Happy St. Francis Day

Today, October 4th, is the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi. In accordance with this, our community is going to the Friary across the street for mass at 4:00pm followed by what I am assuming will be a "feast" of a dinner...pun intended. Today was an excellent Saturday...slept in until about 10, made some banana pancakes with bananas from the banana tree in the backyard, and cleaned house. I saw a friend of mine from the gym while I was outside, and he invited us to a party tonight; maybe we will head there after the Francis Festivities.
Yesterday, our school went on a field trip to Cartago to interact and do some fun activities with the Cartago School for Deaf. It was an awesome time; i filled up about 134 water balloons, met some new people, and learned a little more sign language. Other than yesterday's field trip, and today's events, all is quiet on the Costa Rican front...

Here is a prayer from St. Francis to commemorate his day:
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.