Our parish priest was out of town for a family wedding, but his pinch hitter discussed it, and we prayed for DJT and out nation.
They don’t think they can afford to offend the members who happen to be rich communists. This applies in very “conservative” churches.
I haven’t gone to mass yet, but in my time going to different Protestant/Evangelical services, I always found the prayers to be so insular and only relevant to people inside the church…Growing upCatholic however, I remember praying for “peace in the Middle East” before I knew what the Middle East was! And to this day praying for the unborn, praying for our leaders. This is a sort of mainstay on Sundays…
I stopped attending churches that focus on politics 10 years ago. So, no mention. I was up half the night, praying. I do not need a church or a man to tell me to pray.
For that matter, what exactly did the enemedia all say? https://rumble.com/v56vd39-dr.-simone-gold-reveals-major-media-blackout-of-attempted-assassination-of-.html
This observation by Dr. Simone Gold who as at the center of Times Square is quite revealing.... I don’t think I saw a time on any of the monitors but she said at the beginning that she had just heard the news....
Catholic. Priest talked about political violence and extolled the fact that Democrats & Republicans denounced the assassination attempt but never mentioned President Trump by name.
We prayed as a congregation concerning the rancor that leads to such a thing. We use bidding prayer format, so President Trump was mentioned in the bid.
Our lead Paster was off but the sub mentioned the assassination attempt,
but not strong enough for me.
Don’t know yet: we go to Mass at 1:00 p.m. Eastern. I find that our Spanish-speaking congregation is pretty tuned out on American politics, so we’ll see. The Nicaraguan exile priest talks about current events sometimes, though.
Is church to worship God or discuss politics?
Non-denominational means they accept money from anyone.
If my pastor had said nothing, I’d change pastors.
What happened yesterday was evil. And, if those who are charged with shepherding the flock, in your church, don’t address that evil, then you need to find a new church! That’s not difficult calculus.
We got one remark in passing about “how divisive our country has become”, but that could apply any week for the last few decades. No specific mention of Trump, no special prayer, nothing.
Yes.
Our pastor almost always reminds us to pray for our political representatives and the people that advise them. And today to pray for families of victims as well as for Trump.
Did your church take PPP money...?
If so, nuff said.
We spent first 15 min of our service praying for our leaders and nation.
Honestly I need to go back to church but a friend was disturbed last evening by all this.
I sent scripture to him Titus 3:3 reminding him that the Higher Power (Jesus) delivered us from being ‘enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another’.
We who follow Him don’t have to live in the Hellish mindset that led to the evil act last evening.
LCMS, we switched our processional hymn to "A Mighty Fortress," with Luther's reference above. We prayed for the nation, and for the wounded, and the families of the dead.
>I was shocked that my pastor said nothing.
Fired.