[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2622]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord our God, ever-faithful throughout the ages and seasons of life, 
the cold winds of January rob the memory of Washington's heat and 
stretch our longing for another spring.
  And January 30 recalls for us, Lord, another distant memory. On this 
day in 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was killed by a young religious zealot. The 
personification of nonviolence was overcome by violence.
  Lord, the voice of this ``great soul,'' who spoke out in the midst of 
politics to end oppression and seek independence seems forgotten by us 
now, caught up in the war on terrorism.
  In this mad spin around the sun, Lord, we cannot help but question 
whether we are an evolving world about to break upon the brightness of 
a new day or dissolving into the cold of Dante's darkness.
  Raise up, O Lord, a prophetic light and lead us, now and forever. 
Amen.

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