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Remembrance Sunday: An update from Sunday

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We were delighted to welcome over 50 people to the service of Remembrance at the weekend. The church was decorated beautifully by our team of flower arrangers and we were thrilled to display a Poppy Collage made by the children from Church Langton School. Rev Martin gave a moving address including mention of the crucifix of nails made after the bombing of Coventry in World War II. Wreaths for the local men who lost their lives in World War I and II were blessed and then taken to the War Memorial on the village green.

We wish to thank everyone who donated on the day and online to our collection for the Royal British Legion. We raised £209.00 which is winging its way to the Harborough branch as we write this. This is our best year yet so we can’t thank you enough for your generous support for this wonderful cause.

Enjoy the photographs of the church taken by Alison Thurlby.

St Peter's Font - decorated in poppies for Remembrance
St Peter's Church porch, Remembrance flowers
St Peter's Church, view to the altar on Remembrance Sunday
St Peter's Church, close up view to the altar on Remembrance Sunday
St Peter's Church, flowers to the side of the altar on Remembrance Sunday
Remembrance Poppy Collage artwork made by the children of Church Langton C of E Primary School

“When you go home, tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow, we gave our today.”

— John Maxwell Edmonds

Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day

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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, but especially this year, the ongoing war in Ukraine and now the dreadful violence in Israel, Gaza and the wider dangers.

Remembrance Sunday service for the Langton villages

Remembrance Service: Sunday 12th 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 collection taken at the service in St Peter’s will support the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal.

Act of Remembrance and Two-Minute Silence: 11am

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.

“When you go home, tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow, we gave our today.”

— John Maxwell Edmonds
For the Fallen is a painting by Maxine Dodd, inspired by 'Gassed' by John Singer Sargent. It shows a line of soldiers in silhouette against a storming sky trudging over a field of muddy poppies. Mixed media painting with collage.
For the Fallen – Maxine Dodd

Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal 2023

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Details of the Remembrance Sunday service for the Langton villages will be announced soon, but as this year’s Poppy Appeal is launched this week, we want help you to support any way you can.

THE 2023/24 POPPY APPEAL STARTS IN OCTOBER: 
National Launch Thursday 26th October until 11th November. Poppy sales in all outlets from Thursday 26th. You can donate directly to the Royal British Legion here.

Donations in The Langton villages

Members of our community in the Langtons come together like so many across the country, to remember the sacrifice made by our service men and women in the conflicts and wars in the world. At our Remembrance service, all proceeds kindly donated in the service at
St Peter’s support the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal.

This year, for the first time, we can offer secure online donations, so that you can make a contribution even if you can’t attend the service.

Donate

All the money we raise goes to the Harborough branch of the Royal British Legion, so has a local connection for supporters based in this area. You can read more about the Harborough branch on their website here on this link.

However you choose to support, please do – Thank you.

“When you go home, tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow, we gave our today.”

— John Maxwell Edmonds