[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12156]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Thank You, O Lord, our God, for giving us another day.
  You are the provident guide of our Nation's history, and we ask You 
to guide, protect, and strengthen the United States House of 
Representatives during this first session of the 114th Congress.
  Help these duly elected Representatives of the people be about the 
work of the people. Make this democratic Republic strong, that it may 
be Your fit instrument to unite the natural and human resources of this 
Nation, that Your people may live ordered lives under the law and in 
harmony with others--and so be a beacon of hope for the world.
  In You and from You we draw our inspiration and creativity. In You 
and from You, O Lord, we find lasting peace and universal justice. May 
all that is done within the people's House this day be for Your greater 
honor and glory.
  Amen.

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