[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6936]
[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 this day upon the Members of the people's House. 
May their labors be graced by Your gifts of wisdom, patience, and 
charity, that truth and righteousness might prevail in all of their 
proceedings.
  We take special note this day, May 15, National Peace Officers 
Memorial Day, of the 123 peace officers who have died this past year in 
the line of duty. We ask that You grant them eternal rest for having 
paid the ultimate price in protecting us.
  Give their families consolation in mourning their loss. May they be 
assured that we, as a nation, hold them in our hearts and understand 
that we will always be indebted to them.
  May all that is done within the people's House this day be for Your 
greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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