[olliemb]

Thank you dear Lord for giving us Faith. We need Faith's beautiful prayers at times like this. I offer you my prayers, fasting and alms giving--please help those around me to do good and please help the president and his allies be resolute and most of all to keep and do your will. Please give President Bush the calm, the vision and the courage and the confidence to do that which is righteous. Help him apply your principles in these problems. You promised that you would hear those who do no iniquity. We are a good people and President Bush is a faithful man. Please protect him for the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. As the psalmist said--please watch over him as he walks thru a valley of dangers please be with him and do not let him be scared of death shadows.

[Litany]

Vespers, March 16,2003

Psalm 109 (110)
The Messiah, king and priest
The Lord has said to my lord: “Sit at my right hand while I make your enemies into your footstool”.

From Sion the Lord will give you a sceptre, and you will rule in the midst of your foes.
Royal power is yours in the day of your strength, glorious and holy; from the time of your birth, before the dawn.

The Lord has sworn, and he will not repent: “You are a priest for ever, a priest of the priesthood of Melchisedech”.
The Lord is at your right hand, and on the day of his anger he will shatter kings.

He will judge the nations, he will pile high their skulls;
he will drink from the stream as he goes – he will hold his head high.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.