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| Prayers
st François |
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The
prayers composed by Saint François |
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| Different written of Saint François
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| Hello, Marie, Lady Saint, |
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| Queen, holy mother of God, you are the Virgin
become Church, chosen by the very holy Father of the sky, dedicated
by him like a temple with his/her/its beloved Son and the Paraclet
mind; you some that was and stay all fullness of grace and The
one that is all good. Hello, Palace of God! Hello, Tabernacle of God! Salut,Vêtement of God! Hello, Maid of God! Hello, Mother of God! And hello to you all, holy Virtues, that, by the grace and the illumination of the mind-Saint, are poured in the heart of the supporters, seen that, of infidels that we are, make us faithful to God |
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| Antiphon to the Virgin Marie |
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| Saint Virgin Marie, no is not similar to you among the women of
this world: girl and maid of the very high King, the celestial
Father, mother of our very holy Lord Jesus Christ, wife of the
Holy spirit. With the archangel holy Michel, with all Virtues
of the heaven and all saints, asks for us your very holy and
very beloved Son, our Lord and Mr.. |
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| Prayers before the crucifix of St.-Damien |
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| Very high and glorious God, come to illuminate darkness of my
heart. Give me a right faith, a strong hope and a perfect charity; Give me to feel and to know, so that I can accomplish, your holy will that would know how to lead astray me. Amen |
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| Prayers in time of illness |
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| I return you graces, Lord God, for all
these pains that I feel; I ask you, oh my Lord, to send me hundred
times more again of it if such is your good pleasure. Because I would accept very gladly that you afflict me without saving me, since it is for me an overabundant consolation that to accomplish your very holy will. |
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| Prayers of total offering |
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| Lord, please, that the burning and soft
strength of your love takes possession of my soul and pulls
it to everything that is under the sky, so that I die by love
of your love, as you condescended to die by love of my love
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| Prayers to the Virgin Marie |
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| Saint Mother of God, soft and beautiful, asks for us the King
delivered to the death, your very soft Son, Our Lord Christ,
to grant us, by his/her/its goodness and by the virtue of his/her/its
very holy incarnation and his/her/its very bitter death, the
forgiveness of our sins, |
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| Prayer to the cœurses united of Jesus and
Marie. |
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| Eternal father, confidently I offer
you the Cœurses United of Jesus and Marie, the victorious and
bloody wounds of Jesus and Marie's tears, our Mother of the
sky. Lord, that your Will is made |
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| What do you want that I make,
Lord?" S. François
©Tirer of the document
of Damien Vorreux o.f.m. |
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| or to conform to the divine will. The eve, he/it had given one so gne of big courtesy and nobility, sign of which one believes that he/it was the main opportunity of this vision IIndeed,
all the sought-after clothing and of big price that he/it
had made himself/itself make to nine, he/it had sounded it,
that day, to a poor knight. Having gotten under way and arrived
to Spolète, from where he/it would continue toward the Offensive
remark, he/it began to be a little sick. Preoccupied nevertheless
of his/her/its path, he/it succeeds in falling asleep, but
in a half-sleep, he/it heard someone then to ask him where
he/it wanted to go. |
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Of the celery
harvested the night in a meadow as he/it had ordered it. ©Tirer: of the book Blue Document of Damien Vorreux o.f.m. ch.22 v 51 P. 368 |
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| To the latest times of his/her/its illness,
he/it wanted, one night, to eat the celery, humbly he/it asked
some. One called the cook who answered not to be able to pick
anything at this hour in the garden. "I harvested besides or
coupe already so much celery as it is hardly so in full day
I could discover a sprig of it. " To stronger reason in the
obscurity I am incapable now to distinguish it of the other
plants. "Brother, tells him the saint, go, don't make you a mountain of it, and bring me the first herbs that will come you under the hands." The brother left to the garden: one saw drop there; he/it pulled the first armful of herbs that fell him under the hand and brought it. One examined them, one sorted out them and one found among them of the tender and very well stocked celery. The saint ate a few of them and found comforted himself of it, then he says: "My goods dear brothers, always execute to the first injunction the orders that are given you without waiting that one tells it to you two times. Mistake! Non definite bookmark.. And you never excuse while saying that it is impossible, because, even though the order was above your strengths, the obedience, it, would find the necessary strengths." |
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| to what point the mind of the Lord had
endowed it of the mind. Mistake! |
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| It was marvel to see delighted it in
God and exultant of rejoicing when arrived until him, like
a pleasant perfume, the good reappointed of his/her/its sons.
A very devout Spanish clerk had happiness one day to see holy
François and to converse with him. Among others new on the
brothers d ' Spain, he/it told this to the blessed who had
a big joy of it: |
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| How he/it wanted that all was pooled.
2 cel. Ch.136, v 178 p. 474 document of Damien Vorreaux. |
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| Knowing the charity that carried the
blessed to be delighted with the progress of those that he/it
liked, let's not believe as far as he/it dealt with care those
that led in the hermitages a lax life. Transformed much indeed
in houses of leisures the convents of contemplation; life érémitique,
instituted for the progress of the soul, becomes then the appointment
of all pleasures. That each lives to its manner, such is the
rule of the anchorites of our time. He/it doesn't go from it
so for all: we know some saints that, currently, lead an exemplary
life in such or such hermitage; we don't ignore that the Fathers
who preceded them were indeed flowers of solitude (1) God makes
that the hermits of our time are not unworthy of the primitive
splendor in the holiness will be rented without fin!180. At the time that he/it recommended the charity, it was family's life, with his/her/its good understanding and his/her/its cordiality, that he/it wanted to see to reign. "I want, he/it said, that my brothers appear all sons d ' a same mother; if one asks for a tunic, a rope or whatever, that the other gives it to him generously; that they happen between them the books and everything that can make pleasure, one should oblige the other to accept rather than to make itself/themselves pray." And not to give any order that had first been accomplished in him by the Christ, he/it gave the example of it all the first |
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| The colors of joy |
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| The pale green joy Transfiguration of the nature of the 4 seasons
and his/her/its marvels JJoie color of blood and blood that sinks
Jesus' side, of the fire that burns that one tastes in the
sacrifice; without the cross, the feast and the joy of Passover
would not have exploded to the very suffering from where a
joy little to emerge. The tests are often sources of joy.
The saints understood it. François of foundation especially
that was an expert in joy and it is in the cross that he/it
found the perfect joy. It is the joy of the supreme sacrifice
that drives straight ahead to the happiness of the sky |
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| We learn the
décés of the Father Bélanger, December 7, 2000, that Saint François
welcomes it with him and that he directs with Saint Cécile God's
choir to return glory for this beautiful voice that God gave
to him and that he allowed so much world to sing with him the
marvels of the creation given free by God for us. ©D. Christiaenssens o.f.s. |
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| Please François. (The bow, the archer and laflèche: three types of prayer) |
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| François walked quickly very close to water and his/her/its feet penetrated in the mud of the stream. All has stroke, he/it stopped and waited for me. Putting the hand heavily on my shoulder: - Opens your ears, he/it made, engrave in your mind what I am going to tell you:
- I understood without understanding, brother François. What do
you want to say?
"Aim me to the extreme, to the risk to break me! " |
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| To
act by what one is. |
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| "Believe yourselves that you will succeed in converting the Saracens? asks for a knight."The Lord, in the gospel, didn't ask us to succeed. It is not our business. He/it asked us merely to announce the gospel to all creature and not to fear for our life. The simplicity of François' answer was
disconcerting. He/it meets thus every now and then of these
beings that, by their very simplicity, draw to the humanity
of the new roads, where precisely all others men saw to stand
up a chain of impassable mountains. Of the roads that go right
to join the men between them. They draw them the most naturally
of the world, without noticing well often that they are the
first to advance on these ways. Man's type is very rare. It
is about beings extremely stripped, that don't have any clean
will anymore. They obey an interior necessity, raised by a
big inspiration. Their look doesn't stop to the eddies of
surface; they see neither the wave nor the froth, but the
ocean. It is in by the of themselves, by their own depth,
that they communicate with the universe and that they are
adapted him. Under appearances sometimes naive, they are the
big realists. They act by what they are. François was one
of these men." |
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| The heart light Eloi Leclerc The sun rises on Foundation pp 119-121 |
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| The modern man doesn't know the happy and
deep confidence anymore in life. There is not a brotherly
communion anymore between him and the nature. Not more between
him and his/her/its similar. He/it is alone in the shade of
his/her/its power, threatened with one thousand dangers. If one had asked François for what is precisely a light heart,
he/it would not certainly have answered by an abstract definition.
He/it lived, he/it sang and he/it went from a step so light
that he/it didn't even raise the dust of the path. And would
his/her/its answer have had the lightness of his/her/its heart:
do "You ask me for this that the light heart is? Listen: A
bird sings in the garden. Don't disturb it. Make you smallest
possible, the most unobtrusive, the more silencieux.Ecoute
the. Don't try to catch it, to tame it. It is the creation
that sings. And his/her/its song is the one of his/her/its
Creator.Some roses bloom in the garden. Let decorate with
flowers them. Don't stretch the hand to pick them. Rejoice
you to see them so beautiful, so cool. It smile him of the
Creator. And especially, especially, so God comes to bloom
in your garden, don't try to bring back it to you. Let God
God being. Only rejoice you of what he/it is God. That he/it
bloomed in your garden or in the one of the neighbor, no matter.
He/it is God, it is sufficient. And if you meet a poor person,
a painful or desperate being, say nothing about you, listen
to it. Fill your eyes of his/her/its presence, of his/her/its
existence, until he/it discovers himself in your look that
exists indeed and that you are his/her/its brother. Do you
find the gestures and the words that agree then. And there
won't be anything maybe to say or to make? He/it exists. You
made it exist. You were God for your brother. Then you will
also hear yourself the song of the new flute. You won't be
a violent, a conqueror, a bird of prey. You will know joy
to exist. You will have the light heart." |
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Legend of the snail. (The audacity to jump
in God) St. François |
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The Large Moment. |
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| PRAYER TO THE
MIRACULOUS CHILD JESUS OF PRAGUE |
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| Oh Miraculous Child Jesus! We ask You
to throw a merciful look on our anguished hearts. That Your
to stretch Heart if carried to the mercy grants the grace that
we implore ardently (to solve the crisis in Bayside...) Deliver
us of the tribulation and the despair, the tests and the misfortunes
that overwhelm us. For the love of Your holy Childhood grant our prayers, be our consolation and come helps of it to us so that we can rent You forever with the Father and the mind Saint. So either him. |
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| Our - Lady of the 7 Pains |
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 Oh
a lot of Virgin Mary Marie, Queen of the martyrs, that then
me to be at the sky and to contemplate the glory that you receive
the very holy Trinidad and the whole celestial court! But, as
I am again pilgrim in this valley of tears, condescend to receive
me, poor sinner and your unworthy servant, the homage of the
most sincere reverence and the most perfect act of whole devotion
that a human creature can offer you also. It is at your heart,
sovereignly worthy of all honor and transfixed so often by the
sword of the suffering, that I confide today and forever my
poor soul. Condescend to associate it to your pains, and don't
permit that I ever move away of this cross on which your Only
son exhaled for me his/her/its blessed soul. It is in union
with you, oh Marie, that I want to suffer from all tribulations,
the contradictions and the illnesses by which he/it will be
pleasing to your divine son to visit me here below. I offer
you all sufferings in to remember the pains that you endured
during your deadly life, and I want that from this moment all
thoughts of my mind, all beatings of my heart are as many compassion
acts for your pains and complaisance for the very beloved glory,
since I sympathize to your sufferings and be delighted to see
you crowned of glory, also have yourselves, compassion of me,
and reconcile me with Jesus, your Son, so that I become again
your real and faithful child. Come, at the end of my life, to
attend me my agony of your divine Son, and that to coming out
of this hard exile I have happiness to participate in your glory
in the paradise. So either him. |
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| Devout exercise in honor of the heart
afflicted of Marie. Ind. 300 days every time - B. January 24, 1815 |
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| Answers it with every invocation.
