A prayer for various faiths
Regarding your article on the Lord's Prayer at the Lowell City Council ("Faith group urges diversity," Globe NorthWest, Nov. 19), at my parish it has worked well to begin an interfaith meeting with the prayer of St. Francis:
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace / Where there is hatred let me bring your love / Where there is injury, pardon / Where there is despair, hope / Where there is darkness, light / 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 / It is in dying that we are born to eternal life."
Catholics like being reminded of a favorite saint, and Muslims have also said they like this prayer.
Eva Arnott
Arlington 