[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 17]
[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 pause 
now in Your presence and acknowledge our dependence on You. We ask Your 
blessing upon the men and women of this, the people's House, who are 
soon to return to their stations here on Capitol Hill.
  As the new session begins, help them, and indeed help us all, to obey 
Your law, to do Your will, and to walk in Your way. Grant that they 
might be good in thought, gracious in word, generous in deed, and great 
in spirit.
  Make this a glorious day in which all are glad to be alive and ready 
to serve You. May all that is done this day be done for Your greater 
honor and glory.
  Amen.

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