[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 49 (Friday, April 26, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S3459]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, Father Paul Lavin, St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 
offered the following prayer:
  Let us listen to the words of the prophet Isaiah:

If you remove from your midst oppression,
False accusation and malicious speech;
If you bestow your bread on the hungry,
And satisfy the afflicted;
Then light shall rise for you in the darkness,
And the gloom shall become for you like midday;
Then the Lord will guide you always,
And give you plenty on the parched land.--Isaiah 58:9-11.

  Let us pray.
  Lord we thank You and we praise You for the goodness of our people 
and for the spirit of justice that fills our Nation. We thank You for 
the beauty and the fullness of the land, and for the challenge of the 
cities. We thank You for our work, for our rest, for one another, and 
for our homes.
  Look with favor on the men and women who serve in this Senate. Help 
them to foster decency and to uphold justice and right. Strengthen them 
with Your grace and wisdom, and strengthen and support those who serve 
on their staffs. This morning we ask that You give strength of body, 
courage of spirit, and patience with pain to your servant Mary Jane 
Ogilvie, wife of the Chaplain of this Senate. With Your help she may 
soon be restored to health.
  We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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