[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 19992]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, truly eternal and beyond our ability to imagine or measure, 
difficult times bring us to our knees and invite us to be one in prayer 
with our sisters and brothers who are suffering the most during bad 
days. With loving affection and active charity, we raise up to You all 
the victims of war, terrorism, natural disaster, and injustice. As we 
pray for the grace and determination to set things right, by Your 
holiness, free us from any self-righteous judgment of others.
  Lord, You challenge both the secure and the deprived, both the 
successful and the indigent. All are called to a conversion of heart. 
Whether we are exhorted by circumstances to move beyond the paralysis 
of complacency or helplessness or the self-centeredness of contentment 
or anger, all of us are called to be holy as You alone are holy.
  In these difficult times, help us to be grateful, gracious to one 
another, self-giving and creative as well as practical in our desire to 
be one and at peace now and forever. Amen.

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