[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 31 (Monday, March 13, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H871]
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:
  Again out of Your infinite goodness and with wise provident love, 
Lord our God, You have given us a new day, another week.
  We ask that You send Your spirit upon America and in particular the 
U.S. Congress. We do not seek simply a blessing upon human deeds 
performed routinely, inattentive to Your commands and devoid of the 
best in human performance. Instead, we beg Your spirit to penetrate all 
conversations and deliberations, the very manner in which we deal with 
others, every complicated issue to be addressed, our very being.
  In this way, fashioned for Yourself, a people will know Your will and 
build Your kingdom upon Earth. How? By creating a better world, 
affecting those who are close to them and even those who are united 
only in the common bond of humanity because they are willing to be 
changed themselves by Your word and Your spirit.
  Through Your activity in and through us, we are recreated now and 
forever.
  Amen.

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