PEACE ON EARTH

GOODWILL TOWARD ALL MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, BORN AND UNBORN

Monday, November 17, 2008

What Was Framed In Your Mom's Kitchen Growing Up?




This was in mine:





Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is error, truth;

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.





St. Francis was born at Assisi in 1182. He died in 1226, aged 44 (so far I beat him by 4 years). He traveled to make peace with a Sultan. He transformed society by noticing the least of those, His brethren.


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