BBC Remembrance Sunday Service with Archbishops of Armagh

04 Nov 2024

Archbishops Eamon Martin and John McDowell with portraits of Father John Patrick O’Brien SSC and the Reverend James McMurray-Taylor at Sword Beach, during the 80th anniversary commemoration of D-Day in June this year. (Catholic Communications Office archive)

Archbishop John McDowell and Archbishop Eamon Martin will share reflections on the lives and service of two wartime military chaplains on BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship programme for Remembrance Sunday (10th November).

The service, on theme of devotion and duty, will be broadcast from 8.10am, and led by the Reverend Dr Lesley Carroll.

The Archbishops of Armagh will speak on the experiences of the Reverend James McMurray-Taylor and Father John Patrick O’Brien SSC, who both served as chaplains to the Royal Ulster Rifles and landed in Normandy on D-Day.

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. To access please click HERE

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  • Archbishop Eamon Martin is the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh
  • Archbishop John McDowell is the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh