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<p class="style9">For
nine weeks, from September 1 to Election Day (November 4), Priests for
Life calls upon believers to participate in the “Election Novena” by
saying the following prayer each day:</p>
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<p class="style1">O God, we acknowledge you
today as Lord,<br>
Not only of individuals, but of nations and
governments.</p>
<p class="style1">We thank you for the privilege<br>
Of being able to organize ourselves politically<br>
And of knowing that political loyalty<br>
Does not have to mean disloyalty to you.</p>
<p class="style1">We thank you for your law,<br>
Which our Founding Fathers acknowledged <br>
And recognized as higher than any human law.</p>
<p class="style1">We thank you for the
opportunity that this election year puts before
us,<br>
To exercise our solemn duty not only to vote,<br>
But to influence countless others to vote,<br>
And to vote correctly.</p>
<p class="style1">Lord, we pray that your people
may be awakened.<br>
Let them realize that while politics is not
their salvation,<br>
Their response to you requires that they be
politically active.</p>
<p class="style1">Awaken your people to know
that they are not called to be a sect fleeing
the world<br>
But rather a community of faith renewing the
world.</p>
<p class="style1">Awaken them that the same
hands lifted up to you in prayer <br>
Are the hands that pull the lever in the voting
booth;<br>
That the same eyes that read your Word<br>
Are the eyes that read the names on the ballot,<br>
And that they do not cease to be Christians<br>
When they enter the voting booth.</p>
<p class="style1">Awaken your people to a
commitment to justice<br>
To the sanctity of marriage and the family,<br>
To the dignity of each individual human life,<br>
And to the truth that human rights begin when
human lives begin,<br>
And not one moment later.</p>
<p class="style1">Lord, we rejoice today<br>
That we are citizens of your kingdom.</p>
<p class="style1">May that make us all the more
committed<br>
To being faithful citizens on earth.</p>
<p class="style1">We ask this through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Amen.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><div> <br>http://www.priestsforlife.org/novenas/election-day-novena.aspx<br><br><br></div><div><div><div><font color="#0000bf"><em><font face="comic sans ms"><div><em><font color="#0000bf" face="Comic Sans MS">Like a deer that longs for running waters so my soul longs for you, O God.</font></em></div></font></em></font></div><div><font color="#0000bf"><em><font face="comic sans ms">Ps 42:1</font></em></font></div><div><em><font color="#0000bf" face="Comic Sans MS" size="1"></font></em> </div><div><em><font color="#0000bf" face="Comic Sans MS" size="1"></font></em> </div></div></div><div><br></div></div></font></td></tr><tr><td height="10"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="10"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br>
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