An Honor

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An Honor

Giving the Invocation and Benediction

At

Golden Gate National Cemetery

On

Veterans’ Day, 2015

By

Chaplain (Capt.) Edgar S. Welty, Jr.

31^st. Reg’t United States Volunteers/America

Invocation

There are many ways to call on God.

 

If you are “Christian” you might call on the Father, Creator of Heaven and earth and his Son, Jesus Christ, who was sent to save us from our sins and became God “Incarnate” and through the power of Holy Spirit.

 

If you are Jewish, you might call on the God of Moses and “The Prophets” who choose the Hebrew nation as his own.

 

If you are Muslin, you might call on Allah as revealed by the prophet Mohammad.

 

However we call on God, according whichever faith tradition we may follow, let us ask a divine blessing on today’s proceedings.    Amen

 

Benediction

May God’s favor be upon you

and may the divine face shine upon you

and give you peace,

and may you go out into the world

to love the Lord your God,

with all your heart, with all your soul,

with all your mind.

and love your neighbor as yourself,

in the name of the Creator, Savior and Sustainer          Amen