Annual prayer for September 11

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+ Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, the truth;
Where there is doubt, the faith;
Where there 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.

 

New York firefighters and rescue workers carry fatally injured fire chaplain Franciscan Father Mychal Judge from the wreckage of the World Trade Center in New York in this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo. Father Judge was administering last rites to victims of the terrorist attack when he was caught in the building's collapse. The U.S. led a giant effort to combat terrorism following the Sept. 11 attacks in which nearly 3,000 people died.  (CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)
New York firefighters and rescue workers carry fatally injured fire chaplain Franciscan Father Mychal Judge from the wreckage of the World Trade Center in New York in this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo. Father Judge was administering last rites to victims of the terrorist attack when he was caught in the building’s collapse. The U.S. led a giant effort to combat terrorism following the Sept. 11 attacks in which nearly 3,000 people died. (CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)