Blessing of the Animals

October 5, 2008

Prayer of Saint Francis

Lord, make me an instument of your peace;

where there is hartred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where their is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

and 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.

All things bright and beautiful,

All things great and small,

All things wise and wonderful,

The good Lord made them all.