Lord, make me an instrument of 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 to eternal life.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI