Of the Almanac-Diary volume heart
the centenary
of the return of the Franciscans 1890-1990
Edition François '90
JULY |
| 01 |
Prayer
It happens to me, often, Lord, to think that I am occupied
too much to pray, I am occupied so!
Yet, Lord, you must not require that I am if occupied that
it. Is this possible that the time misses me to think about
You?
Are you always at my sides, Lord, you are not my support,
my strength, my courage?
I want to get used, Lord, to speak you like a friend, to confide
you my joys and my pains, while always telling you the bottom
of my heart: Lord I like You. |
| 02 |
Prayer
To speak as the small prince.
Lord, if he/it pleases you, tame me.
If you tame me, my life will be as sunny.
I will know a sense to life that will be different from all
others that I imagined up to here.
Learn me that I am for toiunique in the world.
Learn me that we need one the others.
Because, on my side, I have an immense need of you, and, on
your side, you want to have need of me.
Learn me that one born sees well that with the heart and that
the essential, it is you.
So that I don't lose patience in this work of approvoisement,
often retell me that the time that I lose in search of your
face and your love, it is what will make my discovery so important. |
| 03 |
Prayer
To speak as the small prince 2 -
And because it is so marvelous to let itself/themselves tame
by you, I don't want to keep this joy for you only. I want
to share it with the other; I want to tame the other. I know
that my responsabité will grow then, and that it will
make me suffer sometimes, because one is forever responsible
for those that one tamed. But it doesn't make kidney, Lord.
you are yourself inside all mno being to like it in me.
Lord, learn me that I am for you unique to the world, also
Learn me that you are for me unique to the world.. |
| 04 |
Prayer
Through your sons and your daughters, you want, François
to continue your mission in our time, browsing the world with
you and as you, the paths so different from yours, for rappeller
to all, as '' the herald of the big King '' that God likes
us through everything that happens to us. As he/it wants to
speak again through each of us, sisters and brothers of foundation...
François, keep us of foundation! |
| 05 |
Prayer
Lord, to François' example our Brother, - learn us
the service of your Church in the simplicity and the fidelity. |
| 06 |
Prayer
(according to the psalm 23(22)
I tell the Lord: you are my shepherd, nothing can miss me,
on close to grass frâiche I find rest. You make me find
the water that gives back me life. You drive myself by ds
paths where I sing for your honor. Even to the gloomy ravines
nothing to fear for me: you are there qu guide me your stick
in your hand reassures me, the table is put for me, no matter
the enemies. you welcome me while perfuming my head you know
how to fill my cut always. I only have so much happiness that
I live with you. It is as if me éiais already in your
hand forever. |
| 07 |
Prayer
For our mates of the infirmary
Lord Jesus Christ, you faced for us the destitution, the suffering
and the death: send us your Mind - Saint so that we can follow
you where you call us, receive my prayer for all my mates,
veillards or sick. You know them, Lord, because you like them.
Give me to recognize you in chaucn of them, and make me the
grace to know how to share their burden, to the extent of
my strengths, in the name of your love. Amen. |
| 08 |
Prayer
Louis Aragon
In union with our martyrs of China
On the paths where we sadden, as good ilest, Lord, to meet
your Cross. On the summits for that we look, we know it, Lord,
us will find your Cross. And when finally we will see You,
in your clarity, Lord, we will understand your Cross.
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| 09 |
Prayer
In veillissant
Lord, in spite of my age, Tru knows it well yet that I like
you, that I like you of a heart that is always young, of a
heart quisait again to like like a young.
You know qu well I don't wish to take a rest, but to work
for You, henceforth solely... you will give me the necessary
strength, You will give me the courage that misses to me,
the constancy that me igonore, the fidelity that I don't have
jamias had said nothing about will give to me... evidently...
what you will want.
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| 10 |
Prayer
For the last years of my life
Soft Virgin Marie my Mother, allow me to come, in the evening
of my life, to dedicate you my last years to unite them to
yours that were so holy.
