[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 680]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, Father James Francis Trainor, offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray and bring ourselves into the presence of the Lord.
  Loving God, Creator of all that is and all that shall be, who in Your 
providence have filled our lives with the opportunity for sufficiency 
in our everyday existence, give us a clear vision of the challenge You 
set before us as individuals and as a nation.
  Help us to live this vision with such an appreciation of our blessing 
that we feel compelled to share that blessing and that sufficiency with 
all our sisters and brothers in the human family.
  Lord, in a special way, guide and strengthen the men and women of 
this Senate as they seek daily to solve the problems and meet the 
challenges of this Nation. Help them to have that honest dedication 
which singles them out as Your humble servants. May they always 
remember that You are at their side, guiding their steps and weighing 
their actions.
  Help these servants of the people, as they enter into a new year and 
a new millennium, to be filled with such courage that they fear not the 
tasks before them but meet them with confidence, remembering that they 
can do all things through You who strengthen them. May they recall that 
wisdom of old: ``Unless the Lord builds the city, you labor in vain, 
who build it.''--Psalm 127:1. May they walk always with You. Amen.

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