[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 19762]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, always giving voice to prophets and strength to martyrs, in 
times of greatest need Your people have turned to You with greater 
persistence. In the most critical times, You did not bring their mere 
expressions of need to reality; instead, You took action Yourself to 
prove You live beyond their imagining and that You are the Lord of all 
the nations.
  Look with mercy and fondness upon Your people today and this 
government by the people in the House of Representatives as we hear the 
words once spoken through Ezekiel as Your living word today:
  ``The nations shall know that I am the Lord, says the Lord God, when 
in their sight I prove my holiness through you.''
  Lord, show us what such holiness means for us in this era of history. 
Let us humble ourselves before You, that we may draw closer to You and 
learn how we can show Your holiness to the world.
  Ever more attentive to the words of Your mouth and the breath of life 
You breathe within us, may we respond to Your holy inspirations, now 
and forever. Amen.

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