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Date Posted: 10:01:47 07/01/04 Thu
Author: anon. - 25 May 2004
Subject: Who Really Wrote the Peace Prayer of St. Francis?


Who Really Wrote the Peace Prayer of St. Francis?

Q: I have been told recently that the famous prayer attributed to St. Francis, "Lord, make me an instrument...," was not written by him. Is this correct? Who wrote it? Why is it then attributed to St. Francis of Assisi?

A: According to St. Anthony Messenger's columnist Albert Haase, O.F.M., in the January 1999 issue, St. Francis had nothing to do with writing the prayer. The earliest version has been found in the breviary of England's William the Conqueror, king from 1066 to 1087. That's nearly 200 years before Francis of Assisi.

According to Haase, Cardinal Francis Spellman attached the name of St. Francis, his patron saint, to the prayer. In visiting Assisi to celebrate his appointment to the College of Cardinals, he found the prayer under the title of "A Simple Prayer" with a picture of St. Francis.

After the cardinal returned to the United States, he passed out copies under the title of "The Peace Prayer of St. Francis."

While Francis did not write the prayer, it is very much in his spirit.

(from: "Saint Antony Messenger" on-line magazine)

http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/May1999/Wiseman.asp

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Lord, make me a channel of Your Peace!
Where there's hatred, let me bring love;
Where there's injury, let me bring pardon;
Where there's doubt, let me bring faith.
Where there's despair, let me bring hope;
Where there’s sadness, let me bring joy;
And where there's darkness, let me bring light.

O Master, grant that I may never 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 that we receive;
It is in forgiving, that we are forgiven;
And it is in dying, that we are born to eternal life.

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