27 November 2011

PEACE PRAYER


The Peace Prayer of St. Francis
(not of his hand, but in his spirit)

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 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.

Amen.