[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 54 (Monday, April 16, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H1813]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Dear Lord, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
  At the beginning of a new workweek, we use this moment to be reminded 
of Your presence and to tap the resources needed by the Members of this 
people's House to do their work as well as it can be done.
  We ask that You send Your Holy Spirit upon them, giving them the 
gifts of patience and diligence. With all the pressures for action that 
cry out each day and with all the concern and worry that accompanies 
any responsibility, we pray that they might know Your peace, which 
surpasses all human understanding.
  May Your voice speak to them in the depths of their hearts, 
illuminating their minds and spirits, thus enabling them to view the 
tasks of this day with confidence and hope. All this day and through 
the week, may they do their best to find solutions to the pressing 
issues facing our Nation.
  May all that is done this day be for Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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