[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 22204]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Gracious God, the source of healing in times of grief, we pray for 
the loved ones and friends of those who died in the crash of American 
Airlines flight 587. The more we have learned about the 260 people who 
lost their lives, the more profoundly we have felt the anguish caused 
by this tragedy. We ask You to comfort their families both here and in 
the Dominican Republic. Also, we pray for the citizens of Queens, NY, 
who lost their family members and their homes in this plane crash. Many 
of the people in this community were heroic firefighters and police who 
worked so tirelessly to save the lives of others in the World Trade 
Center terrorist disaster. We live in a violent time of terrorist 
attacks, human and mechanical failures. Quiet our agitated hearts so we 
can turn to the work before this Senate today. Strengthen the Senators 
in their resolve to press on, and all of us in the Senate family with 
focused attention on the duties of this day. Lift our spirits with the 
assurance that physical death is not an ending and with the confidence 
that even now You are comforting those who are enduring the ache and 
pain of momentous grief. In the name of Him who is the resurrection and 
the life. Amen.

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