Our response…

Make me a channel of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love;
Where there is injury, your healing pow’r,
And where there’s doubt, true faith in you.

Make me a channel of your peace:
Where there’s despair in life let me bring hope;
Where there is darkness, – only light,
And where there’s sadness, ever joy.

O Spirit, 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 with all my soul – .

Make me a channel of your peace.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving to all that we receive,
And in dying that we’re born to eternal life.  A Prayer of Saint Francis