Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance on Wednesday shared how prayer helped him overcome his anxiety ahead of Tuesday’s debate with Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz.
“A friend asked me how nervous I was on a scale of 1 to 10. The answer? 11,” Vance revealed in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
“A priest friend sent me this prayer before I went on stage,” he continued. “I share it in the hopes someone will find it as meaningful as I did.”
The prayer reads as follows:
O Ineffable Creator, who, from the treasures of Your wisdom, have established three hierarchies of angels, have arrayed them in marvelous order above the fiery heavens, and have marshaled the regions of the universe with such artful skill. You are proclaimed the true font of light and wisdom, and the primal origin raised high beyond all things.
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Pour forth a ray of Your brightness into the darkened places of my mind; disperse from my soul the twofold darkness into which I was born: sin and ignorance.
You make eloquent the tongues of infants. Refine my speech and pour forth upon my lips the goodness of Your blessing.
Grant to me keenness of mind, capacity to remember, skill in learning, subtlety to interpret, and eloquence in speech.
May You guide the beginning of my work, direct its progress, and bring it to completion, You who are true God and true Man, who live and reign, world without end.
Amen.
The GOP candidate added that the evening was “fun” and reminded Americans of the difference between his running mate, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Kamala Harris has been in power for the last 3.5 years,” Vance wrote. “She opened the border. She cast the deciding vote on trillions in new spending. The border and affordability crisis is on her. Donald Trump, by contrast, governed with common sense.”
LifeNews Note: Elizabeth Kidney writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
