Scott1
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Pray that in this year s elections Our Nation will embrace the moral values of a Culture of Life
Pray that America will reclaim her founding principles of faith and dependence upon God in public life.
Pray that believers will reject apathy and take an active role in the elections by registering to vote and actually voting.
Pray that candidates will understand their responsibility to serve the people,to protect life and family,and to adhere to the Law of God.
For nine weeks (beginning August 31 & ending November 2) offer this prayer as your gift to Jesus...
O God, we acknowledge you today as Lord,
Not only of individuals, but of nations and governments.
We thank you for the privilege
Of being able to organize ourselves politically
And of knowing that political loyalty
Does not have to mean disloyalty to you.
We thank you for your law,
Which our Founding Fathers acknowledged
And recognized as higher than any human law.
We thank you for the opportunity that this election year
puts before us,
To exercise our solemn duty not only to vote,
But to influence countless others to vote,
And to vote correctly.
O God, we acknowledge you today as Lord,
Not only of individuals, but of nations and governments.
We thank you for the privilege
Of being able to organize ourselves politically
And of knowing that political loyalty
Does not have to mean disloyalty to you.
We thank you for your law,
Which our Founding Fathers acknowledged
And recognized as higher than any human law.
We thank you for the opportunity that this election year
puts before us,
To exercise our solemn duty not only to vote,
But to influence countless others to vote,
And to vote correctly.
Lord, we pray that your people may be awakened.
Let them realize that while politics is not their salvation,
Their response to you requires that they be politically active.
Awaken your people to know that they are not called
to be a sect fleeing the world
But rather a community of faith renewing the world.
Awaken them to know that the same hands lifted up
to you in prayer
Are the hands that pull the lever in the voting booth;
That the same eyes that read your Word
Are the eyes that read the names on the ballot,
And that they do not cease to be Christians
When they enter the voting booth.
Awaken your people to a commitment to justice
To the sanctity of marriage and the family,
To the dignity of each individual human life,
And to the truth that human rights begin when
human lives begin,
And not one moment later.
Lord, we rejoice today
That we are citizens of your kingdom.
May that make us all the more committed
To being faithful citizens on earth.
We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Election resources can be found at
www.priestsforlife.org
www.voteforbabies.com
To register for this Novena for Life
www.priestsforlife.org
To join the ongoing Oremus Prayer
Network - a fellowship of believers
committed to daily prayer for the
conversion of our culture
www.catholic.org
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Ask for Mercy in the Divine Mercy Chaplet
Father Frank Pavone, Priests for Life
