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; 

 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. 

(Prayer of St Francis of Assisi)