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st francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
when 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.

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.

Note: This Peace Prayer of St. Francis was found in Normandy
in the year of 1915. Its author is unknown. The prayer was
written on the back of a card of St. Francis, from which the
name was derived. Some believed Francis wrote it while others
believed otherwise. The last line was both quoted with and
without the wordings "to ourselves". There is no conclusive
evidence to which is the true historical edition. In both
cases, the same message remains.

posted by green unseen @ 2:50 AM