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BBC Remembrance Sunday Service with Archbishops of Armagh
The Archbishops of Armagh with portraits of wartime military chaplains.
The BBC Remembrance Sunday Service on Radio 4 this Sunday, 10 November at 8.10am will feature the Archbishops of Armagh.
Archbishop John McDowell and Archbishop Eamon Martin will share reflections on the lives and service of two wartime military chaplains.
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.
Revd McMurray Taylor returned to the Church of Ireland in 1947 after the war and was curate in charge of a small parish in County Donegal and then one in County Derry before ending up with two rural and parishes in County Fermanagh in Clogher Diocese where he stayed until he retired in 1980. He is buried in Castle Archdale graveyard.
During the BBC service, 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