Hymn
A popular hymn version, adapted and set to music by Sebastian Temple, ©1967 by OCP Publications, is Make Me A Channel of Your Peace. It is an anthem of the Royal British Legion and is usually sung every year at the Service of Remembrance in November at the Royal Albert Hall, London. This hymnal version is as follows:
- 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.
- 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.
- O 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,
- In giving of ourselves that we receive,
- And in dying that we are born to eternal life.
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