[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2966]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Gene Hemrick, Catholic University of America, Washington, 
D.C., offered the following prayer:
  Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote: ``To live without hope is to cease to 
live.''
  We pray, Lord, that our U.S. Congress will continue to be a beacon of 
hope, which is its greatest gift to our Nation and nations around the 
world. May its mission be that of replacing despondency with the 
cheerfulness that comes from looking forward to the next day.
  May the U.S. Congress grow in hope's life-giving powers, for as St. 
Paul states: ``Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the 
conviction of things not seen,'' and as Dr. Martin Luther King reminds 
us: ``Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.''
  Amen.

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