{"id":2906,"date":"2008-09-02T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/09\/deliver-us.html"},"modified":"2008-09-02T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T15:53:00","slug":"deliver-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/09\/deliver-us.html","title":{"rendered":"Deliver us…"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’d like some spiritual distraction from the noise and nastiness of this election year…try this on for size. The USCCB has published a Novena for Faithful Citizenship<\/a>, designed to be prayed on the nine Tuesdays leading up to the election on November 4.<\/p>\n

Good old reliable Rocco<\/a> has posted part of the opening prayer, and it deserves our attention:<\/p>\n

Immaculate Heart of Mary,
help us to conquer the menace of evil,
which so easily takes root in the hearts of the people of today,
and whose immeasurable effects
already weigh down upon our modern world
and seem to block the paths toward the future.<\/p>\n

From famine and war, deliver us.
From nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction, from every kind of war, deliver us.
From sins against human life from its very beginning, deliver us.
From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, deliver us.
From every kind of injustice in the life of society, both national and international, deliver us.
From readiness to trample on the commandments of God, deliver us.
From attempts to stifle in human hearts the very truth of God, deliver us.
From the loss of awareness of good and evil, deliver us.
From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver us.<\/p>\n

Accept, O Mother of Christ,
this cry laden with the sufferings of all individual human beings,
laden with the sufferings of whole societies.
Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit conquer all sin:
individual sin and the \u201csin of the world,\u201d
sin in all its manifestations.
Let there be revealed once more in the history of the world
the infinite saving power of the redemption:
the power of merciful love.
May it put a stop to evil.
May it transform consciences.
May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of hope.<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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