[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6509]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, who alone creates from nothingness, You gave to Adam and 
all his descendants a mandate to cultivate the garden of this Earth and 
care for it. At the same time, by labor and human ability, we are 
commanded by You to strive to improve the quality of life. Today, 
particularly by means of science and technology, this mastery over 
nature is extended to such a degree that the human family is coming to 
see itself as a single worldwide community of labor and collaboration.
  Help Congress and the people of this industrious and prosperous 
Nation to face this vast enterprise by integrating the principles of a 
religious and moral order with the skilled knowledge of today's social 
order.
  Be with Your people, Lord, as they both individually and collectively 
struggle to improve the condition of human living. Created in Your own 
image, Lord God, we have been commissioned to master the Earth and all 
it contains, and so rule the world in justice and holiness all the days 
of God-given life. You alone are the source of all good and peace now 
and forever. Amen.

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