[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14057]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Peter Folan, Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Washington, D.C., 
offered the following prayer:
  God of the unexpected, God who makes the weak strong, who makes the 
poor rich, who makes the dead alive again, dash our expectations as we 
begin this week of labor on behalf of the citizens of this country.
  Help us seek You, not in the familiar, but in the strange; help us 
reach out to You, not in the comfortable, but in the challenging; help 
us realize Your justice, not in the usual patterns that can shackle us, 
but in the new way You show us, the way that always frees us.
  Bless today the Members and the staff of this body. May they be women 
and men who demand not to be served, but to serve.
  Bless, too, their work. May it ease the burden of the downtrodden, 
lighten the load of the oppressed, and give rest to the weary.
  We ask this in Your holy Name.
  Amen.

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