[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18247]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Dear Lord, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
  At the beginning of a new workweek, we use this moment to be reminded 
of Your presence and to tap the resources needed by the Members of this 
people's House to do their work as well as it can be done.
  May they be led by Your Spirit in the decisions they make. May they 
possess Your power as they steady themselves amid the pressures of 
persistent problems. May their faith in You deliver them from tensions 
that tear the House apart and from worries that might wear them out.
  All this day and through the week, may they do their best to find 
solutions to pressing issues facing our Nation. Please hasten the day 
when justice and love shall dwell in the hearts of all peoples and rule 
the affairs of the nations of Earth.
  May all that is done this day be for Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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