[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 24324]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti, President, St. Luke Institute, Silver 
Spring, Maryland, offered the following prayer:
  Good and gracious God, today we recall the prayer of Thomas Merton. 
He prayed, ``O God, I do not know if what I am doing is pleasing to 
You, but I know that my desire to please You is itself pleasing to 
You.'' May we, too, be filled with a desire to please You in all that 
we do. May our every thought and our every action be aimed at doing 
Your will. We know that in Your will is our joy and our peace. May You 
be blessed by all generations and may we follow Your will on this 
Earth, until it is completely fulfilled at the end of time. Amen.

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