[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9730]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Aaron Damiani, Church of the Resurrection, Washington, D.C., 
offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, we thank You for establishing the vocation of public 
service. On behalf of the men and women of this body, we ask for Your 
grace to carry out their work without partiality. May they exercise 
their authority with wisdom, so that our country may be governed in the 
way of peace.
  Grant each Member of Congress a concern for a rightly ordered public 
life, so that justice may roll down like waters, and righteousness like 
an ever-flowing stream. Strengthen the bonds of trust among the elected 
officials gathered here, and the ones serving throughout this great 
land. May honesty and goodwill define their common labor.
  O God, our help in ages past, do not let our country be overcome by 
evil, but let us overcome evil with good. In the name of the Father and 
the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.

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