Make Me A Channel of Your Peace NLPHB 146

This is, of course, Sebastian Temple’s “Prayer of St Francis”, otherwise known as the Peace Prayer of St Francis of Assisi, but in this hymnal the first line rules. There are many settings and variations on this text and this one wore me down from repetition and inspired an aversion in me. A fresh look suggests a simple sincere arrangement and all should be well.

It is in AOV, so I have already blogged it, but I made a new backing using the different chords in John de Luca’s arrangement found here.

Verse 1:
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’s doubt, true faith in you.

Verse 2:
Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness only light,
And where there’s sadness ever joy.

Bridge:
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.

Verse 3:
Make me a channel of your peace.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
In giving of ourselves that we receive,
And in dying that we’re born to eternal life.