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BBC Remembrance Sunday Service with Archbishops of Armagh

Radio 4 – Sunday, 10th November 2024 (8.10am)

Archbishops Eamon Martin and John McDowell with portraits of Fr John Patrick O’Brien SSC and the Revd James McMurray–Taylor at Sword Beach, during the 80th anniversary commemoration of D–Day in June this year.
Archbishops Eamon Martin and John McDowell with portraits of Fr John Patrick O’Brien SSC and the Revd James McMurray–Taylor at Sword Beach, during the 80th anniversary commemoration of D–Day in June this year.

Archbishop John McDowell and Archbishop Eamon Martin will share reflections on the lives and service of two wartime military chaplains on BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship programme for Remembrance Sunday (10th November).

The service, on theme of devotion and duty, will be broadcast from 8.10am, and led by the Revd Dr Lesley Carroll.

The Archbishops of Armagh will speak on the experiences of the Revd James McMurray–Taylor and Fr John Patrick O’Brien SSC, who both served as chaplains to the Royal Ulster Rifles and landed in Normandy on D–Day.

Readings will be from Wisdom 3:1–9 and Romans 8:31–39 and worship will include the hymns ‘Be thou my vision’ and ‘Guide me O thou great Jehovah’, Psalm 121 (in a setting by Walford Davies), Karl Jenkins’ Kyrie Eleison, and ‘Dona nobis Pacem’ by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Sunday Worship for Remembrance Sunday will also be available over the next month from the BBC website at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024vy9


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