Video - Sung Version of St. Francis Prayer

he Prayer of Saint Francis is a Christian prayer.  It is attributed to the 13th-century saint, Francis of Assissi, although the prayer in its present form cannot be traced back further than 1912, when it was printed in France in French in a small  spiritual  magazine called La Clochette (The Little Bell) as an anonymous prayer, as demonstrated by Dr Christian Renoux in 2001. The prayer has been known in the United States since 1936 and Cardinal Francis Spellman and Senator Hawkes distributed millions of copies of the prayer during and just after World War II.

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16-page PDF of "At the Center" newsletter for Winter//Spring 2010, published by the Franciscan Spirituality Center.

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,

and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

Amen.