[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 1052-1053]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  God be gracious to us and bless us. God, let Your face shine upon us. 
Make Your ways known to us. May Your saving power be acknowledged by 
all nations on the Earth.
  Let the people of this Congress praise You, O God, by their words. 
Let these people praise You in all their deeds.
  May the people of the United States rejoice and shout with joy 
because You embrace all the people of this Nation with justice.
  You alone guide all the powers of Earth. So the Earth has given its 
increase and the peoples of the Earth prosper and praise You. Let all 
the peoples praise You, O God. Some day soon let all the peoples praise 
You.
  Because the blessings of God even now extend to the ends of the 
Earth, let all the peoples praise You. Amen.

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