[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 41 (Tuesday, April 4, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H1400]
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 of the Jewish-Christian scriptures, You call forth Your 
people to move out from blood-stained doorways into the wandering 
freedom of the desert, until they found a promised land.
  By the spirit You led Jesus into the desert to discover Your living 
presence through fasting and prayer.
  Guide Your people in these days of grace in and through the political 
ways of Congress. May the trials of argumentative discussions and the 
discipline of compromise lead Your people across the barren land of 
uncertainty. Shape within them new resolves of faithful service, and 
open for them paths of greater justice and new-found peace.
  Help us, O Lord, to renew the covenant of old which makes us Your 
own, even now and forever. Amen.

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