[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5779]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Loving God, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
  If long ago all people had taken Your holy Word seriously--``make 
justice your aim''--how different history might be. Each day would be 
filled with promise and hope if all of us, upon rising, would make 
justice our aim.
  Lord, if we as a people and as a nation were to make justice our aim, 
how would this change our priorities? Could we change that much?
  In every age, Your impelling Spirit called our ancestors beyond their 
wishful thinking and beyond themselves to move ever closer to our 
national calling of ``equal justice under the law.''
  Send that same Spirit upon the Members of this people's House that 
they, who have been entrusted with ensuring this great calling, might 
fulfill that great promise, and it will truly come to pass that justice 
would roll down like a river and righteousness like an ever-flowing 
stream.
  Amen.

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