Of
the Almanac-Diary volume for the centenary
of the return of the Franciscans 1890-1990
Edition François '90
February
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Prayer
You tell us, Lord,: << The crop is abundant, but the
workers are few >>,
Cause in the region that we live in generous witnesses and
servant of the gospel.
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Prayer
(free adaptation)
For the 5th and last festivity of l' Child Jesus, the Presentation
to the temple, S. Bonaventure suggests that our soul considers
how the child that we also must ourselves to put to the world
by the good oeuves, then to name, to look, to find, to adore,
to fill our present, must finally be presented auTemple by
our action of grace. Our perseverance and our advancement
are due to the grace of the Mind - Saint:
IT IS YOU SEIGNEUR,QUI MADE ALL MY WORKS... I OFFER YOU WHAT
BELONGS YOU, TO YOU THE PRAISE; BY YOUR CLEMENCY YOU CALLED
ME OF THE SIN TO THE GRACE, OF THE CENTURY TO THE RELIGIOUS
LIFE, OF THE TRAVALI TO REST, OF THE TRITESSE TO THE SWEETNESS
OF THE CONTEMPLATIION! TO YOU FATHER, HERE IS THE SON WHO
INTRODUCES ME WITH HIM IN THE SKY. AMEN.
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| 03 |
Prayer
Lord, you multiplied within the family franciscane a big number
of brothers and sisters lived by your holiness, that the testimony
of their life is especially for the young a call to the fidelity
and a call to all to risk for you and the sevice of your Church.
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Prayer
(Adaptation of a sermon of S. Joseph of Léonisse)
You know well, Seingeur, that your Good News appears better
in our lives that on a parchemimn. Make us, as François,
a living book or each will be able to seize the Truth that
that he/it will read God's love there for him.
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Prayer
Better than we, Lord, you know our fragilities and our impetuses,
come with our fraternity and return she capable of accueillilr,
with a renewed devotion, the new brothers that you send to
him
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Prayer
(according to the prayer of the P.Louis - Jos Lebret OP 1897-1966)
You wanted, Lord, that our return is under the sign of the
Martyrs of Japan, of their canonization lies by the admiration
that they caused in the heart of My Lord Boruget to the mo.
It is why we express you on our turn a mad prayer, in the
name of the your saints crucified Japanese.
Fains - to walk us on their traces, as madmen of God, who
go to the death while singing. What, we need the mad of the
present. In love of life simple lovers of the peace for base
action, settled to ever to betray scornful their own life,
capable to accept n' imports what task, not to leave imports
or: At a time free and obedient spontaneous and tenacious
soft and strong. Make us, Lord, of the mad of the faith in
you, as the holy Japanese martyrs, of the mad of your love.
Amen.
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| 07 |
Prayer
Lord, you prepare a Franciscan relief to answer the emergencies
of our world, in your understanding love, multiply your calls
and prepare the young to commit your service completely.
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| 08 |
Prayer
Lord, you call us to share the project of life francisciane;
can us, in fraternity, there to live an experience of illuminated
brotherly charity by your Person's Mystière.
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| 09 |
Prayer
(inspired of François of foundation, darn by Mother
Thérèsa)
Lord; make of me the instrument of Your Peace.
When dominates the hate, than us annonçions the love.
When wounds the offense, that offirons tied the forgiveness.
There or rages the faction, that we built the peace.
When paralyzes the doubt, that we woke the faith up.
When weighs the distress, that we resuscitated the hope.
There or thicken the ténébres, that we brought
the lunmière.
And so reign the sadness, that we freed joy.
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Prayer
(Father Roland Bonenfant o.f.m.)
Learn me, François, beauty to live in Church, in the
community of the brothers, in the tenderness, in the opening
of the heart, the forgiveness, the vigilance and research
constant del has will of the Lord. Remove of my heart all
fear that could frighten me,
since the perfect love banishes and lava all their amerturme.
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| 11 |
Prayer
Lord, we take support on Marie's prayer, our Mother, by his/her/its
intercessions, gives to your Church, to illuminate the night
of our world by the announcement of your Gospel,
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| 12 |
Prayer
Remember, François, all your sons that, in mound of
serious dangers, only arrive of very far to follow your examples,
you see it well, give - forces it to them to resist; return
pleased them pure, that their glory sparkles; remplisles of
joy so that they carry the fruits of it; spill on them the
Mind of grace and prayer, so that they possess as you the
real humility, that they observe as you poverty, and deserve
to like as you, the Christ crucified that, with the Father
and the mind - Saint, lives in reign in the centuries of the
centuries. Amen!
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Prayer
(Martial Lekeux o.f.m. I shouted Seated circa (1937)
We turn toward you, Small Poor with the clear eyes! Of the
bottom of the abyss we shout toward you...
We fell very low, to have wanted to redo the climbing insane
of Babel... And in the anguish that hugs us us look for a
savior.
It is you, oh holy of foundation, this miraculous savior.
You are the man of today, because precisely you had this same
slope on which nosu slips gone back up only.
