Prayer of St Francis Assisi
by Celestial Images
Title
Prayer of St Francis Assisi
Artist
Celestial Images
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas, Drawing, Digital Art Or Mixed Media Art
Description
St. Francis was born at Assisi in 1182. After a care free youth, he turned his back on inherited wealth and committed himself to God. Like many early saints, he lived a very simple life of poverty, and in so doing, gained a reputation of being the friend of animals. He established the rule of St Francis, which exists today as the Order of St. Francis, or the Franciscans. He died in 1226, aged 44.
The prayer has many of the biblical truths of what it means to be a Christian - to seek to give, and in so doing, receive blessings; that the Lord's Prayer asks God to forgive us as we forgive, and that the goal of eternal life can only result from us putting to death our old sinful lives.
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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 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.
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April 21st, 2015
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