Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, let me sow pardon,
Where there is doubt, let me sow faith,
Where there is error, let me sow truth,
Where there is despair, let me sow hope,
Where there is darkness, let me sow light,
and where there is sadness, let me sow 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.

- St. Francis of Assisi
My thanks to William G. Bilton, Ph.D., Dean, St. Joseph's House of Studies, Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word at EWTN, for correcting an error in the original version of this prayer I had published here. I am happy to have St. Francis' complete, wonderful prayer here now.

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