The Prayer of Saint Francis: A Message of Peace for the World Today

by Boff, Leonardo

• ISBN13: 9781570753565
• ISBN10: 1570753563
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Author Biography

Leonardo Boff, a Brazilian theologian, is the author of many books

Table of Contents

Introduction: Saint Francis Still Living in Our Midst	1	(5)
How the Prayer of Saint Francis Came About	5	(10)
LORD, MAKE ME AN INSTRUMENT OF YOUR PEACE...
Lord!	15	(4)
Why no peace?	19	(16)
What is peace?	35	(15)
How to be an instrument of your peace?	50	(12)
Where there is hatred, let me sow love	62	(3)
Where there is injury, let me sow pardon	65	(4)
Where there is discord, let me sow union	69	(4)
Where there is doubt, let me sow faith	73	(4)
Where there is error, let me sow truth	77	(3)
Where there is despair, let me sow hope	80	(4)
Where there is sadness, let me sow joy	84	(4)
Where there is darkness, let me sow light	88	(4)
O Master	92	(3)
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console	95	(4)
Grant that I may not so much seek to be understood as to understand	99	(4)
Grant that I may not so much seek to be loved as to love	103	(3)
For it is in giving that we receive	106	(3)
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned	109	(4)
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life	113	(4)
Bibliography	117