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. 

 

          --St. Francis of Assissi