Catholic Diocese of Arlington
Encourage and teach with patience

Prayer for the Week

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;
Where there is sadness, joy.
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,
It is in dying that we are born
To eternal life.
-- St. Francis of Assisi

Podcast of Cardinal McCarrick's September 2007 presentation "The Many Faces of our Human Family: A Catholic Perspective on Immigration"