I offer you the time that God will give me again to pass on
the earth.
I offer you since today the pains, the infirmities, the sacrifices
that wait me for every day.
I offer you the small joys that he/it will become pale to
God to give me to brighten my last years.
I want to use this time that passes so quickly to like the
Lord, to serve it, and to ask it.
Help me, oh Marie, to use my days to make like your divine
Son by my small services, my charity, my devotion, my prayers
and my sacrifices.
Offrez,ô Marie, my thank you to your Jesus for all graces
of my life; thank you for my Christian life, min. baptism,
my communions, my forgiveness.
Thank you for my health, my works, my activities, my domestic
affections. Thank you for the joys that you gave to me, thank
you for the tests that brought closer me of you, thank you
for all.
And that the end of my life looks like yours. Condescend,
on the day of my death, to drive me toward your Jesus and
to welcome me in your maternal arms in the Paradise. |
| 11 |
Prayer
In the evening of life
Of a selfish old age - Preserve us, Lord.
Of a dull and peppery old age preserve us, Lord.
Of the useless regrets preserve us, Lord.
Of the troblants-Présevez memories us, Lord.
Of anguishes them of the doubt preserve us, Lord.
Of a sudden and unforeseen death preserve us, Lord.
Of the misfortune to die without erecevoir the Sacraments
in full connaissane preserve us, Lord.
Of the splendors of the Foi-Illuminez our old age, Seingeur.
To the big wakening - Prepare us, Lord.
oh God who allowed Me to reach the gra sâge, make me
the grace to support the tests of mo state patiently, to quemon
existence is for my setting no a érpruve but a topic
of edification. Amen. |
| 12 |
Prayer
Loses 131 (130)
Without pretension
Lord, I am without pretension, my look doesn't show an ambition.
I don't aim the size, nor what is too loud for me. On the
contrary, I remain quiet and calm, like a young child close
to his/her/its mother. As this child I am pacified.
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| 13 |
Prayer
Psalm 130(129) Translation of the Bible in current French
I count on You.
Of the bottom of the distress I call you to the help Lord.
Listen to my call, be attentive when I implore you. If you
wanted to spy on our mistakes, Lord, who could survive? But
it is you that have the forgiveness, it is why you must be
respected.
Of all my soul I count on the Lord, and I wait for what he/it
is going to say. I count on the Lord more that a soldier waits
on duty for the morning; yes, more that a soldier waits on
duty for the morning.
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| 14 |
Prayer
I am filled
I asked for a mate in order to not to live alone; he/it gave
me a heart so that I can like all my brothers.
I asked for all things that pourraint to rejoice my life;
I received life afn that I can be delighted with all chosse.
I didn't have anything of this I had asked, but I received
everything that me I had hoped. Nearly in spite of myself,
the prayers that I had not formulated have been granted. I
am, among the men, the more richly happy. |
| 15 |
Please
after the intinéraire of S.Bonaventure (introduction)
Itinerary
Lord, to be surpême, of you I left, toward you I head,
by you I join you.
Path that me then to make that with you, Verb incréé,
incarnate, inspired.
Path that will lead me to the peace under the condition to
pass by an ardent love of Jesus crucified, because to enter
das the Jerusalem of God, he/it has door there that by the
lamb with his/her/its own blood.
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| 16 |
Prayer
Introduction of the intinéraire of S. Bonaventure
Make me, as François, a hmme of desire (Daniel 9,23)
a man of prayer, a man to the contemplative look so that my
soul, purified mirror, can reflect the rays of Wisdom of in
top. |
| 17 |
Please
after S.Bonaventure
To get the grants of the mind.
oh Jesus, we address the very lenient Father, by you, his/her/its
unique Son, crucified man and florifié for us.
We ask it to spill in us the wealths of his/her/its grace
the mind-Saint, who is himself t demonstrated in you in all
his/her/its fullness.
