Happy Feast of St. Francis!

...or as I had to say to torberg, yes, Assisi. Rassin' frassin' Xaverians and Jesuits and mumble mumble...

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;

 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.

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. "

"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. "

"If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed. "

"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. "

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. "

"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. "

"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. "