[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 33 (Thursday, March 17, 2005)]
[House]
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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:
  In the Book of the Deuteronomy we read:
  ``The Lord your God has chosen you from all the nations on the face 
of Earth to be a people especially his own. It was because the Lord 
loves you and because his fidelity to the oath he has sworn to your 
fathers that He brought you out with a strong hand from the place of 
slavery and ransomed you.''
  ``Understand, then, that the Lord, your God, is God indeed, the 
faithful God who keeps his merciful covenant to the thousandth 
generation toward those who love him and keep his commandments.''
  Lord, as we prepare for the great feasts of Passover and the Sacred 
Triduum, Lord our God, breathe forth Your Spirit on all the Members of 
Congress and the people of this great Nation. Make of us Your own. 
Recreate us in Your imagine. Convert our hearts that we may long to do 
Your will and that we may lead others in the world by revealing Your 
self-giving love in our lives.
  You are faithful, O God, now and forever. Amen.

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