[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13964]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  All powerful God, may we prove ourselves responsible for the task You 
set before us this day as Your servants.
  We accomplish Your holy will when, as we persevere in doing good, we 
put to silence the idle chatter of the foolish.
  May great works of justice rise from us to drown out all negativity 
and discontent.
  Let us live as free people never using our freedom as a pretext for 
evil.
  Rather, as servants of God, may we honor all people, love the 
communities we serve and fear--only You, now and forever. Amen.

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