Freedom To Be A Slave

The Peace Prayer of St. Francis, is a famous prayer which first appeared around the year 1915 A.D., which embodies the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi's simplicity and poverty.

According to Father Kajetan Esser, the author of the critical edition of St. Francis's Writings, the Peace Prayer of St. Francis is most certainly not one of the writings of either of the St. Francis's. This prayer, according to Father Schulz, in Das sogennante Franziskusgebet. Forshungen zur evangelishen Gebetslitteratur (III), (1968), pp. 39-53, first appeared during the First World War. It was found written on a card jn the observance of St. Francis, which was found in a Normal Almanac. The prayer bore no name; but in the English speaking world, on account of this holy card, it came to be called the Peace Prayer of St. Francis.

The Peace Prayer of St. Francis

by an anonymous Norman c. 1915 A.D. Peace Prayer

Lord make me an instrument of your peace Where there is hatred,
Let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, truth;
Where there is doubt, 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.

 Galatians 5:13-26

In Jesus we are called to freedom from:
- Obedience to the Law of Moses for salvation.

- Desires of the flesh
(Idolatry, Sorcery, Fits of anger, Disagreements, Drunkenness, Orgies, etc)

- Devouring one another
(Serve one another, Not judging one another)

In Jesus we are called to freedom to:
- Serve one another, through love.
(Service in the form of slavery to one another)

- Live by the Spirit
(Learning to listen, Using your heart, Learn to know His voice)

- Love as Jesus would love
(Servants heart, Sacrifice)

- Do as He did
(see Philippians 2)