Reflect
Francis of Assisi wrote his “Canticle of the Creatures” as a hymn of praise to God for all things great and small—and that includes us. Do you realize how fortunate you are to be a member of God’s menagerie of creatures?
Pray
God of every living thing,
Your servant, St. Francis, couldn’t pass a field of wildflowers without praising
you, the first and truest artist.
Let me not sleepwalk through life without praising you for your works of art:
the birds in the sky, the breeze in the trees, a bountiful life—even a happy death.
Francis understood that every living thing around him was created
and loved into being by you.
And that fills me with perfect joy.
Amen.
Act
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