{"id":1360,"date":"2010-05-31T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:07:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:07:21","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4458341479\/\" title=\"IMG_0907 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4458341479_ff3ce08a5b-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"IMG_0907\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4458345373\/\" title=\"IMG_0908 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/4458345373_8375799334-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_0908\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4458349219\/\" title=\"IMG_0909 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/4458349219_1b6e071638-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_0909\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4458432089\/\" title=\"IMG_0931 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4458432089_08d8eb973c-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_0931\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Memorial Day Prayer*<\/p>\n<p>In the quiet sanctuaries of our own hearts,<br \/>let each of us name and call on the One whose power over us<br \/>is great and gentle, firm and forgiving, holy and healing\u2026<\/p>\n<p>You who created us,<br \/>who sustain us,<br \/>who call us to live in peace,<br \/>hear our prayer this day.<\/p>\n<p>Hear our prayer for all who have died,<br \/>whose hearts and hopes are known to you alone\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hear our prayer for those who put the welfare of others<br \/>ahead of their own<br \/>and give us hearts as generous as theirs\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hear our prayer for those who gave their lives<br \/>in the service of others,<br \/>and accept the gift of their sacrifice\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Help us to shape and make a world<br \/>where we will lay down the arms of war<br \/>and turn our swords into ploughshares<br \/>for a harvest of justice and peace\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Comfort those who grieve the loss of their loved ones<br \/>and let your healing be the hope in our hearts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hear our prayer this day<br \/>and in your mercy answer us<br \/>in the name of all that is holy.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n<p>* by Austin Fleming, Priest of the Archdiocese of Boston.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/concordpastor.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/memorial-day-prayer-2010.html\">A Concord Pastor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day Prayer* In the quiet sanctuaries of our own hearts,let each of us name and call on the One whose power over usis great and gentle, firm and forgiving, holy and healing\u2026 You who created us,who sustain us,who call us to live in peace,hear our prayer this day. Hear our prayer for all who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[403],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}