[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12958]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend James Stoeger, S.J., Jesuit Secondary Education Association, 
Washington, DC, offered the following prayer:
  Loving God, draw us to Yourself, to Your concerns and desires for us.
  Help us attend as You might Yourself to the needs of our communities, 
Nation, and world. Draw our hearts towards those persons in want, those 
suffering illness or hunger or poverty. Inspire us to approaches and 
solutions for matters such as defense and learning and financial well-
being.
  For those Members on vacation, help them enjoy needed rest and family 
time. Please, God, bless the Members of this House, their staffs, and 
the country they serve.
  This morning, in particular, we pray as well for the safety of those 
people and communities in the path of Hurricane Irene. Please, God, 
care for them.
  Amen.

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