A Message from the Rector: Prayers for our Country

After last Tuesday’s election, let us join each other in prayer for our country, its wellbeing and its future, and for God’s blessing and protection for the President and the President-elect.

However the impact of last Tuesday’s election may affect us, either with celebration or sorrow, we follow Christ and his higher principles—the values of God’s Kingdom among us. At Trinity on the Green, we stand together on this safe and common ground of our faith. We continue to do justice, love mercy, and to walk humbly with our Lord. And in light of this election, we are called to bring God’s hope to each other, to our fellow citizens, and to our elected officials. This also includes that your clergy are available to talk if you are looking for support or guidance.

Our Book of Common Prayer offers us the following prayer for our country. Let us keep it close to our hearts:

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage: We humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of thy favor and glad to do thy will. Bless our land with honorable industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in thy Name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that, through obedience to thy law, we may show forth thy praise among the nations of the earth. In the time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in thee to fail; all which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.