[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2586]
[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 short week in which we have given thanks for 
and honored African American men and women whose labor, while in 
bondage, built this temple of freedom and democracy within which we now 
stand.
  Now we approach a weekend during which many Members of this assembly 
will gather to remember a historic event in Selma, Alabama. Forty-seven 
years ago, brave men and women, Americans of all races, colors, and 
faiths, walked together to help guarantee freedoms still denied the 
descendants of those slave laborers.
  Bless the Members of this assembly and us all that we would be worthy 
of the call we have been given as Americans to nurture and guarantee 
democratic freedoms to all that dwell in our great Nation. Help us all 
to be truly thankful 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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