The annual service of Remembrance was held on Remembrance Sunday with 59 people attending. After the service in church, wreaths were laid at the war memorial.
Service led by Rev Martin Hathaway and Maxine Johnson, with reading by Tony Spencer. The organ played beautifully by Boris with the Last Post and Reveille played live for us by Jonathan Lee.
The collection raised £225 which has been sent to the Market Harborough branch of the Royal British Legion. Thank you to all who attended and donated and huge thanks to our wonderful flower arrangers who brought the church to life with their poignant flower arrangements.
Enjoy the photographs of the church taken by Maxine Dodd.
“When you go home, tell them of us and say For your tomorrow, we gave our today.”
Today, we gathered at St Peter’s church and the War Memorial to remember the fallen from our villages from the First World War and to reflect upon the loss of precious lives in all conflicts before and since. The current conflicts in Ukraine and Israel continue relentlessly with no end in sight.
It was a grey and somewhat bleak day, after a spell of almost two weeks with very little sunshine; somehow appropriate for very bleak times in the wider world.
Our incredible flower arranging team transformed the church with a variety of arrangements. Large solemn sentinels by the altar contrasted with tiny posies of poppies which caught the eye brightening hidden corners.
While we sang and prayed; listened to readings, held silence for the Last Post and Reveille and listened to the names of our lost young men, the little poppies captured my thoughts.
Poppies are the epitome of calm after chaos, bringing beauty after unimaginable ugliness.. Tender fragility following brutal cruelty.
The tiny field poppy symbolises hope as it grows from disturbed ground. Its seeds can lie dormant for hundreds of years until the earth turns… but its blood red petals remind us of the horror and sacrifice. And a field of little poppies remind us of the millions who died.
Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day are as important this year as ever, as we remember everyone who has sacrificed so much in continued difficult times. War rages in Ukraine and Gaza. Now, as ever, we must continue to pray for peace.
Remembrance Sunday Service for the Langton Villages
Remembrance Service: Sunday 10th November, 10.30am, St Peter’s Church, Church Langton
The service will take place in St Peter’s Church in Church Langton, starting at 10.30am and lasts for about an hour. The service will be lead by Rev Martin Hathaway and Lay Incubment, Maxine Johnson, with contributions from our church members from Tur and Thorpe Langton.
The Act of Remembrance and two-minute silence at 11am take place inside the church as part of the Remembrance Service, when the names of our local war dead are read and the wreaths for the Langton villages are blessed.
Laying of wreaths at the War Memorial: 11:45 – 12noon
After the service in church, the congregation will process from the church to the village green where where the wreath for Church Langton will be laid on the War Memorial.
The wreaths from our sister villages will be returned and laid at their village memorials separately.
We hope you can join us for the service in St Peter’s and the laying of the wreath at the village green.
Evensong at Tur Langton
The Sunday Evensong service at Tur Langton will have the theme of Remembrance. Join Rev Jonathan at St Andrews, Tur Langton Sunday, 10th November at 4.30pm.
“When you go home, tell them of us and say For your tomorrow, we gave our today.”
St Peter's Church, Church Langton 