Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
FRANCIS OF ASSISILord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
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Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
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It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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