[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3269]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  For the Members of Congress and all those scattered around the world 
who have been called to be Your ambassadors of reconciliation and 
peace, Lord, we pray this day.
  Almighty Creator of the universe, receive them all in Your love and 
continue to call them out of darkness into light, out of ignorance to 
the knowledge of Your glorious name and bring hope to Your people.
  Open human hearts to know You and You alone as the Most High, the 
Holy One, Whose dwelling is wrapped in mystery and beyond our 
imagining.
  You alone flatten the arrogance of the proud, frustrate the designs 
of the godless, raise up the lowly and humble the self-righteous.
  You are the benefactor of all the blessed and the Savior of all 
humanity. Be a help to all in peril or in crisis. Be strength for the 
sick and the weak and consolation to those who mourn or who are afraid. 
Gift us and the whole world with peace now and forever. Amen.

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