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753. Make Me a Channel of Your Peace (Prayer of St. Francis)

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Text Information

• First Line: Make me a channel of your peace
• Title: Make Me a Channel of Your Peace (Prayer of St. Francis)
• Author: Anon. (1912 c.)
• Adapter: Sebastian Temple (1967)
• Meter: Irregular
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2013
• Scripture:
  Isaiah 6:8
  ;
  Matthew 5:9
  ;
  Matthew 5:14-16
  ;
  Matthew 5:43-44
  ;
  Matthew 6:12
  ;
  Matthew 10:39
  ;
  Luke 11:4
  ;
  John 12:24
  ;
  John 14:27
  ;
  John 21:15-17
  ;
  Acts 1:8
  ;
  Acts 22:15
  ;
  Romans 14:7
  ;
  Galatians 6:7-10
  ;
  2 Timothy 2:21
• Topic: Dedication; Dying in Christ; Justice and Reconciliation; Living in Christ; World Peace; Service
• Copyright: © 1967 OCP

Tune Information

• Name: PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS
• Composer: Sebastian Temple (1963)
• Arranger: Alfred V. Fedak (2011)
• Meter: Irregular
• Key: D Major
• Copyright: © 1967 OCP

Text Information:

Though popular opinion credits this prayer to Francis of Assisi, the earliest known printing was in a French religious magazine in 1912. Yet that gentle saint’s spirit seems evident in these words, a quality that has spurred many paraphrases and musical settings such as this one.