[Bigg Red]

St. Francis was always my favorite saint as a child because of the legend of his love of animals.

I did not know that the “instrument of peace” prayer was not really his.

[Oratam]

“Smear the walls with meat” is one quote I won’t soon forget.

[zeugma]

 While it looks like the "Prayer of St. Francis" is a recent invention, it helped me a lot when my youngest child passed. Sarah McLachlan has a beautiful version of this poem put to music. Strangely, I first heard it on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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.

Amen.

[Skooz]

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