June 20

Saint Francis of Assisi wrote the following prayer, which I like very much. The Missionaries of Charity pray it every day:

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.

Lord, may I not so much seek

to be consoled as to console;

to be understood as to understand;

to be loved as to love.

Because it is in giving that we receive,

in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 30