[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 34 (Monday, March 17, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1021]
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                        House of Representatives

  The House met at 2 p.m.
  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  Let us pray, using the words of St. Francis:
  ``Lord, make us instruments of Your peace; where there is hatred, let 
us sow love, where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, 
faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; 
and where there is sadness, joy.
  ``Oh, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled 
as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to 
love, for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we 
are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.'' 
Amen.

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