[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4823]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend John DeSocio, St. Mary's Catholic Church, Elmira, New York, 
offered the following prayer:
  Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
  Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
  Where there is injury, pardon;
  Where there is doubt, faith;
  Where there is despair, hope;
  Where there is darkness, light;
  Where there is sadness, joy.
  O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as 
to console, to be understood as to understand, and to be loved as to 
love.
  For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are 
pardoned, and it is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.
  Amen.

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