Pray

I just found this on my Cousin's blog and felt that it needed to be passed on! I, too, believe that we should be praying this week that our country will choose to elect a righteous and moral President to lead this nation. It is appropriate to ask all Americans to pray for this to happen each night before they go to bed.

Elder Bednar: "Morning and evening prayers—and all of the prayers in between—are not unrelated, discrete events; rather, they are linked together each day and across days, weeks, months, and even years. This is in part how we fulfill the scriptural admonition to "pray always"."

A critical election for our country is fast approaching. Many of you
have worked very hard to bring the issues of life, faith, and family
to the forefront of this campaign. We are rightly worried about a
country that is so casual about the destruction of innocent human life
and indifferent about the attacks on the institution of marriage.

The time has come for Americans to get on their knees and beg Our
Father for mercy for our Nation.

Earlier today, Edward Cardinal Egan of New York released a letter
along with a photo of a 20-week old unborn child. He asked his
readers to look at the photograph and ask themselves if there is any
doubt that the picture is a human being.

He closed his letter with these powerful words: "Do me a favor. Look
at the photograph again. Look and decide with honesty and decency what
the Lord expects of you and me as the horror of "legalized" abortion
continues to erode the honor of our nation. Look, and do not absolve
yourself if you refuse to act."

The Lord told us in 2nd Chronicles:

"If my people, upon whom my name has been pronounced, humble
themselves and pray, and seek my presence and turn from their evil
ways, I will hear them from heaven and pardon their sins and revive
their land."


During World War II, Britain was under siege and their people were in
a state of panic. An advisor to Winston Churchill recommended that
every citizen stop whatever they were doing each night at 9 p.m. and
spend a minute in prayer for their Nation. Their collective prayer was
credited with saving Great Britain in her most dire hour.

Our own country faces a challenge of equal import. While we might be
safe from falling bombs, we are more vulnerable than ever. The moral
issues we are fighting for are foundational, and strike at the heart
of everything we hold dear as Americans.

CatholicVote.com is asking for nothing less than your prayers for our
country. Pray like you never have before.

Starting Monday, we urge all our subscribers to join together for nine
days of prayer. Like the British in the 1940's, we too can stop
everything we are doing at 9pm (your local time) and pray for our
Nation. We urge you to begin Monday, October 27 and go for nine days
up to and including Election Day on November 4.

And let no one doubt the power of people joined together in prayer.

Polls can predict a lot of things, but we know this Election is
ultimately in God's hands.

Sincerely,

The CatholicVote.com Team