This document provides the lyrics to the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi set to music. The prayer calls on God to make the singer an instrument of peace who responds to hatred with love, injury with pardon, doubt with faith, and despair with hope. It asks that the singer seek more to console and understand others than to be consoled or understood themselves, and to love more than be loved. The prayer concludes that it is through giving, pardoning and dying that one finds eternal life.
This document provides the lyrics to the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi set to music. The prayer calls on God to make the singer an instrument of peace who responds to hatred with love, injury with pardon, doubt with faith, and despair with hope. It asks that the singer seek more to console and understand others than to be consoled or understood themselves, and to love more than be loved. The prayer concludes that it is through giving, pardoning and dying that one finds eternal life.
This document provides the lyrics to the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi set to music. The prayer calls on God to make the singer an instrument of peace who responds to hatred with love, injury with pardon, doubt with faith, and despair with hope. It asks that the singer seek more to console and understand others than to be consoled or understood themselves, and to love more than be loved. The prayer concludes that it is through giving, pardoning and dying that one finds eternal life.
Where there is hatred Let me show 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 consol 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
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