Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace

Prayer of 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, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
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.

Francis of Assisi (or d’Assisi) lived between 1181/1182 and 1226 in Central Italy, being the founder of the Franciscan Order. Francis of Assisi was one of the most beloved monks, being deeply devoted for a life of prayer, for charity and communication with Christ.