Prayer of Francis Assisi

Lord, 
make me a channel of thy peace, 
that where there is hatred, 
I may bring love; 

that where there is wrong, 
I may bring the spirit of forgiveness; 

that where there is discord, 
I may bring harmony; 

that where there is error, 
I may bring truth; 

that where there is doubt, 
I may bring faith; 

that where there is despair, 
I may bring hope; 

that where there are shadows, 
I may bring light; 

that where there is sadness, 
I may bring joy.

Lord, 

grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;

to understand, than to be understood; 

to love, than to be loved.

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. 

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. 

It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.

Amen.