“Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.” Colossians 3:14 (NRSV)
Here is the link for Sunday, November 2, 2025 worship service: https://youtu.be/3-P3pYpoFi4
Worship: Sunday November 9, 2025 at 10:45 a.m. Remembrance Sunday
SCRIPTURES: Week of Remembrance Day
Haggai 2:4–5, 9 | Luke 20:37–38
Haggai 1:15b—2:9 Psalm 145 or Psalm 98
2 Thessalonians 2:1–5, 13–17; Luke 20:27–38
To Ponder: Haggai 2:4–9 | Luke 20:37–38
A brief pondering:
Each year, as the Last Post sounds, a deep silence falls. It is more than the end of a tune—it is a sacred pause between death and life, memory and promise. The trumpet’s cry carries the ache of all who never came home, and the silence that follows holds those who did—but returned with invisible wounds.
In Haggai 2, the prophet speaks to a community returning from exile, standing amid the ruins of their temple and their hope. Their memory of “former glory” leaves them discouraged, yet God calls them beyond nostalgia toward courage: “Take courage, for I am with you; my Spirit abides among you—do not fear.” The promise that “the latter glory shall be greater than the former” is not about rebuilding monuments but renewing faith.
On Remembrance Sunday, we too remember amid ruins—wars that have scarred the world, divisions that persist, wounds still unhealed. Yet, as in Haggai’s day, God’s word calls us to rebuild with justice, compassion, and hope. Jesus echoes this in Luke 20, reminding us that “God is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to God all are alive.” In Christ, remembrance becomes resurrection: the lives we honour are not lost to God but gathered into divine life.
To remember, then, is to live faithfully forward—to carry the legacy of courage and peace into a world still longing for redemption. The glory yet to come is not the return of what was, but the dawning of what God is still creating among us.
LET US PRAY
God of remembrance and renewal,
teach us to remember rightly—
not just the cost of war, but the call to peace.
Give us courage to rebuild the world with justice and compassion,
to live as people of hope,
and to trust that your Spirit still abides among us.
In this place, O Lord,
may your peace dwell. Amen.
Trinity United Church 