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ST. FRANCIS' PRAYER by FRANCIS OF ASSISI

First Line: LORD, MAKE ME AN INSTRUMENT OF YOUR PEACE
Last Line: AND IT IS IN DYING THAT WE ARE BORN TO ETERNAL LIFE.
Subject(s): RELIGION; THEOLOGY;
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
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.




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