Prayer 06: Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Today, let us join St. Francis of Assisi in prayer:

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;
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 that we are born to eternal life.  Amen!

(St. Francis was born at Assisi in 1182. . Having  turned his back on inherited wealth, he committed himself to God.   He lived a very simple life of poverty, and  had a reputation of being the friend of animals.  He established the Rule of St Francis, which exists today as the Order of St. Francis, or the Franciscans. He died in 1226, at the age of  44.)