[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3409]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, source of creation and well-spring of revelation, Your word 
reverberates an awareness of how our behavior affects others. Your 
spirit penetrates our indifference to the consequences of our actions 
or to the suffering of others. Once illusion sets in or the infectious 
sin begins in any of us the whole human system can be measured by its 
fever.
  As Isaias says: ``The whole head is sick, the whole heart is faint.''
  One continent will not contain the epidemic. One system of any 
organization cannot localize the dysfunction. One group will not absorb 
the injustice without infecting us all.
  By Your Spirit, give us a clear diagnosis of the evils within us that 
we may be on our way to discovering a remedy to our Nation's weakness 
and a lasting cure for our problems both here and abroad both now and 
forever. Amen.

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