Prayer of St. 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
Where there is sadness ... joy

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,
It is in dying ... that we are born to eternal life.

Amen.