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Prayer to Saint Francis of Assisi
Beloved Saint Francis, brother in our walk,
as a youth you were young and rebellious as we were,
then you encountered in the Cross of Christ the voice
that asked you to rebuild his Church.
Allow us too be able to rebuild
the holy temple that is our lives.
We ask for your intercession for us
as we pray with your words:
Lord, make me a channel of thy peace;
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light;
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek
rather to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.
Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us!
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