“In a matter of months, the United States will celebrate its 250th anniversary. Many celebrations will take place throughout the breadth & length of our land: flag displays, parades, speeches, fireworks, picnics, and much more. But it will also be a moment for us to unite in prayer as a Nation for our Nation. Surely, we will pray for peace and prosperity. Surely, we will pray that our Nation will long endure. Surely, we will pray that our country will live up to its noblest ideals.
If our prayer is sincere, God will hold up a mirror before our eyes. The Lord will allow us to see ourselves as we really are – with our strengths and weaknesses, our virtues and vices. In sustained prayer, we will absorb God’s wisdom as we discern what we must do in the years ahead to preserve, protect, and defend the Republic we have inherited, with its Constitution, its laws, and its guaranteed rights and freedoms.”
-ARCHBISHOP WILLIAM E. LORI
