[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3114]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  God of mercy, thank You for giving us another day.
  You alone can trace the deepest fault lines of history and read the 
highest aspirations of the human heart.
  Bless the Members of the people's House today. Give them sound 
judgment and make them as practical as the American people who sent 
them here as their Representatives.
  Help them to withstand open criticism when they know what is right 
before You and conscience. Often they are characterized by half-truths 
and attributed motives that are far beneath them. Uphold them at such 
times with personal integrity and compassion for those most in need.
  Having called them to serve others to the best of their ability, lift 
them even higher by Your grace and power to live and work for Your 
greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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