[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 47 (Monday, March 24, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H2273]
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:
  Eternal Father, strong to save, a Nation at war gathers with the 
Members of the House of Representatives and the President of these 
United States as we pray: ``Thy Kingdom come.''
  In all we do and in all we intend as individuals and as a people: 
``Thy Kingdom come.''
  To seek such a noble purpose and to be so disposed both in mind and 
heart, can only begin by divine grace within the soul. And so, there we 
pray: ``Thy Kingdom come.''
  As we pray for the protection of Your people across this beloved 
homeland and for our troops across the world: ``Thy Kingdom come.''
  As we mourn those killed in Kuwait and Iraq in recent days, we pray 
for their families and their comrades: ``Thy Kingdom come'' to them and 
to all veterans and victims of war.
  In all endeavors to ensure equal justice for all and achieve lasting 
peace in families and the community of nations: ``Thy Kingdom come'' 
now and forever. Amen.

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