[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12781]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Dear Lord, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
  In the wake of a long and difficult day, we ask Your blessing on the 
Members of this people's House as they return to their homes for a much 
needed rest. Their burden has been heavy. Give them rest and recovery 
that they might return with renewed energy and purpose to take on the 
responsibility of leading our great Nation.
  We pray as well for their constituencies. May the American people be 
grateful and hopeful that together we might move toward a brighter 
future. Whatever emerges, increase our faith in the constitutional 
processes that have carried our Nation to the greatness it has 
experienced and which, we hope, continues to be a lantern shining on a 
hill.
  May all that is done today be for Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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