prayer for our nation

St Paul, teacher of the gentiles, watch over with love this nation and its people. Your heart expanded so as to welcome and enfold all people in the loving embrace of peace. Now from heaven, may the charity of Christ urges you to enlighten everyone with the light of the Gospel and to establish the kingdom of love. Inspire vocations, sustain those working for the Gospel. Render all hearts docile to Jesus the divine master. May this nation evermore find in Christ the way, the truth, and the light. May its light shine before the world and may it always...