Oração de São Francisco de Assis [English translation]

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace!

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace!

That where there is hatred,

I may bring love.

That where there is wrong,

I may bring the spirit of forgiveness.

That where there is discord,

I may bring harmony.

That where there is error,

I may bring truth.

That where there is doubt,

I may bring faith.

That where there is despair,

I may bring hope.

That where there are shadows,

I may bring light.

That where there is sadness,

I may bring joy.

Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort, than to be comforted.

To understand, than to be understood.

To love, than to be loved.

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.