V. OH God, come to my help: R. Hâtez you, Lord, of me secourir.Gloire to the Father, to the Son, to the Saint Mind. 1 - I sympathize, oh Marie, Mother of pain, to the pain that your to stretch heart, to the prophecy of the Siméon old man, felt. Mother, love, by your heart if afflicted, get me the virtue of humility and the saint's grant feared of God. R.2 - I sympathize, oh Marie, Mother of pain, to the anguishes that your very sensitive heart felt in your flight and your stay in Egypt. Mother, love, by your heart so full of anguish, get me the virtue of liberality, especially towards the poor people, and the grant of piety. R.3 - I sympathize, oh Marie, Mother of pain, to the anguishes of your heart to the loss of your beloved Jesus. Beloved mother, by your heart so upset, get me the virtue of chastity and the grant of science. R.4 - I sympathize, oh Marie, Mother of pain, to the consternation that your maternal heart felt while meeting Jesus loaded of his/her/its cross. Beloved mother, by your heart if tortured, get me by force the virtue of the patience and the grant. R.5 - I sympathize, oh Marie, Mother of pain, to the martyrdom that your generous heart endured close to agonizing Jesus. Beloved mother, by your thus tortured heart, get me the virtue of temperance and the grant of advice. R.6 - I sympathize, oh Marie, Mother of pain, to the injury that at your heart liking the spear that opened Jesus' side made and wounded his/her/its very agreeable heart. Beloved mother, by your thus transfixed heart, get me the brotherly charity virtue and the grant of intelligence. R. 7 - I sympathize, oh Marie, Mother of pain, to the excessive sufferings that your heart endured very magnet at the time of Jesus' burial, beloved Mother, by your sacred heart, watered of bitterness, get me the virtue of diligence and the grant of wisdom. R.V. Pray for us, Virgin a lot of affligée.R. So that we became worthy of Christ's promises. Let's pray: Lord Jesus Christ, we implore of it to you: that the blissful Virgin Marie, your mother whose very holy soul was transfixed of a pain sword during your passion, intercedes for us by your clemency, now and at the hour of our death. By you, Christ, Savior of the world, who lives and reign with the Father and the Saint - Mind in every century of the centuries. So either him |
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| Prayers for the agonizing (Ind. 100 days once the day - B. May 17, 1884) |
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| Eternal father, by the love that you carry to Joseph saint, chosen by you enters all to represent you on the earth, have mercy of us and the agonizing poor people. Paternoster, Ave, Gloria, |
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| Remember Joseph saint. (Ind. 300 day once the day - B. June 26, 1863) |
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| Remember - you, oh very chaste spouse of the Virgin Marie, oh my agreeable protective, holy Joseph, that one didn't hear to say ever that someone invoked your protection and asked your help without have been comforted. Animate of a similar confidence, I come to you, and recommends me to you of the whole devotion of my soul. Ah! rejected not my prayer, oh reputed father of the Redeemer, but condescend to welcome it with goodness. Amen To respect the royalties if he/it pleases you. Thank you |
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| ROSARY OF OUR - LADY - OF THEM - SEVEN - PAIN |
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 INDULGENCE
1. 7 years and 7 forty. Every time 2. 10 years every time if, structural this rosary on one and the narrator frequently, one attends the Mass or the sermon, one comes with S. Money one makes a work of mercy, or recite 7 Paternoster and 7 Ave 3. 100 years every time, after confession, 4.150 years, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sundays and feasts of obligation (if one carries it on oneself) 5. 200 years, and so after recitation, one prays to the Sovereign's intentions. Pontiff 6. 200 days for every Paternoster and Ave, Friday, every day of the fast, feast and octave of N.D. of the S.D. 7. 100 days for every Paternoster and With the other days of the year 8. Ind. full, once the year on the day d his/her/its choice, if one recites it 4x per week. Confession. communion. 9. Ind, plén. once the month, for daily recitation,: Conf. com. by. B.15 May 18861 pain |
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| The
prophecy of the Siméon old man, let's ask:
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 The
devotion
to the passion of N.S. and to the pains of the holy Mother.
2 pain: The flight in Egypt, let's ask: The mind of penitence. 3 pain: Jesus' loss in the temple, let's ask: The mind of compunction. 4 pain: Jesus' meeting carrying his/her/its cross, let's ask: The mind of sacrifice .5 pain: The crucifixion, let's ask: The fidelity to our vocation .6 pain: The coming down of the cross, let's ask: The mind of prayer. 7 pain: Jesus' burial, let's ask: The purity of intention. Prayer to the Mother of douleursTrès holy Mother of pains, by the violent martyrdom that you endured to the foot of the cross, during the three hours of agony of jésus, condescend to help us in our own agony, us all that are the children of your pains, and, by your intercession, get us the grace to pass the bed of the death in the paradise, to form your couronne.Marie, Mother of pains, there pray for nous.Marie, Mother of the grace, pray for nous.Marie, Mother of mercy, pray for us. |
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| The 7 Pains & 7 Rejoicings
of Saint Joseph of
the Sœurses of the Providence of Canada. |
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| Oh Glorious Saint Joseph |
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| Oh glorious holy Joseph, father and protective of the virgins,
guard faithful to that God confided Jesus, the very innocence,
and Marie, the Virgin of the virgins, I implore of it to you
and I implore of it to you, by Jesus and Marie, by this double
deposit that was you so dear, make that preserved of all spot,
pure I constantly act as heart and mind, chaste of body, Jesus
and Marie in a perfect holiness. So either him (page 367) Paternoster, Ave, Gloria. to retell on every day. |
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| Prayers in the Honor of the 7 pains and of the 7 rejoicings |
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| (ind. 1. 100 days once the day - 2. 300 days every Wednesday of
the années.3 - Ind. Plén. A. once the month B. feast of S. Joseph,
March 19; C. celebrates his/her/its Patronage, 3ième dim. After
Easter; Conf. Com (B, Dec. 9, 1819)-4. For recitation of the
same prayers, 7 consecutive Sundays, to his/her/its choice.
A. ind. Plén. Each of these 7 Sundays: conf., com., screw.,
pr. (B February 1st, 1847) |
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| 1.. Oh very chaste spouse of Marie, glorious holy Joseph, what
were not the tribulation and the anguish of your heart, in the
puzzlement where you were to know if it was necessary to abandon
your wife without stain! But also that she/it was not your Rejoicing,
when the angel revealed you the big mystery of the incarnation!
We ask you, by this pain and by this rejoicing, to comfort our
heart now and in our last pains, by the joy of a good life and
a saint death, similar to yours, between Jesus and Marie. |
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| 2.. Oh blissful patriarch, glorious holy Joseph, chosen to be
the reputed father of the Verb makes man, the pain that you
felt while seeing to be born the Jesus child in a big poverty,
changed itself suddenly in a celestial joy, before the harmony
of the angelic concerts and the contemplation of the marvels
of this resplendent night. We implore you, by this pain and
by this rejoicing, to get us, after this life, to be going to
hear the angelic praises and to enjoy splendors of the celestial
glory. |
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| 3..Oh very obedient observer of the laws divine, glorious holy
Joseph, the precious blood that the Redeeming child poured in
the circumcision, transfixed you the heart, but the name of
Jesus q'Il received then, returned you life, while filling you
with joy. Get us, by this pain and by this rejoicing, to live
distant of all sin, in order to expire happy with Jesus' very
holy name in the heart and on the lips. |
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| 4.. Oh holy very faithful, the confidant of the mysteries of our
redemption, glorious holy Joseph, if the prophecy of Siméon,
concerning the sufferings that Jesus and Marie had to endure,
caused you a deadly pain, it also filled you with joy, while
announcing the salute and the glorious resurrection that had
to result some for a big number of souls at the same time. Get
us, by this pain and by this rejoicing, to be the number of
those that, in consideration of the blissful Virgin Marie, must
revive gloriously |
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| 5.. Oh very heedful guard, intimate friend of God's Son incarnate,
glorious holy Joseph, how much don't have yourselves suffered
to feed and to serve the son of the very high, especially in
your flight in Egypt! But also what was not your joy to have
this God always with you and to see reversed the idols of Égypte!Obtenez
Us, by this pain and by this rejoicing, to move away forever
of us the tyrant of the hells, especially by the flight of the
dangerous opportunities, and to reverse in our heart all idol
of the terrestrial affections, so that entirely occupied to
serve Jesus Marie, we have happiness to live and to die solely
for them. |
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| 6.. Angel of the earth, glorious holy Joseph, who could admire,
submitted to your least wills, the King of the sky, if the joy
to bring back it of Egypt was disturbed by the fear of Archélaus,
soon reassured by the angel, you were happy to stay in Nazareth,
with Jesus and Marie. Get - us, by this pain and by this rejoicing,
to separate of our heart all harmful fear, to possess the peace
of the conscience, to live happy with Jesus and Marie, and to
die also with them |
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| 7.. Oh model of all holiness, glorious holy Joseph, having lost
without your mistake the Jesus child, you looked for it during
three days, dived in a deep pain, until the moment where, full
of joy, you recovered in the temple, in the middle of the doctors,
the one that was your life. By this pain and by to this rejoicing,
we implore you, of heart and mouth, to intercede in our favor,
so that it never happens to us to lose Jesus by some serious
offense. If we had this immense misfortune, make that we looked
for it with a pain that doesn't let us any rest until we recovered
it favorable, especially to our death, in order to be going
to possess it in the sky, and to sing there eternally with you
his/her/its divine mercies. |
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| Ant. : Jesus about thirty years, and passed to be son of Joseph.
V. Priez for us, holy Joseph, R. so that we became worthy of Christ's promises. LET'S PRAY Oh God that, by an admirable providence, with condescended to choose the blissful Joseph to be the spouse of your very saint Mother, make, we implore of it to you, that, venerating it on the earth like our protector, we deserved to have it for intercessor in the heaven. You that live and reign in the centuries and centuries. Amen. |
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Joy perfected according to Saint François of foundation |
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As François saint went once from Pérouse to Saint Marie of the Angels with brother Léon, in the time of winter, and that the very quick cold weather made it suffer a lot, it called brother Léon who walked forward a little, and spoke thus: & laquo OH brother Léon, even if the Minor brothers would give in all country a big example of holiness and good edification, nevertheless write and note with care that the perfect joy is not come up there. & raquo And holy François going farther called it a second time: & laquo OH brother Léon, nevertheless the Minor brother would have the blinds seen, would straighten the forged, would hunt the demons, would return the hearing to the deaf, the walk to the limping, the speech to the mute and, what is a bigger miracle, would revive deaths of four days, write that in it is not the perfect joy. & raquo Walking again a little, holy François exclaimed of a strong voice: & laquo OH brother Léon, if the Minor brother knew all languages and all sciences and all Writings, so that he would know to prophesy and to reveal the future things not only, but even the secrets of the consciences and souls, write that in it is not the perfect joy. & raquo Going farther a little, holy François called more strong voice: & laquo OH brother Léon, small sheep of God, nevertheless the brother would speak the language of the Angels and would know the course of the stars and the virtues of the herbs, and that would be revealed him all treasures of the earth, and that he would know the virtues of the birds and fish, all animals and men, of the trees and the stones, the roots and waters, write that in it is not the perfect joy. & raquo And making a little path again, holy François called a strong voice: & laquo OH brother Léon, nevertheless the Minor brother would know if well to preach that he would convert all supporters to the Christ's faith, write that there is not the perfect joy. & raquo And as such subjects had lasted well during two miles, brother Léon, very astonished, interrogated it and says: & laquo Father, I ask you, on behalf of God, to tell me where is the perfect joy. & raquo and holy François answered to him: & laquo When we will arrive to Saint-Marie-Des-Anges, soaked thus by rain and frozen by the cold weather, soiled of mud and tormented by the hunger, and that we will knock at the door of the convent, and that the porter will come in anger and will say: & laquo you Who is? & raquo and that we will answer to him: & laquo We are two of your brothers & raquo, and that he/it will say: & laquo You don't say true, you are even two ribauds that goes deceiving the world and wheel the aumônes of the poor people; go you of it & raquo; and when he/it won't open us and that he/it will make us remain outside in snow and rain, with the cold weather and the hunger, until the night, then if we support with patience, without trouble and without whispering against him, so many injuries and so much cruelty and so many rebuffs, and if we think with humility and charity that this porter knows us truly, and that God makes it speak against us, oh brother Léon, write that there is the perfect joy. And if we persist to hit, and that he/it leaves in anger, and that he/it hunts us as importunate rascals, with strength meanness and bellows while saying: & laquo Goes You Of it here miserable small thieves, go to the hospital, because here you won't eat will lodge & raquo, if we support all it with patience, with rejoicing, in a good mind of charity, oh brother Léon, write that there is the perfect joy. And if us, constrained yet by the hunger, and by the cold weather, and by the night, we hit again and let's call and implore it for God's love, with big whining, to open us and to make enter us however, and that he/it says, angrier again: & laquo these are importunate rascals, and I am going to pay them as they deserve it & raquo, and if he/it leaves with a knotted stick, and that he/it seized us by the hood, and throw us on the floor, and roll us in snow, and hit us of all knots of this stick, so all it we support it patiently and with rejoicing, while thinking about the sufferings of the Christ blessed, that we must support for his/her/its love, oh brother Léon, write that in it is the perfect joy. And finally, listen to the conclusion, brother Léon,: above all graces and grants of the mind-Saint that the Christ grants to his friends, there is the one to defeat itself/themselves oneself, and to support gladly for the Christ's love the pains, the injuries, the opprobriums and the discomforts; bus of God's others grants we cannot boast, since they don't come of us, but of God, depending on whether says the apostle: & laquo That has you that you received it of God? and if you received it of him, why do you boast some as if you had it of yourself? & raquo. But in the cross of the tribulation and the tribulation, we can boast because it is ours, it is why the apostle says: & laquo I don't want to boast if it is not in the cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ. & raquo To that either always honor and glory in the centuries of the centuries. Amen. |
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| Prayers composed by Saint François |
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Peace and joy Richard Chambarland o.f.s. President Régional O.F.S. |
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| Some pages of the book of Eloi
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| The highlander exploded to laugh. -
He/it is emaciated like a foot of grapevine all dry. And
then not big, a spindly neck, of the short arms. One would
not confide him the mancherons of the plow. Oh, definitely
no! With that, he/it is dressed up as the last of the peasants
of the mountain: he/it goes naked feet, clothed of a tunic
to hood all mended and patched. A poor truth. But he/it
radiates. There is light on his/her/its face. In his/her/its
look especially. Yes, a lot of light, and of goodness also.
