[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9003]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Monsignor Francis J. Maniscalco, Director of Communications, United 
States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, D.C., offered the 
following prayer:
  ``The Lord takes delight in His people.''
  How important it is for us to know that You, our Maker, take delight 
in us; to know that all that exists came from You in a joy of creation 
that goes beyond what we can imagine; to know that amidst all the 
glories made by Your hand, it is the human race that You made in Your 
own image.
  We are called to answer Your delight with delight of our own: delight 
in praising Your name when we begin our day and when we end it; delight 
in calling to mind that You are with us throughout the day; delight in 
dedicating what we say and do to Your glory; delight in serving our 
sisters and brothers in the human family and in loving them as we love 
ourselves; and when this earthly life at last comes to an end, delight 
in living in Your presence forever. Amen.

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