events are a challenge and an opportunity for us to work together with the renewed spirit of determination and solidarity and with the firm conviction that love is stronger than death. may ours be the sentments of st. francis of assisi who prayed, lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sew 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. oh 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