[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4931]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Eternal God, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
  The Members of Congress are powerful people. Their words bear weight 
and their positions before the people deserve respect. Therefore, they 
need to be steeled from arrogance on one side and casual routine on the 
other.
  Lord, only the two-edged sword of Your Word and Your purity of Spirit 
can bring freshness to their spirits and confirming hope to their 
constituents. Strengthen their pledge to uphold the Constitution 
against blatant and subtle attacks and to serve the people with all 
their hearts.
  Then may their speech, their decisions, and their working together 
within the pluralism of this democracy be for Your greater honor and 
glory.
  Amen.

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