"We praise you, O God of all creation. Quicken in us a resolve to protect your handiwork."
-- Let us protect the trees and rivers but treat babies as disposable.
"We pray that you help us to truly understand and answer the sacred call of citizenship. We are a nation composed of every people and culture, united not by ties of blood, but by the profound aspirations of life, freedom, justice, and unbound hope."
-- What does the Democratic Party think citizenship means? If what unites us is not blood or soil or culture, what are we citizens of? And how do you define "freedom" or "justice" without a shared moral framework of some kind? You can't.
"We pray for peace, especially for people suffering the senselessness of war."
-- So I'm here stumping for a candidate who has promised to send Ukraine all the weapons it needs to kill as many Russians as it takes.
"But as we pray, we must also act, for building up the common good"
-- How do you define "the common good" sans a shared culture that agrees on what "good" is?
"Guide us, Lord, in taking up our responsibility to forge this new chapter of our nation’s history"
-- Everything that came before was racist. Only this generation is morally pure.
"unity triumphing over division is what advances human dignity and liberty"
-- We're unified, but we don't have a shared culture nor do we want one.
"And let this new chapter of our nation’s history be filled with overwhelming hope, a hope that refuses to narrow our national vision, but rather, as Pope Francis has said, “to dream dreams and see visions” of what by your grace our world can become."
-- Good intentions, hope, and love... that's what makes a nation strong. Thomas More would be proud.
These sorts of "prayers" are usually pretty anodyne and generic. I'd love to see a speaker get up at a civic gathering and give a real prayer directed at God instead of at the audience. Despite 20 years on-and-off in politics, serving on many boards and commissions, I've never seen it.
Very interesting commentary on the Cardinal Cupich prayer at The Pillar (of course). https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/summer-school-rorschachs-prayer-and?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=2l732&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
"weak churchmen become the cheerleaders for degraded ruling regimes"
Well said! And strong churchmen, and laity too, must stand and fight the culture of death.
"We praise you, O God of all creation. Quicken in us a resolve to protect your handiwork."
-- Let us protect the trees and rivers but treat babies as disposable.
"We pray that you help us to truly understand and answer the sacred call of citizenship. We are a nation composed of every people and culture, united not by ties of blood, but by the profound aspirations of life, freedom, justice, and unbound hope."
-- What does the Democratic Party think citizenship means? If what unites us is not blood or soil or culture, what are we citizens of? And how do you define "freedom" or "justice" without a shared moral framework of some kind? You can't.
"We pray for peace, especially for people suffering the senselessness of war."
-- So I'm here stumping for a candidate who has promised to send Ukraine all the weapons it needs to kill as many Russians as it takes.
"But as we pray, we must also act, for building up the common good"
-- How do you define "the common good" sans a shared culture that agrees on what "good" is?
"Guide us, Lord, in taking up our responsibility to forge this new chapter of our nation’s history"
-- Everything that came before was racist. Only this generation is morally pure.
"unity triumphing over division is what advances human dignity and liberty"
-- We're unified, but we don't have a shared culture nor do we want one.
"And let this new chapter of our nation’s history be filled with overwhelming hope, a hope that refuses to narrow our national vision, but rather, as Pope Francis has said, “to dream dreams and see visions” of what by your grace our world can become."
-- Good intentions, hope, and love... that's what makes a nation strong. Thomas More would be proud.
These sorts of "prayers" are usually pretty anodyne and generic. I'd love to see a speaker get up at a civic gathering and give a real prayer directed at God instead of at the audience. Despite 20 years on-and-off in politics, serving on many boards and commissions, I've never seen it.
There's a whole world of church-state writing dedicating to parsing the prayers at presidential inaugurations. It's depressing stuff.