Chaplain Center Groton

⚓ SUNDAY WORSHIP — MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND ⚓ Sailor's Chapel, SUBBASE New London | Sunday, 24 May

🔹 Protestant Worship | ONLINE | 0930
🔹 Catholic Mass | IN-PERSON | 1130

This weekend, the country pauses — between cookouts and gatherings, parades and pool openings. The ordinary life so many will enjoy is part of what those who died were defending. But Memorial Day also asks us to hold its cost.

We remember those who never came home — the Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen, Marines, and Guardians who laid down their lives for the sake of others.

We hold their families close in our hearts as well. Every name etched on a memorial wall belongs to a son or daughter, a spouse, a parent, a shipmate, a friend. The cost of freedom is carried not only by those who fall, but by those who continue living with their absence.

Here at SUBBASE Groton, we feel this in a particular way. The submarine force has its own language for it — Eternal Patrol. The boats and crews who did not return are not forgotten; they are still on station, still part of us.

To the fallen: we remember.
To their loved ones: we are grateful.
To all who serve: we stand the watch alongside you.

May God grant peace to the fallen, comfort to those who mourn, and strength to those who carry the mission forward.

🇺🇸 National Day of Prayer | Naval Submarine Base New London
The military is one of the oldest professions in the world. And we bear the strain, the shadow, and the scar of it — uniformed and civilian alike.

The long nights. The missed milestones. The quiet burdens that never appear in a fitness report or performance review.

Sacrifice is not limited to the battlefield.

These things are real. They shape us. And you were never meant to carry them alone.

Prayer is not a sign of weakness. It is an act of courage — a moment of honesty before God when life feels heavy, complicated, or unclear.

You don't need to have it all together to walk through this door.

⚓ Come by the Chaplain Center today for Coffee, Chat, and Camaraderie. No agenda. No rank at the door. Just a safe space.

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"The LORD is close to the brokenhearted." — Psalm 34:18