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Saturday, October 23, 2004

An Election Prayer

From today's Oremus Prayer Network email:
    In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

    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.

    - Father Frank Pavone, Priests For Life