Prayer of Saint Francis

The most beautiful prayer I have ever heard. Its simple, but it will touch your heart. You can’t simply read it out.

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy 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 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.

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The Prayer of Saint Francis is a Christianprayer for Peace widely attributed to the 13th century saintFrancis of Assisi, although the prayer in its present form cannot be traced back further than 1912, when it was printed in France in French, in a small spiritual magazine called La Clochette (The Little Bell), as an anonymous prayer, as demonstrated by Dr Christian Renoux in 2001.

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2 responses to “Prayer of Saint Francis”

  1. seena

    soooo goood prayer……………………. Pray every day ok?

  2. dinsan

    Thank you seena :) I will pray… ( let me memorize it first :) )
    but there is something more that we need to do I think…
    along with praying daily..

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