The short answer is “Everyone.” First, we should pray for The Church, the Living Body of Christ, so that She may survive to provide us and future generations with The Sacraments.
Then, we should pray to escape the retribution we, as individuals and nations, deserve for having disobeyed, and tolerated the disobedience of, so many of His Operating Instructions, from abortion-inducing birth control to actual abortions to euthanasia and all life-shortening behaviors.
After we have prayed for The Church, our nations, and our families, our we should ask The Programmer to help lead our associates, friends, and neighbors to salvation, asking The Programmer to provide programming assistance for their souls and lives.
Obviously, we should pray for our own soul and its life in this world and the next. Praying for deceased family members may be the only lifeline they have to let them escape the pains of Purgatory. We should remember to ask The Programmer to provide programming assistance to the living members of our family, and also ask Him to help those to come.
We should pray for our enemies. Most of us do not bother praying for officials whose legislation makes us less prosperous and secure. People who thusly hurt us can thereby be most accurately described by no other word than “enemies”. Our prayers for them are “spiritual bullets”, fired into the souls of the lost to reverse their polarity, changing their natural inclination towards evil to good. Prayers for officials should focus on having the minds of those who choose evil to be re-programmed toward loving, rather than hating, their neighbors. Saying “God, please help Al Gore, Barney Frank, and Fidel Castro love truth and their neighbors.” may seem as futile as throwing ping pong balls at tanks, but it shows that we understand just how much power The Programmer has.
Reversing the spiritual polarity of a very lost soul is extremely difficult. God has to hear many prayers for that before He will do so.
