect
Great and loving God, your wisdom is radiant and unfading, easily discerned by all who seek your way. When faithful people live in love and work for justice, heaven breaks into earth. Give us the grace to live confidently and expectantly, trusting that the Lord of history, who has been approaching from all eternity, comes into life continually with compassion, redemption and hope. Amen
Old Testament Micah 5 1-5
Read by Rear Admiral Mark Beverstock National President,
The Royal British Legion Scotland and Poppy Scotland
The Choir sings Psalm 91
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
New Testament Revelation 22 1-5
Read by Baroness Annabel MacNicoll Goldie DL, Minister of State for Defence in the House of Lords
The Gospel St Matthew 5 38-48
Read by The Rt Hon Humza Yousaf MSP, The First Minister of Scotland
Hymn
Healing river of the Spirit,
bathe the wounds that living brings.
Plunge our pain, our sin, our sadness
deep beneath your sacred springs.
Weary from the restless searching
that has lured us from your side,
we discover in your presence
peace the world cannot provide.
Wellspring of the healing Spirit,
stream that flows to bring release,
as we gain our selves, our senses,
may our lives reflect your peace.
Grateful for the flood that heals us,
may your Church enact your grace.
As we meet both friend and stranger,
may we see our Saviour’s face.
Living stream that heals the nations,
make us channels of your power.
All the world is torn by conflict;
wars are raging at this hour.
Saving Spirit, move among us,
guide our winding human course,
till we find our way together,
flowing homeward to our Source.
Text: Ruth C Duck b.1947
Music: Joel CH4 707 Sally Ann Morris b.1952
Sermon
Anthem
How lovely are thy dwellings fair
How lovely are thy dwellings fair O lord of Hosts,
My soul ever longeth and fainteth for the blest courts of the Lord
my heart and flesh do cry to the living God,
Blest are they that in Thy house are dwelling, they ever praise Thee
Text: Psalm 84
Music: Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
The Offering
Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Hymn
It came upon the midnight clear,
that glorious song of old,
from angels bending near the earth
to touch their harps of gold:
'Peace on the earth, good will to men
from heaven's all-gracious King!'
The world in solemn stillness lay
to hear the angels sing.
Still through the cloven skies they come,
with peaceful wings unfurled;
and still their heavenly music floats
o'er all the weary world:
above its sad and lowly plains
they bend on hovering wing;
and ever o'er its Babel-sounds
the blessed angels sing.
But with the woes of sin and strife
the world has suffered long;
beneath the angels’ hymn have rolled
two thousand years of wrong;
and warring humankind hears not
the love-song which they bring:
oh, hush the noise and still the strife,
and hear the angels sing.
For lo, the days are hastening on,
by prophet-bards foretold,
when, with the ever-rolling years,
still dawns the Age of Gold;
when peace shall over all the earth
its ancient splendours fling,
and the whole world give back the song
which now the angels sing.
Text: Edmund Hamilton Sears 1810-76
Tune: Noel CH4 303 Traditional adapted by Arthur Sullivan 1842-1900
Benediction
Organ Voluntary
Edward Elgar Nimrod
CCL Licence No 980930
Streaming Licence 57837
The service was conducted by The Rev Sigrid Marten
The preacher was The Rt Rev Sally Foster-Fulton,
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland