Dear Business Partners,

we are now in the season of Advent - in Latin: "adventus domini." We await the arrival of the Lord – the birth of Jesus. He tells us in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 5 verse 9: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God."

The "Prayer for Peace of Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)" is formulated in the spirit of these words of Jesus:

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.

We thank you very much for your loyalty and for your trust. We look forward to the coming year with confidence and with a thirst for action.

In the spirit of this prayer, we wish you a merry and blessed Christmas and a very good year 2024 in all respects.

Your families Manfred & Renate Knecht and Markus & Alison Knecht
and the entire KNECHT-Group