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 is 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 self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.