[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12651]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Rev. Msgr. Stephen J. Rossetti, St. Luke's Institute, Silver Spring, 
Maryland, offered the following prayer:
  Good and gracious God, each new day is a beginning. Each day is Your 
gift to us to begin again, to change our lives and our hearts, to 
strive once more to change the face of this Nation and this Earth.
  Each day may we move one step closer to making this world fully alive 
in Your image, a vision of compassion, love, forgiveness, truth and 
peace. May we follow Your way, which is the only path to You.
  Thank You for the gift of this day, the gift of life, and the final 
gift of being fully alive in You.
  We make this prayer in God's name. Amen.

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