Special Prayers for Various Occasions

 7. (Prayer Attributed to St. Francis)

Merciful God, to you we commend ourselves and all those who need your help and correction.
Where there is hatred, give love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope;
'Where there is sadness, joy;
Where there is darkness, light.

Grant that we may not seek so much
to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving we receive,
in pardoning we are pardoned
and it is in dying we are born into eternal life. Amen.

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