A Prayer attributed to St. Francis

Lord, make us instruments of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let us sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is discord, union;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

where there is sadness, joy.

Grant that we 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.

When the Reformation was the hottest, about 1530, Phillip Melancthon, Luther’s best scholar and spokesperson, wrote in defense of the Augsburg Confession about a Roman Catholic saint named Francis. He called him "Holy Father whose faith in God affected every day…