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| Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us who have recourse to Thee. |
Mary Immaculate, living tabernacle of the Divinity, where the eternal Wisdom lies hidden to be adored and served by angels and men, Queen of heaven and of earth, beneath whose sway are subject all things that are lower than God, Patroness of the United States of America, sorrowful and mindful of our own sinfulness and the sins of our nation, we come to Thee, our refuge and hope.
Knowing that our country cannot be saved by our own works and mindful of how much our nation has departed from the ways of Thy Son, we humbly ask that Thou wouldst turn Thine eyes upon our country to bring about its conversion.
We consecrate to Thee the integrity of the upcoming election and its outcome, so that what is spiritually and morally best for the citizens of our country may be accomplished, and that all of those who are elected would govern according to the spiritual and moral principles which will bring our nation into conformity with the teachings of Thy Son.
Give grace to the citizens of this land so that they will choose leaders according to the Sacred Heart of Thy Son, that His glory may be made manifest, lest we be given the leaders we deserve. Trusting in the providential care of God the Father and Thy maternal care, we have perfect confidence that Thou wilt take care of us and will not leave us forsaken.
O Mary Immaculate, pray for us.
Amen.
I pray this prayer every night. May God's Will Be Done!
ReplyDelete“Why the nations rage, and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and rulers conspire together against the Lord and His anointed……take warning O judges of the earth……In a spirit of pride the wicked one says: ‘He will not seek vengeance; there is no God:……He waits in ambush near the villages, in hiding places he murders the innocent;……and the helpless fall before his violence……(from Ps. 9)
“He set up a precept……and established a law……they kept not the covenant of God and refused to follow His Law …..a generation with an inconstant heart, with a spirit unfaithful to God….. they continued to sin against Him, to offend the Most High…….when the wrath of God blazed against them, and He slew their princes, and laid low the youth of Israel…..when He was slaying them, they sought Him, they returned and inquired of God; and they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer…..but they deceived Him with the mouth, and lied to Him with their tongue……Yet He in His mercy He forgave their guilt……And He remembered that they were but flesh, a breath that passes and does not return…….(from Ps. 77)
“Thou shalt not have a strange god, nor shalt thou worship any foreign god; I am the Lord thy God.”
“We call adversities evil; actually, they are good and meritorious, when we receive them as coming from God’s hands.” (St. Alphonsus de Liguori)
“Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches are from God” (Ecclus. 11:14)
May God’s Will Be Done!