[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 168 (Thursday, December 22, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H13177]
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, the Beginning and the End, all natural beauty gives You 
glory. All human effort is destined to build Your kingdom of peace and 
justice.
  Bless the finishing work of this First Session of the 109th Congress 
of the United States of America. May words of promise for the good of 
Your people come to fulfillment and bring good news to the poor. May 
laws here enacted be truly implemented with equality and 
accountability.
  May the hopes of Americans be realized in the new year, and may this 
manifestation of free democracy in action be a sign of Your blessing 
upon all the Earth and give You glory, now and forever. Amen.

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