It’s the last day, but in my opinion, not to mention millions of others’, it isn’t the last day at all. I believe Scott’s Quote of the Day today and the last line of Jeff Sadow’s article encapsulate it well.

The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.– JRR Tolkien

It never ends with these folks. They can’t win at the ballot box, so they use every obstructive means possible to thwart the will of the majority and hijack others unaware or even unsupportive of their agenda to aid them in advancing their policies. While some of those outside of leftist special interests may have sympathy for their agenda, many others don’t, and, unfortunately, they end up getting shamelessly used. – Jeff Sadow

And Jeff’s didn’t even have anything to do with today’s election. It has long just become a general sentiment concerning these criminals.

As I decide on whether or not to write one final, more substantive article today, I did want to isolate the following in a separate post. As I finished up my holy hour in front of the Blessed Sacrament this morning, I felt a pull to go ahead and do my daily devotion there as well. It wasn’t some great sweep of the Holy Ghost, but boy, did an idea ever come to me as I read the words.

This has to be shared with our Hayride readers.

Of course, all Scripture can usually be interpreted along the lines of our personal lives, but it is a practice that, while beneficial in small doses, can make us little narcissists if we’re not careful. Still again, I couldn’t help but read these prayers seeing a vast diversity of messages concerning today and what will likely be a tumultuous aftermath. There are words of inspiration, words of warning, words of invitation, words of sorrow, words of any number of things that I believe can reach a great number of readers, depending on where each person’s mindset is right now.

These readings are the same for every Extraordinary Form of the Mass across the planet for today, November 5. I find it a most fortuitous “coincidence” that it relates so providentially to today and beyond. Non-Catholics, this is for you too. I don’t think you’ll have any problem reading so much Scripture:

To close, I want to share with you a pull from LifeSiteNews where the good shepherd Cardinal Burke weighs in. Please, if you are a non-Catholic reading this, please know that there is a resistance inside our church, of both clergymen and laypeople, against the sinister smoke infiltrating long ago. History is a lot longer than what many of us perceive, and some of us are fighting for the old faith.

[Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke] recommends that voters read his 2004 Pastoral Letter, “On Our Civic Responsibility for the Common Good,” but adds other suggestions including prayer and fasting, ensuring that those Americans vote for understand that these are not votes for their “iniquitous” agenda, examining the positions of those candidates for some sign “they will, at least, limit the evil” and for a ray of hope.

Cardinal Burke advises against abstaining from the vote if there is the slightest chance a candidate will improve life for Americans.

“[I]f there is even the smallest ray of hope to effect some change in view of effecting ever greater change for the common good, it is not right for us to fail in responding to the ray of hope,” the cardinal writes.

“Only if no candidate provides any ray of hope of serving, at least in some part, the common good, especially in what pertains to human life, marriage and the family, and the practice of religion, are we justified in not voting at all,” he continues.

“Yes, the present situation of national politics is morally disgusting, but we are a people of hope and can never excuse ourselves from continuing the daily work of seeking the conversion of our personal lives and the transformation of our national culture.”

In closing, the cardinal reminds his American readers that they have a “duty as a citizen to vote.”

May God bless America, and may we come to terms with the idea that that might not mean exactly what we think.