[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 130 (Thursday, September 25, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7833]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend J.A. Panuska, S.J., president, University of Scranton, 
Scranton, PA, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  From ``Pied Beauty'' by the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Glory be to God for dappled things--
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled, (who knows how?)
With swift, slow, sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.
  We praise You God for life in all its dazzling varieties. We thank 
You for gifts, basic yet beautiful: for love, for faith, for truth, and 
for dreaming. We ask Your blessing on this great Nation, on every 
nation, and on those who lead them. May we remember in our gladness 
those who suffer. May we share our prosperity with those in need. And 
may we seek justice and peace in our hearts and in our world. Amen.

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