[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18478]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Most Reverend Anthony Sablan Apuron, Archbishop of Agana, Guam, 
offered the following prayer:
  Almighty and eternal God, whose goodness fills our hearts with joy 
and whose love permeates our daily lives, You are blessed for bringing 
us together to work in harmony, in peace, and in justice. Send Your 
blessings upon our United States House of Representatives, who 
generously devote themselves to the work of our Nation and territories 
in the laws they pass and the resolutions they create.
  In times of difficulty, challenge and need, grant them the strength 
to transcend personal interests and seek only after the common good for 
all. Strengthen them, Lord, with Your grace and wisdom so that 
everything that they do may begin with Your inspiration, may continue 
with Your guidance and, by You, be happily ended.
  Grace us with Your saving presence and aid us with Your constant 
blessing.
  All glory and praise be to You, our ever-living God, forever and 
ever. Amen.

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