This Sunday,October 2, 2011, we will be observing the Feast of Saint Francis at a service of Holy Communion and Blessing of Animals at 8 & 10.  This is always a joyful occasion at St. Augustine’s URI, with many parishioners bringing in all sorts of animals domestic and exotic.  Please share your photos of your parish celebration of this day!  Revdma@aol.com (jpegs, gifs, or tiff files).

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, 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 pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen