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THECATHOLICSPIRIT.COM: As Korean tensions escalate, Catholic leaders call for prayersCatholic leaders have called for prayers as tensions in the Korean peninsula escalate, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News. South Korea's president raised the stakes in the standoff by slashing trade to communist North Korea in retaliation for a torpedo attack by the North that killed 46 South Korean sailors. North Korea accused the South of a smear campaign and said May 25 that it would sever all ties with the South. "With Christian faith, we view this as another ordeal on the way toward national reconciliation and we must keep hope. We need to pray for peace and reconciliation," said Fabiano Choi Hong-jun, chairman of the Catholic Lay Apostolate Council of Korea. He said the tensions have thrown cold water on efforts for national reconciliation. The sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan March 26 in the Yellow Sea was the country's worst military loss since the 1950-53 Korean War. An international team of investigators determined a torpedo from a North Korean submarine sank the ship. Father Raphael Seo Jong-yeob described South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's decision to enact economic reprisals against the North as "regretful," observing that the bishops' Committee for the Reconciliation of the Korean People had planned much aid to North Korea, but had to cancel it. He welcomed the president's decision to exclude North Korean children from the aid embargo. South Korea has been the North's second-largest trading partner, after China. Father Seo said North and South Korea "must continue to talk about peace and reconciliation" and that is why "prayers are needed earnestly." RELATED HEADLINES
Q+A: Why a "state of war" still exists on Korean peninsula
North Korea cutting all ties with South Korea
North Korea: Pyongyang and Rome: no one knows the fate of the bishops of North Korea
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May 26, 2010 (1Ti 2:1-2) I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men: For kings and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity. THECATHOLICSPIRIT.COM: As Korean tensions escalate, Catholic leaders call for prayersCatholic leaders have called for prayers as tensions in the Korean peninsula escalate, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News. South Korea's president raised the stakes in the standoff by slashing trade to communist North Korea in retaliation for a torpedo attack by the North that killed 46 South Korean sailors. North Korea accused the South of a smear campaign and said May 25 that it would sever all ties with the South. "With Christian faith, we view this as another ordeal on the way toward national reconciliation and we must keep hope. We need to pray for peace and reconciliation," said Fabiano Choi Hong-jun, chairman of the Catholic Lay Apostolate Council of Korea. He said the tensions have thrown cold water on efforts for national reconciliation. The sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan March 26 in the Yellow Sea was the country's worst military loss since the 1950-53 Korean War. An international team of investigators determined a torpedo from a North Korean submarine sank the ship. Father Raphael Seo Jong-yeob described South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's decision to enact economic reprisals against the North as "regretful," observing that the bishops' Committee for the Reconciliation of the Korean People had planned much aid to North Korea, but had to cancel it. He welcomed the president's decision to exclude North Korean children from the aid embargo. South Korea has been the North's second-largest trading partner, after China. Father Seo said North and South Korea "must continue to talk about peace and reconciliation" and that is why "prayers are needed earnestly." RELATED HEADLINES
Q+A: Why a "state of war" still exists on Korean peninsula North Korea cutting all ties with South Korea
North Korea: Pyongyang and Rome: no one knows the fate of the bishops of North Korea
PRAYER IN A TIME OF WAITING All powerful and ever-living God,
Guard our churches, our homes, our schools,
our hospitals, our factories, and all the places where we gather.
Deliver us from harm and peril.
Protect our land and its peoples from enemies within and without.
Grant an early peace with victory founded upon justice.
Instill in the hearts and minds of men and women everywhere
a firm purpose to live forever in peace and good will toward all.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Guard our churches, our homes, our schools,
our hospitals, our factories, and all the places where we gather.
Deliver us from harm and peril.
Protect our land and its peoples from enemies within and without.
Grant an early peace with victory founded upon justice.
Instill in the hearts and minds of men and women everywhere
a firm purpose to live forever in peace and good will toward all.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 26- "On discernment of thoughts, passions, and virtues"
46. Hardness of heart sometimes comes from over-eating, often from insensitivity and attachment. And again attachment comes sometimes from lust, or from avarice, or from gluttony, or from vainglory, and from many other causes.Prayer request? Send an email to: PrayerRequest3@aol.com
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