Prayer for Peace

The world is a violent and ugly place.  The Knights of Columbus started a novena for peace yesterday, the day of the horrible attack in Nice, France.  It is simply praying the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi every day for nine days:

I know some people sneer at prayer, saying action is better.  But honestly there is not much I can do except to pray for others, and to convert my own heart to try to love others around me as best I can.

The Peace Prayer

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, the truth;
Where there is doubt, the 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.  Amen.