What Do You Do When There is a Prayer You Disagree With?

[smndtupidisaftr]

And, to beat a dead horse, I don’t see the problem with “Obamacare.” It helps people get their medication as well as the elderly. I see that as a good thing.

At least we agree that specific political policies are out of place for the Mass.

 

[Tigg]

The Lord sees through hypocrisy quite easily, even when we are praying. I would never respond affirmatively to a prayer request that violated my sense of good counsel for instance, or make me suspect the requested intention have a hidden or political motivation.

It’s happening more and more…another example would be prayer for immigration reform (amnesty) under the guise of words that speak of helping the oppressed. It opens up all manner of debate and can question or even oppose authentic church teaching, while simultaneously ignoring the other kingdom values of Christ.

 

[zab]

The Lord sees through hypocrisy quite easily, even when we are praying. I would never respond affirmatively to a prayer request that violated my sense of good counsel for instance, or make me suspect the requested intention have a hidden or political motivation.

It’s happening more and more…another example would be prayer for immigration reform (amnesty) under the guise of words that speak of helping the oppressed. It opens up all manner of debate and can question or even oppose authentic church teaching, while simultaneously ignoring the other kingdom values of Christ.

I suppose that you would know whether or not you are being a hypocrit but in general when one responds with “Lord hear our prayer” to a petition that they disagree with what is being asked does not mean that they are asking God to respond favorably to something that they believe or know is wrong. It simply means that they are asking God to hear the prayer and they trust that God will answer according to His will.

 

[TheRealJuliane]

I didn’t think it was entirely appropriate to applaud either, but the entire congregation (from what I could tell) did it so my mother and I did it as well. As for examining my conscience, I felt uncomfortable because I tend to go more to the left than right in political issues, and I didn’t think it was appropriate to talk about political matters in church. At today’s Mass, however, the homily was presided by a visiting Monsignor and was much more beautiful, if I say so myself.

I haven’t heard of that before; how surprising that churches would do such a thing.

They tend to be inner-city churches, who vote consistently and only one way. People are shocked because some churches and the Catholic Church are so scrupulous about keeping Church and State separate, and yet no one does anything about these churches that specifically TELL their congregations how to vote, who to vote for, and send them to the polling locations in buses, and give them food either before or afterward.

 

[TypesAndShadows]

You could always try the route a rather… forthright parishioner took at my parish many years ago. He stood up in the middle of the homily and loudly proclaimed, “I don’t think you should talk about our Holy Father like that!”, and sat back down. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a single person other than him who had been paying attention to the homily at that point so none of us could judge whether what had been preached was really so scandalous. None of us had even noticed the Pope being mentioned…