[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2387]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Merciful 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. May they be 
led by Your Holy spirit in the decisions they make.
  May their faith in You deliver them from tensions that might tear the 
House apart and from worries that might wear them out.
  All this day and through the week, may they do their best to find 
solutions to pressing issues facing our Nation. Please hasten the day 
when justice and love shall dwell in the hearts of all peoples and rule 
the affairs of the nations of Earth.
  May all that is done this day be for Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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