Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is sadness, joy;
Where there is injury, pardon.

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.