take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it” (Luke 9:23–24). It was these words that inspired this well-known prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi: 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 by giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, And it is by dying that we are born to eternal