THE TEACHING AND PRAYER OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen
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