[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 5 (Thursday, January 9, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H83-H84]
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:
  Loving God, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
  At the beginning of this new day, we are grateful as individuals and 
as a Nation for the blessings we have been given.
  We ask Your blessing upon the Members of this people's House. May 
they anticipate the opportunities and difficulties that are before 
them, and before so many Americans, with steadfast determination to 
work together toward solutions that will benefit their countrymen.
  Grant that they be worthy of the responsibilities they have been 
given by their constituents and truly the people You have called them 
to be.
  May the walls of disagreement that have divided this assembly be put 
aside and replaced with a spirit of respect

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and dignity. And may Your spirit, O God, be in all of our hearts and 
minds and encourage us to do the works of peace and justice, now and 
always.
  May all that we do be done for Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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