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Email a FriendPosted by Joan on Monday, May 30, 2011 8:36 AM (EDT):
Thank You for this wonderful post! I am a new Military Mom. This Memorial Day is much more meaningful to me than it has every been.
On Memorial Day
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Monday, May 30, 2011 8:30 AM
Enjoy your holiday today, everyone!
Here’s a post from a previous Memorial Day I’m partially reprising because the priest’s advice just sticks with me:
I wanted to share with you some advice a Navy chaplain serving at our parish once gave to kids at a school mass on the Friday before Memorial Day.
(I liked it so much I wrote it down.)
He asked the students to sit for a few moments before he gave the final blessing, and then told them:
I know you’re not sorry to have a day off on Monday, and I hope you enjoy the weekend, but I also hope you’ll remember that you sit untroubled at mass and in peace at a Catholic school because millions of members of the Armed Forces have been willing to fight for your freedom, and many thousands are fighting for you now in the War on Terror.
You do not fear being kidnapped, being sold into slavery, being killed for your faith. These aren’t stories, horrors from the past, but things that happen to Christians routinely in South America, in the Middle East, in Africa. But not to you. So I hope you are grateful, and I hope on Monday you will do three things:
* Pray for the souls of those who gave their lives in service of our country and its freedom.
* Pray for those in harm’s way right now.
* Remember that each of us is called to serve. Not everyone is called to the military, but you should think—right now—what can I do to make my family, my school, my community, the world, a better place?
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Posted by Guard wife on Monday, May 30, 2011 11:53 AM (EDT):
My husband is currently overseas for the Air National Guard. On the weekends he’s away for drill or for these training times is especially hard b/c some people think that he doesn’t care.. but it’s quite the opposite: he cares very deeply about his family, his faith and his country! I’m so proud of him! Let’s continue to pray for one another and support one another. Thank you for this post!!
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