[Apologetics] A Prayer for our Nation as we Prepare to Elect our Leaders

[Dianne Dawson]

A Prayer for our Nation as we Prepare to Elect our Leaders
  (En  Español) 
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: 

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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 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. 
 
http://www.priestsforlife.org/novenas/election-day-novena.aspx



Like a deer that longs for running waters so my soul longs for you, O God.
Ps 42:1


      
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