Saturday, May 10, 2008

LORD, MAKE ME AN INSTUMENT OF THY PEACE.

The prayer has been known in the United States since 1936 and Cardinal Francis Spellman and the senator Hawkes distributed millions of copies of the prayer during and just after the World War II (Cf. C. Renoux, op. cit., p. 92-95). Many different versions of the prayer exist. The most popular is this following one :

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.
For more click on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_of_Saint_Francis

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