I found this while preparing for tonight’s movie night. It’s pretty cool
Sr. Christine Schenk, SSJ
O God, you have let me pass this day in peace,
let me pass the night in peace.
O Lord, who has no lord,
there is no strength but in you.
You alone have no obligation.
Under your hand I pass the night.
You are my mother and my father.
Ballenger, Prayer without Borders
as published in Praying Our Lives by Sr. Eleanor Bernstein.
Mary Kathleen Speegle Schmitt
as published in Sr. Eleanor Bernstein, CSJ’s Praying Our Lives: A Woman’s Treasury of Catholic Prayer
Miriam Teichner, “Prayer Awareness”
Praying our Lives: a Woman’s Treasury of Catholic Prayer by Sr. Eleanor Bernstein, C.S.J
William Laud, “For the Church,” originally inLord Hear Our Prayer.
As published in Prayer Our Lives: A Woman’s Treasury of Catholic Prayer by Eleanor Bernstein, C.S.J
PENNSYLVANIA RESUMES STATE EXECUTIONS
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is planning to execute Terrance “Terry” Williams on October 3, 2012 despite staunch opposition from the victim’s widow, five jurors from the trial, faith leaders, former prosecutors and judges, mental health professionals and others. The Pennsylvania Pardons Board voted 3 to 2 for clemency. However, a unanimous vote is needed to recommend that Governor Corbett commute Williams’ sentence to life imprisonment. The governor has until October 3rd to make a final decision, but he told The Philadelphia Inquirer that right now he is preparing to go ahead with the execution. If the Williams’ execution takes place, it would be the first in 13 years. Only three people have been executed since Pennsylvania reenacted capital punishment in 1978 - two in 1995, the last in 1999 - and only because all three ended appeals and asked for death. Corbett has signed 20 execution warrants since taking office with three more executions scheduled to take place this year. A stay is likely for two of the individuals; however, the fate of Hubert Michael scheduled to die on November 8th is uncertain at this time. Pennsylvania has 204 inmates on Death Row. The fourth highest in the country! Increasingly states across the country have been enacting laws that replace the death penalty with life imprisonment without parole. California, the state with the largest number of inmates on death row, will vote on a referendum in November to abolish the death penalty. It is time that Pennsylvanians follow suit and demand that their state abolish this barbaric and immoral practice.
US Federation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, facebook
