{"id":19051,"date":"2014-06-07T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=19051"},"modified":"2014-06-06T20:43:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T00:43:36","slug":"fdrs-d-day-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2014\/06\/fdrs-d-day-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"FDR\u2019s D-Day Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Once D-Day was underway, 70 years ago, President Roosevelt got on the radio and asked the American public to join him in this prayer:.<\/p>\n

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.<\/p>\n

Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.<\/p>\n

They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.<\/p>\n

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest \u2014 until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men\u2019s souls will be shaken with the violences of war.<\/p>\n

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For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.<\/p>\n

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.<\/p>\n

And for us at home \u2014 fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them \u2014 help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.<\/p>\n

Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.<\/p>\n

Give us strength, too \u2014 strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.<\/p>\n

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.<\/p>\n

And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment \u2014 let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.<\/p>\n

With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace \u2014 a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.<\/p>\n

Thy will be done, Almighty God.<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n

via Rejecting FDR\u2019s D-Day Prayer | The American Spectator<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Go here<\/a> for the context of this prayer.<\/p>\n

There is an effort to have this prayer put on a monument at the World War II Memorial, but there is also an effort to prevent that.<\/p>\n

This is an eloquent prayer and, according to historians, quite sincere.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t invoke the name of Jesus, though praying in Jesus\u2019 name is more than a formula ending.\u00a0 It is, however, a Christian prayer, referring to grace, faith, and God\u2019s kingdom, as well as allusions to the King James version of the Bible.\u00a0 We just wouldn\u2019t hear this kind of thing these days.<\/p>\n

I think this is more than a ritual of civil religion.\u00a0 It reads like a personal prayer.\u00a0 Notice that he asks citizens to devote themselves to their own prayers.<\/p>\n

What do you think of this?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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