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On the morning of 9 May 1992 Archbishop Pargev with a number of Armenians soldiers entered the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shusha, where they prayed for the fallen soldiers. It was the first time since the 1920 Shusha massacre that a prayer was heard at the cathedral. [ 5 ]
To assist Cooke with the military diocese, the pope in 1975 appointed Bishop Joseph T. Ryan from the Archdiocese of Anchorage as a coadjutor bishop. [9] Pope John Paul II in 1979 named a retired military chaplain, Rear Admiral John O'Connor as auxiliary bishop for the military diocese. [10] In 1985, O'Connor became archbishop of New York.
Many traditional and religious Jews say prayers for the souls of the fallen soldiers on Yom HaZikaron. Special prayers prescribed by the Israeli rabbinate are recited. These include the recital of Psalm 9 : "For the leader, on the death of the son," and Psalm 144 : "Blessed be the Lord, My Rock, who traineth my hands for war and my fingers for ...
In Miles' memoir, “Fallen Leaves: Memories of an Old Soldier,” he wrote, the Filipinos believed “Manila, and also Luzon and all the other islands were certainly lost to them, certainly for ...
Before returning to the sea wall Steve said a prayer for the soldier while thanking him for the use of his equipment. Sitting below the sea wall looking back across that beach, I thanked God for ...
This account, which speaks not of the prayer included in the Leonine Prayers but of the general exorcism of which the prayer was at first a part, and for which it later (1902) served as a sort of preface, an exorcism that the Pope recommended bishops and exorcist priests to perform often, indeed daily, in their dioceses and parishes, and that ...
President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, walk off a military airplane at Dover Air Force Base to attend the dignified transfer of fallen service members on August, 29, 2021. AFP via Getty Images
Today Binyon's most famous poem, "For the Fallen", is often recited at British Remembrance Sunday services; is an integral part of Anzac Day services in Australia and New Zealand and of 11 November Remembrance Day services in Canada. [7] [8] The "Ode of Remembrance" has thus been claimed as a tribute to all casualties of war, regardless of nation.