Memorial Day

 I know, I know.  It was  yesterday.  But I did not have a great weekend.   I even missed the United Scottish Society's Highland Games (a.k.a. "Scots Fest"), which  I have only missed three or four times in the past half century.  But that's where we are now.  Thank you, Parkinson's, the gift that keeps on taking.

In any event, yesterday was Memorial Day so herewith a pair of collects for the day that was in it:

O LORD our God, whose Name only is excellent and thy praise above heaven and earth: we thank thee for all those who counted not their lives dear unto themselves but laid them down for their friends; grant us, we beseech thee, that having them always in remembrance we may imitate their faithfulness and sacrifice; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, in whose hands are the living and the dead: We give Thee thanks for all those Thy servants who have laid down their lives in the service of our country.  Grant to them Thy mercy and the light of Thy  presence, that the good work which Thou hast begun in them may be perfected;  through Jesus Christ Thy Son our Lord.  Amen

Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.  Erue, Domne, animas eorum.  Requiescant in pace.