Our Franciscan Values at St. Francis Prep

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Our Franciscan ValuesatSt. Francis Prep
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Four Franciscan Values

• Live Lovingly
• Proclaim Joy and Hope
• Be Living Instruments of Peace
• Care for Creation

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• Most high glorious God,
• enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me
• true faith, certain hope, and perfect charity,?so
  that I may carry out Your holy and true command.

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• Live Lovingly
• To Live Lovingly means
• We honor as sacred the worth and dignity of each
  person by embracing each person as my sister and
  brother.
• We create a compassionate, welcoming, and
  reconciling community, especially to those whom
  society excludes.
• We serve others with humility, compassion, and
  love.

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• Proclaim Joy and Hope
• Proclaiming Joy and Hope requires us to be
  positive and thankful for the gifts that God has
  given to us and recognizing the gifts around us.
• We strive to find the good instead of the
  negative in each situation.
• We strive to bring joy and hope to others that we
  encounter.
• We perform the tasks entrusted to us to the best
  of our ability, reflecting on the joy and hope
  that someone may experience from our work.

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• Be Living Instruments of Peace
• Being a Living Instrument of Peace requires that
  we strive for harmony between goodness and
  justice. We look for ways to be a peaceful
  presence in our community and world.
• We strive to be peacemakers through our
  attitudes, values, and actions.
• We seek to understand others without judging or
  excluding and we help others to do the same.
• We announce peace by embracing those in need as a
  life-long commitment that helps me to understand
  those who are less fortunate.

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• Care for Creation
• We care for everything in creation as a sacred
  gift from God.
• We celebrate our relationship as sisters and
  brothers who are interconnected with one another
  and all of creation.
• We receive gratefully, use carefully, and share
  generously the resources available to us.

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Peace Prayer

• Peace Prayer
• Lord, make me an instrument of Your peaceWhere
  there is hatred, let me sow loveWhere there is
  injury, pardonWhere there is doubt, the
  faithWhere there is despair, hopeWhere there
  is darkness, lightAnd where there is sadness,
  joy.O Divine Master,Grant that I may not so
  much seekTo be consoled, as to consoleTo be
  understood, as to understandTo be loved as to
  love.For it is in giving that we receiveIt is
  in pardoning that we are pardonedAnd it is in
  dying that we are born to eternal life.
• Amen.

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THE YEAR OF MERCY
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