[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 15270]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Eugene Hemrick, Catholic University of America, Washington, 
D.C., offered the following prayer:
  Lord, paraphrasing the love of St. Francis, may this Congress be an 
instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let it sow love; where 
there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is 
despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, 
joy.
  O, Divine Master, grant that our Congress may not so much seek to be 
consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved 
as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning 
that we are pardoned; it is in dying that we are born again to eternal 
life.
  Amen.

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