[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16920]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  As the Nation celebrated Independence Day this year, we thank You 
again, Lord, and we praise You still. You have blessed this land with 
abundance and hold us together in our diversity.
  Let freedom continue to ring out from the Nation's capital as leaders 
in government turn to You in prayer and seek Your guidance in the days 
ahead. Strengthen and protect our military troops at home and abroad, 
for the gift of this Nation holds promise for peoples around the world.
  May the songs of equal justice and religious truths heard this 
weekend at the Capitol Fourth concert on the Mall and from the Mormon 
Tabernacle Choir at Wolf Trap continue to sound across this Nation and 
stir America's soul in her desire to be ``the land of the free and the 
home of the brave,'' now and forever.
  Amen.

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