Sunday 9 November 2025 (Remembrance)
32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
This Sunday is also Remembrance Sunday. Below the suggested hymns and readings for today's lectionary are alternative Remembrance Day readings, and links to a range of StF+ resources.
Readings are laid out as for the continuous form of the lectionary. Alternative related readings (OT and psalm only) are below. Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading
Haggai 1: 15b-2:9
Angel voices ever singing (StF 39)
I sing the almighty power of God (StF 107)
May the glory of the Lord fill his temple (StF 31)
Over all the earth, you reign on high (StF 63)
Peace, perfect peace, is the gift of Christ our Lord (StF 710)
Sing praise to God to reigns above (StF 117)
Take my life, and let it be (StF 566)
Unless the Lord builds the house (StF 515)
Psalm 145: 1-5, 17-21
Hymns reflecting the psalmist’s theme
Everlasting God, the years go by (StF 46)
Faithful One, so unchanging (StF 628)
Fear not, for I am with you (website only)
Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise (StF 50)
Majesty, worship his majesty (StF 333)
My Jesus, my Saviour (StF 363)
O for a thousand tongues to sing (StF 364)
Also consider: Do not be afraid by Gerard Markland, pub. Kevin Mayhew – widely available e.g. www.christianwebresources.co.uk
2 Thessalonians 2: 1-5, 13-17
Come, let us with our Lord arise (StF 148)
Come, Lord Jesus, come (StF 168)
Day of judgement! Day of wonder! (StF 732)
Great is the darkness that covers the earth (StF 405)
My Lord! What a morning (StF 179)
Praise to the God who clears the way (StF 183)
Sing we the King who is coming to reign (StF 185)
There’s a light upon the mountains (StF 188)
We pray until the hour (StF 741)
Luke 20: 27-38
Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord (StF 295)
Come, let us with our Lord arise (StF 148)
He is Lord, he is Lord (StF 348)
Sing we the King who is coming to reign (StF 185)
There is a new heaven; there is a new earth (StF 738)
Thou God of truth and love (StF 620)
Alternative related readings
Job 19: 23-27a
All heaven declares the glory of the risen Lord (StF 293)
God is Love: let heaven adore him (StF 103)
I know that my Redeemer lives (StF 303)
In heavenly love abiding (StF 736)
In the darkness of the still night (StF 109)
Psalm 17: 1-9
Hymns reflecting the psalmist’s theme
Captain of Israel's host, and Guide (StF 459)
Jesus, lover of my soul (StF 355)
O Lord we are always in your presence (StF 33)
or for REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Alternative readings:
Isaiah 25: 1-9 or Isaiah 52: 7-12 or Micah 4: 1-8
Psalm 9: 9-20 or Psalm 46
Romans 8: 31-35, 37-39 or Revelation 22: 1-5
Matthew 5: 1-12 or Matthew 5: 43-48 or John 15: 9-17
A range of resources and hymn suggestions as available on
the following StF+ pages:
Special Sunday information
Resources from Methodist Armed Forces Chaplains
Remembering conflict – singing for peace
Hymns and war – conflicting views
Remembering Conscious Objectors
and for a service of communion, In war, in peace (website only) by Ian Smart
A prayer for peace
We thank you, our Father and Mother, for teaching us the value of hope in the midst of the storms that accompany our lives. We thank you for being able to share with the poorest people the hunger and thirst for love that gives meaning to life. From our humble condition as your children, we pray that the wars will end. We beg you to perform one of your miracles of love and wisdom so that armies may be transformed into sowers of peace, justice and fraternity for their countries and for our world.
Thank you for allowing us to be resurrected everyday thanks to the water of new life of the gospel. Amen.
Félix A Posada Rojas, Director of CEPALC, Colombia
A prayer that we live in God's light - Alternative Prayer
Let us love the constancy of your light, O Lord, and rejoice in it. Let us walk in brightness of your light, O Lord, and be blessed by it. Let us live in the glory of your light, O Lord, and be judged for it. Amen.
Margaret Fox (1614-1702)
Sunday 9 November 2025
"Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.” (v. 38)