The prayer that shocked the world

Niay atong nakutlo gikan sa bulletin board sa Sacred Heart Parish Church, amo ning ipaambit ninyo, nindot kaayo. Maayong hinuktokan. Atong kutloon ang kinatibuk-an sa napaskin: Ania:

When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:

“Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know your Word says, ‘Woe to those who call evil good,’ but this is exactly what we have done.

“We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called sit the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We shot anti-abortionists and called it justifiable.

“We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition.

“We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

“Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen.”

Kuyaw, di ba? Maayong pagka-balit-ad sa atong mga values. Wala nay dautan. Ang tanan maayo na alang kanato. Ang evil,very good na. Dili na dautan ang lying, cheating ug stealing. 

Ang abortion dili na dautan; ang same sex marriages dili na usab dautan; ang pre-marital sex alang sa atong mga batan-on, ang uban, katorse pa, maayo na; ang pag-ilis-ilis og bana'g asawa, necessary na kaayo; ang pagpuyo-puyo desirable na kaayo, di kinahanglan pakasal aron sayon ang pagbuwag, inig-abot sa puol, ug wala na ang till death do us part, kinaraan na ni, obsolete na. Ug ang tanan nga gitugon ni Jesus (kana kon aduna pay nakaila kaniya karon), pulos na dautan. Understanding ang Ginoo: sapagkat tayo ay tao lamang.

(Atong pasalamatan sila si Fr. Ramon M. Mores, SJ, pinaagi ni Mackie Maluya sa Sacred Heart Parish, pagpaambit kanato niining matahom nga pag-ampo nga makapahinuklog kanato, kana kun wala pa makadulot og maayo ang influence ni Kumpare Satan sulod sa atong kahiladman).