[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 1334-1335]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Archbishop Emeritus John Quinn, Diocese of San Francisco, San 
Francisco, California, offered the following prayer:
  Lord, we give deep-felt thanks for the great providential blessing 
that makes us citizens of the United States of America.
  The men and women of this House, in their service to our country, 
daily confront seemingly intractable public

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issues, a burden at times overwhelming; but You work even in the dark 
places of human history.
  Teach us this day not to fear the darkness but to put our hand in 
Yours and resolutely seek the light.
  You reveal Yourself as the Father of us all. We ask You to bring us 
together in civic harmony and in the common task of making real in our 
time the ideals and the dreams that make us America.
  As we turn now to the work of this day, we ask for more than human 
wisdom, and pray that Your blessing, moving across our continent, will 
keep us one nation under God with liberty and justice for all.
  Amen.

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