[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6592]
[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 always speaks the word of salvation, in a world ruled 
by money, floating only on the currents of economic reports, people 
search for life-sustaining principles. Without Your gravity, none can 
be found.
  In a democratic republic where equal justice under the law is the 
goal and diverse opinions are to be represented, without the inner 
sense of Your unified fervor, everyone feels left alone.
  In the drowning news of corruption, hatred, and violence, hardworking 
people and their children have lost their sure footing. Cynicism has 
replaced all forms of true faith.
  You, Lord God, speak to those who aspire to lead the most powerful 
Nation on Earth: ``The greatest among you must be the servant of all. 
For the one who exalts oneself will be humbled, and the one who humbles 
oneself in the service of the rest will be exalted.''
  Until humility before You is established, we shall all languish.
  Amen.

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