All his/her/its being radiates like a clear fire in the
hearth one evening of winter. Does one ask if the stump
that burns present well? He/it is sufficient that she/it
illuminates and that she/it warms. And that she/it brings
the security and the big sweetness of the flame.
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To have the mind of the Lord. |
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unit between the men. |
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have a question to put you, said sudden the knight. In a little
while, I listened you to speak to the knights. Do you believe
honestly, in the possibility of a true community between all
men? It is necessary to be realistic. Only look at what happens
in the most united families. So much pangs and of incomprehensions!
And that to say all these rivalries of interests and prestige
that throw our cities the some against the other, in bloody
conflicts! And inside a same city, that of divisions and struggles
between the different social groups, between noble and bourgeois,
between Lords and merchants, between men of weapons and men
of laws! Each only sees his/her/its interest or his/her/its
honor. The understandings between the men are never that of
the coalitions of interests, as limited and transient as these
interests themselves. The men really only unite to make block
against a common enemy. - It is true. And yet, nothing big nor of lasting would not know to make itself against something. The real unit of the men cannot achieve itself against other men nor besides against whatever it is. But, to the truth, this authentic unit, he/it doesn't belong us, to us other men, to construct it. We can discover it, to welcome it, to let grow her in us and around us. It is all. And it is a lot. - Why say yourselves that he/it doesn't belong to the men to construct the unit asked, intrigued, the young knight. - Because the unit already exists and that it overflows us. She/it is what of deeper has in the creation. But our view is short; it almost always stops to the surface of the things. We want to arrange the business in our way. What are worth all finally these small arrangements of surface? That always cracks by a tip. The men are as children who have fun to raise some dams against the sea: of the sand dams. And he/it arrives that the men are passionately fond to this game. Behind these dams, they think to be at the shelter. They call it to organize the world. But it, of course, never holds a long time. The first wanders a little strong floods and carry away all. And most disconcerting is than once all swept, the men restart the same way. with the same naive hopes. to succeed to the same wrecks. - But then you abound in my sense. You recognize yourselves that
the establishment of a strong and lasting human community
is impossible thing, made notice the knight. |
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| The
mystery of the fatherhood by Eloi Leclerc Eloi Leclerc, "Exile and Tenderness", pp,: 184-186. |
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The man who accepted the test of the fatherhood in depth, and
that crossed it without despairing, approached as much
as he is allowed a creature of the creative mystery. He/it
left bound henceforth with the origins of the world. He/it
passed on the other side of the appearances. He/it is
held in the deep where he/it sees to beat the heart of
the universe. And he/it warms himself/itself at this home.
He/it is father with the Father. And it is sufficient.
He/it cannot question the Father's love that is to the
origin anymore. He/it knows that there is not anything
more original and of stronger than this love, and that
all meanness, the divisions and the crimes are only the
miserable refusal and as the ebb of this bottom wave,
all of light. God also, God the first made the test of
the fatherhood. And the history of the world is not in
truth that this long test where the tenderness and God's
patience give themselves in the man of the sons. Of the
sons to that he/it is offered to be fathers in their turn,
so that the resemblance is perfected." Eloi Leclerc, "Exile
and Tenderness", pp,: 184-186. |
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| To "let God act...
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 One
evening, François and Olivier had eprs their conversation
on the human community. The hour was favorable to the meditation
and to the deeper exchanges. He/it was hot and quieter his/her/its
sky that slowly himself étoilait. - More I think, says Olivier, less I believe possible the unit between all men. So much that the world will be what it is, there will be the war under a shape or under another. - You are right, distributes François. So much that the world will be what we make it, there will be the war, it is sure. But in this world strange and cruel of the men, there will also be still a place for the faith and the patience of the saints. These will be able to germinate and will be able to grow, slowly, patiently. And maybe they will end up being one day the biggest on the earth, as the small seed of wild mustard of which speaks the gospel. - It is a very fine hope. - Hope that would achieve itself well quickly, if we let God act.... - To "let God act, took François, it is precisely anything to make against what exists, nothing to tempt against the existence, but to accept the whole mystery, with love and piety, of it as him offers itself to us, in the patience and the respect. Because the existence is a big mystery. Why all these stars? Why, in the middle of the sky, this immense stream of stars that no one ever counted? And why is at the moment we on this boat? Why this world? And us in this world? All it is mysterious. But we can say yes to all it and to accept to grow together. Everything that exists is called to grow together. And not only side by side, or face-to-face, but together, like an all harmonious, as the members of a same body. It is it, to let God to act and to have the faith and the patience of the saints. Did you already observe in the country a peasant to sow? He/it is in the middle of the fields. One doesn't sow at home in his/her/its house. He/it left of at him, of his/her/its small interior world. It is necessary to leave always to sow. "The sower left to sow", he is written in the gospel. He/it prepared the earth and he/it throws seed there. But he/it is not alone. There is, with him, the sun, water, the earth, wind,. They are all there that works together. The man needs each of them: of this big yellow disk that blazes above his/her/its head, of the blue water that streams of the mountain and the black glebe where drive his/her/its steps, and also of the faraway forest that breathes in silence. The small seed that it throws can only germinate so all it works together, walk together, of a same step. And certainly the man's gesture is essential, indispensable, but it is necessary that it fits in this all. Then only he/it continues God's creation. The man is little thing in the vast universe; but to his/her/its place and with the contest of everything that exists, without excluding anything, he can introduce in this world more of life, more of beauty and unit. More of love especially between all beings. When a man makes it, the creation grows; and, of joy, it sings in the man's heart, because it carries her/its fruit of eternity" Eloi Leclerc, "Exile and tenderness" pp: 87-91 |
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| This small child is the Savior of the world. Eloi Leclerc ofm, Exile and tenderness, p197-200, |
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| Save! We are saved, brothers! more ever only, more ever abandoned
in our mistakes, in our shames and our despairs. More nothing
can part with the Father's tenderness. Ah! certainly, this mystery,
we celebrate it enveloped again of night, and in the rough winter
of the nature and men. He/it is even cold on the earth. But
this night, this long night, we know it, it is all the same
one Christmas eve, a long nativité that continues itself and
to which we take part. It is the night of the man's birth to
God's life. And in this night, there is light: the one, first
of all, of this small child who is given us like pledge of an
infinite tenderness, without resumption; and then, every time
that man's heart lets himself/itself penetrate by this tenderness,
there is a few more of light in the night. There is always more
light because then the child's face appears more in the humanity,
and that decorates with flowers at the man's heart the paradise
of the childhood"...... In this holy night of Christmas 1223,
on this poor corner of earth, in the middle of the silence of
the big snow-covered nature, God's Soft mercy had paved himself/itself
again a path until the hearts of the poor people. These rediscovered,
upset, the humility and God's tenderness. This living manger
was not only to their eyes a charming fact: sprung of a saint's
heart, in a violent world, she/it represented the return in
the source hidden of the childhood and the tenderness infinite;
she/it was the sensitive, talking expression, of God's approach
by the paths of the love and the childhood recovered". Eloi Leclerc ofm, Exile and tenderness, p197-205, |
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| THE WRITINGS OF CLEAR SAINT |
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| Santa Chiara of Assisi I. This book, that makes authority, facilitated the Latin edition of the Father Boccali so much 2, that various editions in German, Italian and Spanish language 3. We will be inspired some extensively here. Appeared more lately the studies of which we will also make our profit 4. We will yet associate to the wish - that is at the same time a regret - of most their authors: one waits again, for the writings of Claire saint, a real critical edition, comparable to the one of the writings of François saint. |
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| THE PRIVILEGE OF POVERTY: TEXT OF INNOCENT III Innocent, bishop, servant of God's servants, |
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 for
perpetual memory to our beloved daughters of the Saint-Damien
church to Foundation, Claire and the other maids, present or
to come, that made vow to lead the religious life, hello and
apostolic blessing. It is a fact known of all that, wanting
to dedicate you to only God, you gave up all lust of goods of
this world. It is why, after having sold everything and all
distributed to the poor people, you decided to give up all property
absolutely in order to follow the traces of The one that are
made itself poor for us and that is the way, the truth and life.
The deprivations don't frighten you, don't divert you from such
a project, because you know that your celestial spouse will
sustain his left arm your tête,3 and will return vigorous your
fragile body that you subjected to the orders of the mind in
the hierarchy of the charity. Besides, The one that feeds the
birds of the sky and give their garment to the lilies of the
fields won't let you either to lack garment nor food, until
he/it comes himself to you to serve you in the eternity 4, when
his/her/its right will hug you in the happy blossoming of the
beatific vision 5. It is why, in answer to your supplication,
we confirm by apostolic favor your will to live in very high
poverty, and by the authority of the present us grant you to
be able not to be forced per person to receive goods. If a woman
doesn't want or cannot observe the kind of life that you decided
to lead, that she doesn't live with you but is transferred to
another monastery. We enact therefore and let's want that no
one has the foolhardiness to cause you some boredom that it
is, to you and to your church, nor to bother you by such or
such brimade. If a clerk or a layman, knowing what we have just
confirmed there and to enact, had the presumption to make an
attempt there, and if, after a second and a third warning, he/it
doesn't put a term to his/her/its dealings and doesn't provide
the appropriate repair, that he/it is deprived of his/her/its
loads or dignities, that he/it knows that he/it surrendered,
by his/her/its mistake, liable of God's court, that he/it is
separated of the receipt of the very holy Body and the Blood
of God and Our Lord and Redeeming Christ, and that he/it stays
submitted to the sanctions of the supreme judgment. That the
peace of Our Lord Jesus Christ is with you all and with those
that, at home, practice the charity in the Christ. I wish you
to pick the fruits of your good actions one day and to receive
your reward of our stern Judge: the peace that won't have of
end. Amen. TEXT OF GRÉGOIRE IX Grégoire, bishop, servant of God's servants, to our beloved daughters in the Christ, Claire and the Christ's other maids united in community close to the church Saint - Damien, to the diocese of foundation, hello and apostolic blessing. It is a fact known of all that, wanting to dedicate you to only God, you gave up all lust of goods of this world. It is why, after having sold everything and all distributed to the poor people, you decided to give up all property absolutely in order to follow the traces of The one that are made itself poor for us and that is the way, the truth and life 6. The deprivations don't frighten you, don't divert you from such a project, because you know that your celestial spouse will sustain his left arm your head 7 and will return vigorous your fragile body that you subjected to the orders of the mind in the hierarchy of the charity. Besides, The one that feeds the birds of the sky and give their garment to the lilies of the fields won't let you either to lack garment nor food, until he/it comes himself to you to serve you in the eternity 8, when his/her/its right will hug you in the happy blossoming of the beatific vision 9. It is why, in answer to your supplication, we confirm by apostolic favor your will to live in very high poverty, and by the authority of the present us grant you to be able not to be forced per person to receive goods. That he/it is allowed therefore absolutely no one to contravene this page of our concession or to infringe there by a daring audacity. If someone had the presumption to make an attempt there, that he/it knows that he/it will incur the indignation of the almighty God and his/her/its holy Apostle Pierre and Paul. Given to Pérouse September 17, 1228, the second year of our pontificate. |
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| RULE OF CLEAR SAINE BUBBLE OF THE POPE Innocent, bishop, servant of God's servants, |
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 to our beloved daughters in the Christ, Claire and the other sisters
