National Prayer
The national Prayer is a part of the tradition we hold dear, not only on a local level reciting the prayer before each chapter meeting and within our ritual, but on a National level, as one of the main ways to feel connected to other chapters. The feeling you get when you recite the prayer with a room full of brothers is unlike any other feeling. The prayer is as follows:
O, Eternal Father, in whose love all men are brothers, bless our fraternity. Establish in our hearts the virtues of sacred honor, faith inspired courage, loyal fidelity to the ideals of brotherly helpfulness within our fraternity, and organized helpfulness to the world of men around us.
Strengthen our devotion to these sacred ideals through mutual encouragement and good example. Help us to learn the fundamental truth of our Holy Faith, that a brother who is helped by a brother is like a city walled.
In a world which is torn apart by fraternal strife, make us a holy and powerful influence for peace and union of hearts, so that we may become, in the eyes of men about us, a living embodiment of the truth that Christ came to teach; "that they all may be one, as thou, Father in me, and I in thee, that they all may be one in us."
Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.
O, Eternal Father, in whose love all men are brothers, bless our fraternity. Establish in our hearts the virtues of sacred honor, faith inspired courage, loyal fidelity to the ideals of brotherly helpfulness within our fraternity, and organized helpfulness to the world of men around us.
Strengthen our devotion to these sacred ideals through mutual encouragement and good example. Help us to learn the fundamental truth of our Holy Faith, that a brother who is helped by a brother is like a city walled.
In a world which is torn apart by fraternal strife, make us a holy and powerful influence for peace and union of hearts, so that we may become, in the eyes of men about us, a living embodiment of the truth that Christ came to teach; "that they all may be one, as thou, Father in me, and I in thee, that they all may be one in us."
Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.
