Prayers And Responsibilities For Election Day

On Monday I posted about the election and our responsibility to vote for the candidate who will do the least harm.  Embedded in that was a clip from Father Chad Ripperger making that very point.  Listen to it again.  He states plainly that we are obligated, as US citizens, to vote for the candidate who will do the most good, or the lesser harm, and who can win.  Notice the word "obligated".  In other words, such an action is not optional.  

Patriotism is a form of piety.  The virtue of piety involves the duties we owe to God, family, and country.  For American citizens, that duty includes the duty to vote, and for the reasons stated in the first paragraph.  Morally, we do not have the option of abstaining from such votes due to delicate "consciences".  To fall into such sin involves not only sin against piety, but the effeminate behavior stated in my previous post.

Obviously we are at a crossroads in this country.  If Kackles and Tampon Tim win, we may never have another free election, further hamstringing efforts to save endangered babies and to keep western civilization from sliding into degradation and destruction.

Father Ripperger composed a prayer to consecrate this coming election to Our Lady.  I will be posting other prayers as well.  For now, here is Father Ripperger's prayer.

Fr. Ripperger's Prayer Consecrating the Election to the Virgin Mary

Mary Immaculate, living tabernacle of the Divinity, where the eternal Wisdom lies hidden to be adored and served by angels and men, Queen of heaven and of earth, beneath whose sway are subject all things that are lower than God, Patroness of the United States of America, sorrowful and mindful of our own sinfulness and the sins of our nation, we come to Thee, our refuge and hope. Knowing that our country cannot be saved by our own works and mindful of how much our nation has departed from the ways of Thy Son, we humbly ask that Thou wouldst turn Thine eyes upon our country to bring about its conversion. We consecrate to Thee the integrity of the upcoming election and its outcome, so that what is spiritually and morally best for the citizens of our country may be accomplished, and that all of those who are elected would govern according to the spiritual and moral principles which will bring our nation into conformity with the teachings of Thy Son. Give grace to the citizens of this land so that they will choose leaders according to the Sacred Heart of Thy Son, that His glory may be made manifest, lest we be given the leaders we deserve. Trusting in the providential care of God the Father and Thy maternal care, we have perfect confidence that Thou wilst take care of us and will not leave us forsaken. O Mary Immaculate, pray for us. Amen.