A Prayer for the Pious

O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve! PSALM 94:1-2 + A Prayer for the Pious This psalm is clearly a prayer that is common to all the pious children of God and members of His spiritual people, to be prayed against all their persecutors. Therefore it can be prayed from the beginning of the world to its end by all pious and devout people, be they Jews, Christians, or patriarchs. For they all have to suffer from the two groups of persecutors about whom this psalm complains: first, the tyrants, who use force to persecute the body on account of the Word; secondly, the false teachers, heretics, and sectarians, who use lies and mockery to persecute the soul. For this rea ... continue reading