THE  PRAYER OF

SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI

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, faitb
Where there is despair, hope,
Where there is darkness, light,
and where there is sadness, joy.
Divine Master, grant that I may
not so much seek to he consoled,
as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that wereceive-
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

St. Francis - Private archives Dr. G.J.F.