September The Twenty-Sixth

WE beseech Thee, Lord and Master, to be our help and succor. Save those who are in tribulation; have mercy on the lonely; lift up the fallen; show Thyself unto the needy; heal the ungodly; convert the wanderers of Thy people; feed the hungry; raise up the weak; comfort the faint-hearted. Let all the peoples know that Thou art God alone, and Jesus Christ is Thy Son, and we are Thy people and the sheep of Thy pasture; for the sake of Christ Jesus - Amen.

-- ST. CLEMENT OF ROME (c. A.D. 96)
Buchenwald Concentration Camp, where German citizens are forced to watch bodies on trucks leave the area. Photo taken in 1945 by Margaret Bourke-White.