[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 83 (Thursday, June 20, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H3723]
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House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Most Reverend Oscar H. Lipscomb, Archbishop of Mobile, Mobile, 
Alabama, offered the following prayer:
  O God, our shield and defender, ancient of days, pavilioned in the 
splendor of Your creation and girded with the praise of Your children, 
be with us now as we pray for this House and all parts of our 
government and Nation.
  Our troubled times teach us that of ourselves peace and security 
rests uneasy and incomplete. Help us with the wisdom and strength 
sought by Your servant Solomon as he set out to govern the people You 
committed to his care.
  Touch all our hearts and change them after the model offered us by 
Your Son: ``As I have loved you, love one another.'' Then may there be 
realized in our land the vision of the prophet Isaiah: ``There shall be 
no harm or ruin on all my holy mountain; for the Earth shall be filled 
with the knowledge of the Lord, as water covers the sea.'' Amen.

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