[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 64 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S5273]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, Father John Schlegel, office of the president, 
University of San Francisco, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  God, designer of life and author of all that is good and beautiful. 
We know You to be a God of harmony and wholeness; a God who seeks 
justice and rewards goodness.
  You give to Your daughters and sons many gifts, talents, 
opportunities, and challenges. You have endowed those elected to this 
Chamber great opportunities and great responsibility in conducting the 
public work of this land for the common good of all.
  As they deliberate may they be motivated by service and guided by 
conscience.
  Grant the Members of this Senate and the whole Congress: wisdom to 
their minds; clearness in their thinking; truth in their speaking; love 
in their hearts; and enthusiasm for their work. Help them be a source 
of unity not division. Help them be seekers of justice and forgers of 
equality. Help them to set the interest of the Nation above all else.
  Guide them, finally, to exercise their power to assist our fellow 
citizens to feed the hungry among us; to ease the burden of those in 
pain; and to make our country, our communities, and our homes better 
places to live and to work.
  As we make this prayer today as every day, we make it in confidence 
knowing You are a God of faithfulness and covenant, a God of love, a 
God of peace. Amen.


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