Before visiting the mouse lab!
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
OK guys...let me show you my spiritual side this week!
Prayer of St Francis
When I was young, I went to a school called St Francis Canossian College. We used to sing this hymn in the school assemblies almost every week. In fact, it is one of my all time favourites and it means a lot to me too. I heard this hymn in church last sunday and it made me wonder how many of these (see below) I could actually apprehend AND deliver in my everyday life.
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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. (I can bring a torch! Hee hee.)
And where there is sadness, joy.
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.
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According to the Wikipedia:
The Prayer of Saint Francis is a Christian prayer for Peace widely attributed to the 13th century saint Francis of Assisi, although the prayer in its present form cannot be traced back further than 1912, when it was printed in France in French, in a small spiritual magazine called La Clochette (The Little Bell), as an anonymous prayer, as demonstrated by Dr Christian Renoux in 2001. The prayer has been known in USA since 1936 and Cardinal Francis Spellman distributed millions of copies of the prayer during the WW II. It was the beginning of its international career.
The prayer was most famously referenced by Margaret Thatcher shortly after she won the 1979 UK General Election. Having "kissed hands" with Queen Elizabeth II to become Prime Minister she paraphrased the prayer on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street, surrounded by a throng of reporters whilst setting out the aims of her Government.
When I was young, I went to a school called St Francis Canossian College. We used to sing this hymn in the school assemblies almost every week. In fact, it is one of my all time favourites and it means a lot to me too. I heard this hymn in church last sunday and it made me wonder how many of these (see below) I could actually apprehend AND deliver in my everyday life.
........
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. (I can bring a torch! Hee hee.)
And where there is sadness, joy.
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.
........
According to the Wikipedia:
The Prayer of Saint Francis is a Christian prayer for Peace widely attributed to the 13th century saint Francis of Assisi, although the prayer in its present form cannot be traced back further than 1912, when it was printed in France in French, in a small spiritual magazine called La Clochette (The Little Bell), as an anonymous prayer, as demonstrated by Dr Christian Renoux in 2001. The prayer has been known in USA since 1936 and Cardinal Francis Spellman distributed millions of copies of the prayer during the WW II. It was the beginning of its international career.
The prayer was most famously referenced by Margaret Thatcher shortly after she won the 1979 UK General Election. Having "kissed hands" with Queen Elizabeth II to become Prime Minister she paraphrased the prayer on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street, surrounded by a throng of reporters whilst setting out the aims of her Government.
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