[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 88 (Monday, May 10, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 24697-24698]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-09946]


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 The President

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                Proclamation 10203 of May 5, 2021

                
National Day of Prayer, 2021

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Throughout our history, Americans of many religions and 
                belief systems have turned to prayer for strength, 
                hope, and guidance. Prayer has nourished countless 
                souls and powered moral movements--including essential 
                fights against racial injustice, child labor, and 
                infringement on the rights of disabled Americans. 
                Prayer is also a daily practice for many, whether it is 
                to ask for help or strength, or to give thanks over 
                blessings bestowed.

                The First Amendment to our Constitution protects the 
                rights of free speech and religious liberty, including 
                the right of all Americans to pray. These freedoms have 
                helped us to create and sustain a Nation of remarkable 
                religious vitality and diversity across the 
                generations.

                Today, we remember and celebrate the role that the 
                healing balm of prayer can play in our lives and in the 
                life of our Nation. As we continue to confront the 
                crises and challenges of our time--from a deadly 
                pandemic, to the loss of lives and livelihoods in its 
                wake, to a reckoning on racial justice, to the 
                existential threat of climate change--Americans of 
                faith can call upon the power of prayer to provide hope 
                and uplift us for the work ahead. As the late 
                Congressman John Lewis once said, ``Nothing can stop 
                the power of a committed and determined people to make 
                a difference in our society. Why? Because human beings 
                are the most dynamic link to the divine on this 
                planet.''

                On this National Day of Prayer, we unite with purpose 
                and resolve, and recommit ourselves to the core 
                freedoms that helped define and guide our Nation from 
                its earliest days. We celebrate our incredible good 
                fortune that, as Americans, we can exercise our 
                convictions freely--no matter our faith or beliefs. Let 
                us find in our prayers, however they are delivered, the 
                determination to overcome adversity, rise above our 
                differences, and come together as one Nation to meet 
                this moment in history.

                The Congress, by Public Law 100-307, as amended, has 
                called on the President to issue each year a 
                proclamation designating the first Thursday in May as a 
                ``National Day of Prayer.''

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of 
                the United States of America, by virtue of the 
                authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws 
                of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 6, 2021, 
                as a National Day of Prayer. I invite the citizens of 
                our Nation to give thanks, in accordance with their own 
                faiths and consciences, for our many freedoms and 
                blessings, and I join all people of faith in prayers 
                for spiritual guidance, mercy, and protection.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand 
                twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United 
                States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2021-09946
Filed 5-7-21; 8:45 am]
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