St. Francis Prayer of Peace

On this Palm Sunday, I'm reminded of St. Francis' Prayer of Peace. I have a postcard of it on my fridge from when I visited Assisi at the end of high school, but it is always a good reminder.

Prayer of Peace

St. Francis

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.

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;

it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life.

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