The “Prayer of St. Francis” is a beautiful petition asking God to make us instruments of His peace, love, and compassion in a world filled with hatred, injury, doubt, despair, darkness, and sadness, so that through our actions of selfless giving, understanding, and forgiveness, we may find true consolation, understanding, love, and eternal life.
Prayer video – Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hated, let me sow love;
where there in 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, grants 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.