What's On Tap for the Election

We'll skip what's on tap for the election. We've talked about it all before - for weeks. We all know the frill now. And knowing the trouble that may come - as if it weren't happening already - we're prepared...at least I hope we are.

Besides our own posts, it's surprised me how many other sources have warned of trouble to come. The most publicized lately may be Walmart's emptying its shelves of all guns and ammo. They're not making a statement about the 2nd Amendment here. They're concerned about potential looters getting access to guns and making a bad situation worse.

We also found people and sites that one wouldn't be considered "preppers" or prepper sites urging Americans to stock up on necessities in case disruptions occur, as they would for example with a hurricane. 

Have you heeded all this advice?

A possible silver lining here: I wonder if, because or all the concern and preparation, the election will just blow over like a hurricane that veers out to sea before it strikes land. Just a thought - and not something I'm counting on.

So I'm here all prepared on this special feast day in our Catholic Church - All Saints Day - praying and thinking about more important matters than what could be coming. Yes, there's more important stuff that could occupy our hearts and minds, especially on a glorious fast day as this. With that in mind, I'll share with you. We're praying to God, praising Him, and recognizing those who would cause us trouble. It's a powerful series of acknowledgments of those trouble-makers, with an even more powerful antidote: the power of God.

In any case, it's how I'm spending some time today, a couple of days before the election.

Ant. O come, let us worship the Lord, the King of kings, * for He is Himself the Crown of all the Saints.
Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.
Ant. O come, let us worship the Lord, the King of kings, * for He is Himself the Crown of all the Saints.
For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. For the Lord will not cast off his people: for in his hand are all the ends of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his.
Ant. for He is Himself the Crown of all the Saints.
For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. (genuflect) Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us: For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.
Ant. O come, let us worship the Lord, the King of kings, * for He is Himself the Crown of all the Saints.
Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts: As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.
Ant. for He is Himself the Crown of all the Saints.
Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart. And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.
Ant. O come, let us worship the Lord, the King of kings, * for He is Himself the Crown of all the Saints.
V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
R. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Ant. for He is Himself the Crown of all the Saints.
Ant. O come, let us worship the Lord, the King of kings, * for He is Himself the Crown of all the Saints.