[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 184 (Friday, November 23, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H9575]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti, Catholic University of America, 
Washington, D.C., offered the following prayer:
  Good and gracious God, Abraham Lincoln set aside the last Thursday of 
November as quote: ``A day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent 
Father who dwells in the heavens.''
  We do indeed give You thanks not only on that day, our Thanksgiving 
Day, but on every day of our lives.
  President Lincoln said we are ``prone to forget the source from 
which'' our blessings come. So, Lord, we pause and recognize again that 
it is You who have blessed us. May we never be numbered among the 
ungrateful.
  But as our hearts are increasingly filled with gratitude and 
overflowing with love, we mirror Your generous and loving heart. All we 
can say, all we need to say, is a heartfelt and daily ``thank you.''
  And to this, we each add our own consent and we say: Amen.

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