{"id":956,"date":"2016-11-08T19:05:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T01:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigbfiles.wordpress.com\/?p=956"},"modified":"2016-11-08T19:05:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T01:05:38","slug":"prayer-after-an-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigbmultimedia.com\/bigbfiles\/prayer-after-an-election\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for after the 2016 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we have all made our choices in this&#8230;.the most important and consequential elections since the founding of this great nation in 1776&#8230;please join me in praying this Prayer&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><strong>Prayer After An Election<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>God of all nations,<br \/>\nFather of the human family,<br \/>\nwe give you thanks for the freedom we exercise<br \/>\nand the many blessings of democracy we enjoy<br \/>\nin these United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>We ask for your protection and guidance<br \/>\nfor all who devote themselves to the common good,<br \/>\nworking for justice and peace at home and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>We lift up all our duly elected leaders and public servants,<br \/>\nthose who will serve us as president, as legislators and judges,<br \/>\nthose in the military and law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Heal us from our differences and unite us, O Lord,<br \/>\nwith a common purpose, dedication, and commitment to achieve liberty and justice<br \/>\nin the years ahead for all people,<br \/>\nand especially those who are most vulnerable in our midst.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/store.usccb.org\/catholic-household-blessings-and-prayers-p\/5-645.htm\"><strong>Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers<\/strong><\/a>, revised edition (Washington, DC: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2007). The &#8220;Prayer After an Election&#8221; by Cardinal Adam Maida, Archbishop of Detroit, is used with permission.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;..Thank You.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026And that\u2019s the Big B Files.\u00a0 Click on the comments link below and tell me what you think\u2026\u2026I\u2019m Bryan V. Hewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we have all made our choices in this&#8230;.the most important and consequential elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-new-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxluL-fq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbmultimedia.com\/bigbfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbmultimedia.com\/bigbfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbmultimedia.com\/bigbfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbmultimedia.com\/bigbfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbmultimedia.com\/bigbfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigbmultimedia.com\/bigbfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbmultimedia.com\/bigbfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbmultimedia.com\/bigbfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbmultimedia.com\/bigbfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}