[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17548]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  God of all the universe, we give You thanks for giving us another 
day.
  On this day we are mindful of our shared inheritance from a great 
ancestor of faith, who was called by You to leave his home and go to a 
place he would be shown by You.
  Bless the Members of this people's House and their Senate colleagues, 
who honor our pioneers of space exploration this day with the 
Congressional Gold Medal. We thank You for the spirit of exploration 
that You have placed within us, and which our great Nation and, most 
especially, some of our most heroic citizens have utilized to expand 
the horizons of human longing and possibility through space travel.
  In these difficult times in our history, most notably for our fellow 
citizens struggling to make ends meet, may the Members of this House 
imagine solutions that might seem to be as unreachable as the Moon once 
was thought to be and work together to obtain the common goal of a 
working and prosperous America.
  May all that is done this day be for Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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