[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2284]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Compassionate and merciful God, we give You thanks for giving us 
another day.
  Bless the Members of this people's House as they return from busy 
days away from the Capitol.
  Give them strength, fortitude, and patience. Fill their hearts with 
charity, their minds with understanding, their wills with courage to do 
the right thing for all of America.
  In the work to be done now, may they rise together to accomplish what 
is best for our great Nation and, indeed, for all the world. For You 
have blessed us with many graces and given us the responsibility of 
being a light shining on a hill.
  May all that is done this day be for Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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