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Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace: Living in the Spirit of the Prayer of Saint Francis
by
Kent Nerburn
The monastic tradition of lectio divina--holy reading--is a discipline of extremely slow, phrase-by-phrase, meditative reading of scripture. Its desired effect is to plumb the Bible's depths in such a way that scripture's individual words and phrases come to permeate the reader's whole life. In Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace: Living in the Spirit of St. Francis, Kent ...more
Paperback, 129 pages
Published
December 30th 2009
by HarperOne
(first published May 1st 1999)
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When I have lost my way I remember his "Presence of Light". "We are not saints, we are not heroes. Our lives are lived in the quiet corners of the ordinary. We build tiny hearth fires, sometimes barely strong enough to give off warmth. But to the person lost in the darkness, our tiny flame may be the road to safety, the path to salvation. It is not given to us to know who is lost in the darkness that surrounds us or even if our light is seen. We can only know that against even the...more
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People who like to pray, to remind themselves of what is important
St. Francis of Assisi wrote a great little prayer. When I started high school in 1968, my freshman class chose part of that to be our class slogan - "Where there is hatred, let me sow love." You'd think something as pathetic as a class slogan would be long forgotten but, the thing is, we chose well. Our class song was "Hey Jude" (Beatles, of course). We thought about stuff. We kindof had to, living in a big city that had riots every summer, with the bigger kids being drafted ...more
We used this book for a new adventure - an online retreat. And for that purpose it was great. It used a familiar prayer - 14 lines in 14 chapters. In other words, it was not Meister Eckhart.
We had over 70 people on the retreat and, I am sure, not all of them used the book. But the overall feedback from the group was that they loved it. It did not get in the way of personal reflection and provided a starting point from discussion.
There we some comments that the stories - e...more
We had over 70 people on the retreat and, I am sure, not all of them used the book. But the overall feedback from the group was that they loved it. It did not get in the way of personal reflection and provided a starting point from discussion.
There we some comments that the stories - e...more
A wonderful book which takes the text of St. Francis' Prayer and deconstructs it into short essays commenting on every line, in the course of which Nerburn finds hope, joy, and peace in our turbulent world. There is no need to be Christian or even religious to enjoy this wonderful work of philosophy.
This is a simple book that I have been using as part of my morning prayer...on the treadmill :). I truly believe in the message and have bought a few more copies to give as gifts to a few friends.
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A wonderful book to read during lent.
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