We followed the chariot of the three concupiscences, Mammon,
Bélial, and Lucifer and you, that defeated them triumphally,
you have in your hands the weapons that it is necessary for
us to start the fight.
Teach us the poverty of mind, the holy detachment that will
break the chains of gold. Of the slavery of Mammon, deliver
us, holy François!
Return us the purity that is our glorious happiness, show
us the holy ways of the virile penitences and the austere
life.
Of the ignominies of Bélial, deliver us, holy François!
Ah! come to retell us that the man is only only big by the
humility and reign by the obedience. Of the mind of revolt,
of Lucifer's pride, deliver us, holy François,
Deliver us of the modern mind, and than finally, instead of
the infernal complication that returns the neurasthenic world,
we recovered, in the simplicity, this << sister of wisdom
>>, the treasure of the perfect joy.
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| 14 |
Prayer
Lord, you put on the lips of the Jérémie prophet:
<< you seduced me, Lord, and I let myself seduce >>.
Continues to attract to you of the young of our time to rebuild
with the mind of S.François your Church that threatens
ruin.
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Prayer
(Thomas of Celano,II,221)
Attract us therefore to you, Father << that we would
run driven in the wake of your perfumes >>, us that
you see tepid, lazy, neglectful and dejected up to here. Your
small herd already follows a step faltering; our poor dazzled
eyes are too weak to sustain the burst of your perfection.
Return us a renewal of life, as to the first time, mirror
and model of the perfect; don't permit that our life makes
us different from you, since by our profession we are semblales
yours.
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Prayer
Lord, in your kindliness you called Claire Of foundation to
share the evangelical experience pursued by François,
by their brotherly prayer, height the Franciscan family of
new brothers and new sisters. Graces to the testimony of their
life, that our world finds peace and joy there.
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Prayer
Lord, by the strength of soul of the P. Asreso, restorer of
the Observing of France, you multiplied within the Franciscan
family a big number of brothers and sisters lived by the holiness,
that the testimony of their life is for us, their successors,
a call to the fidèlité and a call to all to
give in the recognition for you and the service of your Church.
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Prayer
Lord, you confided your disciples to Marie's maternal tenderness,
make the young discover Marie's presence and, to his/her/its
example, inspire at their heart joy to give you all their
life freely
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| 19 |
Prayer
Lord, you chose to prepare your arrival the John the Baptist
prophet, cause again among us of the brothers whose speech
opens you the path of the hearts.
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Prayer
Lord, you wanted to cause many brothers to your servant François
of foundation, continue to attract to you, according to your
promise, of new brothers to share the Franciscan life and
to work to your grapevine.
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Prayer
Good Father Frédéric, you arrived on earth to
the glory of the blesseds by this title that awarded you the
church. This title, you wished it for the one that one already
called << the holy brother Didace >>. in the name
of this hope that resulted you from heart, help us to know
our brother and it better yours, for the consolation of our
Canadian Church, of which he/it was the devout and devoted
son.
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prayer
(of a Cappucin poet, in dedication of his/her/its book) (Wanted
(Camelin) Of the Board o.f.m. cape.)
François, you are not a poet, the poet of the poets!
By so-called, your writings, your songs, your acts, your whole
life, you are not all living Poèsie! Transformed by
the love in the very Chrsit, and, by the Christ, transformed
in God, you see the Creation, with his/her/its eye, and you
like it with his/her/its heart, you find it beautiful, as
him: and his/her/its beauty, as him, transports you of joy...
In a spontaneous impetus you composed the Hymn of the Creatures,
this chief of work that the universe admires.
This Hymn, me, your son, I read it; I dare to say that I drank
it, so much I found it sweet, and the incoercible need tormented
me to comment it, in the conviction that this commentary would
heal our present pains, would prepare us a better future -
Of or the birth of this work: The Hymn of the Cération.
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Prayer
Lord, by the goodwill of the Blissful Frédéric,
you proposed to proposed to many laymen life évanglique
in the mind of François of foundation
Learn us to share as him the charisma of the Franciscan life,
to train the laymen, témoind of a God of peace.
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Prayer
Lord, to the people that had broken your alliance, you sent
your Ezéchiel prophet, continue to cause courageous
brothers capable to proclaim by loute their life your Good
Nouvlele and to recall the requirements of the conversion.
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Prayer
God, our Father, in Jesus you established us in your love
and you made us some sons; learn us to recognize us like brothers
of a same family, and by the charity, to live in apostles
of the fraternity.
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Prayer
Lord, you fill us with your goodness; can us, éclariés
by François' experience, to recognize you like source
of all goods and to live in thankful brothers
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.Prayer
(Father Roland Bonenfant o.f.m.)
Learn-moi,François, to keep and to develop a total
confidence in the man's goodness, since he/it is created to
the vivid of God.
Appends Me, to carry the weight of the day in the esprérance,
to walk with joy and to not to find my rest that some who
is soft and humble of heart, the Christ Jésus. Amem
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Prayer
Lord, learn us to become as << mad >> in this
world, while borrowing, following François, the path
of the humility and the simplicity. |
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