Services in memory of 9/11 held in US and across the world

From The Church Times-

CHURCHES in the United States and around the world will hold memorial services on Sunday to mark the tenth anniversary of the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington. The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, Dr Katharine Jefferts Schori, said that the anniversary will be “above all an opportunity for re­flection”.

Dr Jefferts Schori is scheduled to preach twice on Sunday in New York, where 2606 people died in the World Trade Center and on the ground after two hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers of the Center. She will preach at St Paul’s Chapel at 7.30 a.m., and at the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine at 11 a.m.

In a statement last month, Dr Jefferts Schori said: “This tenth anniversary is above all an oppor­tunity for reflection. Have we be­come more effective reconcilers as a result? Are we more committed to peacemaking? The greatest mem­orial to those who died ten years ago will be a world more inclined toward peace.”

On Sunday evening, President Obama will speak at Washington National Cathedral during “A Concert for Hope”. The Dean, the Very Revd Samuel Lloyd, said: “Ten years ago at the Cathedral, the nation gathered after tragedy with President Bush; at the Cathedral this year, we mark the passing of a decade since a day that changed the life of every American.”

The Bishop of Washington, the Rt Revd John Chane, will lead an interfaith prayer-vigil at Washington National Cathedral; the Cathedral’s largest bell, the Bourdon bell, will be tolled at the exact moment that the planes struck.

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