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Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, U.S. Navy Chaplain (Ret)., Washington DC
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Date of Prayer: 2019-12-30
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Date of Prayer: 2019-12-30
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Almighty God, we pray, reflect, meditate in different ways, but as a year, a decade ends, and 2020 begins, may we reaffirm, united, the hope of Langston Hughes: “Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed.”[1] Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again” from: A New Song (1938) Dreamers dreamed a nation founded on equality, rights; a Constitution established for a more perfect union, for liberty for us and our posterity. Our votes, oaths, acts — must reflect those dreams. | |
With this decade’s last House prayer, we give thanks for progress, look ahead with hope, but with eyes wide open to prejudice, hatred, terror that remain — fueling violence like the antisemitic Ḥanukkah party attack Saturday, the Texas church attack Sunday — praying, Almighty God, for strength to dream the bravest dream our dreamers dreamed, our people dreamed: “We shall overcome, we shall overcome, We shall overcome some day. Deep in my heart, I do believe. We shall overcome some day.”[2] ”We Shall Overcome” is a gospel song which became a protest song and a key anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. The song is most commonly attributed as being lyrically descended from “I’ll Overcome Some Day”, a hymn by Charles Albert Tindley that was first published in 1900. (from the Wikipedia article) | |
וְנֹאמַר אָמֵן׃ |
And let us say, Amen. |
Source(s)
116th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record, Issue: Vol. 165, No. 209 — Daily Edition (December 30, 2019)
Notes
| 1 | Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again” from: A New Song (1938) |
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| 2 | ”We Shall Overcome” is a gospel song which became a protest song and a key anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. The song is most commonly attributed as being lyrically descended from “I’ll Overcome Some Day”, a hymn by Charles Albert Tindley that was first published in 1900. (from the Wikipedia article) |
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