Prayer attributed to Francis of Assisi

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;

and where there is sadness,

joy.

O Divine Master,

grant that I may not 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.