[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 28 (Thursday, March 10, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H1267]
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                        House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord, You have compassion for the sinner as a parent has compassion 
for children. When we look over our lives or our work on behalf of Your 
people, we know we are held accountable. But You do not treat us only 
as sinners nor repay us according to our faults. Your love is more 
penetrating.
  For now we are only Your creatures and will soon return to the dust 
from which we were made. In You is the fullness of life and redemption, 
so we praise You and thank You, Lord, for Your countless blessings.
  Now we have the opportunity to express our gratitude for Your great 
mercy toward us, and show similar compassion for our brothers and 
sisters in most need of help and understanding.
  By their decisions, in all of their efforts to govern, reveal 
Congress as fellow servants aware of the weakness in our nature who can 
trace in themselves and others common fault lines.
  It is You who truly rule the conscience of the Nation, for You alone 
read human hearts now and forever.
  Amen.

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