Almighty God, Protector of all Mankind,

Your strength, power, and wisdom are a beacon of light to all men:

Give special guidance to Firemen and Firefighters so that we may be protected

from harm while performing our duty. Help me with Your loving care while

I work to save the lives and property of all people young and old.

Give me the courage, the alertness to protect my neighbors and all others whom

I am pledge to aid when involved in a fire or accident.

God grant that I may live to fish for another shining day,

But when my final cast is made, I then most Humbly pray,

When nestled in your Landing net as I lay Peacefully asleep,

You’ll smile at me and judge that I am Good enough to keep.

For all the times I have swung a club.

For the many friends and the game I love.

For the patience I have found in sand or rough.

For the excitement of making shots thought tough.

For success in not measured by holes in one,

But by the times that are shared when you are having fun.

Lord would you grant me one last request,

To play you a round of the game I love best.

Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free;

I took His hand when I heard Him call;

I turned my back and left it all.

If my parting has left a void;

then fill it with remembered joy.

My life’s been full, I savored much;

good friends, good times,

a loved one’s touch.

A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss;

ah yes, these things, I too, will miss.

Perhaps my time seemed all too brief;

don’t lengthen it now with undue grief.

Lift up your hearts and share with me;

God wanted me now, He set me free.

May the road rise to meet you.

May the wind be always at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face.

And rains fall soft upon your fields.

And until we meet again,

May God hold you in

the hollow of His hand.

I said a prayer for you today and

know God must have heard.

I felt the answer in my heart

although He spoke no word!

I didn’t ask for wealth of fame

(I knew you wouldn’t mind).

I asked Him to send treasures

of a far more lasting kind!

I asked that He’d be near you

at the start of each new day;

to grant your health and blessings

and friends to share your way!

I asked for happiness for you

in all things great and small.

But it was for His loving care

I prayed for the most of all!

Life is but a stopping place,

a pause in what’s to be,

a resting place along the

road to sweet eternity.

We all have different journeys,

different paths along the way,

we all were meant to learn some

things, but never meant to stay.

Our destination is a place

far greater than we know,

for some, the journey’s quicker,

for some the journey’s slow.

And when the journey finally ends,

we’ll claim a great reward,

and find an everlasting peace,

together with the Lord.

May you always walk in sunshine

and God’s love around you flow,

for the happiness you gave us,

no one will ever know.

It broke our hearts to lose you,

but you did not go alone,

a part of us went with you,

the day God called you home.

A million times we needed you,

a million times we’ve cried.

If love could only have saved you,

you never would have died.

The Lord be with you and

may you rest in peace.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace;

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I 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;

it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Lord, I ask for courage: courage to face and conquer my own fears;

courage to take me where others will not go.

I ask for strength; strength of body to protect others;

strength of spirit to lead others.

I ask for dedication: dedication to my job to do it well;

dedication to my community to keep it safe. Give me, Lord, concern:

concern for all those who entrust me;

and compassion for those who need me;

and please, Lord, through it all, be at my side.

I am home in heaven, dear ones;

oh, so happy and so bright!

There is a perfect joy and

beauty in the everlasting light.

All the pain and grief is over,

every restless tossing passed;

I am now at peace forever,

safely home in heaven at last.

There is work still waiting for you,

so you must not idly stand,

do it now, while life remaineth–

you shall rest in God’s own land.

When that work is all completed,

He will gently call you home;

oh, the rapture of that meeting

oh, the joy to see you come!

O great Apostle of Ireland, glorious St. Patrick, to whom under God, so many

are indebted for the most precious of all treasures, the great gift of Faith,

receive our fervent thanks for the zeal and charity which have been

to thousands the source of blessings so invaluable.

Ask for all who dwell in this land and the land of thy labors, the precious light

of Faith, and beg for us on whom its glorious rays have long since beamed,

the grace to regulate our lives by its sacred maxims.

God grant me the serenity to accept

the things I cannot change,

courage to change the things I can,

and the wisdom to know

the difference.

Living one day at a time, enjoying one

moment at a time, and accepting

hardship as a pathway to peace.

Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is,

not as I would have it, and trusting that

You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will.

So that I may be reasonably happy

in this life and supremely happy

with you forever in the next.

Amen

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures;

He leadeth me beside the still waters. He

restoreth my soul; He leadeth me in the

paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of

the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for

Thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they

comfort me. Thou preparest a table before

me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou

anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth

over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow

me all the days of my life: and I shall dwell

in the house of the Lord forever.