The Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Dear Friends,

It has been such an emotional week in the aftermath of last weekend's acts of violence and the loss of so many innocent lives. As an antidote to the on-going media coverage, I offer you this video of the Prayer of St. Francis sung by Angelina of the Catholic network EWTN. Also known as the Peace Prayer, the words are very familiar as we have sung this in worship at Good Shepherd.

- Melissa

The Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Make me a channel of your peace,
Where there is hatred let me bring your love,
Where there is injury your pardon Lord,
And where there's doubt true faith in you.

Make me a channel of your peace,
Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope,
Where there is darkness, only light,
And where there's sadness, ever joy.

O Master grant that I may never seek,
So much to be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love with all my soul.

Make me a channel of your peace,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving of ourselves that we receive.
And in dying that we're born to eternal life.

O Master grant that I may never seek,
So much to be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
And to love as to love with all my soul.

Make me a channel of your peace,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving of ourselves that we receive.
And in dying that we're born to eternal life.

Make me a channel of your peace.