santa fe & st. francis

we spent tuesday evening and wednesday in santa fe. off their main square is st. francis's basilica, which was built in 1870s. But there has been a church/adobe structure occupying the spot and holding daily mass since 1610. (read 400 years.)

i loved the st. francis dancing on water statue outside - it had quotes from his life/prayers all over the statue.

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;
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.

-Francis of Assisi