Nobel Peace Prize Speech
Let us all together thank God for this beautiful occasion where we can all together proclaim the joy of spreading peace, the joy of loving one another, and the joy acknowledging that the poorest of the poor are our brothers and sisters. As we have gathered here to thank God for this gift of peace, I have given you all the prayer for peace that St. Francis of Assisi prayed many years ago.
And I wonder, he must have felt and been what we feel today to pray for. I think you have all got a. With you. We'll say it together.
Lord, make me a channel of Your peace. That where there is hatred, I may bring love. That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness.
That where there is discord, I may bring harmony. That where there is error, I may bring truth. That where there is doubt, I may bring faith.
That where there is despair, I may bring hope. That where there are shadows, I may bring light. That where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted, to understand than to be understood, to love than to be loved. For it is by forgetting self that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life. Amen. God loved the world so much that He gave His Son. And He gave Him to a virgin, the Blessed Virgin Mary.
And she the moment He came in her life, went in haste to give Him to others. And what did she do there? She did the work of the handmaid.
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