PRAYER OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI - ORACION DE SAN FRANCISCO DE ASÍS

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.

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Señor, hazme un instrumento de tu paz.
Donde haya odio, siembre yo amor;
donde haya injuria, perdón;
donde haya duda, fe;
donde haya tristeza, alegría;
donde haya desaliento, esperanza;
donde haya sombras, luz.

¡Oh, Divino Maestro! Que no busque ser consolado sino consolar;
que no busque ser amado sino amar;
que no busque ser comprendido sino comprender;
porque dando es como recibimos;
perdonando es como Tú nos perdonas;
y muriendo en Ti, es como nacemos a la vida eterna

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Permalink Reply by Carlos on September 22, 2008 at 3:59am

I prayed this prayer every day when I was a freshman at Jesuit. I love it.

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Permalink Reply by silvana on October 24, 2008 at 7:12pm

HI CARLOS! I PRAY THIS PRAYER TOO. AND LITTLE BY LITTLE I'M UNDERSTANDING HOW IT'S WORKING ON ME. MARAVILLOSO!
SILVANA

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Permalink Reply by juancruz on September 22, 2008 at 4:02am

GRACIAS POR EL CORREO ESTA HERMOSO,,SALUDOSS

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Permalink Reply by WORDWARRIORabc on September 24, 2008 at 10:56am

The Interior of
Saint Francis of Assisi Church

“Whenever we come to church, we must prepare our hearts to be as beautiful as we expect this church to be. Do you wish to find this basilica immaculately clean? Then do not soil your soul with the filth of sins. Do you wish this basilica to be full of light? God too wishes that your soul be not in darkness, but that the light of good works shine in us, so that he who dwells in the heavens will be glorified. Just as you enter this church building, so God wishes to enter into your soul, for he promised: I shall live in them, and I shall walk the corridors of their hearts.”

—Saint Caesarius of Arles
(Sermo 229,3)

The altar of Saint Francis Church,
seen through the window of
the front door.