(As an aside, for Catholics, June 27 is the Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Please consider asking her intercession.)
Day of Prayer in Louisiana on Sunday! Please forward this to your families, your pastors and to everyone you know to join us in praying! Only the Lord, through our prayers, can repair the damaged oil well and protect our coast!
Today (June 24, 2010),
Governor Bobby Jindal joined three other Southern governors in issuing an EMERGENCY PRAYER PROCLAMATION, declaring SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010, a DAY OF PRAYER IN LOUISIANA!
Governors Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Rick Perry of Texas and Bob Riley of Alabama join Jindal in issuing similar emergency directives.America has assembled the brightest minds, the newest technology and America's finest for 65 consecutive days to seal this breach in the Gulf of Mexico and contain its unwelcomed intrusion into our lives and onto our shores. One thing that we have failed to do is corporately "PAUSE AND PRAY"and admit that our efforts are futile without the assistance of the Almighty!
Governor Bobby Jindal's proclamation calling willing Louisianians to join him in bowing their hearts and entreating Heaven's favor this Sunday, June 27, 2010, is an entirely appropriate "Call to action in this present crisis."
Please participate this Sunday by:
* BOWING your knee
"Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the LORD who made us." Psalm 95:6
* TURNING your heart toward Heaven
"Let us reach out our hearts toward God in heaven."
Lamentations 3:41
* HUMBLING yourself before God
"So humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that
He may exalt you in due time." 1 Peter 5:6
"CRYING OUT" on behalf of our deep water, fertile coast, strained industry and precious families
"When the just cry out, the LORD hears them, and from all their distress He rescues them." Psalm 34:18
Ask God to "hear our cry" and to heal our wetland, coast and Gulf
waters!
2 CHRONICLES 7:14: "If My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray and seek My Face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land."
PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
Most holy and immaculate Virgin and our Mother Mary, You are our Perpetual Help, our refuge and our hope.
We come to You today. We thank God for all the graces received through your intercession. Mother of Perpetual Help, we promise to love you always and to do all we can to lead others to you.
Mother of Perpetual Help, confident of your powerful influence with God, obtain for us these graces:
The strength to overcome temptation, a perfect love for Jesus Christ, and a holy death so that we will live with you and your Son for all eternity.
Let us pray as a community of faith. Mary, all generations have called you blessed, and the Almighty has done great things for you.
Mother of Perpetual Help, we call upon your most powerful name. Your very name inspires confidence and hope. May it always be on our lips, especially in time of temptation and at the hour of our death. Blessed Lady, help us whenever we call on you. Let us not be content with merely pronouncing your name. May our daily lives proclaim that you are our Mother and our Perpetual Help.
Let us pray for our temporal wants.
Mother of Perpetual Help, with the greatest confidence we kneel before you. We implore your help in the problems of our daily lives. Trials and sorrows often depress us; misfortunes and privations bring misery into our lives; everywhere we meet the cross. Comforter of the Afflicted, beg your Son Jesus to strengthen us as we bear our burdens and to free us from our sufferings. Or if it be the will of God that we should suffer still longer, help us endure all with love and patience. May we follow the example of your Son, and through him, with him, and in him commend ourselves to the care of our heavenly Father.
Let us now present our petitions and our thanks.
Lord Jesus Christ, at a word from Mary your Mother, You changed water into wine at Cana of Galilee. Grant our petitions and accept our sincere thanks.
Grant peace and unity throughout the world, especially in our homes and families.
Hear us, Lord, through Mary our Mother.
Grant that young people respond generously to the call of the Holy Spirit in deepening their faith and choosing their vocation in life.
Hear us, Lord, through Mary our Mother.
Grant us continued health of mind and body, and help the sick, especially . . . , to regain their health according to your holy will.
Hear us, Lord, through Mary our Mother.
Grant eternal rest to all our deceased, especially . . . , and to the souls of all the faithful departed.
Hear us, Lord, through Mary our Mother.
Let us pause now to silently present our own petitions to Our Mother of Perpetual Help. . .
Lord, accept our thanks for the new life of grace you gave us.
We thank You, Lord, through Mary our Mother.
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