Events

This Sunday 9th November we mark Remembrance. We will honour all lives that have been lost in conflict and to pledge to build towards a peaceful future. You are invited to join with us and to wear whichever poppy you feel is appropriate.

Classic and contemporary material will be shared during the service.

Worship commences at:
10am at Queens Road Unitarian Free Church, Urmston and at
11.30am at Dunham Road Unitarian Chapel, Altrincham
11.30am on Zoom ID 841 9082 8195

All are most welcome...come as you are, exactly as you are...but do not expect to leave in exactly the same condition...

The following is an extract from the service...

We will remember them. Hopefully not just on Remembrance Sunday though, hopefully we can bring this Remembrance to life. How often do we listen to those now silent voices from the past. Even if we do can we learn the lessons from history? Well it would appear not as we keep on repeating them. I believe it was George Santayana who said "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it," Well it seems we are failing to do so as we keep on repeating the mistakes of the past. We keep on digging our trenches and building our fences of spice. We keep on building walls of division and inflict devastating destruction. When will we build bridges of compassion and love? These would truly be acts of remembrance. For then we would be following the example of the carpenter. Where is the Hope in the Despair?

We must become the Hope. We must grow the Hope from the trenches and fences of Despair. I am a person who lives in Hope. Hope is my light and inspiration. We can change, lessons can be learnt. How do I know this? Well because I see lessons all around, even in the man looking back at me in the mirror. People and cultures do have the capacity to change. We can build bridges of Hope between the trenches and fences of spite.

We need to let hope grow in our hearts, minds and souls. To let those now lost voices speak and be heard and come to life in our feelings, thoughts, words and deeds. We can then let the spirit of remembrance take a hold within us and to grow so that Hope may also take a hold and to grow in our souls and we can then begin to share it with those we share this world with. We can build bridges of Hope between the fences and trenches of spite.

Let us live in remembrance. Let us light the flame of Hope in our hearts and souls and let us become beacons to this our world.