Offering a Prayer on Memorial Day

The Rev. Peter Frank, Rector of Church of the Epiphany in Chantilly, VA, offered the invocation at the Memorial Day parade in downtown DC using a prayer from the Book of Common Prayer (2019). Enjoy the prayer and a photo from the event below.

"O King and Judge of the nations: We remember before you with grateful hearts the men and women of our armed forces, who in the day of decision ventured much for the liberties we now enjoy; grant that we may not rest until all the people of this land share the benefits of true freedom and gladly accept its disciplines; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, now and for ever. Amen."