[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 13081-13082]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Thomas Koys, St. James at Sag Bridge Catholic Church, 
Lemont, Illinois, offered the following prayer:
  Heavenly Father, I give You thanks and I ask Your blessing upon all 
gathered here. Lord, I beg You to enlighten us, and I ask You to be 
merciful to our country, as we strive to win that kind of peace that 
You desire.
  As these people debate the best ways to order our society, give them 
humble hearts to seek that order that flows from Your supreme 
intelligence.
  Help them to learn the lesson that You tried to teach Your chosen 
people in the time of Samuel, the prophet; that to be the most favored 
nation in Your eyes, that nation must be unlike other nations.
  Lord, I pray for ministers of all faiths that they may be protected 
from the penalties assigned to lawbreakers who find it their duty to 
follow their conscience, save those who think it their duty to destroy 
America.

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  Put in our hearts a desire to build a nation unafraid to follow Your 
commands.
  Amen.

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