Lights Out
One Million Candles To Remember
Arlesey Remembers You
new website
Royal British Legion 1914 WW1 Centenary 1918
Arlesey War Memorial, Monday 4th August 2014 at 10.00pm
Lights out is an invitation to everyone in the UK to turn off lights at 10.00pm
until 11.00pm leaving on a single light or candle for this shared moment of
reflection to mark the 100th anniversary of the date Great Britain entered the
first world war.
The Royal British Legion invites you to take part in this national moment
of reflection and we will be holding a candle-lit vigil to mark the centenary
please bring your own candle or a special centenary candle, available from
your local Marks & Spencer (www.marksandspencer.com) all profits from the
sale of centenary candles will support serving members of the armed forces,
veterans of all ages and families please come and pay your respects to all
who sacrificed their lives during this conflict.
There will be a short service at the war memorial starting at 9.45pm
with the lighting of the candles at 10.00pm.
The service will be led by the Royal British Legion (Arlesey and Stotfold
branch) together with St Peter’s and Methodist churches.
Order of service
In Flanders Fields – John McCrea
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.
Prayer
Give us courage, O Lord to stand up and be counted.
To stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves.
To stand up for ourselves when it is needful for us to do so
Let us fear nothing more than we fear thee.
Let us love nothing more than we love thee.
For thus we shall fear nothing also.
L
et us have no other god before thee, whether nation or party or state
or church.
L
et us seek no other peace but the peace which is thine,
and make us its instruments
O
pening our eyes and our hearts, so we should know always
what work of peace we may do for thee.
Amen
I thought I should let you know about our newly launched website.
It is still very much a work in progress and it is taking time for all the
information we’ve been supplied with to make it on to the individual
pages, but there is some info on there and the two very short films
I’ve made with some of the footage shot already are available to view.
Thanks to Jason Auburn and Mick Holloway for making this happen - its
taken a lot of work.
http://arleseyremembersyou.org.uk/ ;
Have a click around and see what we have achieved so far and keep
checking back as new information will be added all the time. The aim
is it will be a community resource so please feel free to contact us via
the website with info or pictures you thi