U.S. Bishops’s Holy Week Prayer Request

I saw a news clip the other day where a guy in California (I don’t remember the city) was taken away in handcuffs for reading the Bible in public. That 20 second video encapsulated for me the entire secular barrage that has been taking place against religion, especially our Catholic religion, in this great nation of ours.  The USCCB has authorized a prayer for religious liberty, and is asking all  Catholics  to say it every day during Holy Week 2012. I thought I would copy it and paste it in here. It just seemed to me to be the timely thing to do.

Wishing God’s blessings on all my CWG friends and their families during this Easter season.

PRAYER FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY:

O GOD OUR CREATOR,
from your provident hand we have received
our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
You have called us as your people and given us
the right and the duty to worship you, the only true God,
and your Son, Jesus Christ.
Through the power and working of your Holy Spirit,
you call us to live out our faith in the midst of the world,
bringing the light and the saving truth of the Gospel
to every corner of society.

We ask you to bless us
in our vigilance for the gift of religious liberty.
Give us the strength of mind and heart
to readily defend our freedoms when they are threatened;
give us courage in making our voices heard
on behalf of the rights of your Church
and the freedom of conscience of all people of faith.

Grant, we pray, O heavenly Father,
a clear and united voice to all your sons and daughters
gathered in your Church
in this decisive hour in the history of our nation,
so that, with every trial withstood
and every danger overcome —
for the sake of our children, our grandchildren,
and all who come after us —
this great land will always be “one nation, under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

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