This prayer is based on an old much loved prayer of St Francis of Assisi

LORD make me an instrument of Thy power to combat evil;

Where there is sabotage of Thy creation;
Let me strive to safeguard it.

Where greed seeks to destroy our moral heritage;
Let me be first to oppose it.

Where power and money combine to undermine our community life;
Let me hasten to affirm the supremacy of love of neighbour.

Where there is passivity, deference and conformism to giant powers of darkness;
Give me courage to radiate the light of truth.

DIVINE MASTER, grant that I may not so much seek to live a quiet life as to join with others to enhance life, not so much to grab as to give, not to evade my social duty as to shoulder it, and not to fear power as to valiantly strive with others that it shall serve worthy ends.

For it is in striving to act with love that we affirm love, in devoting ourselves to noble causes we are redeemed, and in giving ourselves utterly to the service of truth, beauty, the joy of Thy creation and the well-being of our neighbours we rise to the life immortal.

AMEN

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