Peace Prayer, Plus

For Music Monday:


The Peace Prayer of St. Francis
by an anonymous Norman c. 1915

Lord make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred,
Let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, truth;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And 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.


St. Francis by Berlinghieri
More music inspired by St. Francis:

Saint François d'Assise, an opera by French composer Olivier Messiaen
Il Poverello: Medieval & Renaissance Music for Saint Francis of Assisi, The Rose Ensemble
St Francis & The Minstrels of God, Altramar Medieval Music Ensemble
Vox Resonat-Joculatores Dei/ Minstrels of God-The Lauda in Medieval Italy

An article discussing new books about St. Francis: Rich Man, Poor Man: The radical visions of St. Francis by Joan Acocella, The New Yorker

Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts and Letters