[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1395]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, You created each of us in Your own likeness. In the divine 
image You created us. Male and female You created us.
  May we know our dignity by the very fact of our creation, our being, 
our very living this new day imaging You.
  May we treat each other with the sacred honor that each is due. 
Seeing Your reflection in the eyes of the other, may we touch 
intelligence, imagination, internal powers and know eternal freedom.
  Lord God, having come from You, living in You and destined for You, 
guide us in all we say and do this day, to sustain and further Your 
creation.
  Teach this Congress and all people of this Nation how to seek the 
best ways to be Your instruments of a new creation; loving only what is 
good and seeking only what is true and lasting, now and forever. Amen.

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