Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
Do we not have the right to take along a sister, who is wife,
like the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Or do only I and Barnabas not have the right not to work?
Who ever serves as a soldier (providing) all his own rations?
Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit?
Or who shepherds a flock and does not eat some of the flock’s milk?
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, union;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy,
For your mercy and for your truth’s sake. Amen