Monday, May 25, 2020

Memorial Day 2020

Today Fr Vladyslav will offer the Divine Liturgy in memory of the deceased fallen and service members of our parish family.

The propers for this morning's liturgy can be accessed using this link: 20200525 Memorial Day DL

We are still in the octave of the Ascension of Our Lord, so the propers are a combination of the feast day propers and those for the Divine Liturgy for the departed.

For the final hymn, we will take the first and third verses of America the Beautiful, the third verse being particularly on point for today's national memorial.

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine!