[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 22639]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, Father Paul Lavin, offered the following prayer:
  Listen to the words of the first letter of Paul to Timothy:
  For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected 
when received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the invocation 
of God in prayer.
  Let us pray.
  Lord God, from the abundance of Your mercy enrich Your sons and 
daughters who serve in the Senate and safeguard them. Strengthened by 
Your blessing, may they always be thankful to You and bless You with 
unending joy. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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