A prayer by St. Francis of Assisi

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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, ligth;

And where there is sadness, joy.

 

O Divine Master, grant that I may seek

not 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.

 

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this prayer by St Francis was found in:

The Mountain Path, III, 1977, p 170

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