ANZAC Day - 25 April 2025

25th April 2025

Sacred Heart Parish Inverell invites everyone to join us in praying for all soldiers and those in the armed forces who lost their lives during past wars and conflicts. Our parish will pray the Rosary at 8.00am. This will be followed by Holy Mass at 8.30am.

Lest we forget. 🌺

ANZAC Day Prayer

Almighty God and Eternal Father bless all the men and women who have and are serving in our armed forces. This ANZAC Day we pray especially for all those who paid the ultimate price while serving and defending our country and its people, particularly those men, the original ANZACs, who lost their lives on the shores of Gallipoli. May their souls find eternal rest in your loving presence. We ask this through Jesus Christ Our Lord who redeemed the whole world to you by the shedding of His precious blood on the Cross. Amen. 🙏💖💐

“The great French preacher Lacordaire once said the vocation of a soldier is next in dignity to the priesthood, not only because it commissioned him to defend justice on the field of battle and order on the field of peace, but also because it called him to the spirit and intention of sacrifice.” (Fulton Sheen’s Wartime Prayer Book)

The Ode of Remembrance of the Returned and Services League (RSL) of Australia, taken from English poet and writer Robert Laurence Binyon’s poem ‘For the Fallen’ composed mid September 1914:

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them." 🙏❤️