Happy Veteran's Day to all Who Have Served Our Country, especially our Military Chaplains

Prayer for Military Chaplains

Heavenly Father, bless and protect Military Chaplains and fill them

with the joy and courage of their vocation as personal ministers of

Christ in preaching your word and nourishing us with the Sacraments.

Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Source for the picture and prayer is Archdiocese for the Military, USA

Father Vincent Capodanno

Francis Cardinal Spellman's Prayer for America

God of our Fathers, Shepherd of Thy people, Lord of free men's souls,

bless Thou our nation with a valiant, Godly spirit, with a vision to see, with the courage to try, with the power to achieve, that, marching behind Thee, Thy people shall not perish. God, bless our America! Hear our prayer for our united peoples, grant guidance to our leaders, protection to our sons, and teach each of us Thy way of life in good will and peace. Amen.

Picture source and prayer: Mission Capodanno

Prayer for Veteran's Day

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Dear Lord Jesus Christ,
those whom we honor today
are examples of your words:

"Greater love than this no one has:
that he lay down his life for his friends."
They gave up t heir lives in the defense of freedom
for t heir loved ones and their country.

Teach me to appreciate the virtue of patriotism-
a true and Christian love of country.
Let me love my country not to follow it blindly
but to make it the land of goodness
that it should be.
Let my patriotism be such
that it will not exclude the other nations of the world
but will include them in a powerful love of country
that has room for all others too.

- New Saint Joseph People's Prayer Book, Catholic Book Publishing Cp/

Veteran's Day

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Prayer on Veterans Day

Dear Lord Jesus Christ,
those whom we honor today
are examples of your words:
"Greater love than this no one has:
that he lay down his life for his friends."
They gave up their lives in the defense of freedom
for their loved ones and their country.

Teach me to appreciate the virtue of patriotism-
a true and Christian love of country.
Let me love my country not to follow it blindly
but to make it the land of goodness
that it should be.
Let my patriotism be such
that it will not exclude the other nations of the world
but include them in a powerful love of country
that has room for all others too.

- New Saint Joseph People's Prayer Book, Catholic Book Publishing

"Before You Go"....Thank You!

Tissue Alert for some of you.

I am posting this to honor my dear father in law Isidore and his generation. Thanks Dad!

Thanks to Faye for sharing.

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