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To: marshmallow

St. Francis Ping!

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.


4 posted on 09/28/2012 6:36:05 AM PDT by folkquest (Nothing is fool-proof because fools are so ingenious!)
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To: folkquest

Did you read the article? It claims that the poem you posted, attributed to St Francis, surfaced in 1912, and is not actually of St Francsis at all, and is also of questionable theology.


6 posted on 09/28/2012 6:47:28 AM PDT by Red Boots
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To: folkquest

Isn’t Post 4 the ‘Saint Francis hymn’ that Rutler debunked as having been written in 1912 and having contained semi-Pelagian heresy?


9 posted on 09/28/2012 7:56:37 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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