[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12194-12195]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:

       Almighty and merciful Lord, Father of all, Your ways are 
     inscrutable, Your glory without blemish, Your compassion for 
     Your people without limits and Your forgiveness for all our 
     faulty judgments is inexhaustible. In the mystery of Your 
     presence we find peace.
  Hear our prayer which rises before You from a world scorched by 
violence and desperation because You are forgotten, Your holy name is 
not invoked with reverence, Your laws are questioned and Your presence 
is doubted. Because we do not know You, we have no peace.

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  Help this Nation and the leaders of government to resolve inner 
contradictions that words may again contain meaning; deliberated 
actions may give evidence to words, by providing vision; and agreements 
may unify the energies of Your people.
  In You, O Lord, we place our hope for peace now and forever. Amen.

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