[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 173 (Thursday, December 13, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H10057]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God of the ancient covenant with Abraham, be with us now.
  You spoke to the man of faith and broke the silence of human history. 
You said to Abraham:
  ``I am God Almighty. Live always in my presence and be perfect, so 
that I may set my covenant between myself and you and multiply your 
descendants.''
  As God Almighty, in personal relationship with the human family, You 
become the God of the living, the God of our father Abraham, Isaac, 
Jacob, and their descendants in faith.
  Because of this relationship with You, people even to this day stay 
in dialogue with You. By prayer, living in Your presence, and daily 
efforts to being faithful to Your covenant, Your people themselves 
change. Although You the Almighty do not change, You perfect Your 
people of faith according to Your design, Your call, and Your purpose.
  Renew today Your covenant with Your people. Make of us a people of 
promise and hope, a people bound to be faithful to their commitments, a 
people who respect all the living. As descendants of Abrahamic faith, 
believing in a living God, may all Your people come together in peace 
through justice and compassion, both now and forever.
  Amen.

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