[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 78 (Monday, May 6, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H2839-H2840]
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:
  Lord of the universe, look down upon Your people and grant us Your 
peace. From generation to generation, we have found ways to disparage 
and destroy one another, allowing racism, prejudice, and discrimination 
to color our judgment and enrage our worst selves.

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  You have warned us that there will be wars and rumors of wars, nation 
will rise against nation. Earthquakes, famines, pestilence, and 
persecution will threaten our freedoms and dismantle our security.
  On this day of Holocaust remembrance, remind us that the insidious 
malice that crept into our culture and led to the horrific deaths of 
tens of millions, including Jews, Roma, Jehovah's Witnesses, gays, and 
the disabled, is an evil that is still at work today, pervading our 
communities.
  The present turmoil reveals a pivotal moment where You call us to 
bear testimony to our faithfulness to You and to You alone. In the 
words of Elie Wiesel: ``For the dead and the living, we must bear 
witness.''
  Grant us courage, and unite us under the values of dignity, respect, 
justice, and righteousness that when we reflect on history's 
extermination of entire peoples, we would affirm that never again means 
now.
  In the strength of Your name we pray.
  Amen.

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