Readings for Remembrance Sunday

A reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah, chapter 2, verses 1 to 5 in which

the prophet foresees a time when nations will learn to live in peace with one

another

This is what Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem: In the last

days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the

mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.

Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to

the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his

paths.”

The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He will

judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat

their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not

take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.

Come, descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord.

This is the word of the Lord

A reading from the gospel according to John, chapter 15, verses 9 to 17 in which

Jesus talks to his followers about love and commands them that they are to love

one another.

Jesus said to the disciples, “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now

remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I

have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that

my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love

each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s

life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call

you servants because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have

called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to

you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go

and bear fruit - fruit that will last - and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father

will give you. This is my command: Love each other”.

This is the gospel of the Lord

Readings for the 3rd Sunday before Advent – 9th November 2026

Collect for the 3rd Sunday before Advent

Almighty Father, whose will is to restore all things in your beloved Son, the king of all;

govern the hearts and minds of those in authority, and bring the families of the nations,

divided and torn apart by the ravages of sin, to be subject to his just and gentle rule;

who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for

ever.

Amen

A reading from the Wisdom of Solomon, chapter 6, verses 12 to 16

Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her,

and is found by those who seek her. She hastens to make herself known to those who

desire her. One who rises early to seek her will have no difficulty, for she will be found

sitting at the gate. To fix one’s thought on her is perfect understanding, and one who

is vigilant on her account will soon be free from care, because she goes about seeking

those worthy of her, and she graciously appears to them in their paths, and meets

them in every thought.

A reading from Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians, chapter 4, verses 13 to 18

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have

died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe

that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those

who have died. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are

alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who

have died. For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and

with the sound of God's trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will

rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together

with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord for ever.

Therefore encourage one another with these words.

A reading from the gospel according to Matthew, chapter 25, verses 1 to 13

Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten young women took their lamps and

went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. When the

foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with

their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became drowsy and slept.

But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look! Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet

him.’ Then all those young women got up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish said to

the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise replied,

‘No! there will not be enough for you and for us; you had better go to the dealers and

buy some for yourselves.’ And while they went to buy it, the bridegroom came, and

those who were ready went with him into the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.

Later the other young women came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ But he

replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I do not know you.’ Keep awake, therefore, for you know

neither the day nor the hour.

Post Communion Collect

God of peace, whose Son Jesus Christ proclaimed the kingdom and restored the

broken to wholeness of life; look with compassion on the anguish of the world, and by

your healing power make whole both people and nations; through our Lord and

Saviour Jesus Christ.

Amen