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Steven Waldman over at Beliefnet has compiled a pretty interesting archive of all known inaugural prayers through history. Did you know the practice didn’t begin until 1937?? Take a look and see what you think. Evidently, the presidential pray-ers never heard the old saying “Be brief, be brilliant, and be gone.”

People crowd into a job fair in New Brunswick, New Jersey on January 7, 2009. From AP/Mel Evans The economic news this morning went from grim to grimmer, with unemployment hitting a 16-year high. Yesterday, the Concord Pastor offered this timely prayer for a friend who had just lost his job. It concludes with the…

We come like the magi,as wise and as foolish men and women to kneel before the Christ child.We bring our regrets from the past year,our shame, our guilt,acknowledging our failures and ready to begin afresh. Touch us with your hand of forgiveness.Help us also to forgive ourselves. We come like the shepherds,from out on the…

I’m a little late in posting this bit of technological wizardry, but the priest who developed this little marvel was kind enough to send me an e-mail (from Italy, no less!) and asked if I’d spread the word. I’m happy to oblige, Fr. Paolo. So: take a look at what you can now download onto…
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