Memorial Day

Today is being observed as Memorial Day, a day designated to commemorate the men and women who died while in the military service.

We lift up to the Lord the souls of each of these men and women. We also thank Him, and them, for their sacrifice.

Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
                  – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

YouTube: Memorial Day 2019 - Freedom Isn't Free

Community in Mission: A Memorial Day Meditation on Honor (24 MAY 20)

Community in Mission: On the "Memorare" of Memorial Day (27 MAY 18)

Dominicana: Memory (27 MAY 19)

Aleteia: Philip Kosloski: Catholic prayer for Memorial Day (31 MAY 21)

Community in Mission: America, I Gave My Best to You - A Reflection on the Virtue of Patriotism (26 MAY 19)

Aleteia: The beautiful Memorial Day tradition of Mass at local cemeteries (28 MAY 23)

Aleteia: What Fr. Kapaun's story says about Memorial Day (29 MAY 23)

Poetry Foundation: In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

YouTube: Memorial Day

YouTube: National Memorial Day Concert 2023 | PBS

YouTube: TAPS

Presidential Proclamation:

Presidential Proclamation:Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 2021

Related media report:

USA Today: Why do we observe Memorial Day? Here's the true history of the holiday (27 MAY 22)