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, 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 love 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.

Feast of St. Francis of Assis is October 4.