Message from our Youth Pastor
Human beings give praise to God as they live most authentically. To love one another amid difficult times and by being peacemakers who seek reconciliation. The pray of St. Francis captures this beautifully below. It is a call to remember who we really are in the eyes of God, to see who others are from that same perspective, and act in a way fitting our identity as human beings.
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.
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's in giving that we receive
And it's in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it's in dying that we are born,
To eternal life.
May we uphold this prayer in the final weeks of 2021
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