Mind of wisdom
who will make us taste that that you are yourself, fruit of
the life tree, to the invigorating sweets,;
Don of intelligence
who will illuminate the eyes of our soul;
Don by force
who nour will make capable to knock what of it is us hostile
of you down;
Don of science
who will make shine in us your holy doctrine to distinguish
the a lot of pain;
Don of piety
who us icnlinera to feelings of mercy;
Don of fear
who will move away us of all pain to live quiet in the respect
of your eternal Majesty.
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| 18 |
Prayer
(According to the epistle in the Philippienses (4, 6-7))
Lord, make that I don't worry about anything.
And all opportunity, for all, I always rely on you of a heart
reconaissant.
That so, comes in me your peace, bigger than all my aspirations,
the peace that will keep me entire in the Christ Jésus!
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| 19 |
Prayer
(S.Bonaventure sermon for the épiphanie)
Where to find you, Jesus?
In Nazareth------conceived in Marie, admirable Verb!
In Bethlehem------born of Marie, adorable Verb!
In Jerusalem----- with Marie, desirable Verb!
How to receive you Jesus?
E us--------like a wisdom that illuminates;
For us--like a sacrament that feeds;
Toward us--like a happiness that fills us with joy.
What to offer You, Jesus?
The gold of a faith that shines in our life;
The incense of a devotion that perfumes the house;
The myrrh of the sweetness that heals our bitterness.
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| 20 |
Prayer
(S.Bonaventure sermon for the épiphanie) 2
Make to us know you Jesus!
According to our capacities of connaîtres, to like and
to act.
That I like the survey of the TRUTH for that one looks with
joy;
that one discusses with wisdom;
that one scrutinizes with discretion.
That you give me LA'MOUR
who sighs after you;
who separates us of the world;
who attracts us to go up higher..
That I apply to the exercise of the VIRTUES while running
after the just things;
while mistrusting me the worldly appeals:
while remaining strong ace the tests.
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| 21 |
Prayer
For the glory of your name, Lord, and the salute of the world,
you gave to S.Laurent, our so scholarly, so flexible brother,
so capable in all apostolate, a mind of wisdom and by force
that we admire. He/it didn't put his/its joy in his/her/its
success, but in the certainty to answer your call according
to the needs of his/her/its time.
Make us find an intelligent and generous answer to enter on
our turn in the future of a Church adapted to an efficient
evangelism, as wanted by the last council, under the sign
of S.François.
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| 22 |
Prayer
For the peace
That our alliance is not with the powers that encourage the
struggles but with the capacities of love that generate the
peace, make us, Lord, craftsmen of your peace! |
| 23 |
Prayer
For the liberty
That we don't make of wealths a god who deceives and link,
but that your Gospel, Lord frees us to be able to enter in
poor in your Kingdom. |
| 24 |
Prayer
For the fraternity
Put us, Lord, of it the mind of fraternity that, far from
making the war to those that one calls the enemies of the
church, proclaim with impetus and sincerity the path of the
Beatitudes. |
| 25 |
Prayer
(Jean Narrache, June 1933 (Émile Coderre, poet) Almanac
of St. François 1934)
Please an unemployed person in S, Antoine of Padua,
(it is not therefore the language of a poor of mistake of
my part, I have it write as is)
Excuse-moé, good Saint Antoine,Si me you arriv' point-blank;
Is necessary that I tell you' that am himself you in peine,¨¨Ça
me consol'ra as while speaking.
Since I have anything that the p'tit light of the sanctuair'
that lightning' in the choir,
I am not able to you lir' of the grand's prayers; ' Me you
parl'rai comm'çà heart to heart.
Think qu therefore 'me v'là pus of ovrage!J' me in
cherch', but I cannot hit stroke.
When be-c'que i' is going to finish, unemployment. that the
newspapers, in parl' nt to twist-neck?
While this time - there, at home one bursts, one has pus anything
to himself mett' in the beak.
ME you assur' qu 'life this not a dream. When that one is
known 'lI direct help!
