[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3896]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Eternal God, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
  We come to the end of a short week. For many, the winter has outlived 
its welcome and the longing for spring and its warmth is palpable. May 
the longing for comity and good will in the fashioning of policies 
benefiting our Nation be equally manifest in the actions marking these 
days.
  Now we approach a weekend during which many Members of this assembly 
will gather to remember a historic event in Selma, Alabama. Forty-nine 
years ago, brave men and women, Americans of all races, colors, and 
faiths, walked together to help guarantee freedom still denied the 
descendants of those who were slaves.
  Bless the Members of this assembly and us all, that we would be 
worthy of the call we have been given as Americans, to nurture and 
guarantee democratic freedoms to all who dwell in our great Nation. 
Help us all to be truly thankful and appropriately generous in our 
response.
  May all that is done this day be for Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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