You revealed through Your prophet Isaiah, that You long to be gracious to us and to have compassion on us. We are grateful for Your guidance towards genuine repentance and for the hope of Your mercy and forgiveness.
From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. Malachi 3:7
The awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins…We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness. ~ President Abraham Lincoln – March 30, 1863
Operation World: Pray for Spain : Spain was considered one of the most Catholic countries, but today less than 17% of Spanish people say they are practicing their faith. 38% of Spaniards call themselves “non-practicing Catholics.” The Catholic feasts or rituals no longer have spiritual meaning for most young people. In fact, 78% of the 18-24 age category identified as Catholic in 1990, plummeting to 28% in 2021. In the 16th century (during the Inquisition), leaders tortured or killed thousands suspected of heresy, and forced hundreds of thousands of Jews, Muslims, and Protestants to either convert or leave. Pray for full repentance, and that the shame on Christianity may be lifted. Pray for renewal that breathes new life into the Catholic Church.
“Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Matthew 6:19 (NLT)
Leave a Reply