Voices for Peace

Even if you cannot make it to the church on Saturday, August 23 for the Prayer Vigil for Peace, consider taking some time between 1 and 2 p.m. to think and pray at home -- or wherever you are.

You might tune into this video, listen and ponder deeply the words, based on the Prayer of St. Francis:

Verse 1

Make me a channel of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me bring your love.

Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord,

And where there's doubt, true faith in you.

Verse 2

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.

Refrain

Oh 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 with all my soul.

Verse 3

Make me a channel of your peace.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

In giving of ourselves that we receive,

And in dying that we're born to eternal life.

AMEN