of Saint's monastery - Damien to Foundation, hello and apostolic
blessing. The Apostolic Seat has custom to reach the devout
demands, and to grant an understanding favor to the laudable
requests of those that have resort to it. However you had resort
to us to ask us humbly to give force of law, by our apostolic
authority, to the shape of life that bequeathed you the blissful
François and that you accepted your full will, shape of life
according to which you must live in community in the union of
the minds and according to the vow of very high poverty, shape
of life finally of which we give the full text below in accordance
with our brother's letter the bishop of Ostie and Velletri who
judged it worthy of approval. It is why, condescending to your
holy prayers, and supporter for valid and acceptable what has
been made by this bishop, we confirm it to you by our apostolic
authority and let's corroborate it by the recommendation of
the present bubble. Here is the letter of which we spoke here-dessus.RAYNALD,
by the mercy of God bishop of Ostie and Velletri, to his/her/its
very dear Mother and Girl in the Christ, Claire lady, Abbess
of Saint therefore literally - Damien to Foundation, and to
all his/her/its present sisters and to come, hello and paternal
blessing. Since you have, beloved girls in the Christ, despised
the appeals and the enjoyments of the world, and since, following
the traces of the Christ and his/her/its very holy Mother, you
chose to live in recluses and to dedicate you--to the Lord in
the absolute poverty in order to be able to serve it freely
of mind, us on our side, we accept in the Lord your holy project,
and it is well gladly, in our paternal affection for you, that
we decide to answer your wishes and desires while granting them
an understanding favor. It is why, condescending to your holy
prayers, we confirm definitely, with the authority of the Lord
Pope and with ours, for you all and for all those that will
come after you in your monastery, the shape of life and the
manner to live united and deeply poor saintly that your blissful
Father holy François, by his/her/its writings and by his/her/its
words, taught you to follow; we corroborate it by the recommendation
of the present letter. |
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| Here is this Rule. 1 the shape of life of the order of the poor Sisters |
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| I, founded by saint François 2, is this one: 2 to observe the holy Gospel, while living in the obedience, without no very clean, and in the chastity. 3 Claire, make indignant maid of the Christ, and first small plant of the blissful father François, promises obedience and respect to the Lord Pope Innocent and to his/her/its successors canonically elected, and to the Roman church. 4 and as well as, since the beginning of his/her/its conversion, she/it has, at the same time as his/her/its sisters, promised obedience the blissful François, in the same way she/it promises to observe a same inviolable submissiveness to his/her/its successors. 5 that the other sisters are also held to obey the successors of the blissful François, to sister Claire, and to the other abbesses canonically elected that will follow to him. |
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| 2. OF THE ADMISSION OF THE SISTERS TO THE MONASTERY |
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| 1 - if a woman, by God's inspiration, wants to kiss this life
and comes to us, the abbess will be held to ask for the consent
of all sisters if the majority agrees, and if the protective
Cardinal gives the permission of it, the candidate will be able
to be received. 2 - if the abbess judges good to receive it, she will examine it carefully, or will make it examine, on the Catholic faith and on the sacraments of the church. 3 - if the candidate believes in the Catholic church and the sacraments; if she is decided to confess this faith and to practice it firmly until his/her/its death; and if she is not married, or if his/her/its husband already entered in an Order with his/her/its bishop's permission and already pronounced the vow of chastity; so finally she is not too old nor too sick nor too half-witted to lead our life; whereas one exposes him the content of our life carefully. 4 - if she/it is capable of this vocation, that one tells him the speech of the holy Gospel: that she/it is going to sell all his/her/its goods, and distributes some to the poor people the product 3; if she/it cannot make it, the good will is sufficient to him. 5 - that the abbess and his/her/its sisters avoid well to interfere in a candidate's temporal business: that they let it transfer his/her/its goods, depending on whether the Lord will inspire to him. However, if she/it asks for advice, one will be able to send it to some people discreet and fearing God, according to the opinion of which she/it can distribute her/its goods to the poor people. 6 - one will cut him hair then in circle, she/it will leave her/its secular clothes and one will give him three tunics and a coat. 7 - he/it won't be allowed him then to leave the monastery without useful, reasonable, manifest and approved motive. 8 - after one year of novitiate, she/it will be received to the obedience: she/it will promise to observe our life and our shape of poverty always. 9 - no won't be able to receive the veil during the novitiate. 11 that the abbess is careful to provide each of clothes according to the temperaments of the sisters, according to the places, the seasons, the cold regions, insofar as it will appear necessary. 12 - the girls received at the monastery before having age required will have hair cut in circle also; they will leave the secular clothes and will wear the religious dress if the abbess judges it by the way. 13 - arrivals to age required, they will make profession as the other. 14 - these young candidates, as well as the other beginners, will be confided by the abbess to a mistress chosen among the most discreet of the whole monastery to form them with care to one holy life and a blameless conduct according to the shape of our profession. 15 - one will also observe above the prescriptions for the admission and the exam of the sisters that serve out of the monastery. 16 these last will be able to wear some shoes. 17 no woman won't be able to stay at the monastery if she has not been admitted according to the shape of our profession. 18 and for the love of the very holy and beloved child, surrounded with poor diapers and lying in a manger, and for the love of his/her/its very holy Mother, I implore my sisters and I exhort them, to wear coarse clothes always, there. 3. |
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| OF THE DIVINE OFFICE; OF THE FASTING; OF THE CONFESSION AND THE COMMUNION |
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| 1 the sisters who know how to read will
recite the divine office according to the use of the Minor Brothers.
They will be able to have some breviaries 4 therefore. The Office
will be recited, and non sung. 2 - and for a reasonable reason they cannot say the office so, they will be able to, as the other sisters, to recite the Paternoster Nosters. 3 - the sisters who don't know how to read will say twenty-four Paternoster Nosters for Matins, five for Laudes, seven for each of the small Hours: Bonus, Third, Sextes and None; twelve for Vespers; seven for Complies. 4 - for the deceased, they will also say, to Vespers, seven Paternoster Nosters followed the Requiem aeternam, and to Matins twelve, 5 - the days where the sisters who know how to read are held to recite the office of the Deaths. 6 - when one of the sisters will come to die, the other will say for her fifty Paternoster Nosters 7 - the sisters will fast in all time. 8 - at Christmas yet, they will be able to have two meals, whatever is the day of the week. 9 - the all young sisters, those that are weak and those that serve out of the monastery will be able to, to the abbess's judgment, to be dispensed of the fasting. 10 - in manifest urgency, the sisters won't be valued the bodily fasting. 11 that they confess at least twelve times in the year with the abbess's permission. 12 - that they make sure well then to speak only of what looks at the confession and the salute of their soul. 13 - that they receive communion seven times: at Christmas, Thursday Saint, at Easter, at the Pentecost, to the Assumption, to the Saint-François, and to All Saints' Day. 14 - to give the communion to the sisters the fence. |
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| 4. OF L 'ELECTION AND OF THE ABBESS'S FUNCTIONS.
OF THE CHAPTER OF THE DIFFERENT LOADS AND THE DISCRÉTOIRE |
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| 1 for an abbess's election, the sisters are held to observe the
canonical shape. 2 - that they try to get the presence of the general Minister of the order of the Minor Brothers, or of the provincial Minister, that, in an instruction, will prepare them to the perfect concord and to the common utility in the election to come. 3 - one will only elect a sister professes. If a sister no professes is elected imposed either in another way, one will only obey to him from the moment where she/it will have made profession to observe the shape of our poverty. 4 to the abbess's death, that one elects another one. 5 - but if he/it appears one day to the unanimity of the sisters that the abbess is not more capable to use itself/themselves to the service of the sisters and to the common utility, then, that the sisters are held, according to what has been indicated, to elect another of it for abbess and mother 5, and it as quickly as possible. 6 - that the one that is elected thinks about the size of the load that she/it received and to The one to which she/it should give account of the herd that has been confided him 6. 7 - that she/it applies to be the first by his/her/its virtues and by a conducted saint rather than by his/her/its load, so that the sisters, provoked by his/her/its example, obey to him by love more that by fear. 8 - she/it will avoid all particular affection, for fear that what she/it doesn't give to some in affection ended up turning in scandal for all. 9 - that she/it comforts the grief-strickens. That she/it is the last recourse of those that is tempted, so that the fragile sisters don't succumb to the pain of the despair, to have found in her the remedy. 10 - that she/it observes herself in all things the common life 7, especially to the choir, to the dormitory, to the refectory, to the infirmary and for all clothes; that the sister priest is held to observe it also. 11 once per week, at least, the abbess is held to collect his/her/its sisters in chapter; 12 - she/it must confess there humbly, as the other sisters, all his/her/its mistakes and public carelessness against the common life; 13 she/it must to treat everything that looks at the utility and the a lot of monastery as there, and it with all sisters, because often it is to the smallest than the Lord reveals what there is of better to make. 14 one won't be able to contract an important debt, except with the common consent of the sisters and for a manifest necessity; one will always make it by a mediator. 15 - that the abbess and the sisters avoid well to receive whatever it is in deposit in the monastery, because it is often there a reason of unrests and scandals. 16 - to keep the union of the mutual love and the peace, the sisters who must receive a load in the monastery will be elected of the common consent of all sisters. 17 - in the same way one will elect at least eight sisters among the most discreet, whose abbess will be held to take the opinion for everything that the shape of our life requires. 18 the sisters can, and they owe it if they judge it useful and by the way, to withdraw to those that they will have elected their load of persons responsible or of discreet, and to elect some others to their place. |
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| 5. OF THE SILENCE; OF THE PARLOR AND THE GRILLE1 |
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| 1 - of Complies until Third, the sisters are valued the silence, except those that serve out of the monastery. 2 one will always be quiet also to the choir, to the dormitory; to the refectory during the meals. 3 but to the infirmary he/it will be allowed the sisters always to speak with discretion for the recreation and the service of the patients. 4 that they as always can and everywhere, but briefly, to communicate itself/themselves what will be necessary. 5 - the sisters won't be able to go to the parlor or the grid without the permission of the abbess or his/her/its priest. 6 - those that will have gotten this permission will only use it in company of two other sisters who can see them and hear them. 7 - that they don't take the liberty to surrender to the grid without the company of three sisters at least, chosen among the eight discreet by the abbess or his/her/its priest. 8 - the abbess and the priest are held to observe the same rule .9 - that one very rarely goes to speak to the grid; to the door ever. 10 - to the grid one will affix, of the interior side, a curtain of material that will only be raised when a priest comes to preach God's speech or when two people must speak themselves of it. 11 - the grid will also include a door made of wood provided with two different locks made of iron, hinges and curses; it will be, especially the night, closed with the two keys of which one will be kept by the abbess and the other by the sacristine; it will always be closed, except to attend the ceremonies or for one the mentioned reasons higher. 12 - no sister, under none pretext, must not speak to the grid to that that it is before the rising or after the sunset. 13 - to the parlor, the curtain will never be removed and will remain always suspended of the interior side. 14 - during the fast of the Saint-Martin and the Large Lent, no one will go to the parlor if it is not to speak to a priest in confession or for a manifest necessity; the permission is let to the judgment of the abbess or his/her/its priest. |
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| 6. THE PROMISES OF THE BLISSFUL FRANÇOIS AND THE RENUNCIATION TO ALL PROPERTY |
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| 1 after the very high celestial Father had condescended by his
grace to illuminate my heart and to show me that I had to make
penitence 8, to the example and according to the doctrine of
our blissful Father holy François, after his/her/its conversion
I promised him a short time voluntarily with my sisters obedience.
