[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15150]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Monsignor John Brenkle, St. Helena Catholic Church, St. 
Helena, California, offered the following prayer:
  Father, Your name is indeed Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the 
end. How fitting it is to begin all of our enterprises conscious of 
Your guiding Spirit and to give You praise when our affairs have ended 
well.
  As we join together to begin today the work of making this Nation a 
land of peace and justice, may we humble ourselves before You, 
acknowledging that who we are and what we do is Your gift, Your grace.
  Help us always to remember that You have called us to be servants and 
that the greatness of our life as a nation and as individuals is to be 
measured by how generously and wisely we serve each other.
  Let Your presence and Your blessings descend upon this Chamber and 
upon each of its Members as they begin this new day and may they at its 
end experience the rewards of a day well spent in the service of 
others. For this we pray. Amen.

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