[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6202]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  We give You thanks, O God, for giving us another day.
  We ask Your blessing upon this assembly and upon all to whom this 
authority of government is given. Help them to meet their 
responsibilities during these days, to attend to the immediate needs 
and concerns of the moment, enlightened by Your eternal Spirit.
  The issues of the coming months remain complicated and divisive. 
Endow each Member with wisdom and equanimity, that productive solutions 
might be reached for the benefit of our Nation.
  Please send Your Spirit of peace upon those areas of our world where 
violence and conflict endure and threaten to multiply. May all Your 
children learn to live in peace.
  And may all that is done within the people's House this day be for 
Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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