As we walk towards the end of 2024 and into a new year with

 a new political leader, I encourage all of us to take time

to lift up our newly elected president in prayer.

As Solomon prayed, “May people ever pray for him

and bless him all day long,” (Psalm 72:15).

Prayer for President Trump

by Fr. Michael Sparough, SJ

Gracious Father, we pray for President and Mrs. Trump, their family, and our nation.

Bless them with the spirit of the beatitudes, that together we may grow to know our own poverty of spirit and rejoice in your riches.

May he learn to mourn for all that is not yet lived according to

your plan.

May he learn the gentle strength that is the hidden power of the meek.

May you increase his hunger and thirst for righteous behavior.

May you grant him and all who seek you a double share of your heart of mercy.

Bless him with a clean heart, O God. Bless his marriage and his children. Make of us all a holy family of faith.

Bless him with great wisdom in knowing what makes for peace within our world and the strength to carry it out.

May he be given the gift to bear with his critics and his supporters - forgiving and reconciling with them as Christ has commanded us to do.

Loving Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, grant that our President be strengthened with power through your Spirit in his inner self.

May Christ dwell in his heart through faith.

May he be rooted and grounded in love.

May he have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that he may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to you, O God, who is able to accomplish far more than all we ask or imagine, by your power at work within us, be glory in our nation, in our Church, in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever.

Amen.