ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS
December 5, 2022
Prayer for the Week: Yesterday was the Second Sunday of Advent, or what is often called “Peace Sunday.” Throughout this past week, as I was working on my sermon, I found that my mind kept going back to the well-known Peace Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi. You probably know it well, but it is good to revisit it on a regular basis.
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.
