# The Prayer of St\. Francis

Language: en  
Author: Francis of Assisi  
Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, January/February 2002, Number 1  
Source pages: 36  
Read article: <https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/poetry/the-prayer-of-st-francis/>
Original PDF: 2002\-01\-remnant\.pdf
[The Heartbeat of The Remnant, January/February 2002](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/issues/heartbeat-remnant-2002-01/>)

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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace  
 *Where there is hatred\.\.\.let me show love  
 Where there is injury\.\.\.pardon  
 Where there is doubt\.\.\.faith  
 Where there is dispair\.\.\.hope  
 Where there is darkness\.\.\.light  
 Where there is sadness\.\.\.joy*

O 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*

*Francis of Assisi*