I am also going to start a prayer thread to be continued to Election day with this novena. Feel free to add prayers of your own. I will be doing serious prayer time from today until the election. I recommend if you haven't signed up for a place on the prayer vigil at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1249085/posts you ought to go commit yourself now!
A Prayer For Our National Elections
This prayer was written by Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life.
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.
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Thanks for posting this! I'd intended to start my novena on Monday, but the time got away from me. I'll pick it up now, and continue on through Tuesday!
O Lord,
So much rides on this election,
war,
life,
truth,
honor.
There are those
who would still our voices,
tell us to be quiet,
tell us to turn away,
tell us to die.
And yet we know
that to do your will,
we must take a stand,
and in doing that, we ask your blessing
on this election,
on this president who holds you dear,
on the lives of the unborn
that will be saved
because of the action he takes,
the lives of the innocent
that will be preserved
because of the action he takes
against our foes,
and the lives of the people he will save
by being an example
of an upright man
who loves God.
Help us, Lord,
to be your hands
to do the actions needed.
Help us, Lord,
and protect us
against the darkness
of those who would destroy
all the good
our country stands for.
Amen.
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Also, for your meditation:
Life Too Short for Words
Their small lives,
short,
too short for words
to begin to give them voice
for the shattering moment
which in fear and pain
they were overwhelmed
and pulled into the dark
before their time
by those they were formed to love
but who did not love them back,
a nuiscence to be removed,
a crisis to be resolved,
a bump in the life
to be cut away,
dissolved,
dismembered,
discarded.
No words to describe
the nightmare
except
tissue,
unwanted,
stem cell product,
abortion.
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Prayer:
Into your hands Lord,
do we commend these little souls,
lost through man's inhumanity,
sacrificed on Molech's new altar,
sterile white.
O Blessed Mother,
Hold each of them in your loving hands,
and be the mother they will never have on earth.
Pray for us, little souls,
that we who have such hard hearts
may learn the reality of the evil done,
may be healed of the darkness that would take the life of an innocent,
and choose not the path that leads to death,
but to life eternal.
Amen.
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