“My prayer today is that a spirit of reconciliation, flowing from obedience to your ageless plan, may be found increasingly in my life and that of my dear congressional colleagues,” Walberg prayed. “I pray the same for President Biden, Vice President Harris and our congressional leadership.”
Added McBath: “Holy Spirit, call to our remembrance continually our responsibility to love, accept and forgive so that we do not lose sight of our responsibility to seek to govern as a unified body.”
As the two groups met and prayed, social media was buzzing with questions about how separate the new twin breakfasts are, after a report by The Young Turks, a liberal-leaning outlet, the previous day revealed emails between former members of Congress that appeared to show “that the two groups are linked,” according to The Young Turks.
Ross, the spokesman for The International Foundation, told RNS that despite there being two events, “we gathered together with one heart in a spirit of love, unity, reconciliation and peace around the person and principles of Jesus and a shared legacy and tradition of more than seven decades since the first event held in 1953.”
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