Please lets gather here to learn, understand, and love. To Mrs. Makepeace thanks for everything and teaching me
that "Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Anything other than love is incorrect.
"Thus, in keeping with the commandment to rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep (Romans 12:15),
we must open up our mercy to all the poor and those who suffer for whatever reason; we are to offer people charity,
whether they are widowed or orphaned, whether they are driven out of their homeland or oppressed by the rulers,
whether they suffer the insolence of their superiors or the inhumanity of tax collectors or the murderous hand of
thieves or the greed of robbers or the seizing of estates or shipwrecks. For they all have the same right to our sympathy,
and look at our hands just as we look at the hands of God when we ask Him for something."
--ST GREGORY THE THEOLOGIAN--
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
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
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