Nowadays, more and more people are praying. On social media alone, people are posting prayers, morning prayers and evening prayers to end this pandemic. Many have called on all their favorite saints to intercede for healing. I myself received several prayers with a request to share to as many people as I can.
When we moved to this village, I continued my walking exercise. I bask in the serenity of solitude, praying the rosary while I thread my goal of 10,000 steps.
Ive never been conscious holding my rosary bracelet for the world to see. People jogging and walking would even ask how many mysteries I've completed or whether I'm done.
Last week I noticed that many are praying the rosary while walking. Most of them now sport a rosary bracelet instead of the long one. There's this group of four guys who are always conversing loudly as they thread the streets. Last week, I saw them walking further apart from each other, silently praying as they held their rosaries.
Just recently, I came across the prayer of Reverent Joe Wright at the opening session of the US Kansas House of Representatives in 1996. After reading, it got me thinking that in our situation, no amount of prayer can deliver us from this COVID 19 pandemic unless we purge our culpabilities and ask for forgiveness before we can request for healing.
In this prayer, he called out society's misconduct one after another creating overwhelming reactions; a number of legislators walked out (one reporter said some, another said only one). Nevertheless, history would tell that this prayer has been the talk of the town, it was broadcast all over on tv and radio. The Central Christian Church where Reverent Joe Wright is a pastor got numerous calls; out of 5000 only 47 gave negative reactions. The church was deluged with mail that they didn't know how to deal with them; moreover they also got several international requests for a copy of the prayer.
To summarize the prayer:
Wright opened by asking God for forgiveness and sought direction and guidance. Then he continues:
"Woe to those who call evil good
We confess; We have :
ridiculed the absolute truth of Your word and called it pluralism
Worshiped other gods and called it multiculturalism
Endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle
Exploited the poor and called it lottery
Rewarded laziness and called it welfare
Killed the unborn and called it a choice
Shot abortionists and called it justifiable
Failed to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem
Abused power and called it politics
Coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition
Polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression
Ridiculed the time honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment."
He then concluded by asking God for cleansing.
Folks, what do you think? Did The Reverent Joe Wright make sense? Did the prayer give us an idea how to deal with our difficult situation? But no matter what we think, I'd say, let us continue praying; because in prayer we can ask for forgiveness and guidance to right our ways and hope that The Almighty will hear us.
As Alfred Lord Tennyson said: "More things are wrought by prayers than this world dreams of".
And from my friend Nina:
"More cleansing and healing prayers for the safety of the whole world"
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