Daily Reading for May 30 • Jeanne d’Arc (Joan of Arc), Mystic and Soldier, 1431, and Memorial Day

O Lord our God,
whose name only is excellent
and thy praise above heaven and earth:
We give thee high praise and hearty thanks
for all those who counted not their lives dear unto themselves
but laid them down for their friends;
beseeching thee to give them a part and a lot
in those good things which thou has prepared
for all those whose names are written in the Book of Life;
and grant to us, that having them always in remembrance,
we may imitate their faithfulness
and with them inherit the new name
which thou has promised to them that overcome;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

From a prayer before a war memorial by Eric Milner-White, quoted in Give Us Grace: An Anthology of Anglican Prayers, compiled by Christopher L. Webber. Copyright © 2004. Used by permission of Morehouse Publishing, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. www.morehousepublishing.com