PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

 

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.

And 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.

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