Governor Issues Proclamation - May 5, 2011 'Day of Prayer' in California

Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today issued a proclamation declaring May 5, 2011, as a “Day of Prayer” in the State of California.

The text of the proclamation is below:

PROCLAMATION
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

I ask all Californians to seek out the moving words of our President who has proclaimed May 5, 2011 as a “National Day of Prayer.” President Obama invites “all citizens of our Nation, as their own faith or conscience directs them, to join in giving thanks for the many blessings we enjoy.”

A National Day of Prayer is an occasion for each of us to reflect more deeply on the eternal verities and those matters which transcend our everyday routines. Through prayer, one opens the heart and stills the mind so that the Divine Presence may be directly encountered.

I encourage Californians to participate in this day in the manner that is most appropriate to their own religious or spiritual beliefs and experience.

NOW THEREFORE I, EDMUND G. BROWN JR., Governor of the State of California, do hereby proclaim May 5, 2011, as a “Day of Prayer” in California.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of California to be affixed this 5th day of May 2011.


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EDMUND G. BROWN JR.
Governor of California