[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 69 (Monday, May 23, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H3698]
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 God, when Your servant Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he 
carried the two stone tablets of Your commands. Struck by Your awesome 
presence, he bowed down to the ground in worship. Then he said: ``If I 
find favor with you, O Lord, do come along and be in our company. 
Indeed, this is a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and 
our sins and take us as Your very own.''
  Today, in America, O Lord, facing the image of Moses before us in 
this Chamber, we are again struck by Your presence. We pray that You be 
in our company now. Pardon our sins, because we too can be a stiff-
necked people. Truly take us as Your own. Make of us a strong and 
virtuous Nation, a people truly set apart to be Your hallmark of 
justice for all peoples and an instrument of peace in the world.
  ``For You are gracious and merciful, slow to anger, rich in kindness 
and fidelity'' both now and forever.
  Amen.

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