Requiem Mass for September 11, 2001

Our annual Requiem Mass for September 11, 2001, will be offered this evening at 5:15pm in the Church. 

Almighty God, our prayers are offered for all of those whose lives were affected by the attacks on September 11, 2001, especially Montgomery Hord, a member of this parish, and Michael Boccardi, Thomas E. Hynes, Joseph Leavey, Robert McLaughlin, Amy O’Doherty, Joseph Shea, Daniel J. Shea, Robert Scandole and Michael Tamuccio, the Pelham community members who lost their lives during the attacks.  We pray for all who were killed, for all who lost family members, friends, neighbors, and co-workers, for all who were injured, and for all who were traumatized in body or mind. Amen.

Most merciful Father , we give you thanks for the courage and work of all first-responders, firefighters, police officers, military personnel, medical workers, elected officials, chaplains, construction workers, and volunteers who assisted at the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001 and in the weeks afterward, and who offered support and guidance for all who mourned.  Amen.

O God, you made us in your own image: We give you thanks for the Pelham Interfaith Council and the collegiality that interfaith and ecumenical efforts foster; look with compassion on the whole human family; break down the walls that separate us; unite us in bonds of love; and work through our struggle and confusion to accomplish your purposes on earth; that, in your good time, all nations and races may serve you in harmony around your heavenly throne. Amen.

O God and Father of all, whose Son commanded us to love our enemies: Lead them and us from prejudice to truth: deliver them and us from hatred, cruelty, and revenge; and in your good time enable us all to stand reconciled before you. Amen.

Give courage and faith to those who are bereaved, that they may have the comfort of a reasonable and holy hope, in the joyful expectation of eternal life with those they love. Amen.

Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.