Prayer of Francis of Assisi as a Labor Day Meditation

Posted on September 6, 2010 
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Many are celebrating today as Labor Day, and I wanted to share this song from a prayer by Francis of Assisi as a meditation on the kind of labor that has eternal value.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

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.

-Francis of Assisi

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3 Responses to “Prayer of Francis of Assisi as a Labor Day Meditation”

  1. Prayer of St Francis « Practical Pages on September 7th, 2010 9:18 am

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  2. Nadene on September 7th, 2010 9:21 am

    Thank you for sharing this precious prayer and video! I loved it so much that we spent time learning St Francis’s prayer.
    I made 3 versions of one-page minibooks with the prayer for my daughters, and posted it on my blog to share with others here

  3. Kimbrah on September 7th, 2010 11:26 am

    Thank you so much for sharing, this was such a wonderful reminder! :)

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