... Ask the good Yieu qu 'iI gives me a' luck. You that ê'
are in the manch' of our' Lord.
Me l 'méri'pas, I know, Bondance! I know that j 'am
well well expeditious bad sacreur.
When I pray to summon some business, ¨Ca m' n gê'
bad that plugs me a corner of it
d to think that I well make better my prayers when I am worst
price of short in the need.
ME you of mand'pas for me erichir quickly, I don't want C
voler,¨' not of the ways:
I know him, this is not that that benefits: The money of the
Yâbl', that r' toune in sound.
Makes' s r moé' to find - me not selfish - nothing
that my pauvr 'p'tit plac' of worker.
ME you of mand not a' plac' of ministr; ` No! I want a' plac'
to work.
If I have it, - don't Fear ice, - that goes you êtr'
feast home!
Y'a so long that my vieill' himself bad tracassse that ell
' doesn't sleep comm' of reason.
Makes' s that for my old, ell ' c 't' one saint; It is good
as ' life, this st well short.
It is working to all embrace, it is cheerful toujour, ever
of r'bours.
R'gardez my p'tit gâs, my p'tit girl, this t' a' mercy
to have that i' don't have this that i is necessary;
` the s mang' nt he is not in guénilles... Ah! Saint
Antoin', it is not red-faced!
I promise you that one f'ra a 'novena, - A 't anant', and
j 'answer you of that -
Vow êt' s well sure, good saint - Antoine of pss to
have business to ungrateful z!
... I tell you that in the hose of l'oreille: my p'tit gâs,
it is a good chréquien,
ME to ask l good Yieu with my old for qu 'him 'ssi makes a
francsicain.
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| 26 |
Prayer
Saint Anne, following the Bx.P.Frédéric, we
let ourselves drive in vote sanctuary of Beaupré
to meditate on your role of mother and grandmother in Jesus'
family. You received the grant of the tenderness to help
Marie to enter in the plan of the salute with a child's
joy. You taught him your ancestor's hymn, Samuel's mother
the prophet cherished of God, as special partronne of the
Province of Quebec (1876) we can call on your tenderness
to help us towards the climate of opening and welcome of
which we have need for a mutual understanding in our country,
so vast and varied that one hardly to himself comprende.
Take care of those that one confided you.
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| 27 |
Prayer
For the presence to the world
That our remoteness of the worldly values of money, to can
and of seduction, as children of S.François, help us
to bring closer us of the needs of those that don't have anything
to like life and to motivate their hope.
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| 28 |
Prayer
Good Anne saint, the first baptized of your parish on the
coast of Beaupré was our brother Didace '' of saint
memory '' If he/it constitutes family's glory, watch over
the reason of the one that our BX.P. Frédéric
wanted to make know since 1894 '' on the pressing desire of
our Minister Général '', while wishing that
decorated with flowers at home a lot of other minor Brothers
similar to our beloved Didace, '' this child of predilection
of Jesus, Marie, and our big thaumaturge, the good Anne saint
''. |
| 29 |
Prayer
Lord, your servant François of foundation knew the
experience of the discouragement before the pangs of his/her/its
Order.
Remind us how you want yourself to take care of your Order
and keep us in the confidence.
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| 30 |
Prayer
As we would find You quickly, Lord, if we looked You for l`où
You are!
But we looked for You if pain!
It is pourqoui us don't find You..
Lord, You are the Road... gives us to look for You in the
action..
Lord, You are the Truth... gives us to look for You with straightforwardness....
Lord, You are Life... give us to look for You with love...
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| 31 |
Prayer
(Joseph Foliet,o.f.s.)
Mind-holy that carried the prophets by the deserts and the
seas, breath on my eyes so that they know to see everywhere,
in all creature, the Saint Trinidad, on my mouth, so that
she/it says and sing the Truth that delivers only. Open my
heart to the beauty of the world, to the splendor happy of
the sensitive s
hapes, so that all my meetings are as many praises God's and
opportunities of love, all creatures as many running board
toward the Creator. |
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