{"id":6048,"date":"2010-10-04T00:19:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T05:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=6048"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:14:41","slug":"lord-make-me-an-instrument-of-your-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=6048","title":{"rendered":"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/hsg\/blogart\/saints\/francis2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"242\" \/>St. Francis of Assisi loved all animals. He is very special to us, and with all the animals we have in our house I like to think we are special to him too. One custom that many parishes have in honor of the Feast of Francis is a procession of animals and a blessing of pets. If you can&#8217;t get to a pet blessing, or, like us, can&#8217;t get all the pets to the blessing, there are other ways to celebrate the life of this great saint.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take a trip to the park and feed the ducks or birds.<\/li>\n<li>After serious consideration, head out to your nearby animal shelter and adopt a pet.<\/li>\n<li>How about a trip to the zoo?<\/li>\n<li>Get a St. Francis medal for your pets to wear.<\/li>\n<li>Send a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicgreetings.org\/viewingcard.aspx?cardid=1174\">St. Francis e-card<\/a>. It&#8217;s a very nice slideshow timeline of the life of St. Francis.<\/li>\n<li>Feast on animal crackers, or bake your own animal shaped cookies.<\/li>\n<li>Get the crayons out for Waltzing Matilda&#8217;s great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/6177837\/StFrancis\">iconic coloring page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And of course, pray:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.<br \/>\nWhere there is hatred, let me sow love;<br \/>\nthere is injury,pardon;<br \/>\nwhere there is doubt, faith;<br \/>\nwhere there is despair, hope;<br \/>\nwhere there is darkness, light;<br \/>\nand where there is sadness, joy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek<br \/>\nto be consoled as to console;<br \/>\nto be understood as to understand;<br \/>\nto be loved as to love.<br \/>\nFor it is in giving that we receive;<br \/>\nit is in pardoning that we are pardoned;<br \/>\nand it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Amen<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Francis of Assisi loved all animals. He is very special to us, and with all the animals we have in our house I like to think we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,42,75,324],"class_list":["post-6048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-liturgical-year","tag-prayer","tag-saints","tag-st-francis-of-assisi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}