Raise up for Thy Church,
O LORD, Father in heaven -
proven and wise souls.
Prudent souls, O Christ,
faithful and true to Thy Poor -
Thy holy deacons.
O Spirit,
let us pray.
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The treasure of the nation is its people.
But the treasure of the Church are the Lord's poor.
The nation nurtures its treasures under the sheltering wings of its Peace.
But only the Church (with all men and women of good will) can pray for an end to War.
...when ordered to give up the treasures of the Church, he presented the poor, the crippled, the blind and the suffering, and said that these were the true treasures of the Church.
Saint Lawrence the Deacon, pray for us.
