[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 191 (Monday, November 1, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6038]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the 
following prayer:
  Be forever blessed, O God, in the songs of the saints who have gone 
before us, who confessed Your name in the living of their days. We 
praise You, the God of our parents and our parents' parents, the Lord 
of all who have graced this Earth.
  To You, O God, the rock, the refuge and strength of our forebears, 
You who put their fears to rest that they would stand bravely in their 
well-fought fight, to You be all praise for You are our hope and stay 
this day.
  Give welcome to the souls of those who have left us to be received 
into Your loving embrace. And then grant us Your peace as we hold fast 
to their memory from day to day, knowing that they have been rewarded 
for their toil.
  Now as we receive the legacy of the faithful, whose names we lift up 
to You in the silence of our hearts, may our days prove as fruitful and 
our lives as wholly devoted to the tasks You call us to carry forth, on 
behalf of all the saints who now rest from their labors.
  Remind us that the calm of paradise awaits us. In the hope of this 
promise and the strength of Your name we pray.
  Amen.

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