Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Prayer of Saint Francis

Ironically, I first heard this poem/song on a CD my parents gave me created by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Here's the wiki about it, but I copy/pasted the text below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_of_Saint_Francis

So very beautiful...

The English version of the prayer reads as follows:
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.
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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