Prayer of St. Francis

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.


0h, Divine Master, grant that I may not seek so much


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. Amen.