A different sort of Easter blog
My intention in updating this blog was to have a joyful post reflecting on this great season of Easter. Yet in light of yesterday’s massacre (I do find that to be the most painfully appropriate word to use), my post will not come out as joy-filled as I intended. Upon hearing the news story, and then watching the news myself, I turned to the internet. I scoured sites… trying to find a prayer that might help express my feelings in light of my faith. The prayer below is one I found on a blog. It is a very appropriate prayer, I feel. Appropriate in light of the tragic loss of 33 innocent people; appropriate in light of the fact that we believe in the Risen Lord.
A Prayer for the Innocents of Virginia Tech:
Christ our eternal King and God, You have destroyed death and the devil by Your Cross and have restored man to life by Your Resurrection; give rest, Lord, to the soul of Your servants, the Innocents of Virginia Tech, who have fallen asleep, in Your Kingdom, where there is no pain, sorrow or suffering. In Your goodness and love for all men, pardon all the sins they have committed in thought word or deed, for there is no man or woman who lives and sins not, You only are without sin.
For You are the Resurrection, the Life, and Repose of Your servants, the Innocents of Virginia Tech, departed this life, O Christ our God; and to You do we send up glory with Your Eternal Father and Your All-holy, Good and Life-creating Spirit; both now and forever and to the ages of ages.
Amen.
SOURCE: http://thomistic.blogspot.com/2007/04/prayer-for-innocents-of-virginia-tech.html