[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 22]
[House]
[Page 30590]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  As the creator and guide of the universe, we turn to You, praise You 
and thank You for the visit yesterday that reminded us of our history 
and pleaded for renewed friendship between the United States and the 
Republic of France.
  Yesterday, Lord, we were also blessed with the visit of the Religious 
Council of Jerusalem. Religious leaders of the three great Abrahamic 
faiths, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim, after their meetings in the Holy 
City were moved by Your spirit acting within them to come to Capitol 
Hill. Here they gave witness to common concerns and prayerful hopes for 
peace in the Holy City where they live.
  Lord, hear their prayer, lest the rocks themselves cry out with the 
anguished cry of Your people who seek justice and reconciliation.
  May the mindful process and experience of this interfaith Council of 
Jerusalem be imitated across our Nation and in the Holy Land so that 
mutual understanding can build trust. Without compromising religious 
faith, they are on the road to peace by creating common agreement on 
principles and formulating a common language in secular terms. Thus 
will they together give You glory, now and forever. Amen.

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