2 - and the blessed, seeing that we were not afraid nor of poverty nor work nor the tribulation nor the humble life nor the contempt of the world, but that we found our biggest joy there on the contrary, then, in his/her/its affection for us, he/it wrote us a shape of life in these terms: "Since, by divine inspiration, you wanted to become girls and maids of the very high and sovereign King, the Father of the Heaven, and since you gave yourselves like wives to the mind-Saint while choosing to live according to the perfection of the holy Gospel, I want, and I make the promise of it, to have always, by me and by my brothers, for you as for them, an attentive care and a special solicitude. " So much that he/it lived, he/it was faithful to his/her/its promise, and he/it wanted that his/her/its brothers are there always faithful, them also. 3 - and to stop us from deviating the way of the very holy poverty on which we had committed, us and those that will come after us, he/it wrote us once again his/her/its last will, a short time before his/her/its death, in these terms: "Me, the small brother François, I want to follow life and the poverty of our very high Lord Jesus Christ and his/her/its very holy Mother, and until the death I want to persevere in this way. I pray you, you, my Ladies, and I counsel you to live always in this very holy life and poverty. Keep yourselves well to move away of it ever in no way to you; don't accept on this point nor doctrine nor advice of no one. " 4 - in the same way therefore that my sisters and I always took care to observe the holy poverty that we promised the Lord God and the blissful François, so the abbesses who will follow to me and all sisters will be held to observe it inviolably until the end. 5 - that means that they are held not to have and to receive neither no possession nor property, by themselves nor per person interposed, nor whatever it is that a property can be called. 6 exception is made for the surface of land necessary to the good and to the isolation of the monastery, and this land will only be worked to provide the vegetables and fruits necessary to the sisters. |
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| 7. OF WORK AND THE AUMÔNES |
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| 1 - the sisters to which the Lord gave the
grace to work will take care after Third to a work that suits
our state and intended to the common utility; and this with
fidelity and devotion: 2 - so, once remote the idleness, enemy of the soul, they won't extinguish the mind of prayer and devotion to which must be subordinated the other temporal things. 3 - the abbess or his/her/its priest will be held to distribute to each, admonish of it, the part that comes back him of the executed works. 4 - one will proceed from the same way, in chapter, for the aumônes sent by people for the purpose of the sisters, so that the whole community prays for them. 5 - all these aumônes will be distributed, for the common utility, by the abbess or his/her/its priest, after opinion of the Discreet. |
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| 8. OF THE EVANGELICAL BEGGING; OF THE POVERTY OF EACH. AND OF THE SICK SISTERS |
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| 1 the sisters must not appropriate anything, nor house, nor place,
nor whatever it is, but, tippets and foreign in this century,
serving the Lord in poverty and the humility, that they send
to beg confidently for them. 2 - and it is not necessary that they are ashamed, because the Lord made itself poor in this world. Such is the size of the very high poverty that established you, my very dear sœurs, heiresses and queens of kingdom of the heaven, returned you poor people in terrestrial goods, but rich in virtues. That it is there your sharing, her that drives in the earth of the living; to her attachés completely, beloved sisters, have the firm will of ever to possess anything else under the sky, for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and his/her/its very holy Mother 9. 3 - he/it is never allowed any sister to send some letters or to receive some, or to give whatever it is out of the monastery, without the abbess's permission. 4 she/it won't be able to either to keep that what the abbess will either have given him authorized to keep. 5 - if something is sent him by his/her/its family or by others, it is the abbess who will transmit it to him. The sister will have some for her if she has need of it; otherwise she will make some benefit another sister charitably in the need. 6 - but if money is sent, it is the abbess that, after the opinion of the Discreet, will arrange herself of it for the purpose of the sister. 7 - as for the sick sisters, so much for the advice that for food and everything that their illness requires, the abbess is held firmly to inquire by herself and by the other sisters, and to provide there with charity and big heart according to the possibilities of the monastery. 8 - all are held to provide the necessary their sick sisters and to serve them as they would like themselves to be served if they were hit on their turn by the illness. 9 - that in all security they open up one to the other of their needs. And if a mother cherishes and feeds his/her/its daughter according to the flesh, how much more each she doesn't owe to cherish and to feed his/her/its sister according to the mind! 10 - the patients will be able to lie down on work benches and will be able to have under the head a pillow of feather. Those that need stocking or covers will be able to use some. 11 - when the patients receive the visit of those that has the right to enter to the monastery, she/it can answer some edifying words those that come to speak to them. 12 - but the other sisters, who are not sick, won't take the liberty to speak to these people who enter in the monastery that if they got the permission of it, and in presence of two Discreet can hear them, designated by the abbess or his/her/its priest. 13 - for these interviews, the same shape must be observed by the abbess and by his/her/its priest |
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| 9. OF THE PENITENCE TO TO IMPOSE TO THE
SISTERS, AND OF THE SISTERS WHO SERVE OUT OF THE MONASTERY |
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| 1 - if a sister, to the enemy's instigation, sins fatally against
the shape of our profession, and if she doesn't correct herself/itself
after have been warned two or three times by the abbess or by
the other sisters, she will receive like penitence to fast to
bread and water, on the floor, to the refectory before all sisters,
as many days as she will have been rebel to all admonition;
she will be able to be punished again more severely if the abbess
the appropriate judge .2 - so much that she/it resists, one will ask the Lord to illuminate his/her/its heart to bring it to the penitence. 3 - the abbess and all sisters must really make sure to irritate or to become disturbed because of the sin of one of them, because the anger and trouble are an obstacle to the charity in itself and in the other. 4 - if he/it arrived, that that to God pleases, that between two sisters a speech or a gesture gave opportunity of trouble or scandal, that the one that caused the reason of this trouble immediately leaves, before even to present to God the homage of his/her/its prayer, to prostrate humbly to his/her/its companion's feet, to ask him for forgiveness and to implore it to intercede for it by the Lord so that it gets the forgiveness. 5 - as for offended it, that she/it remembers the speech of the Lord: "If you don't forgive the bottom of the heart, our celestial Father won't forgive you either 10! " and that she/it forgets big heart what his/her/its sister made to him. 6 - the sisters who serve out of the monastery must not too long leave without manifest necessity. 7 - they must go modestly and to speak little, in order to build those that see them always. 8 - that they make sure well of ever to have relations nor suspected conversations with men. 9 - they won't be able to be godmothers of men nor women for fear that is born on this occasion whispers it or the scandal. 10 - and that they don't dare to return ever to the monastery what one tells in the world. 11 - they are as firmly holdings not to go anything to return what says itself outside or make itself inside the monastery, and that could cause the scandal. 12 - if a sister misses once while passing to one these colons, the penitence to inflict is let him to the judgment and to the abbess's mercy; but if it becomes at home a habit, that the abbess, with the opinion of the Discreet, inflicts him a penitence in relation with the gravity of the mistake |
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| 10. OF ADMONITION AND THE CORRECTION OF THE SISTERS |
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| 1 - that the abbess visits and warned his/her/its sisters; that
she corrects them with humility and charity, their in command
of nothing that either against their conscience and the shape
of our profession. 2 - as for the sisters who are submitted to him, they will remember that for God they made abnegation of their clean will. They are held therefore firmly to obey their abbesses in everything that they promised to the Lord to observe and that is not contrary nor to their soul nor to our profession. 3 - that the abbess, on his/her/its side, has towards them such a familiarity that the sisters can speak and act with her as mistresses with their maid. Because he/it must be thus some: the abbess is the maid of all sisters, 4 - besides, I warn the sisters and I exhort them in our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep of all pride, of vain glory, of the desire, the greed, the care and the solicitude of this world, of the slander and the whisper, the faction and the division. 5 - that they are on the contrary always attentive to keep between them the unit of the mutual love, that is the tie of the perfection 6 - that those that don't know how to read don't get in pain to learn it. 7 - but that they consider that, above all, they must want to possess the mind of the Lord and his/her/its holy operation, to ask God of a pure heart always, to have the humility and the patience in the test and the illness, to like those that persecute us, take us and contradict us, because the Lord says: "Blissful those that endure persecution for the justice, because kingdom of the heaven is theirs 12 and the one that will persevere until the end, that one will be saved 13. " |
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| 11. OF THE FENCE |
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| 1 - that the door has a mature and discreet conduct, that it is
of appropriate age; that it resides during the day in a cell
opened without door. 2 - one will attach him a companion capable to supply it in all when it will be necessary. 3 - the door will be provided solidly with two different locks made of iron, hinges and curses; 4 - she/it will be, during the night, closed with the two keys of which one will be kept by the abbess and the other by the door,; 5 - during the day, one will never let it without guard and she/it will be closed well by one the two locks. 6 - that one takes care well and that one pays attention well to ever to let the open door, except if one can make reasonably otherwise. 7 - that one never opens it to that wants to enter, otherwise to that received the permission of the Sovereign Pontiff or our Cardinal Protecteur of it. 8 - one won't be able to enter to the monastery before the sunrise nor after his/her/its bedtime, except when necessary obvious, reasonable and unavoidable. 9 - so for an abbess's blessing or for a sister's profession or for all other reason a bishop gets the permission to celebrate the Mass inside the fence, that he is content with the smallest number possible of mates or servers, and of the most virtuous. 10 - if one must let enter some workers in the monastery to undertake any work, the abbess will take care to designate the more indicated to open them the door and to let enter the workers hired for the anticipated work, to the exclusion of all other person, only. 11 - the sisters will stay up, on this occasion, to not to be seen by those that enter. |
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| 12. OF THE VISITOR; OF THE CHAPLAIN AND
HIS/HER/ITS MATES; OF THE CARDINAL PROTECTEUR |
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| 1 - our visitor must be always a Minor Brother, according to will
and the order of the Cardinal Lord. 2 - that he/it is a man on the honorable behavior of which one has all guaranteed. 3 - his/her/its task will be to correct, as well in the head that in the members, all abuses committed against the shape of our profession. 4 - that, being held in a public place at the sight of all, he/it can speak at a time with several sisters or with one only, of everything that milked to the visit, according to what will appear him most appropriate. 5 - it is also to this same Order of the Minor Brothers that we ask like a grace, in the name of the goodness of God and the one of François saint, to give us what he/it always procured up to here us with so much kindliness again,: a chaplain with a mate clerk of good reputation, of tried discretion, and two brothers convers of saint life and of moralities, to help us in our poverty. 6 - the chaplain won't be able to, without his/her/its mate, to enter to the monastery. 7 - entered once, they will be held in a common piece, so that they can always see themselves and be seen. 8 - to confess the patients who cannot go at the parlor, and to give them the communion or the extreme unction, as well as the prayers of the agonizing, he/it will also be allowed them to enter. 9 - for a funeral, for a solemn Mass of the deceased, to dig, to reopen or to enlarge a tomb, the choice of the necessary people is let to the abbess's prudence. 10 - besides, that the sisters are always held firmly to have for governor, protective and corrective the cardinal of the Roman church designated to this effect by the Lord Pope for the Minor Brothers, 1-1 so that, always subject and prostrate to the feet of this same saint Church, steady in the Catholic faith, we observed poverty and the humility of our Lord Jesus Christ and his/her/its very holy Mother always, as well as the holy Gospel that we promised firmly. (End of the Rule) 1. Given to Pérouse, September 16, 1252, the tenth year of the pontificate of the Lord Pope Innocent IV. 2. (Fiin of the letter of the Cardinal Raynald)2. That he/it is allowed therefore absolutely no one to contravene this page of our confirmation or to infringe there by a daring audacity. But if someone had the presumption to make an attempt there, that he/it knows that he/it will incur the indignation of the almighty God and the holy Apostle Pierre and Paul. Given to Foundation, August 9, 1253, the eleventh year of our pontificate. |
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| THE
BUBBLE OF CANONIZATION |
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| The normal outcome
of a canonization suit, it is... the canonization 106. The one
of Claire took place August 15, 1255. The ceremonies took place
in the cathedral of Anagni. The blessing of Saint ClaireOn possesses three "blessings of "Claire
saint. One will notice the parallel with François saint: so much in
the fact of the adieu blessing, that in the use of the biblical
formula of the Book of the Numbers, formula used by François
saint for brother Léon. Here is the text of blessing of Claire
saint to all his/her/its soeurs.Au name of the Father, the Son
and the Holy spirit. Amen.Que our Lord blessed you and keep
you; that it discovers you his/her/its face and takes you in
mercy; that it turns toward you his/her/its face and give you
the peace, to you my sisters and my daughters, to all those
that will come after you and that will remain in our company,
and to all others that will persevere in all our Order, until
the end, in this holy poverty. |
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| LETTER IN ERMENTRUDE OF BRUGES |
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| Original of Cologne, Ermentrude had left its homeland toward 1240.
After several years of reclusive life, she/it would have founded
in Bruges several monasteries that led the same poor and contemplative
life that Saint-Damien. It is in Ermentrude that one owes the
diffusion of the second Order in Flanders, if one believes Wadding
52 of it. This one also learns us that holy Claire wrote two
letters to Ermentrude; unfortunately he doesn't transmit them
to us literally, he is content with condensing these two letters
in one only, in a sort of summary. One recovers the style and
the thought of Claire saint there well, but one will always
deplore the loss of the two original texts that probably had
a character a little more personal. (To say truly, he/it is
well possible that the text of the supposed second letter is
merely the one of the blessing of Claire saint in Ermentrude.
To see higher). In Ermentrude, his/her/its very dear sister, Claire of foundation, humble maid of Christ, hello and peace! I learned, very dear sister, that with the grace of the Lord you had been happy enough to escape the mud of this world. It caused me biggest joy, I congratulate you about it and I am all happy to the thought that you and your daughters you survey the roads of the holiness courageously. Be faithful until the death, beloved sister, to The one to which you you are dedicated, because you will receive him the crown of Life one day. Our pain has a time here below only, but the reward is eternal; doesn't let you seduce by the splendors of a world that flee as the shade. Don't let you take to the appearances of one misleading century; plugs your ears to everything that the hell will come to whisper you, oppose to his/her/its efforts an energetic resistance. Support the tests of a happy heart; when all goes well, don't pull any vanity of it, successes as the reverses requiring the faith. Be therefore faithful to the promises that you made to God, and himself will issue you the reward of it. Look at the sky that calls us and waits us, my beloved; take your cross and am the Christ who precedes us: by will be able to enter us to him in his/her/its glory after having crossed all sorts of tests. Like all your God heart and his/her/its Son Jesus who were crucified for us other sinners; that his/her/its memory never leaves your memory. Make in sort to meditate the mystery of his/her/its cross and his/her/its Mother's pains that held itself up of it continually. Eve and pray constantly. Lead to good, without discouraging you, the work that you began so well. Full without failing, in poverty and in the humility, the load that you assumed. Don't have any fear, my daughter, because God is faithful to his/her/its speech and holy in his/her/its actions: he/it will spill his/its blessings on you and on your daughters; he/it will come you in help and will comfort you; he/it is our redeemer and our reward for the eternity. Let's ask God one for the other: each structural thus by love the burden of the other, the Christ's law will be us lighter to accomplish. Amen. |
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| THE SUIT OF CANONISAITON |
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| The pope Innocent IV was again all touched of the events of these
last days: August 9 he/it had signed the bubble approving the
Rule of Claire saint; he/it had returned personally visit to
the dying and had given him the absolution; August 12 she/it
died, and the following day he/it presided himself the ceremony
of funeral ceremony. In his/her/its loving admiration for the
deceased, he/it wanted to make sing the office of the Virgins
instead of the office of the Deaths; but the cardinal Raynald
made him observe that it go quickly a little in task: no office
without canonization, not of canonization without investigation
nor suit! Here is why, two months only after, the pope Innocent
IV put the bishop of Spolète in charge of instructing this suit.
