<P> French original: Seigneur, faites de moi un instrument de votre paix . Là où il ya de la haine, que je mette l'amour . Là où il ya l'offense, que je mette le pardon . Là où il ya la discorde, que je mette l'union . Là où il ya l'erreur, que je mette la vérité . Là où il ya le doute, que je mette la foi . Là où il ya le désespoir, que je mette l'espérance . Là où il ya les ténèbres, que je mette votre lumière . Là où il ya la tristesse, que je mette la joie . Ô Maître, que je ne cherche pas tant à être consolé qu'à consoler, à être compris qu'à comprendre, à être aimé qu'à aimer, car c'est en donnant qu'on reçoit, c'est en s'oubliant qu'on trouve, c'est en pardonnant qu'on est pardonné, c'est en mourant qu'on ressuscite à l'éternelle vie . </P> <P> English translation: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace . Where there is hatred, let me bring love . Where there is offense, let me bring pardon . Where there is discord, let me bring union . Where there is error, let me bring truth . Where there is doubt, let me bring faith . Where there is despair, let me bring hope . Where there is darkness, let me bring your light . Where there is sadness, let me bring joy . O Master, let me not seek as 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 one receives, it is in self - forgetting that one finds, it is in pardoning that one is pardoned, it is in dying that one is raised to eternal life . </P> <P> The Franciscan Order does not include the prayer in its official "Prayers of St. Francis", and a church historian has noted that the phrasing of the first half of the text ("let me ...") is atypically self - oriented for Francis: </P> <P> The most painful moment usually comes when (students) discover that Saint Francis did not write the "Peace Prayer of Saint Francis"... Noble as its sentiments are, Francis would not have written such a piece, focused as it is on the self, with its constant repetition of the pronouns "I" and "me", the words "God" and "Jesus" never appearing once . </P>

Lord make me the channel of thy peace