[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6715]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, giver of all good and lasting gifts, be with Your people 
today. Renew us in faith that by Your inspiration and bold holiness we 
may accomplish Your purpose for us in our day.
  People of faith have laid the foundation of this democracy. May these 
same lasting values shape today both the private and public lives of 
all American citizens. Help Your people to focus on transcendent truths 
that will help them live and act as the free children of God, likely to 
reject any aspect of materialism or moral relativism that may undermine 
the common good of this Nation.
  We humbly present ourselves and our needs to You, Almighty God, now 
and forever.
  Amen.

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