Personal Prayer for the Success of the 2010 Automated Elections

Almighty Father, Creator of all good things seen and unseen,

We are in the threshold of what we consider as the most awaited moment in our history.

We have nine candidates vying for the Presidency,

Eight running for the Vice-Presidency,

Over sixty men and women contesting for half of the seats in the Senate,

Hundreds of persons and party-lists taking the chance of being in the House of Representatives,

And thousands among us who are competing for local positions.

We pray that you may guide us to know who is really physically, emotionally, mentally, socially, and spiritually fit in leading us, in Your Love and Mercy, through thick and thin.

Be a Father to the persons who would be the next leaders of Your People in the Orient;

Guide their every decision,

Chastise them in their iniquities according to Your Mercy,

Inspire them to follow the example of Your Son—our Lord—Jesus Christ

In order for them to share His priestly, prophetic, and kingly mission

As an important step in the ever-continuing process of Your Kingdom over Your People.

Lord Jesus Christ, True Son of God and True Son of Man,

Rule over us;

Be the King and Lord over the Philippines.

Rule over our decisions.

Rule over the platforms of our comrade-candidates.

Just as You entrusted Peter the Church,

We entrust to You our nation,

Battered and divided by lies, discrimination, and the snares of the Evil One.

We implore for Your Mercy

That You may lead home those who detest You and our country—

That You may lead home those who lost hope in our Motherland.

Divine Holy Spirit, Third Person of the Trinity, equal to and co-eternal with the Father and the Son,

Inspire our mandate;

Protect the PCOS Machines that would count our one voice in the elections;

Rule over Your Temple—our whole being,

That the Mutual Love of the Father and the Son, which is manifested through You,

Be felt in all the 7,100 islands of Your People,

And that we would be sure of who do we allow to serve You and Your People with nothing in mind but the right needs of the many.

Through the intercession of Mary, Queen and Mother of the Philippines, and all the Angels and Saints, who are also comprised of Filipinos who have done Your will above and beyond their whole being, we pray for the success of this elections

+ In the Name of the Father,

And of the Son,

And of the Holy Spirit.

AMEN!