[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 41 (Thursday, March 7, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S2249]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Today's opening prayer will be offered by our 
guest Chaplain, the Reverend Tony Setley, Pastor at St. Paul Lutheran 
Church, from Morgantown, WV.
  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  I invite you to pray with me.
  Creator God, from the beginning, You have brought order from chaos, 
and in Your wise compassion, You order society by calling people into 
vocations--masks of God, which through others Your work is done.
  We pray Your blessing upon our Senate this day and especially upon 
the many You have called to live out their vocation within and around 
this Chamber: for our Senators and their staffs, for civil servants and 
political appointees, for facility workers and security personnel, for 
lobbyists and support service workers, for press members, for pages and 
interns, and for all others. Provide them each daily moments to 
remember the source and importance of their calling so that they may 
well and faithfully exercise their vocation, here in this place, for 
both God and country.
  For this, we pray in Your most Holy Name. Amen.

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