Saint Frances Prayer
Saint Francis Prayer
Daily practice reciting the Saint Frances Prayer can bring about a psychic change, sufficient to create a change in thinking.
I Prayed for My Addiction to Stop
Next thing I knew I was in the indigent hospital with an infection in my heart valve.
I Prayed for a Recovery Home
After six months in that hospital, I needed a place to live.
Having become so dysfunctional in addiction, I had been living in Motels for several years. An arrest had gotten me into UCI Medical Center. My possessions were gone.
My husband was serving a year in jail. I had no money.
The recovery home took us to 7:00 AM AA meetings.
Every morning we read the Saint Francis Prayer.
The prayer was too corny for a tough street person like me.
Days became months and I began to change.
My mind opened and my heart softened.
Now I have over thirty years of recovery.
Saint Frances Prayer
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 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.
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 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.
Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals and environment could be viewed as the original Earth Day advocate. Francis' devotion to God was expressed through his love for all of God's creation.
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