Election prayer to Mary

This prayer is making the rounds on the net, I thought to post it here for our readers.

O Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Mercy, at this most critical time, we entrust the United States of America to your loving care. Most Holy Mother, we beg you to reclaim this land for the glory of your Son. Overwhelmed with the burden of the sins of our nation, we cry to you from the depths of our hearts and seek refuge in your motherly protection. Look down with mercy upon us and touch the hearts of our people. Open our minds to the great worth of human life and to the responsibilities that accompany human freedom. Free us from the falsehoods that lead to the evil of abortion and threaten the sanctity of family life. Grant our country the wisdom to proclaim that God’s law is the foundation on which this nation was founded, and that He alone is the True Source of our cherished rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. O Merciful Mother, give us the courage to reject the culture of death and the strength to build a new Culture of Life.
Trusting in your most powerful intercession, we pray…
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help or sought thy intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, our Mother. To thee we come, before thee we stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not our petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer us. Amen.

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This just in

Father Kevin C. Rhodes, Rector of Mt. Saint Mary’s Seminary, has been named next Bishop of Harrisburg, PA.
From the Lebanon, PA Lebanon Daily News:

The Rev. Kevin C. Rhodes received the appointment from Pope John Paul II this week, The Catholic Witness, the diocesan newspaper, announced this morning.
Rhodes, 46, grew up on Lebanon’s northside, attended the former St. Mary’s elementary school and Lebanon Catholic High School, from which he graduated in 1975.

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Just posted over at Drudge, John Edwards reportedly said, “When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again…”
No link to the source as yet. As loathe as I am to jump the gun, it sounds like something he would say. This is beyond the pale. Truly.

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