Pack Meeting Prayer

Thank you so much, Michael Warren, for leading our prayer. I'm sorry the microphone died on you!

I wanted to share your pack's opening prayer for this evening.

PRAYER OF REMEMBRANCE

As we come together tonight to celebrate the family and brotherhood of Scouting, let us not forget those who paid the ultimate sacrifice 17 years ago today. Tonight we honor them. Please remove all non-religious headgear and bow your heads with me.

This date, 9-11, carries a heavy burden of memory.

This day does not pass in the calendar without our remembering. Our parents remember images of destruction. Images that human eyes were never meant to see. They remember words our ears were never meant to hear.

All Americans who remember this day know our own feelings of emptiness as our sense of security, as our own confidence in the predictable order of life and work was radically shaken. We know you never want your children --- us---- to know this feeling.

This date, 9-11, carries a heavy burden of memory.

We remember the heroism of the many that lost their lives in saving others. We remember all those who suffered and died, we grieve for them still, friends and strangers alike, along with their families and friends. 62 countries lost citizens that day...

This date, 9-11, carries a heavy burden of memory.

And it is right that it should not pass from our memory. We should never forget. But today and in this prayer, along with our remembrance of profound loss, it also seems right that we give voice to our deep longing for peace, and with this prayer, commit ourselves to those actions that will draw us closer to our most ancient and most holy desire, peace among all God’s children.

Please join us in a moment of silence as we remember together all those who were lost.



Lord, grant us peace. Amen.