Hymn & Tune: Make me a channel...\'
Based on a prayer of St Francis of Assisi, 13th Century
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Lord, make me instrument of peace
Where hatred rules, let me there bring your love
Where there is malice, forgiveness
Where disputes, [let] reconcilings be
Chorus
O Master, let me strive more to comfort
Than to be comforted, to understand
More than to be understood, and to love
Others more than myself to be loved here
Where there is error may I bring
Truth, where there is doubt, may I bring belief
Where there is despair, to bring hope
Where darkness, light, where sorrow, joy - Chorus
For they who do give do receive
They who forget themselves, they themselves find
They who forgive, forgiveness receive
Dying, we rise to eternal life - Chorus*
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* The Chorus after the last verse is optional.