[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9481]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  God and Father of all, without whom our labor is but lost and with 
whom the weak are made mighty, make us worthy of Your mercies.
  Lord, help our lawmakers to find strength in Your abiding love. Lift 
their minds to the pure serenity of Your presence, enabling them to 
meet life's challenges with faith and optimism. May they find delight 
in doing Your will because Your precepts are within their hearts. 
Remind them that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good 
people to do nothing. Deliver them from sins of commission and 
omission, as You liberate them from all lesser loves and loyalties, 
until they find in You their reason for being.
  We pray in Your Holy Name. Amen.

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