Welcome friends,
This is the prayer of Saint Francis,
Also known as the 11-step prayer.
Lord,
Make me a channel 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 to comfort rather 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.
Amen.