[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 122 (Tuesday, September 24, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H6478]
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 of all creation and Wisdom for the ages, we turn to You in 
prayer. To turn to You is to humble one's self as a person, as a 
Nation. Although we often approach You with hesitancy, it is only 
because of our sins or weakness of faith, for You are always present 
and ever faithful, for You alone are God.
  To step into Your holy presence, O Lord, is to be boldly revealed, as 
in a hall of piercing mirrors. Before You all our fears, resentments of 
the past and deepest fault lines come to light. But receive us once 
again as Your very own.
  Guide us as Your people. Accomplish in us Your righteous purpose. 
Shape the body of this House to shoulder its proper responsibilities so 
to bring forth justice across our land and peace to the world. Amen.

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