 Each year on November 11th, we are called as a country and a Church to remember our veterans. We remember those who died defending our liberty. We honor those, living and dead, who have willingly sacrificed for our freedom. We pray for soldiers who surrender their lives over to service of God and country and for the families of soldiers who surrender their loved ones to the same:
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.
Source: St. Joseph People's Prayer Book
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