[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 81 (Wednesday, June 21, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H4331]
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House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  Father Luke Palumbis, St. Basil Greek Orthodox Church, Stockton, CA, 
offered the following prayer:
  Lord, have mercy. Heavenly Father, through Your love for all of Your 
creation and Your consummatory divine plan, You have established a 
natural, communal existence which symbiotically maintains fairness, 
serenity, shared support, concern for holistic well-being, and license 
from imposed control.
  We thank You, Loving Master, that in accordance with this perfect 
model of Your creation, our Founding Fathers established a foundation 
for the formation of what they termed a more perfect Union through the 
establishment of justice, the ensuring of domestic tranquility, the 
providing for common defense, the promoting of general welfare, and the 
securing of the blessings of liberty.
  We beseech You, All Holy One, to strengthen our civic leaders and our 
entire population of America with the virtues of humility, courage, and 
perseverance so that today we may actualize the poetic words of our 
Constitution not only as United States, but as united individual 
Americans, living in the union of God's creation. Amen.

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