Bishop Barthélemy composed his court: an archpriest, an archidiacre, three minor brothers and a notary. This court transported itself in Saint-Damien November 24 to record the depositions of the Sisters, then to the church Saint-Paul of foundation for the depositions of the citizens (the investigation continued on the posthumous miracles, but the depositions are lost). The Acts of the suit were written and were sent to the papal Curie, but the pope Innocent IV had died in Naples January 7, 1254. · honor and joy to canonize Claire fell to the new pope Alexandre IV, who was merely the cardinal Raynald 4, friend of the holy and protective of the order. · The file of the Acts of the suit constitutes a piece of first value for the authors who undertake to write the life of Claire saint. In fact, he/it was used several times: · by Thomas of Celano first (enters 1255 and 1260) that worked on order of Alexander IV. The picture of the pp. 17-20 reveal to what point the writer is respectful of his/her/its source; · by an anonymous writer of the beginning of the XVI' century, that translates Celano and enriches it of texts of various sources, of which some drawn of the suit 1; · by Florence's brother Mariano (t 1537), author of Chronicles of the order and a treaty (unpublished) on the Dignity and excellence of the second Order. (Luc Wadding, more belated columnist, sometimes refers to the suit, but he uses it, he seems, according to Mariano and not of first hand). What text did these authors have to their disposition? The Latin primitive text maybe; but this one has not been recovered. Fortunately, he/it had been translated in ombrien, in Pérouse in the XVe century. The abbess of Pérouse, sister Madeleine, probably carried away a copy of it when she left to Florence to help towards the formation of the monastery of Santa Chiara Novella. It is at the library of this city that this manuscript was discovered by the P. Lazzeri2. One will always deplore a witness's absence whose deposition would yet have interested us to the highest point: Agnès, Claire's sister. This one died "a short time after "Claire's death says Celano (09' 48). The tradition of it stationary the date to November 16, 1253, one week only before the opening of the investigation there. Lazzeri and Fortinis opt for August 27. Since in this work we present some "documents", the translation will resign itself to reflect the slowness and the heaviness of the sentences of the minutes. Actually, it is a dialogue that the notary's report broadcasts. To restore him his/her/its vivacity and sometimes his/her/its dramatic vibration, it would be necessary to replace by the direct style the meanders of the indirect style: "Interrogated if... she/it answered that." It is there the principle adopted by Raymond Oursel in his/her/its Suit of Jeanne of bow 3, ' we could not make it here. But that will want to make the effort to face the text of our conscientious clerk will have the happy surprise to discover, to every detour of paragraph, a cool, living and Franciscan Claire,: that one even that the witnesses had seen again and sensible, three months earlier, with them under the arcades of the small cloister of Saint-Damien, Last remark on the text presented here: we keep, by scruple of fidelity, the subtitles of the Latin edition, in spite of the contingency and sometimes the queerness of their apparition. For example one reads before the paragraph 3/10: "Of a sister who was delivered of a fistula"; however the text describes several recoveries then and tell besides the history of the brothers collection takers. A subtitle doesn't cover the entirety of the text that follows therefore, until the following subtitle; well often it is only a note added in margin of the manuscript by a reader, it only concerns the paragraph in the face of which it is written, but it passed then in full text. The stocks of the chapters of the different rules don't often have another origin. |
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| FOLLOWS THE SUIT OF THE CLEAR SAINT CANONIZATION |
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 How
the pope Innocent wrote to the bishop of Spolète, asking it
to inquire into life, the conversion, the behavior and the miracles
of Claire saint, according to what is contained in the bubble
that follows. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Me, Bartholomew, bishop of Spolète 1, received letters of the very holy Father, Eminence the pope Innocent IV, of which here is the teneur2: "Innocent, bishop, servant of God's servants, to the venerable brother Bartholomew, bishop of Spolète, hello and apostolic blessing. God is glorious in his/her/its saints; him only operates in them of big and marvelous things; he shows an admirable manner and by various kinds of miracles, his/her/its desire to reveal, after their life and their death, the holiness of his/her/its supporters when he wants to issue them the honors of the supreme glory and the reward of the celestial beatitude. The reverberation of these miracles, prodigies and marvels (possible only for the God's power, One in Three and Three in A) must make to proclaim the power of the Very High and to make adore on earth the ineffable and sublime name of The one whose empire doesn't have any borders and that makes explode his/her/its glory with magnificence at the height of the heaven. Attracted by these desirable rewards, the blissful Claire, of saint memory, once abbess of the Poor reclusive Ladies of foundation Saint-Damien, meditated the Prophet's verse: "Listen, my daughter, see and ready the ear, forget your people and your father's house, because the King wanted your beauty." She/it turned the back to the perishable and transient securities and left right before her, forgetful of all things of the past, attentive and eager to listen and to put in practice God's speech. She/it put neither slowness nor delay to obey this voice that she/it listened to with rapture; she/it immediately gave up herself, to his/her/its parents, to all good. She/it was already girl of the celestial kingdom; she/it elected and chooses for Spouse poor Christ, the King of the kings. Dedicating itself/themselves completely to him, in all generosity and in all humility, she/it offered him mainly in dowry these two treasures: the grant of his/her/its poverty and the vow of his/her/its virginal chastity. So were united the pure virgin and the immaculate spouse, and of this alliance was born a chaste, fertile and admirable lineage to all eyes, a family of which the perfect life and the love for his/her/its holy profession radiate in all parts of the world, such a celestial plant producing for God of the abundant fruits. There it is therefore, the wife that, having lived like dead to the world, was pleasing to the very high God so much by his/her/its impetuses and his/her/its acts of virtue and by his/her/its generosity! To his/her/its blissful death, immediately same that she/it had left this deadly life, the God's goodness all powerful, the God's goodness that rewards all good, (goodness going beyond the merits and the desires of those that pray it) appears to have granted, for the exaltation of his/her/its glorious name and by the intercession of the clear merits of the virgin Claire, of big kindness to those that asked for them, and to have operated on earth various and numerous miracles, by her and thanks to his/her/its prayers. He/it is therefore quite just and worthy that is honored in the militant church the one that God's goodness proposes to the devotion of the supporters by so many graces granted and so many miracles to venerate. It is why we command your fraternity, by these apostolic letters, to inquire of life, conversion and behavior of the aforesaid virgin Claire, as well as of the truth of the miracles and all their circumstances, and it minutely and with care, while following the cross-examination 3 that we send you herewith under our seal. What you will have found to this topic, please take care to send it to us under your seal, written faithfully by the hand of a public notary, so that the soul of the one that, one can believe it, already enjoys the rejoicing of the sky, donned of the immortality dress, is exalted also in this world by the worthy praises of the crowd of the believers. Given at Midsummer's Day of Latran, the fifteenth day of the Calendeses of November, the eleventh year of our pontificate 4". Consequently, me, Bartholomew, I being transported personally to the monastery of Saint-Damien, I received the depositions once concerning life, the conversion, the behavior and the miracles of Claire lady, of saint memory, abbess of the monastery of foundation Saint-Damien. The names and the depositions of the witnesses are transcribed below. The fourth twenty day of the month of November, in the cloister of Saint-Damien, appeared 5 ladies: 1. Pacifica Guelfuccio di of foundation, 2. Benvenuta of Pérouse, 3. Philippa of Messire Leonardo of Gislerio, 4. Beloved of Messire Martin of Corozano, 5. Christiane of Messire Christian of Pâris, 6. Christine of Bernard of Suppo, 7. Benvenuta of Oportulo of Alexandro, 8. Françoise of Messire Capitaneo of Coldimezzo, 9. Béatrice of Messire Favarone of foundation, 10. Cécile of Spello, 11. Balvina of Messire Martin of Corozano, 12. Agnès of Messire Oportulo, 13. Lucie of Rome, 14. nuns of the aforesaid monastery of Saint-Damien. They swore to say the truth on life, the conversion, the behavior and the miracles of Claire saint, in presence of the commissioners whose names follow,: 15. Messire Leonardo, archidiacre of Spolète, 16. Messire Jacques, archpriest of Trevi, 17. Brother Léon, Brother Angel, 18. Brother Marc, minor brothers, 19. Martin lord, notary 6, 20. being present the venerable father and Bartholomew Lord, bishop of Spolete, |
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| THE CLEAR SAINT RULE |
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| Of 1211, year of Claire's vêture, to 1218, one cannot say that
the second Order has been governed strictly speaking by a rule.
The sisters who wanted to follow Claire had colons of reference:
they first committed to live the gospel in fraternity, and secondly
to practice it to François' manner. Founding and founding were
the interpreters allowed of the common ideal; one consulted
them in case of concrete difficulty. Their decisions and their
living examples replaced all legal deficiencies. In this interval of 1211-1218 appears to a first text yet. One hardly dares to give him the name under which he/it is usually designated: Rule of life for Claire's sisters. Eight lines written by François and inserted later, with that titles even, by Claire to the chapter sixth of his/her/its own writing. It is not a rule to the legal sense, but it is Claire's document essential to the eyes, that will fight all his/her/its life for the colons that he/it contains: the evangelical poverty to François' example, and the spiritual tie with the first Order 5. Second important document: the Privilege of poverty, granted by Innocent III. Of the text himself he/it comes out again that for him was asked by the sisters 6. To notice the date first: 1215-1216, therefore immediately after the Council of the Latran that had barred all new foundation: here, by the slant of the recognized poverty, the second Order is connected at first and it will be able to see therefore one day fully confirmed his/her/its legal existence. To notice the firmness of the tone also: if the pope is obliged to take the defense of poor feminine fraternities, it is than at the time well few supporters (and of prelates) were prepared to understand and to admit that some women expose themselves, same under pretext of gospel, to all brimades and to all inherent risks to the lack of regular incomes. Third turn for the order and his/her/its legislation: 1218-1219. It is the time of the first foundations: Foligno, Monticelli, Pérouse. The cardinal Hugolin solicits and gets the new pope, Honorius Ill, the load of protector of the second Order. Does he/it benefit François' absence, then in Orient? Still he is that he/it writes a rule for the sisters. This text is delicate to interpret serenely. Hugolin borrows a lot to the Cistercian customs 7, but it is to give to the new Order, with the rule of Benoît saint, a better legal cover; Hugolin is very rigorous on some points of outside mortification (fasting, silence), but it is maybe in writing there a stake of such or such observance already practiced in Saint-Damien and that Claire will integrate 8 to his/her/its own writing of 1253; Hugolin doesn't say a word of the properties nor the uniting with in any case the first Order, the colons that Claire had so much at heart. The period that followed the enactment of this rule must be feeling for the monasteries. The papal texts follow themselves and don't look alike. The sisters hesitate on the conduct to hold. One hears an echo of their anguishes in the correspondence between Agnès and Claire, then between each of them and Hugolin. In 1228, this one become Grégoire IX renews the Privilege of poverty 9. But in 1230 he/it forbids the brothers the visit of the monasteries of Poor Ladies 10. He/it grants some concessions of detail well in 1235, 37, 38, and 39, but on the essential the old pope is inflexible: in 1239 he/it promulgates his/her/its rule of 1219 again, and he/it reaffirms in the preamble: "We give you for rule the one of saint Benoît 11." With Innocent IV, the waltz-hesitation continues. In 1245 he/it imposes the rule of Hugolin 12 again. But since 1247 he/it promulgates himself another of it 13. This time, the rule is not said anymore "of "Benoît saint, but "of "François saint; the general minister of the first Order becomes the spiritual father of the second. But by a really disconcerting contradiction, the same rule grants to the sisters the permission to possess properties and incomes. Satisfied by the first measure, Claire felt wounded deeply by the second. She/it adopted the only tactics capable to re-establish the situation: she/it wrote herself a rule, while being inspired by the rule of the Minor Brothers and the observances of Saint Damien. She/it presented it to the protector of his/her/its Order, the cardinal Raynald, that approved it in 1252. But she/it wanted more again: when, in the first days of August 1253, Innocent IV came in person to pay a visit to him, she gathered her/its last strengths to defend the reason of poverty. The result didn't make itself wait: August 9, a brother ran to Saint-Damien, carrier of the definitive approval. The following day at dawn, Claire, having finished on earth his/her/its task of spiritual mother of the Poor Ladies, left to join the Christ and François to which, until the tip, she/it had kept immutable his/her/its fidelity. In 1893 was discovered, shut in in a casket of ebony and sheltered by a fold of the garment that regained the saint's body, the original document of the definitive rule, signed by Innocent IV and received by Claire saint stays up it even of his/her/its death. |
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| RULE OF LIFE FOR THE SISTERS OF FATTENING POND Eloi Leclerc,
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| Text writes by François saint in 1211-1212. Quoted by Claire in
his/her/its Rule 6/2. 1 since, by inspiration of God, you wanted
to become girls and maids of the very high and sovereign King,
the Father of the heaven, and since you gave yourselves like
wives to the mind-Saint while adopting a life in conformity
with the perfection of the holy Gospel, 2 I want, and I take
the engagement of it, to have always, by myself and by my brothers,
for you as for them, an attentive care and an affection all
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LAST WILL FOR THE SISTERS OF FATTENING POND. |
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The time of God and the Paix.Mais God, who don't watch to the
appearances, knows than with time of his/her/its mercy, he/it
can change the heart of the men. There is a time for all beings.
