Make me an instrument of Your peace

Let us make our prayer the prayer of Saint Francis, who visited our land in a time of war:

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.

O 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.

1. Pope John Paul II prays the prayer in Italian
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2. Sarah MacLachlan sings the prayer
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3. Philippine Madrigal Singers sing a prayer derived from the traditional prayer
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4. Nabil and Samia pray the prayer in Arabic and English
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5. Shuli Natan sings her adaptation of the prayer in Hebrew
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