[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3796]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, Father Paul Lavin, St. Joseph's on Capitol Hill 
Church, Washington, DC, offered the following prayer:
  Listen to the word of the prophet Isaiah: ``If you remove from your 
midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; if you bestow 
your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; then light shall 
rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like 
midday; then the Lord will guide you always and give you plenty even on 
the parched land.''--Is. 58:9-11 NAB.
  Let us pray:
  Lord, we thank You and we praise You for the goodness of our people 
and for the spirit of justice that fills our Nation. We thank You for 
the beauty and the fullness of the land and for the challenge of the 
cities. We thank You for our work, for our rest, for one another, and 
for our homes.
  Look with favor on the men and women who serve in this Senate. Help 
them to foster love and to uphold justice and right. Strengthen them 
and strengthen all of us with Your grace and wisdom, for You are God 
forever and ever.

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