Sponsor: Rep. Jonas Martin Frost Ⅲ (D-TX)
Date of Prayer: 24 June 1982
The SPEAKER. The Chair wishes to inform the Members that our visiting Chaplain this morning is the cousin of the distinguished gentleman from Texas (Mr. Frost).
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to introduce my cousin and good friend, Rabbi Eugene Levy, who served as our guest chaplain today.
Rabbi Levy is with the Temple Beth El in Tyler, Texas, and was formerly the director of the Hillel Foundation at the University of Oklahoma at Norman. He is a graduate of the University of Texas and of the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati where he received his rabbinical degree.
Rabbi Levy grew up in San Antonio, Texas, where as a young man, he served as the president of the Texas-Oklahoma Federation of Temple Youth. Now living in Tyler with his wife, Bobbi, and their two children, Rabbi Levy has continued his active involvement in Tyler’s civic affairs.
Because he has been my close friend for so many years, I take extra pride in introducing him to my friends and colleagues in the House.
Mr. GONZALEZ. Mr. Speaker, I follow my distinguished associate and colleague from the Dallas area, Congressman Frost, in welcoming Rabbi Levy, who gave us and offered the prayer as the guest chaplain.
Because of the fact that this distinguished family, both the Frost family as well the Levy family and their immediate forebears, have played a very important role in the development of the district I have the honor of representing, the city of San Antonio, culturally, socially, economically, the names Frost, Cohen, and Levy are outstanding.
In my own family, when my parents came from Mexico in the category of refugees, actually, and in the early dim years of my childhood, the earliest memory I have is accompanying my mother and my aunt to English and citizenship class instruction offered by the Jewish Federation of Women, the only organization anywhere that took any interest in trying to help the immigrant group. At that time the U.S. Immigration officials did everything they could to prevent people like my relatives from becoming citizens. The Frost family was in the forefront of the efforts of the San Antonio Federation of Jewish Women, who had their headquarters on Poplar Street and where English and citizenship instructions were imparted.
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Our God and Creator,
we, gathered here this morning, thank You for implanting the idea of justice and righteousness within us. We ask You to be with us as we attempt to express these ideas in our lives. |
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Help each of us
to determine Your will for us. In so doing, inspire us to search our various traditions— extracting from them the shared love for our fellow brothers and sisters here, and around the world. |
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Kindle within each of us
the passion for righteousness and peace. |
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May we be open
to the thoughts and beliefs of others. |
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And may we—
by our thoughts and actions— hasten the time when corruption and evil will cease, and justice will be established in all the Earth. Amen. |
This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the sixth month of the second session of the 97th US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 128 part 11 (24 June 1982), page 15148.
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Congressional Record, vol. 128, part 11 (24 June 1982), p. 15148_Page_1