But this time is not the same for all. The time of the things
is not the one of the beasts. And the one of the beasts is
not the one of the humans. And above all and different of
all, there is God's time that locks all others in and passes
them. God's heart doesn't beat to the same rhythm that ours.
He/it has his/its clean movement. The one of his/her/its eternal
mercy that spreads of age in age and ages never. He/it is
very difficult to us to enter in this divine time. And however,
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| CLEAR SAINT OF FOUNDATION BY Abbé L. Jaud, |
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| Virgin and Founding of Claire Ordre(1194-1253)Sainte was born to Foundation, in Italy. Since his/her/its childhood, one can admire in her a quick appeal for the retirement, the prayer, the contempt of the world, the love of the poor people and the suffering; under his/her/its precious dresses, she/it carried a cilice. At the age of sixteen years, greatly touched of the life so holy of François of foundation, she/it is going to confide him his/her/its desire to give itself/themselves all to God. The Saint penetrates it of the flames of the divine love, accept to direct his/her/its life, but he requires some acts: Claire will have to, donned of a bag, to browse the city while begging his/her/its bread of door in door. She/it accomplishes big heart this humiliating act, and, few days after, leave the liveries of the century, receives François a rough tunic with a rope to gird on him the kidneys, and a coarse veil on his/her/its head stripped of his/her/its beautiful hair.
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| WILL OF CLEAR SAINT BY DAMIEN VORREUX O.F.M. |
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the name of the Lord. Amen. 1 biggest of all graces that we received and that we receive every day of our big Benefactor, the Father of Mercies, the one of which we must be he most thankful, it is our vocation; and we must testify to God of as much more gratitude than the state to which he/it called us is bigger and more perfect. It is why the apostle says: Become aware of your vocation! 2 gold, God's Son made himself/itself himself our Way, and the blissful Father holy François, his/her/its authentic lover and his/her/its imitator, showed it to us and taught by his/her/its speech and by his/her/its examples. 3 we must therefore, my beloved sisters, to consider the immense kindness of which God filled us, but especially those of which he condescended to encourage us through the intermediary of his/her/its servant our dear Father holy François, not only after our entry to the monastery 1 but even though we were again in the vanities of the world 2. 4 Indeed, to the time where the saint didn't have again with him nor brother nor mate, nearly immediately after his/her/its conversion, to the time where he rebuilt the church of Saint-Damien, visited there by the Lord and full of his/her/its consolations, that decided it to leave the world definitely, it is whereas, in the joy of the mind-Saint and with the help of his/her/its lights, he made on us this prophecy whose Lord achieved the achievement then: of the top of the wall of the church he/it addressed in French some poor people who parked there and he/it shouted to them: "Come, help me to work for the monastery of Saint-Damien, because he/it will come here of the nuns of which the holy life and the renown will stimulate the men to glorify our Father of the heaven in all his/her/its holy Church 3! " 5 we have very subject therefore to consider there God's immense goodness to our consideration: in his/her/its goodness and his/her/its love overabounds it made proclaim by his/her/its saint the choice that it would carry on us and the call that it would address us. And it was not only of us that our blissful Father prophesied thus, but again of all those that will follow us in this holy vocation to which the Lord called us. 6 with what care therefore, with what impetus passionate of the body and the soul don't must us to accomplish what asks us for God our Father, so that with his/her/its grace we can return multiplied him the talent that we received some! Multiplied, because it is not only for the others that God destined us to be the models and mirrors, but also for each of our sisters so that they are at their tower of the models and mirrors for those that live in the world. So therefore the Lord called us to so big things: to let see in us what can serve to the other of model and example, we first have the strict obligation to bless the Lord and to report him the whole glory of it, and then to return we ourselves still more and more courageous in the Lord to make the good. If we live thus, we will let to the other a noble example 4, and at the cost of an effort of very short length we will acquire the reward of the eternal beatitude. 7 after the very high Father of the heaven had condescended, by his/her/its goodness and by his/her/its grace, to project in my heart his/her/its lights and to inspire me to make penitence according to the example and the teaching of our blissful Father François (it was a short time after his/her/its own conversion), accompanied by the few sisters that the Lord had given me since the beginning of my life for God, I made the vow of obedience voluntarily between his/her/its hands, according to light and the grace that the Lord had granted us by the holy life and his/her/its servant's doctrine. 8 seer that we were weak and fragile of body, and than yet nor the deprivations nor poverty nor the effort nor the tests nor austerity nor the contempt of the society people didn't make us move back, but that we found our joy there on the contrary, to the example of the saints and the Minor Brothers (himself and his/her/its brothers were the witnesses frequently of it), the blissful François is delighted some strong and, in his/her/its affection for us, he committed to take us, by himself or by his/her/its Order, an attentive and as considerate care for us that for his/her/its own Brothers 5. 9 so, by the will of God and our blissful Father holy François, we transported ourselves to the church of Saint-Damien to stay there. The Lord, in his/her/its goodness and by his/her/its grace, increased there our number, in order to achieve what it had predicted by his/its servant. Before we had made a short stay in another monastery. 10 Saint François wrote us a shape of life then and especially recommended us to persevere always in the holy poverty. He/it was not content, during his/her/its life, to exhort us often, by his/her/its sermons or by his/her/its examples, to the love and to the observance of the very holy poverty; but he/it has us, besides, let several writings 6 us imploring of ever to separate us, after his/her/its death, of the poverty life, not more that God's Son himself, so much that he/it lived in this world, didn't want to separate itself/themselves of it. Our blissful Father François, besides, following in it the traces of God's Son, never departed either nor in speech nor in act of the holy poverty that he/it had chosen for him and for his/her/its Brothers. 11 and me, Claire, who is, although unworthy, the maid of the Christ and the poor Sisters of the monastery of Saint-Damien, me the small plant of the blissful Father, having considered on the one hand with my sisters the requirements of such a vocation and the orders of one so big founder, and on the other hand the weakness of which we had feared for ourselves the effects after our Father's disappearance holy François who was our column, our unique consolation after God, our only support, we renewed several times our engagement to our Lady the very holy Poverty, so that after my death the present sisters or to not to come can separate themselves never again of it. 12 and as well as I was always attentive and passionate to observe and to make observe the holy poverty that we promised to the Lord and our Father holy François, in the same way, that the other abbesses who will follow to me are held to observe it themselves and to make observe it by their sisters until the end. Besides, and for more of safety, I took care to resort to the Lord Pope Innocent, under the reign of which we began, and to his/her/its successors, to make confirm by successive privileges our profession of very holy poverty, and it so that we never departed 7 of them. 13 it is why, on the knees and prostrate of mind and body, I recommend all my sisters, present and to come, to our Mother the holy Roman Church, to the Sovereign Pontiff, and especially to the cardinal Lord who has been assigned like Protector to the order of the Minor Brothers and to ourselves; I confide them this small herd that the Lord our Father generated in his holy Church thanks to the speech and to the example of the blissful Father François; for the love of the Lord that is born poor in the manger, that lived poor on earth and that remained naked on the cross, I ask them to guide this small herd always finally on the traces of poverty and the humility of the Son of God and the glorious Virgin his/her/its Mother, to make always observe him the holy poverty that we promised God and our blissful Father François, to want to help it and to maintain it in this way well always. 14 and as well as the Lord gave us our blissful Father François as Founder, as "gardener" and as help in the Christ's service and with regard to what we promised God and our blissful Father who put so much care, by his/her/its words and by his/her/its works, to cultivate us and to make grow us, us his/her/its small plantation, in the same way, I now, put back and recommend my sisters, present and to come, to the successor of the blissful François and to all Brothers of his/her/its Order, so that they help us to advance always farther in God's service, and especially to observe the very holy poverty better. 15 and if he/it arrived one day to my sisters to leave this convent and to be going to settle 8 elsewhere, that they are held nevertheless, everywhere where they will be after my death, to observe the same shape of poverty as us promised it to God and to our blissful Father François. 16 that the one that has the load of it, and all sisters always take well care not to acquire or not to accept a land around the convent that as much as the need will make feel itself/themselves of it for the harvest of the vegetables. And if it was necessary one day, for the etiquettes or the isolation of the monastery, to take land more beyond the vegetable garden, that one doesn't take more of them that the extreme necessity requires it; and that this earth is not worked sowed nor but that it remains always uncultivated and fallow. 17 I warn and I exhort, in our Lord Jesus Christ, all my sisters, present and to come, to have to follow the way of the holy simplicity, the humility and poverty, to have also to lead a holy and edifying life, always according to the teachings that, since the beginning of our conversion to the Christ, lavished us our blissful Father François. These virtues, indeed, without there is merit of our part but by the only mercy and grace of The one that are the author, the Father of Mercies, of it must spill the perfume of our good reputation everywhere, as well for those that are far away that for those that surround us. 18 like yourselves one another of the love whose Christ liked you; and this love that you possess inside your souls, show it to the outside by acts so that, stimulated by this example, all sisters always grow in God's love and in the love the some of the other. 19 I also ask the one that will be charged of the sisters, to study itself/themselves to be the first by the virtue and the holiness of his/her/its life more that by his/her/its load, so that the sisters, stimulated by his/her/its example, obey to him more by affection that by. That she/it has for her/its sisters the providence and a mother's discernment for his/her/its daughters, and that she/it is well attentive to provide each according to the needs that are clean to him, by means of the aumônes sent by the Lord. That she/it is besides so understanding and so comely for all, that the sisters can open up in all security to her of their necessities and can resort confidently to her to every instant, as he/it will seem appropriate to them, so much for themselves that for their sisters. 20 but that, on their side, the sisters who are submitted to him remember that for the Lord they gave up their clean will. I want therefore that they obey their Mother as they promised it voluntarily to the Lord and spontaneously 9, so that their Mother, at the sight of the love, the humility and the union that règneront between them, can carry the burden of his/her/its load more gleefully and that their holy life changes smoothly for it what otherwise would be laborious and bitter to him. 21 but the path that leads to life is narrow, and the door that we give access there is narrow it also; it is why has some little that borrow this path. And among those that, during a certain time, walked there, there are less that there perseveres of them again well. But, blissful those to which he/it has been given to walk there and to persevere there until the end! 22 us therefore, after being hired us in the way of the Lord, let's make sure well of ever to separate of it to us of no manner by our mistake, by carelessness or by ignorance, because, that making, we would undermine one so big Lord, to the Virgin his/her/its Mother, to our blissful Father François, to the triumphant and same church to the militant church. He/it is written indeed: Cursed are those that depart of your commands 10! 23 it is why I bend the knees before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ 11 so that, in consideration of the merits of the glorious Virgin Marie, his/her/its Mother, of our blissful Father François and all saints, the Lord who gave us the grace to begin well also gives us to bloom in it 12 and to persevere until the end. Amen. 24 I let you this writing, my beloved, present sisters and to come, with the hope that you will observe it better of your and like a tangible sign of the blessing of the Lord, of the blessing of our blissful Father holy François, and of the blessing that I give you, me, your Mother and your maid. Soul |
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| François asked Léon: - You, brother, what the purity of the heart is, know? - It is not to have a mistake to feel guilty, answered Léon without hesitating. - Then, I understand your sadness, says François. Because one always has something to feel guilty. - Yes, says Léon, and it precisely made me lose hope to arrive one day to the purity of the heart. - Ah! Brother Léon, believe me, retorted François, don't worry so much the purity of your soul. Turn your look toward God. Admire it. Rejoice you of what he/it is, him, all holiness. Return him graces because of himself. It is it even, small brother, to have the pure heart. And when you are turned thus toward God, don't make especially any return on yourself. Don't wonder where you are some with God. The sadness not to be perfected and to discover itself/themselves sinner, is again a human, too human feeling. It is necessary to raise your look more high, a lot higher. There are God, the immensity of God and his/her/its immutable splendor. The pure heart is the one that stops adoring the living and true Lord. He/it takes a deep interest to God's very life and he/it is capable, in the middle of all his/her/its miseries, to vibrate to the eternal innocence and God's eternal joy. Such a heart is stripped at a time and happy. He/it is sufficient to him that God is God. In it even, he/it finds all his/her/its peace, all his/her/its pleasure. And God himself is then all his/her/its holiness Eloi Leclerc, "Wisdom of a poor" pp,: 104-107. |
