[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17985]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Eternal God, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
  We come to the end of a week where we have given thanks for the 
heroism of our astronauts. They answered the call to service of their 
Nation, and of their race, to leave the comfort of home to expand the 
horizons of us all.
  We have honored as well the elders of both the Senate and this 
people's House, two men who have served together over a century in this 
most noble work of representing the people of the United States.
  Now we approach a week during which all Americans will gather to 
remember who we are: a Nation generously blessed not only by You, our 
God, but by courageous ancestors, faithful allies, and the best good 
wishes of people everywhere who long for freedom, who would glory in 
the difficult work of participative government and who do not enjoy the 
bounty we are privileged to possess.
  Bless the Members of this assembly and us all, that we would be 
worthy of the call we have been given as Americans. Help us all to be 
truly thankful and appreciative and appropriately generous in our 
response.
  May all that is done this day be for Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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