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Heavenly Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth, and Creator of
all life, we thank You for all the blessings that You have bestowed
upon us and upon this great Nation of ours and upon this great
State of Kansas. We also thank you for those Representatives that
You have given us that truly acknowledge Your absolute rights
over all men and women.We call upon you now, in this urgent time of need for our
country, to guide us to the true freedom for which our nation was
founded for: That is the freedom to do good, with all the rights of
life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. We know that we cannot be
truly happy unless we do the good You created us for by
exercising our freedom well and responsibly.We ask you for the grace to bring us back to the principles that
have made this state and this nation great. We ask you to
strengthen our understanding of traditional marriage; one man and
one woman, we ask you to bring us back to virtuous morals in
society, morals that kept us from killing a child in the womb
through abortion. We ask you to defend us now in the fight for
true religious freedom and freedom of conscience, that seems to
be threatened now in the public sphere. We know that a truly
formed conscience is what keeps order in the person and in
society. We reiterate the words of St. Thomas More, who was
once a Statesman and the Chancellor of England, who said. “when
men forsake their own conscience for the sake of public duties,
they lead their nation down a short road to chaos.”He acknowledged his responsibility before all the men and
women that he came to serve and his responsibility before God,
who He knew would be his judge in all his decisions.Therefore, we ask You for the grace for all those who serve
You in public office to defend life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness, and to uphold the natural law and the rights of God.
We ask you to keep us one nation under God, and not one
Nation without God.We thank you for these men and women here whom we know
you have blessed by giving them this awesome responsibility. We
ask You for the necessary graces for them and bring many
blessings upon them. We ask all this through Jesus Christ, Our
Lord, Who lives and reigns with You forever and ever. Amen.
(Pictured above praying the Holy Gospel at Mass.)
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”The root principle of birth-control is unsound. It is a glorification of the means and a contempt of the end; it says that the pleasure which is a means to the procreation of children is good, but the children themselves are no good. In other words, to be logical, the philosophy of birth-control would commit us to a world in which trees were always blooming but never giving fruit, a world full of sign-posts that were leading nowhere. In this cosmos every tree would be a barren fig-tree and for that reason would have upon it the curse of God.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
