{"id":12964,"date":"2018-12-17T11:47:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T16:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=12964"},"modified":"2018-12-17T11:47:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T16:47:52","slug":"prayer-president-new-jersey-nun-tweets-prayers-trump-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2018\/12\/prayer-president-new-jersey-nun-tweets-prayers-trump-daily","title":{"rendered":"Prayer For the President: New Jersey Nun Tweets Prayers For Trump Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While most people seem to take to Twitter to rage and complain these days, one nun has decided to react to \u201cthe crazy\u201d in the world in a very different way. Rather than joining in the name-calling and open hatred that dominates the internet today, Sister Susan Francois has made it a point to tweet prayers to Donald Trump every morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI usually just sit for a while and see what comes,\u201d Sister Francois said.<\/p>\n

Sister Francois began her practice shortly after President Trump\u2019s inauguration. She has since racked up over 660 prayers sent to Trump\u2019s official @POTUS handle. The decision to aim the tweets at @POTUS was a deliberate choice on Sister Francois\u2019 part. She is aware that Trump\u2019s @realDonaldTrump handle is both more popular and more widely used, but the @POTUS handle is archived by the federal government.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want it to be a record of history that a Catholic sister wanted to tweet a nonviolent prayer at the president,\u201d Sister Francois said.<\/p>\n

Her habit, however, has not always been easy. In fact, she said that her daily tweets are \u201cthe hardest spiritual practice I\u2019ve every committed to.\u201d Part of the reason it has been so difficult is the very public nature of her practice. \u201cWhen I sent the first tweet, it was purely for myself. I didn\u2019t expect it to make a big splash. But [the] fact that it was public and that I committed to it every day means I have to do it, even if I don\u2019t want to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sister Francois is under no illusions about how likely her tweets are to reach Trump himself, but that will not stop her from continuing to reach out to him with her hopes and prayers. \u201cAm I under the misconception that he is reading my tweets or that they will have an impact on his policies,\u201d she wrote on Twitter. \u201cNo. But I am less distracted by the crazy, claiming my voice and speaking out in a way that models and points to the world Jesus calls us to build.\u201d She, naturally, hopes her words will somehow make a difference in the world, but even if they never make a big splash, they have helped at least one person by keeping Sister Francois from getting lost in all the negativity. As such, at the very least her \u201ccalming spiritual practice\u201d has succeeded at what she set out meaning for it to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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