O Heavenly Father,
we meet this hour in a world
trembling on the edge of chaos,
a world moving rapidly downward
into the anarchy of a ghastly morrow
that will sweep like a tidal wave
out of the impenitent evil of the Old World
to engulf our own homes
and burden the future of this blessed land
with new tragedy and tyranny
to curse the generations to come.

Open Thou our eyes
so that we can see the duty
that rests upon us
in this hour.

Clear Thou from our hearts
the self-righteousness
that would blind us
to our own failings.

Make us to understand
that we, too, by our own default,
were responsible
for the weakening of the peace
that permitted the bloody holocaust of evil
to capture the high places of mankind.

Guide us in this hour
so that we do not fail
the hope of the morrow
for which the bleeding torso
of a crucified humanity
now prays.

Strengthen Thou our souls
so that we will now arise to our full duty,
as the chosen instruments of high purpose
of a free people,
so that we will help save our land
from the backwash of chaos
that will now come
if we do not press forward
to bring the fruits of victory
to the foot of an altar
of a new covenant of justice and peace;
for Thine must now be the kingdom,
the power, and the glory.^[1] A somewhat surprising reference to Matthew 6:13 by Rabbi Gerstenfeld, possibly as an ecumenical gesture to the largely Christian audience of Senators familiar with the common variation of the “Lord’s Prayer” containing that verse. 
Amen.