A Prayer for Egypt

Today, the country of Egypt has experienced a transfer of power. This massive change has occurred in primarily a peaceful manner, which is at the very least unusual, and at the most could be called miraculous.  Significant change and uncertainty now face the citizens of Egypt, including the estimated 10% of the population that is Christian.  Let us join together to pray for the future of the nation, using the Prayer of St. Francis:

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.
  where there is hatred, let me sow love;
  where there is injury, pardon;
  where there is doubt, faith;
  where there is dispair, 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,
  it is in dying that we are born
     to eternal life.

May this time of transition be a time also for the growth of the gospel in Eypt.