Our best gift to our Veterans today is prayer. A Prayer for Veterans came from Kristy, a friend of Maureen Dougan, a teacher at Central Catholic. I thought it an appropriate way to help us observe Veterans’ Day.
Bro. Rene
O God our Creator and Father, we praise you, we bless you and we thank you for the vast numbers of men and women whom we honor today for their service in the military. They answered the summons to serve and protect our country, our values and our people and to help other nations in their struggles against oppression.
We ask for blessings on all these who have so valiantly served their country.
We ask for healing for the veterans who have been wounded, in body and soul, in conflicts around the globe.
We pray especially for the young men and women, in the thousands, who are coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan with injured bodies and traumatized spirits.
Bring solace to them, O Lord; may we pray for them when they cannot pray.
We ask for, echoing John Paul II, an end to wars and the dawning of a new era of peace,
as a way to honor all the veterans of past wars.
Have mercy on all our veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Bring peace to their hearts and peace to the regions in which they fought.
Bless all the soldiers who served in non-combative posts;
may their calling to service continue in their lives in many positive ways.
Give us all the creative vision to see a world which, grown weary with fighting,
moves to affirming the life of every human being and so moves beyond war.
Hear our prayer, O Prince of Peace, hear our prayer. Amen
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