National Prayer Service, in the Shadow of the White House, to Pray for President and Call Him to Repentance on Abortion

By Priests for Life
1/18/2013
Priests for Life (www.priestsforlife.org/)

Participants in the prayer service will be asked to commit themselves to including this intention in their daily prayers throughout the year

We need public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public," said Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life and President of the National Pro-life Religious Council. "When Scripture commands us to pray for those in authority, it says we should do this in order that we can live tranquil lives. In other words, we pray that those in authority will know how to protect life, not destroy it."

Fr Frank Pavone at Constitution hall

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WASHINGTON, DC (Priests for Life) - The National Memorial for the Preborn and their Mothers and Fathers (NationalPrayerService.com), the premier prayer event this year marking 40 years since Roe vs. Wade, will occur this year much closer to the White House than in the past.

Organizers have announced that the proximity to the White House is particularly appropriate this year, given the re-election of the President and the threats this poses to the right to life and religious liberty.

The prayer service, with leaders representing denominations across the full Christian spectrum, will include prayer specifically for President Obama and his administration, and focused specifically on begging God for the grace of repentance and the gift of wisdom to come upon them.

The service will be held on Friday, January 25 from 8:30 to 10:30am at DAR Constitution Hall, 1776 D St., NW (18th and D St). There will be a Catholic Mass available there at 7:30 a.m.

"We need public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public," said Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life and President of the National Pro-life Religious Council. "When Scripture commands us to pray for those in authority, it says we should do this in order that we can live tranquil lives. In other words, we pray that those in authority will know how to protect life, not destroy it."

Participants in the prayer service will be asked to commit themselves to including this intention in their daily prayers throughout the year. Moreover, religious leaders will be called to incorporate into their pastoral practice a regular call to pray for the President by name, that he will begin making efforts to protect the unborn rather than to protect the abortion industry.

Fr. Paul CB Schenck, founding director and chairman of the National Pro-Life Center on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., stated, "Abortion is a matter of public welfare and most of all of respect for human life and dignity. We will pray and work to end the disrespect of human life represented by the billion dollar abortion trade and to reinstate laws that protect the preborn, their mothers and families."

For more information and promotional materials on the service, please visit NationalPrayerService.com.
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Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.

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4 months ago
We Respect For Life prayer warriors pray for the conversion of Obama at the conclusion of our session. Let us all pray for the conversion of those who voted for him and support him.
mike robertson
4 months ago
We need to also pray for Catholic democrats who can go to Mass on Sunday and on Tuesday vote for one who: 1) voted for the legal killing of girls and boys outside of their mom's womb, even after they survived the attempt to kill them in the womb; 2) tries to shut down Catholic and other Christian institutions under the guise of health care; 3) calls marriage what God calls an abomination; 4) refused to thank God on Thanksgiving; 5) boasted to a Muslim audience that America is not a Christian nation. The Catholic democrats' candidate is trying to make us a Third World basket case Only Our Lord knows if this is intentional or just due to economic ignorance. I think more, however, should be expected of people who attend Mass. Let us pray for the enlightenment and conversion of Catholic democrats.
rafaelmarie
4 months ago
@eamon

How can you justify a mass baby-killer (free obamacare abortions, over 333,000 last year)???

Would you justify Hitler also???

How in the world do you have the gall and audacity to state that Obama is somehow more catholic than a real Catholic???

Besides mass babykilling, promoter of gay marriage, and persecuting the Catholic Church (HHS mandate)???

Yes, we can cast stones, BECAUSE WE ARE WITNESS TO IT!

Of course, there are those who remain silent, just like those when Jesus was accused, who yelled out, crucify him, crucify him! Just like the 50% of so-called catholics who voted for Obama, who chanted, obama, obama, obama???
james in colorado
4 months ago
Eamon, the POTUS is a likeable personality, one of the reasons that he was re-elected. He seems to "feel" our pain doesn't he? Our prayer should be for him, that he would feel the pain of the 3000 babies aborted everyday. May our Dear Lord peserve us from a spirit of judgementalism and grant Pres. obama a spirit of repentance for promoting the murder of the innocents. I pray this prayer for VP Biden, Pelosi, and Sebaliious as well. Their very souls are at stake and we must take the offensive againt the gates of Hell with our prayers and sacrifices.
Eamon Hatley-Smith
4 months ago
We are all sinners, he is probably more Universal than most catholics, he just does not know it, yet, not unlike Chris Hitchins.

For some reason I can't help liking him, regardless of his politics.

No one has a right to cast any stones.
Januusz
4 months ago
Let's follow the example of St. Monica, as it may take many years to have our prayers answered.....
rafaelmarie
4 months ago
Might I humbly suggest fasting combined with the Holy Rosary.
DLL
4 months ago
The Democrats and the President depend on a woman's inferior self image when they promote abortion rights. Most of all today's women must in truth be considered totally irresponsible sexually,otherwise or they would not promote so called free contraception as so sort of a woman's right along with the woman's right to always have the choice to choose abortion. The abortion used to be irresponsible now to be pregnant is,the times they are a changing. For the worse!
Greg
4 months ago
I pledge, with the help of God's grace, to pray for the President Obama every day until he repents. I will do it out of love for Jesus, who died for him on the Cross. He thirsts for Mr Barack Obama no less than for me and you.
abey
4 months ago
Let it be clear that the Prayer is not to him but for him.

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