Aeshna Lacrymosa

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me bring love. Where there is offence, let me bring pardon. Where there is discord, let me bring union. Where there is error, let me bring truth. Where there is doubt, let me bring faith. Where there is despair, let me bring hope. Where there is darkness, let me bring your light. Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.

O Lord, 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 self-forgetting that we may find, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

It is in dying that we are awakened to eternal life.

Saints lore blowing my mind 🤯

Did you know St. Dominic and St. Francis met one day and they became homies?

And it's really cool that even the two orders visit each of their founder's feast day, representing the union of their friendship even years after their passing.

Last week in Italy, In the Basilica of the St Mary Of The Angels, 2 doves have made their nest in the palms of Saint Francis Of Assisi.

Just in time for his feast day.

St. Francis of Assisi, ora pro nois.

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One of my favorite realizations from biology is that like... every creature is your relative. You look at your sister or brother or your parents and you think "that's my family" and you look at uncles and second cousins and distant relations you've never met and think "well I don't know them as well, but we're all part of the same... clan, you know. They're my family too". Surely not everyone thinks this, but some people do. Well anyway, that same thing is true of your dog. The ants crawling on the ground. The birds in the sky. They are, literally, members of your extended family. Not merely as species but as individuals, the way each brother or cousin is an individual member of your family. There is no line between these things. My distant relation, this guy, this bug crawling around. I'm related to him. We're very different, we've lived different lives and are good at different things. But he's my family.

- St. Francis of Assisi

Saint Clare of Assisi, pray for us! 

St. Francis preaches to the birds

Panel from the "Tavola Bardi", attributed to Coppo di Marcovaldo, 1245-1250

Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence