INVOCATION
Invocation by Bishop Calvin Rice, Senior Pastor of New Jerusalem Worship Center
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Bishop Calvin Rice delivers an invocation, praying for blessings upon Speaker Adams, council members, and their families. He asks for guidance, wisdom, and compassion in the council's decision-making process, emphasizing the importance of empathy and the golden rule. The prayer concludes with a hope for improved lives across all boroughs and for New York City to become a beacon of human decency and respect.
Calvin Rice
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Good afternoon.
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Would you please pray with me in your own faith experience as we seek god?
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Give you thanks for allowing us to see this a brand new year, 2025.
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Blessings upon speaker Adams and every council member and their families.
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I pray for this legislative body and all the men and women that make up this council who gather here to discuss, to write, and to pass bills and laws that govern this great city.
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I pray that your spirit of love, compassion, and wisdom would occupy this space and direct every discussion.
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Help each one to see themselves as one of the least among us, see themselves as homeless, as unemployed, or un underemployed, so that they may be guided by the golden rule of life to do unto others as they would have others do unto them.
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I pray your will to be done in this place, so that the lives of every person in every borough will be improved, and New York City would truly become the city of lights that reflect human decency and respect for all people.
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These things I ask in your holy, just, and righteous name, and everyone said, amen.