[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5692]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Dear Lord, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
  At the beginning of a new workweek, we use this moment to be reminded 
of Your presence, and to tap the resources needed by the Members of 
this people's House to do their work as well as it can be done.
  We ask that You send Your spirit upon them, giving them the gifts of 
patience and diligence. With all the pressures for action that cry out 
each day, and with all the concern and worry that accompanies any 
responsibility, we pray that they might know Your peace, which 
surpasses all human understanding.
  May Your voice speak to them in the depths of their hearts, 
illuminating their minds and spirts, thus enabling them to view the 
tasks of this day with confidence and hope. All this day, and through 
the week, may they do their best to find solutions to the pressing 
issues facing our Nation.
  May all that is done this day be for Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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