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Please join us in the church this coming Sunday, November 13, at 11.50am for our Remembrance Sunday service. Poppies can be had in the church or the shop. We also have our typical Sunday services as follows: 

8.30am - Said Eucharist (1662 Book of Common Prayer)
10.30am - Sung Eucharist (Common Worship)
11.50am - Remembrance Sunday Service
18.00pm - Six O'clock Service with Jazz

On Friday 11 November a Remembrance Day service will be held at the Commonwealth War Graves’ Cemetery in Klagenfurt and on Remembrance Sunday a service at Christ Church. Ádám will be leading the commemorations in Slovakia.

Throughout history the provision of chaplains to the Armed Forces has been an important element of pastoral care in the face of conflict and the horrors of war. In Klagenfurt we are reminded of the hundreds of thousands of young men who left family and friends at home to fight for King and country. The presence of chaplains at the point of death would provide comfort for those receiving the sad news at home that their loved ones had fallen. Year by year we remember not only the dead who served in the Armed Forces of their countries, but also recognize that each of us has a responsibility to play our part in securing and maintaining a peace that is just.

Some may wonder why the poppy is the symbol for Remembrance Day. The following poem was written in Ypres during the First World War by the Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae after the death of a close friend. He noted how fast the poppies grew around the graves of those who had died.

In Flanders fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place, and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead, short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.