Saint Francis of Assisi
Patron Saint of Animals and Ecology
Saint Francis was born in 1182 in Assisi, Italy. He was born to a wealthy family, but was thrown out into the streets because he gave his money to the poor and hungry. He dedicated his life to the service of humanity, and is the patron saint of the birds, beasts, the depressed and the outcasts.
Saint Francis of Assisi Quotes
"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
- St. Francis of Assisi
"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."
- St. Francis of Assisi
"My brothers, birds, you
should praise your Creator."
- Saint Francis of Assisi
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who deal likewise with their fellow men."
- Saint Francis of Assisi
"Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face."
- St. Francis of Assisi
St. Francis of Assisi Mission
Saint Francis of Assisi Prayer
"O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, harmony;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light, and
Where there is sorrow, joy.
Oh 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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