Donald TRUMP, Vice President Mike PENCE, and AMERICA:
Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches,
Healthcare Systems and the Media.
AMERICA Prayer Vigil
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if we ask anything according to His Will, He hears us.
Posted on 11/11/2020 7:34:27 PM PST by ebb tide
.- While the U.S. bishops’ conference congratulated presumptive President-Elect Joe Biden on the election results this weekend, the bishop of Fort Worth has called for prayer, saying the vote tallies are not yet official.
“This is still a time for prudence and patience as the results of the presidential election have not been officially authenticated,” Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth stated on Nov. 8. He called on Catholics to pray for peace if the results are challenged in court.
“It appears that there will be recourse made in the courts so it is best for us in the meantime to pray for peace in our society and nation and that the integrity of our republic, one nation under God, might be maintained for the common good of all,” Bishop Olson stated.
Bishop Olson’s statement appears to be a departure from the U.S. bishops’ conference (USCCB), which on Nov. 7 congratulated Joe Biden as the second Catholic to become president.
A statement by the USCCB president, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, noted that “we recognize that Joseph R. Biden, Jr., has received enough votes to be elected the 46th President of the United States.”
“We congratulate Mr. Biden and acknowledge that he joins the late President John F. Kennedy as the second United States president to profess the Catholic faith,” Gomez stated. “We also congratulate Sen. Kamala D. Harris of California, who becomes the first woman ever elected as vice president.”
As Bishop Olson asked for prayer and peace, Archbishop Gomez also called on Catholics “to promote fraternity and mutual trust.”
“The American people have spoken in this election. Now is the time for our leaders to come together in a spirit of national unity and to commit themselves to dialogue and compromise for the common good,” he said.
Several networks had already declared Biden the winner on Nov. 7, when his leads in multiple battleground states widened and the same day as when the USCCB issued its statement.
As of Wednesday morning, AP reported that Biden won at least 290 electoral votes—20 more than needed for victory--and was ahead by more than five million votes total. AP has not yet called the races in North Carolina, where Trump holds a narrow lead, in Georgia, where Biden holds a narrow lead, and in Alaska, where Trump holds a sizeable lead.
President Trump, meanwhile, has not conceded the election. His campaign has filed election-related lawsuits in several states, with the hope of tossing out allegedly-fraudulent ballots and effecting a recount that could put him over the top in the Electoral College.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted the campaign’s request to have certain mail-in ballots separated from the rest in Pennsylvania, but permitted those ballots to be counted for the time being. The state’s supreme court had allowed for those ballots to be counted that were postmarked on Election Day, but delivered up to three days afterward.
Georgia’s Secretary of State announced a recount on Wednesday morning, as AP results showed Biden ahead by less than half a percentage point--or less than 15,000 votes.
Ping
Way ahead of you, Texas bishop. Welcome.
The Battle of Lepanto turned in favor of the Christians with a wind shift shortly before the battle commenced.
Jan Sobieski showed up with his army on the very morning that the Ottomans launched their assault on Vienna in 1683.
Asa Catholic I say good to hear one, decent Catholic Bishop
Significance of the number 70 in the Bible:
The Number 70 This number is mostly connected with God’s administration of the world. The world was repopulated through the 70 descendants of Noah after the flood (Gen 10). Seventhy (70) elders were appointed to help Moses in the administration of affairs in Israel when they were in the wilderness (Numbers 11:16). The people of Judah spent 70 years on exile in Babylon, Jesus sent out the Seventy (Luke 10:1); and he also preached forgiveness seventy times seven (Matthew 18:22).
https://bestcatholicgifts.com/the-meaning-of-numbers-in-the-bible
Even better explanation of the significance of the number 70. (70 days of prayer until Inauguration Day! We pray it is God’s will there be a miracle of epic proportions!)
Amen!
In the Orthodox Church we Commemorate...a handful at a time...all of the Apostles of the Seventy!
Yesterday...November 10:
Of these Saints, Olympas and Rodion became disciples of Peter, the chief Apostle, and came to Rome, where they were beheaded by Nero. The others reposed in peace, having become bishops: Sosipater of Iconium, Quartus of Beirut, and Erastus of Paneas, or Paneias (which was also called Caesarea of Philippi); Saint Erastus had been chamberlain of the city of Corinth (Rom.16:23).
Apolytikion of Olympas & Companions of the 70
Third Tone
O Holy Apostles, intercede to our merciful God, that He may grant our souls forgiveness of sins.
I believe God already ordained Trump for two terms, but has given us the privilege to pray it through so that we can share in the joy of victory. The horse and the rider. The horse and the rider were thrown into the sea!
Thumbs up! I’ve read that the current Patriarchate of Constantinople is as annoying as our current Pope...
U can pray, but this will never ever be over.
Exodus 14:14 “The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
This was used as part of a prayer last Sunday by Archpriest Stevan (”Stevo”) Rocknage, St. Save Serbian Orthodox Church, McKeesport and Duquesne, in embattled Pennsylvania!!!!
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