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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;
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. |
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St. Francis was born at Assisi in 1182. After a care free youth, he
turned his back on inherited wealth and committed himself to God. Like many
early saints, he lived a very simple life of poverty, and in so doing,
gained a reputation of being the friend of animals. He established the rule
of St Francis, which exists today as the Order of St. Francis, or the
Franciscans. He died in 1226, aged 44.
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