[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7688]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Heavenly Father of all, here You find in America people whose hearts 
are open to the message that all human life is sacred and that ``each 
of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.''
  In a world where some no longer believe that we can distinguish 
between simple right and wrong, we need to reject any ``dictatorship of 
relativism'' and embrace a culture of equal justice and lasting truth.
  Since Your very gift of freedom is ever new, Lord, we ask You to 
challenge this generation to build a world ever more worthy of the 
human person created in Your image and likeness.
  Help us work today for an ever more just and fraternal society where 
political leaders and those they represent are guided by truth and 
bring wisdom born of firm moral principle to decisions affecting the 
life and future of this Nation, we pray, lifting up Your name, now and 
forever.
  Amen.

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