Prayer for 9/11 Remembrance

9/11 Memorial in Bayonne, NJ

"God of the ages, before Your eyes all empires rise and fall yet You are changeless. Be near us in this age of terror and in these moments of remembrance. Uphold those who work and watch and wait and weep and love. By Your Spirit give rise in us to broad sympathy for all the peoples of Your earth. Strengthen us to comfort those who mourn and work in large ways and small for those things that make for peace.  Bless the people and leaders of this nation and all nations so that warfare, like slavery before it, may become only a historic memory. We pray in the strong name of the Prince of Peace. Amen."

--From the Liturgy for the Remembrance of 9/11 by Rev. Eileen W. Lindner and Rev. Marcel A. Welty, National Council of Churches.