Opening Prayer
02/05/2018
Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, S.J.
Merciful God, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
Guide our minds, thoughts, and desires this day. By Your spirit, breathe into us a new spirit. Shape this Congress and our world according to Your design that we may fulfill Your will.
Bless the Members of the people's House. Give them attentive hearts and open minds, that through the diversity of ideas they might sort out what is best for this Nation. May their speech be deliberately free of all prejudice, that others might listen wholeheartedly.
Grant that all dialogue be mutually respectful, surprising even the most jaded with the emergence of unity and justice.
Bless us this day and every day, and may all that is done here be for Your greater honor and glory. Amen.