A Prayer for PeaceOctober 04, 2021

We celebrate the feast day of St Francis of Assisi today, October 4.

Francis’ peace message speaks powerfully today to a world in such desperate need of reconciliation and peace:

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;
it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life. AMEN.