“The Prayer of St. Francis”

"The Prayer of St. Francis"

Lord, make me a channel of Thy peace; that where there is hatred, I 

may bring love; that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of

forgiveness; that where there this discord, I may bring harmony; that

where there is error, I may bring truth; that where there is doubt, I may 

bring faith; that where there is despair, I may bring hope; that where 

there are shadows, I may bring light; that where there is sadness, I may 

bring joy.

Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted, to 

understand than to be understood; to love than to be loved; for it is by 

forgetting self that one finds; it is by forgiving that one is forgiven; it is 

by dying that one awakens to eternal life.