{"id":398,"date":"2009-02-27T08:41:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T16:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=398"},"modified":"2010-04-14T22:50:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T06:50:33","slug":"a-catholic-prayer-for-economic-hardship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/a-catholic-prayer-for-economic-hardship","title":{"rendered":"A Catholic Prayer for Economic Hardship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a prayer from the back of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquinasandmore.com\/index.cfm\/title\/Prayer-in-time-of-Economic-Hardship-Holy-Card\/FuseAction\/store.ItemDetails\/SKU\/17394\/\">holy card<\/a> that you might wish to share with your school community:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-399\" title=\"Holy Card\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/17394lg-167x300.jpg\" alt=\"Holy Card\" width=\"167\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/17394lg-167x300.jpg 167w, http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/17394lg.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/>Heavenly Father,<br \/>\nit is symptomatic of our life today<br \/>\nthat economics play a large part in it.<br \/>\nPeople labor zealously for a wage<br \/>\nso that they can acquire the needs of life.<\/p>\n<p>They also work for<br \/>\nthe so-called luxuries of life,<br \/>\nfor the opportunity to have more leisure<br \/>\nto develop themselves in ways,<br \/>\nand to keep up with<br \/>\ntheir particular state of life.<\/p>\n<p>Right now,<br \/>\nI find myself in a bad economic condition.<br \/>\nI just cannot seem to make enough money<br \/>\nto meet my obligations.<br \/>\nPlease help me in this dangerous situation.<\/p>\n<p>Teach me to live within my means<br \/>\nwhile at the same time<br \/>\nstriving to increase those means.<br \/>\nLet me never lose heart<br \/>\nbut continue to press on.<\/p>\n<p>Most of all, inspire me<br \/>\nto seek first Your kingdom<br \/>\nin the knowledge that everything else<br \/>\nwill be given me together with it.<br \/>\nIn Jesus Christ&#8217;s name I pray,<br \/>\nwho lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit<br \/>\nOne God<br \/>\nforever and ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can purchase the holy card from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquinasandmore.com\/index.cfm\/title\/Prayer-in-time-of-Economic-Hardship-Holy-Card\/FuseAction\/store.ItemDetails\/SKU\/17394\/\">Aquinas &amp; More<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a prayer from the back of a holy card that you might wish to share with your school community: Heavenly Father, it is symptomatic of our life today that economics play a large part in it. People labor zealously for a wage so that they can acquire the needs of life. They also work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/a-catholic-prayer-for-economic-hardship\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Catholic Prayer for Economic Hardship&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-prayer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-6q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}