Parish communion in prayers, readings and music meditated on the significance of Remembrance Sunday, especially in this the year of the centenary of the beginning of WWI.

The Rev Dorothy Noakes presided and Betty Booker, lay reader, preached movingly on the national character of Remembrance Day and on the way so many ordinary people, in both World Wars and since, answered the call and gave what was demanded of them, even to laying down their lives.

Now, in remembering them, we need to be awake and alert to the will of God, giving in worship and then in service the best that we can offer.

Elizabeth Goodfellow read the lesson and Maureen Grattan-Kane led the prayers. During communion, Richard Berry, organist, played music appropriate to the day including the evocative “Sunset”.