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Trump continues inaugural prayer service tradition
Crux ^ | December 24, 2016 | Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service

Posted on 12/23/2016 11:51:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

President-elect Donald Trump plans to attend an inaugural prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral, following the tradition of many past presidents.

The National Prayer Service, set for January 21, the day after the swearing-in, is the last of the official inaugural events announced Wednesday (December 21) by the Presidential Inaugural Committee.

“The Inaugural Prayer Service is a moment for our next president to pause and contemplate the incredible responsibility he has been entrusted with and to listen as the faith community offers prayers for the office of the president,” said Kevin Eckstrom, the cathedral’s chief communications officer, in a statement.

Trump’s planned presence at the cathedral comes after a divisive campaign in which 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for him and religious leaders of a range of faiths expressed concern about his stated plans to register Muslims and ban Muslim immigrants from entering the U.S.

Details of the service at the cathedral are not yet available but an Archdiocese of Washington spokeswoman confirmed that Cardinal Donald Wuerl plans to attend.

“He’s been involved in some of the planning,” said archdiocesan spokeswoman Chieko Noguchi of Wuerl. “It’s still in the early stages.”

The cathedral has been the site of inaugural prayer services since 1933, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was first inaugurated. In more recent times, it’s most consistently been the location of such services since President Reagan’s inauguration in 1985.

However, President Clinton chose Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church for his inaugural services.

St. John’s Episcopal Church, across Lafayette Square from the White House, has often been the choice for a private service for the president-elect on the morning of the swearing-in.

Hayden Bryan, the church’s executive director for operations, said Trump is expected to attend a service there on January 20.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has announced that it will sing at the swearing-in, marking its sixth time for such a performance.


TOPICS: Current Events; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
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To: laweeks
"AND YOU'D BE IN JAIL."

How cool was that?

21 posted on 12/24/2016 1:29:07 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

It has been years since I have heard merchants say Merry Christmas...


22 posted on 12/24/2016 1:32:45 AM PST by Stayfree (LIBERALISM & STUPIDITY ARE BOTH INCURABLE MENTAL DISEASES OFTEN FOUND TOGETHER!)
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To: dp0622

My hat’s off to you. My middle name is emotion so I didn’t see it coming :)


After this nation elected Obama twice, I can’t say I had a lot of hope so I am with you.


23 posted on 12/24/2016 1:59:29 AM PST by boycott (S)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

It’s amazing I’ve noticed too!


24 posted on 12/24/2016 2:11:21 AM PST by The Cuban (again Freaking French illegal immigrabta,)
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To: laweeks

... And God bless us EVERYONE!


25 posted on 12/24/2016 2:48:37 AM PST by smartymarty (How a mountain girl can love.)
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To: dp0622

Every day feels like Christmas!


26 posted on 12/24/2016 3:07:42 AM PST by Guenevere (If my people......will humble themselves and pray and seek my face .....I will heal their land...)
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To: dp0622

Ha ha.....+1

I was going on emotional fumes and prayer for a year and a half!


27 posted on 12/24/2016 3:09:54 AM PST by Guenevere (If my people......will humble themselves and pray and seek my face .....I will heal their land...)
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To: Jeff Chandler

#21 - there were many definitive moments you really felt he could win, this was absolutely one of them.


28 posted on 12/24/2016 3:23:31 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?!?)
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To: Jeff Chandler
As a successful commissioned salesman of many years, I saw a successful sales manager ... and LOVED it.

My successful manager made a ton of money off of us successful salesmen making a ton of money ... we all drove nice cars, wore nice clothes and had happy wives keeping their husbands happy.

29 posted on 12/24/2016 3:26:28 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

ping me your PDF, please, Jeff


30 posted on 12/24/2016 3:28:24 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

you got it.


31 posted on 12/24/2016 3:54:15 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Jeff Chandler
The one I saw possibilities in is Michigan. The primaries went to both Sanders and Trump. That's a majority of voters wanting to oust the status quo. Pennsylvandia, fingers crossed. The western part of the state, along with the Scranton area (which was covered with Trump signs) were obviously going to be huge for Trump. Wisconsin? Preibus genuinely supporting Trump gave him a chance there.

What I never saw was all three "maybes" working out. My hypothesis is that hillary's very bad elitist campaign (celebrity rallies plus private fund raisers) while DJT did rallies for tens of thousands of people sealed the deal.

What baffles me is the dems' campaign strategists were as clueless as hillary was.

32 posted on 12/24/2016 3:58:39 AM PST by grania
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama was the first President that Billy Grahm refused his services to since Eisenhower and not because of his age. While Grahm is a frail 98 now, it would be awesome to see him make one last inauguration. Surely his son Franklin will at least be there.


33 posted on 12/24/2016 4:04:45 AM PST by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Lera; metmom; Roman_War_Criminal; pastorbillrandles; SaveFerris; ...
Trump praying and being prayed for at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio (notice the laying of hands):

Pastor Joshua Nink requested to pray over Donald Trump at First Christian Church, Iowa - and Trump said "Please pastor, thanks."

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Obama taking his shoes off before entering a mosque in Turkey

Obama speaking at a mosque, claiming Islam "has always been part of America"


34 posted on 12/24/2016 4:49:50 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I Saw the Light Hank Williams Jr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0BbAqq_Xg4


35 posted on 12/24/2016 5:17:11 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: Merry CHRISTmas, Happy Birthday JESUS CHRIST, suck it up buttercup you lost)
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To: laweeks

Donald Trump threw out the political manual. It appears that he is a disciple of Col Boyde. He kept inside everyone’s OODA Loop through the primaries and the general. He never backed down.

The UniParty is crying about his bullying. Tango Sierra!


36 posted on 12/24/2016 5:18:34 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Merry Christmas to All! Thank God and Trump that we can say this again!)
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To: knarf

Check your Freepmail.


37 posted on 12/24/2016 9:26:02 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Got it .. thanx ... Merry Christmas


38 posted on 12/24/2016 9:30:44 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

**Washington National Cathedral** = Episcopal Church

Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D. C. = Catholic Church.


39 posted on 12/24/2016 11:53:04 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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