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THE WRITINGS OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI that man" is "worse than the first" (cf. Lk 11:26). Whence, all friars, let us guard ourselves greatly, lest under the appearance of some wage or work or aid we perish or take our mind and heart off the Lord. · But in the holy Charity, which God is (cf. 1 Jn 4:16), I beg all the friars, the ministers as much as the others, that with every impediment removed and every care and anxious concern (sollicitudo) put behind, in whatever manner they can better serve, love, honor and adore the Lord God with a clean heart and a pure mind, that they do so, because He seeks this above all things, · and let us always make there a little dwelling and mansion (cf. Jn 14:23) for Him, who is the Lord God Omnipotent, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, who says: "And so make vigil, praying at all times, so that you may be considered worthy to flee all" the evils, "which are to come, and to stand before the Son of Man" (Lk 21,36). · "And when you will stand up to pray" (Mk 11:25) "say" (Lk 11:12): · "Our Father who art in Heaven" (Mt 6:9). And let us adore Him with a pure heart, "since it is proper to pray always and not to do less than one might" (Lk 18:1); · "for the Father seeks such" adorers. · "God is spirit and it is proper that those who adore Him, to adore Him in spirit and in truth" (cf. Jn 4:23-24). · And to Him let us have recourse as to "the Shepherd and Bishop of" our "souls" (1 Pt 2:25), who says: "I am the Good Shepherd, I who pasture My sheep and I lay down My life on behalf of My sheep. · You are all brothers; and do not" call (anyone your) "father on earth, for one is your Father, who is in Heaven. · Nor let yourselves be called teachers" ; for one is your Teacher, who is in Heaven (cf. Mt 23:8-10). · "If you will have remained in Me, and My word will have remained in you, whatever you want, you will ask for and it shall be yours" (Jn 15:7). · "Wherever two or three have gathered in My Name, there am I in their midst" (Mt 18:20). · "Behold I" am with you "even to the consummation of the age" (Mt 28:20). · "The words, which I have spoken to you, are spirit and life" (Jn 6:64). "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life" (Jn 14:6). Let us therefore hold on to the words, the life and the doctrine and the Holy Gospel of Him, who deigned to beg His Father on our behalf and to manifest His Name saying: "Father glorify 433 Thy Name" (Jn 12:28a) and "glorify Thy Son, so that Thy Son may glorify Thee" (Jn 17:1b). · Father, "I have manifested Thy Name to the men, whom Thou has given Me" (Jn 17:6); "because the words which Thou has given Me, I have given to them; and they have accepted (these) and have known, that I have come forth from Thee and they have believed that Thou has sent Me. · I beg on their behalf, not that of the world, but on behalf of those whom Thou has given Me, because they are Thine and all (that is) Mine is Thine" (Jn 17:8-10). · "Holy Father, protect in Thy Name those whom Thou has given Me, so that they may be one as even We (are)" (Jn 17:11b). · "These things I say in the world, so that they may have joy in themselves. · I gave them Thy teaching; 434 and the world has regarded them with hatred, because there are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. · I do not ask that Thou take them from the world, but that Thou protect them from the evil one" (Jn 17:13b-15). · Astonish "them in the truth. · Thy teaching is truth. · As Thou has sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. · And on their behalf I sanctify Myself, so that they may be sanctified in the truth. · Not on their behalf only do I ask, but on behalf of those, who will believe in Me" on account of "their word" (cf. Jn 17:17-20), "so that they may be gathered into one (Body), and that the world know, that Thou has sent Me and has loved (dilectio) them, just as Thou loves Me" (Jn 17:23). · "And" I shall make "Thy Name known to them, so that the love, with which Thou has loved Me," may be 433 lit. clarifica, translated here and again in the second phrase as "glorify" means more exactly "to make bright," in this context "with splendor, fame, or renown." 434 lit. sermonem, a discourse, speech, instruction. Page - 98
THE WRITINGS OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI in them "and I in them" (cf. Jn 17:26). · "Father, those whom Thou has given Me, I want, that where" I am, "they also may be with Me, so that they may see Thy splendor" 435 (Jn 17:24) in Thy kingdom. Amen. Chapter XXIII A prayer and thanksgiving Omnipotent, Most Holy, Most High and Highest God, "Holy Father" (Jn 17:11) and Just One, "Lord" King "of Heaven and Earth" (cf. Mt 11:25), on account of Thee Thyself we give Thee thanks, because through Thy Holy Will and through Thy only Son with the Holy Spirit Thou has created all spiritual and corporal things and "Thou has placed" us, "made according to Thy image and likeness," "in paradise" (cf. Gen 1:26; 2:15). · And we fell through our own fault. · And we give Thee thanks, because just as Thou has created us through Thy Son, so through Thy sacred love, "with which Thou has loved" us (cf. Jn 17:26), Thou caused Him to be born True God and True Man from the glorious and ever-Virgin, Most Blessed, Holy Mary, and Thou willed that we captives be redeemed through His Cross and Blood and Death. · And we give Thee thanks, because Thy Son Himself is going to come in the glory of His Majesty to send the cursed, who do not do penance and who do not know 436 Thee, into eternal fire, and to say to all, who know Thee and adore and serve Thee in penance: "Come, you blest of My Father," lay hold of "the Kingdom," which "has been prepared for you" from the origin "of the world" (cf. Mt 25:34). And because all of us wretches and sinners are not worthy to mention Thee, we entreat Thee suppliantly, that Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy "Beloved Son, in whom" Thou "are well pleased" (cf. Mt 17:5), one with the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, may give Thee thanks, as pleases Thee and Him, on behalf of all things, He who for Thee is always sufficient for all things, through whom Thou has made so many things for us. Alleluia. And we humbly beseech the glorious Mother, the Most Blessed Mary ever-Virgin, blessed Michael, Gabriel and Raphael and all the choirs of the blessed Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominations, Principalities, Powers, Virtues, Angels, Archangels, blessed John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter, Paul and the blessed Patriarchs, Prophets, (Holy) Innocents, Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, Martyrs, Confessors, Virgins, blessed Elijah and Enoch, and all the Saints, who were and will be and are, for the sake of Thy love (amor), to return thanks to Thee on behalf of these things, as pleases Thee, the Highest True God, eternal and living, with Thy most dear Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, "unto the ages of ages" (Apoc 19:3). "Amen. Alleluia" (Apoc 19:4). And all of us Friars Minor, 437 "useless servants" (Lk 17:10), humbly beg and supplicate 438 all within the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, willing to serve the Lord God and all those pursuing orders, priests, deacons, subdeacons, acolytes, exorcists, lectors, doorkeepers and all clerics, all religious men and women, all the converts and children, poor and needed, kings and 435 lit. claritatem, "brightness, fame, glory;" a reference to the Beatific Vision. 436 lit. cognoscere, to know another person, to recognize through familiarity. Here used to signify "to know God by daily putting into practice His teaching and living for Him." 437 For an explanation of this name see fn. 255. 438 To "supplicate" is to entreat humbly on bended knee. The very next Latin word universos, translated here as "all," means more fully "each and every." Page - 99
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