[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 9, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H298-H299]
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:
  Thank You, O Lord, for giving us another day.
  Lord, You are ever present, the source of all wisdom and self-giving 
love. The Sacred Scriptures reveal Your continued guidance in human 
affairs. We thank You for the many blessings granted this Nation 
throughout its history.
  In these early days of the 116th Congress, we seek Your mercy and 
rely on Your revelations to guide and protect this legislative body. 
With renewed standards of ethics and a deeper commitment of 
accountability, may all who serve in public office be Your steady 
instruments in unifying, protecting, and guiding the American people of 
this democracy to increasing virtue, greater prosperity, and witness to 
goodness for the world.
  We thank You, again, for the inspiration of our Nation's Founders and 
the legacy they left us. May the Members of this assembly and all 
Americans be worthy of that legacy.
  May all that is done this day be done for Your greater honor and 
glory.
  Amen.

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