{"id":74889,"date":"2018-11-06T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74889"},"modified":"2018-11-06T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T13:30:08","slug":"anglican-church-on-australia-on-election-day-a-litany-for-use-during-an-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74889","title":{"rendered":"(Anglican Church of Australia) Prayers&#8211;A Litany for Election day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglican.org.au\/data\/Litany_for_use_during_an_election_campaign.pdf\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lord of every time and place,<br \/>\nGod of integrity and truth,<br \/>\nwe pray for wisdom as we prepare to vote in the [this] election.<\/p>\n<p>Let us give thanks to God, saying, \u2018we thank you, Lord\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>For this land and the diversity of its peoples,<br \/>\nwe thank you, Lord.<br \/>\nFor all who work for peace and justice in this land,<br \/>\nwe thank you, Lord.<br \/>\nFor leaders who serve the common good,<br \/>\nwe thank you, Lord.<br \/>\nFor robust democracy and freedom to participate in public life,<br \/>\nwe thank you, Lord.<br \/>\nFor media scrutiny and open debate,<br \/>\nwe thank you, Lord.<br \/>\nLet us pray to the Lord, saying, \u2018Hear us, good Lord\u2019.<br \/>\nBless those who administer the electoral process,<br \/>\nthat they may uphold fairness, honesty and truth.<br \/>\nHear us, good Lord.<br \/>\nImpart your wisdom to all who propose policy,<br \/>\nthat their promises may serve those in greatest need.<br \/>\nHear us, good Lord.<br \/>\nGive integrity to party leaders, candidates and campaign workers,<br \/>\nand keep them from deceit and corruption.<br \/>\nHear us, good Lord.<br \/>\nProtect all engaged in public life, with their families, friends and colleagues,<br \/>\nthat nothing may demean or do them harm.<br \/>\nHear us, good Lord.<br \/>\nDirect those who influence opinion through the media,<br \/>\nthat we may listen, speak and vote with sound minds.<br \/>\nHear us, good Lord&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>God, bless America,<br \/>\nguard our people<br \/>\nguide our leaders<br \/>\nand give us peace;<br \/>\nfor Jesus Christ\u2019s sake. Amen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>(Slightly edited for the American midterms-KSH)<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Lord of every time and place, God of integrity and truth, we pray for wisdom as we prepare to vote in the [this] election. Let us give thanks to God, saying, \u2018we thank you, Lord\u2019. For this land<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74889\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,151,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-politics-in-general","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74889"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74902,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74889\/revisions\/74902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}