Non-Catholics, please pray with us and for us, for our Church and our nation.
I made this a "Catholic Caucus" in order to bar those who want to hijack this thread and turn it into an anti-Church controversy opportunity. However, non-Catholics who wish to make constructive comments are welcome, in charity and truth, to do so.
As a Catholic, I would gratefully appreciate prayer on behalf of the defenders of Catholic faith and morals. I also appreciate insights on how we ALL can fight the wolves-in-sheeps'-clothing (and wolves in shepherds' clothing) in ALL of our respective church communities.
Constructive prayer and action comments only, please.
Good post, Mrs. Dono. Thanks for the ping. Prayers for divine help during this trying time for our country.
Another metaphor might be Judas goats. In any case, our local faith community, it's sad to say, has a few of those.
I am starting to think I am for abortion, but only in cases of Democrat parents.
Prayers going up for the Catholic Church to stand firm for truth.
St. Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou,
O Prince of the heavenly hosts,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan,
and all the evil spirits,
who prowl about the world
seeking the ruin of souls. Amen..
May a non-Catholic suggest that the best thing the Bishops could now do is to show up at the protest demonstrations that I hear are being hastily called for tomorrow? Show up bearing the staff that they are supposed to carry for a reason.
For some reason, Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” is playing in my head.
I pray that God will give us the wisdom that we seem not to possess and the ability to do His will. I fear for my country.
"Let me repeat in the clearest words in my disposal. I would restate our thesis in two propositions. Proposition #1 There is no stopping abortion without an ocean of grace from Jesus Christ. No way will human means stop abortion. #2 The principle source of this grace is the Holy Eucharist." [emphasis; mine] Fr. Hardon also puts great emphasis on Reconciliation at the link ...Pray to kill the bill/save the babies
Catholic ping!
Joining in prayer...
Here's a prayer to Saint Joseph that my daughter gave me when I bought my own business a little while ago:
Prayer to St. Joseph for Employment
Dear Saint Joseph, you were yourself once faced with the with the responsibility of providing the necessities of life for Jesus and Mary. Look down with fatherly compassion upon me in my anxiety with my present inability to support my family.
Please help me find gainful employment very soon, so that this great burden of concern will be lifted from my heart and that I am soon able to provide for those whom God has entrusted to my care.
Help me to guard against discouragement, so that I may emerge from this trial spiritually enriched and with even greater blessings from God. Amen.
Don’t the bishops/cardinals/Rome.. someone in authority .. have the power to tell these organizations they are to remove the word ‘Catholic’ from their names? And, if they can tell any individual priest he cannot serve as an elected Representative, can’t they tell those small groups/orders, they are not to intimate in any way that speak for or represent the view of the Church?
What th;ey are doing is nothing short of a hijacking the power, authority, goodwill of the Church itself for their own purposes and political agenda which is totally opposite that of the Church itself.
0bama and his minions are truly evil, if people cant see whats going on here they are blind.
This, like the priest sex scandal, is a symptom of the fetish for modernity which overcame the Church in the late ‘60s and is still seen today.
Even popes can do little without good orthodox bishops in the diocese.
It is only expected that Obama would claim that 55 signatures would equal everyone in a chosen field.
he should be stampeded by catholics for misrepresenting this.
The “seamless garment” social justice of these Catholics is a LIE. There is no social justice when the least and most vulnerable among us is still being legally slaughtered in the womb.
Pray that God will once again turn His face towards America and see that there are righteous who are fighting this disgraceful act. He has heard our cries before, let us not give up. The sin of Judas is despair.
Most importantly, PRAYERS!