[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16101]
[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.
  Give the Members of this House 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 in the weeks to come, may they rise together 
to accomplish what is best for our great Nation.
  Just as we remembered yesterday the passing of two former Members of 
the people's House, Tom Foley and Bill Young, we pray today for the 
Honorable Major Owens. We thank You for the service he rendered to his 
constituents and to our Nation and ask Your blessing upon those who 
mourn his passing.
  May all that is done this day be for Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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