Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of The 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 to ourselves that we are born to eternal life.