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Since Remembrance Sunday last year, the world has seen an increased level of violence. Wars and conflicts continue to rage across Africa; the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia has gone on longer than the First World War; and the conflicts in the Middle East have continued and grown with the war in Iran.
For these reasons and more, Remembrance Sunday this year seems even more poignant. Prayers for peace, and our thanksgiving for all those who died in the pursuit of peace, come from a deeper place this year. We may echo the Psalmist who cries, “How long, O Lord?” But we also hear the promise that sorrows may last for a night, but joy comes in the morning. So, we watch and long and hope for the morning. As we hear the echoes of the Last Post hauntingly ringing in the air, we strain to hear the reveille that reminds us that war does not go on forever, that conflicts can cease, that peace is not an undiscovered country but one we have been to and where we are working to be again.
We remember all those who fight and who died for peace, all those whose lives have been affected and those who continue to live with trauma, and we commit ourselves again to strive for the peace and the wellbeing of all peoples.
