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Archive for August, 2008

Responses to Catholic Politicians on Abortion

Posted by St. Thomas More Fraternity Secular Franciscan Order on August 29, 2008

Read “Responses to Catholic Politicians on Abortion” at: http://www.ewtn.com/media/abortion/responses.asp

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A Prayer for our Nation as we Prepare to Elect our Leaders from Priests for Life

Posted by St. Thomas More Fraternity Secular Franciscan Order on August 20, 2008

O God, we acknowledge you today as Lord,
Not only of individuals, but of nations and governments.

We thank you for the privilege
Of being able to organize ourselves politically
And of knowing that political loyalty
Does not have to mean disloyalty to you.

We thank you for your law,
Which our Founding Fathers acknowledged
And recognized as higher than any human law.

We thank you for the opportunity that this election year puts before us,
To exercise our solemn duty not only to vote,
But to influence countless others to vote,
And to vote correctly.

Lord, we pray that your people may be awakened.
Let them realize that while politics is not their salvation,
Their response to you requires that they be politically active.

Awaken your people to know that they are not called to be a sect fleeing the world
But rather a community of faith renewing the world.

Awaken them that the same hands lifted up to you in prayer
Are the hands that pull the lever in the voting booth;
That the same eyes that read your Word
Are the eyes that read the names on the ballot,
And that they do not cease to be Christians
When they enter the voting booth.

Awaken your people to a commitment to justice
To the sanctity of marriage and the family,
To the dignity of each individual human life,
And to the truth that human rights begin when human lives begin,
And not one moment later.

Lord, we rejoice today
That we are citizens of your kingdom.

May that make us all the more committed
To being faithful citizens on earth.

We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Stop Planned Parenthood from constructing its new Texas center

Posted by St. Thomas More Fraternity Secular Franciscan Order on August 6, 2008

Planned Parenthood of Houston & Southeast Texas, the number one provider of abortions in Texas, has purchased a seven story building at 4600 Gulf Freeway (I-45 & Elgin) with the intention of creating a late-term abortion center. 

 

This building will house the largest abortion facility in the Western Hemisphere where, according to the State of Texas, children will be aborted through 25 weeks of pregnancy.

 

Go to http://www.texasfamilies.org and sign the petition to stop the construction of this abortion center.

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