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bridget38 Wrote: Mar 15, 2013 8:17 PM

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 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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Pistol Wrote: Mar 16, 2013 10:01 AM

I carry this prayer on a card in my wallet. Over the years, on 3 different occasions, someone has seen the card and asked if they could have it. I always say yes. Without making the slightest effort to go out of my way to replace it, another appears within a week or 2.

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Earle8 Wrote: Mar 16, 2013 8:49 AM

kudos Bridget, well spoken

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TNLady Wrote: Mar 16, 2013 8:36 AM

Great post

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Vivat Papa

In the Monday, April 4, 2005 Mullings I wrote:

I am not certain why I feel as strongly as I do about the passing of Pope John Paul II. I am not Catholic. I am not even Christian.

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