PRAYERS FOR PEACE
Lord God
Increase and strengthen
the desire for peace
in every human heart,
so that the temptation
to violence, injustice and revenge
may be overcome,
and people will live
no longer in fear
but in freedom.
Teresa Brown ~ Jerusalem 2000
The Prayer of St Francis
Lord, make me a channel of your peace,
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring a 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.