Prayer is the archenemy of evil. Prayer can conquer evil and all that is required is that we pray! When prayer overtakes evil as our way of life, then evil is defeated and we enter a life of peace and love. Imagine if human beings prayed and lived the life advocated by St. Francis! What a glorious and wonderful world we would have. I challenge us to take up the mantle of Francis and pray his prayer and lead the life of the prayer. Good will result. Not only, for ourselves, but for those in our community, which in reality is the world.
The Prayer of St. Francis
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 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
Francisco
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