Make me a channel of your peace

During our don’t-know-what-is-that-class-called where non-Muslim students will gather in the Main Hall of the school. The teacher incharge was Mrs C, the most hated teacher in Main Convent, during my time. Anyway, the students will sit on the floor of the hall, we students will have our song/hymm books and sing.  Some days if there was a new song to learn, we have to copy the words from the chalk board.  If not, we will sing songs/hymms from previous times.

One of the hymms we sing a lot was this: Make me a Channel of your Peace which is actually a prayer to Saint Francis of Assisi. I have always loved singing this hymm and still do.  (That’s what I like about the Convent school then was it still instilled a lot of Catholicism during these classes, and it definitely have sowed some thing into me!)

And here’s the lyrics which I got from here:

Make me a Channel of your Peace

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 is doubt true faith in You

Make me a channel of your peace
Where there is despair in life let me bring hope
Where there is darkness only light
And where there’s sadness ever joy

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

Make me a channel of your peace
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
It is in giving to all men that we receive
And in dying that we are born to eternal life

Back during school days when we sing this hymm, I was more into the “peacefulness” of the tune that goes with the words. I wasn’t much into the words, however, now that I’m a newly Catholic convert, the words are so meaningful, and especially when I meditate on the words, it brings tears to me. 

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

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;
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

By the way, I’m sure some of my Main Convent friends will know this song!