Christian saints -- Biography; Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
"By the holy love which is in God, I pray all the friars,
ministers as well as others, to put aside every obstacle, every
care, every anxiety, that they may be able to consecrate
themselves entirely to serve, love, and honor the Lord God, with
a pure heart and a sincere purpose, which is what he asks above
all things. Let us have always in ourselves a tabernacle and a
home for him who is the Lord God most mighty, Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit, who says, 'Watch and pray always, that you may be
found worthy to escape all the things which will come to pass,
and to appear upright before the Son of man.'
"Let us then keep in the true way, the life, the truth, and the
holy Gospel of Him who has deigned for our sake to leave his
Father that he may manifest his name to us, saying, 'Father, I
have manifested thy name to those whom thou hast given me, and
the words which thou hast given me I have given also unto them.
They have received them, and they have known that I am come from
thee, and they believe that thou hast sent me. I pray for them;
I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me,
that they may be one as we are one. I have said these things,
being still in the world, that they may have joy in themselves.
I have given them thy words, and the world hath hated them,
because they are not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldst
take them out of the world, but that thou wilt keep them from
the evil. Sanctify them through the truth; thy word is truth. As
thou hast sent me into the world I have also sent them into the
world, and for their sake I sanctify myself that they may
themselves be sanctified in the truth; and neither pray I for
these alone, but for all those who shall believe on me through
their words, that we all may be one, and that the world may know
that thou hast sent me, and that thou lovest them as thou hast
loved me. I have made known unto them thy name, that the love
wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them.'
PRAYER.
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