[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13681]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God of Heaven and Earth, thank You for giving us another day.
  As this assembly gathers after a long weekend at home, we note the 
observance of Constitution Day, when our Nation's founding document was 
signed at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
  Grant a deepening knowledge of, and appreciation for, our 
Constitution to all Americans but especially to the Members of the 
people's House, who have sworn an oath to defend it.
  May they have the freedom to realize that their responsibility is to 
the Nation and its welfare as well as to their own constituents. Give 
them the wisdom to discern the greater good when those allegiances 
might seem to conflict.
  May all that is done today be for Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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