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Léon. - But then, all those that try to make something in this world are dreamers! he/it says after one moment of silence. - I don't say it, answered François. But I think that it is difficult to accept the reality. And in actual fact no man ever accepts completely it. We want to add a cubit always to our size, one way or another. Such is the goal of most our actions. Even when we think to work for God's Kingdom, it is again it that we search for well often. Until the day where, knocking us to the failure, to a deep failure, we have this only excessive reality only: God is. We discover whereas he/it has almighty there than him, and that he/it is the only saint and the only one good. The man who accepts this reality and that rejoices itself in depth of it found the peace. God is, and it is enough. Whatever he/it arrives, there is God, God's splendor. He/it is sufficient that God is God. Only, the man who accepts God in this manner is capable to accept itself/themselves indeed oneself. He/it becomes free all to want particular. More nothing comes to disturb in him the divine game of the creation. His/her/its to want simplified itself and at the same time he/it made himself/itself vast and deep as the world. A simple and pure to want God, who kisses all, that welcomes all. More nothing separates it of the creative act. He/it is entirely open to God's action that makes of him that that he/it wants, that leads it where he/it wants. And this holy obedience gives him access to the depths of the universe to the power that propels the stars and makes hatch so pleasantly the humblest wild flowers. He/it sees clear inside the world. He/it discovers this sovereign goodness that is at the origin of all beings and that will be one day entire in all, but he/it already sees it widespread and in full bloom in every being. He/it participates himself in the big shape of goodness. He/it becomes merciful, solar as the Father who makes be resplendent his/her/its sun with the same lavishness on the good and the mean. Ah, brother Tancrède! That God's glory is big! And the world streams of his/her/its beauty and his/her/its mercy! Wisdom of a poor" pp: 136-137 |
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me, said François, I want to be submitted to all men and all
creatures of this world, as much that of in high God permits
it. - No, there indeed, Father, I am not you, I don't understand you, says Tancrède. - You don't understand myself, took François, because this attitude of humility and submissiveness seems you cowardice and passivity. But it is about all something else. Me also I was a long time without understanding. I struggled in the night like a poor bird took to the trap. But the Lord had mercy of me. He/it made me see that highest activity of the man and his/her/its maturity don't consist in the pursuit of an idea, so elevated and so holy she is, but in the humble and happy acceptance of that that is, of everything that is. The man who follows his/her/its idea remains shut in in himself. He/it doesn't receive communion indeed to the beings. He/it never makes acquaintance with the universe. He lacks the silence, the depth and the peace. A man's depth is in his/her/its power of welcome. Most men stay isolated in themselves, in spite of all appearances. They are similar to bugs who don't succeed in stripping itself/themselves of their cockle. They are agitated desperately inside their limits. At the end of the account, they meet as to the departure. They believe to have changed something, but they die without even to have seen the day. They are never awake to the reality. They lived in dream. Eloi Leclerc, "Wisdom of a poor",: p. 135. |
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To evangelize a man, you see, it tell to him: You also, you are liked of God in the Lord Jesus. And not only to tell it to him, but to think it really. And not only to think it, but to behave with this man in such a way that he/it feels and discover that there is in him something of saved, something bigger and of nobler than what he/it thought, and that he/it awakens thus to a new self-awareness. It is it, to announce him the good news. You cannot make it that while offering him your friendship. A real, disinterested friendship, without condescension, made trustworthy and of esteem deep. It is necessary for us to go toward the men. The task is delicate. The world of the men is an immense field of struggle for wealth and the power. And too many sufferings and atrocities hide from them God's face. It especially is not necessary that while going toward them. We appeared to them like a new species of competitors. We must be in the middle of them the witnesses pacified of the All - Powerful, of the men without lusts and without contempt, capable to become really their friends. It is our friendship for that they wait, a friendship that makes them feel that they are liked of God and are saved in Christ." Eloi Leclerc, "Wisdom of a poor". pp:
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- You told to me that you spent your life looking for God. How do you look for it? While shouting? While crying? While singing? or while fasting? Each must have his/her/its own road that drives it to God. What is she/it yours? I lowered the head, anxious, hesitant to answer. I knew what road I followed to look for God, I often thought of it, but I didn't dare to speak of it. To this time, I was ashamed before the men because I was not ashamed owing God. - Why don't you answer me? gets François
of a plaintive tone. I cross a difficult moment and I ask
you to help me. Help me! - It is going to appear you strange, Messire François, but the road that I chose to go to God's meeting is the laziness. If I had not been lazy, me I would also be arranged myself as all honest people, I would have learned a profession, I would have opened a boutique of woodworker, weaver or shoemaker, I would have worked all day, I would have gotten married and would not have had the time to look for God. Me I would be told: Why look for from noon at fourteen o'clock?" would I have wasted all my energy to earn my bread, to make the children, to order a woman! In these conditions, where to find the time to stroll, how to keep a pure heart to think about God? "Fortunately, I am born lazy. It annoyed me to work, to get married me, to make the children, to create me of the worries. The winter, I spread in the sun, and the summer, to the shade. The night, lying on the terrace of my house, facing the sky, I looked at the moon and the stars. But how you want not to think about God while looking at the moon and the stars? I could not sleep anymore. I told to myself: "Who made all it and why? Who made me myself and why?" and again: "Where can God be?" Because I wanted to be going to find it and to ask him all these questions. You know, the piety needs laziness and leisures; doesn't listen to what one tells to you. A worker, who brings tired in the evening at home in, forget God's existence. He/it is hungry and only think about to eat. He/it argues with his/its wife, beats his/her/its children without motive, simply because he/it is tired, irritated. After, he/it closes the fists and sleeps... Then he/it wakes up one instant, his/her/its wife is next to him, he hugs it, close again the fists and dive again in the sleep. Not one minute to think about God! But the one that doesn't have work, nor woman nor child, has the whole time to think of it. In the beginning, it is by curiosity but little by little, the anguish mingles some... Don't nod the head, Messire François. You interrogated me, I answered you. - Continues, brother Léon, speak, don't stop. Then, in this case, the devil also, as the laziness, could drive to God? You give me courage. speak again. - That to tell you besides, François messire? you know the rest. My parents had let me a little well. I spent everything. Then I took my besace and I left in search of God, of door in door, from convent to convent, of village in village... Where is he/it? Someone he to him seen? I seemed to pursue a terrifying fawn. Some laughed, of other threw me some stones, others beat me again. But me, I always left in search of God. - And did you find It? I felt on me François' breath out of breath. - How to find It, my young Lord? I asked for advice to all sorts of people: f the sages, of the saints, of the mad, the prelates, the troubadours, the centenaries,. But each indicated me a different path: which to choose? I lost the head. "The path that drives to God, told me a sage of Bologna, that is the woman and the child. Get married." And another, a mad that one: "If you want to find God, don't look for it. If you want to see It, farm the eyes, if you want to hear It, plug you the ears. It is what I made, me!" He/it closed the eyes, joined the hands and got to cry. A woman who lived stark naked in the forest, cannot give me of other answer that this scream: "Love! Love!" while running under the pines and while hitting itself/themselves the chest! "Another time, I met a saint in an underground cave. By dint of to cry, he/it had lost the view; the dirtiness and the holiness had returned his/her/its scaly skin. It is he that gave me the answer the just and most terrifying. Nothing that to think of it, I have the goose flesh. - What is this answer? I want to know
it! gets François while trembling. We were quiet. François had now buried
his/her/its face in the pillow; he breathed with difficulty.
And me, to comfort it,: - That knows, he/it whispered after
a short silence, so God is not exactly God's research! These
words frightened me. François was also afraid him because
he hid his/its face in his/her/its hands. He/it was quiet and smiles. Then he/it
leaned the head and repeated in a whisper: - François, my brother, tell to him
me, every least believer very man, God door, deeply buried
in his/her/its heart, enveloped in his flesh.... It is God
who shouted in you. François closed the eyes. He/it had not
slept of all night long and he/it was sleepy.- Sleep, François,
gleam I say mildly, the sleep is also God's angel, have confidence!
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| HOW HOLY CLEAR ATE TO SAINT-GET
MARRIED OF THE ANGELS WITH SAINT FRANÇOIS AND THE BROTHERS HIS/HER/ITS MATES |
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| When holy François
stayed to Foundation, he often visited holy Claire and gave
him of saints teachings. And she/it had an extreme desire to
eat once with him and she/it often prayed of it to him, and
he/it never wanted to grant him this consolation. This reason
his/her/its mates, seeing the desire of Claire saint, told François
saint: "Father, he/it seems us that this rigor is not according
to the divine charity, not to want to grant sister Claire, so
holy and beloved virgin of God, in a thing as small as to eat
with you, and especially if you consider that to your predication
it abandoned the riches and the pumps of the world. In truth,
if she/it asked you for an even bigger favor than that one,
you should grant it to your small spiritual plant. " Then holy
François answered: Does he/it seem "you that I must to grant
it? " And his/her/its mates: "Yes, father, it is a just thing
that you grant him this consolation. " Saint François says then:
"Since he/it seems you it, he/it seems me it also. But so that
she/it is comforted more, I want that this meal gets used to
Saint-Marie of the Angels: because a long time ago that she/it
is reclusive to Saint - Damien, this will be him a joy for it
to review a little the convent of Saint-Marie, where she/it
had cut hair and was made wife of Christ; we will eat there
together in the name of God. " The chosen day having arrived
therefore, holy Claire left the monastery with a companion,
and, escorted of the mates of François saint, she came to Saint-Marie
of the Angels. After she/it had greeted the Virgin Marie owing
his/her/its altar devoutly, where she/it had had cut hair and
had received the veil, they led it to see the convent until
he/it was the hour of the meal. During this time, holy François
had the table prepared to even the earth, as he was accustomed.
And the hour of the meal come, they sat down together, holy
François and holy Claire, and one of the mates of François saint
with the companion of Claire saint; then all others mates took
place humbly at table. And to the first dish, holy François
began to speak so marvelously of God with so much suavity, with
so much elevation, that the divine grace descending on them
in abundance, he was all delight in God. And while they were
delighted thus, the eyes and the hands raised to the sky, people
of foundation and Bettona 25 and those of the surrounding region
saw that Saint-Marie of the Angels, and the whole convent, and
the wood that was then next to the convent, were burning completely,
and he/it seemed them that an unique inferno occupied the place
and of the church and the convent and wood. This reason people
of Foundation ran there in big hurry to extinguish fire, believing
firmly that all burned. But arrived to the convent and seer
that nothing burned, they penetrated there and found holy François
with Claire saint and all their mates delighted in God in the
contemplation, and seated around this humble table. From where
they understood with certainty that it was there a divine and
non material fire, that God had made appear miraculously, to
show and to represent the fire of the divine love, of which
burned the souls of these holy brothers and holy moniales; also
they left the heart filled of a big consolation and built saintly.
Then, after a long length, holy François and holy Claire came back to them at the same time as the other, and feeling comforted well by the spiritual food, worried little about the bodily food. And this blessed meal finished thus, holy Claire came back well accompanied to Saint - Damien. Of what the sisters had, while seeing it, big rejoicing; because they feared that holy François had not sent it to govern other monastery some, as already he had sent sister Agnès, his/her/its holy sister, to govern like abbess the monastery of Monticelli of Florence 26; and holy François had sometimes told Claire saint: "Hold you ready, for the case where he/it would be necessary that I send you in some convent"; and she/it, in girl of the holy obedience, had answered: "Father, I am always ready to go everywhere where you will send to me. " It is why the sisters were delighted a lot when they had it again among them; and holy Claire stayed since then comforted very. To the Christ's praise. Amen. |
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| HOW
HOLY FRANÇOIS REÇUT OF CLEAR SAINT AND THE HOLY BROTHER FOREST THE COUNCIL OF PRÈCHER |
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| The Christ's humble servant
holy François, a short time after his/her/its conversion, whereas
he/it had already collected and received in the order a lot
of mates, entered in big reflection and big puzzlement on what
he/it had to make: or to take to only to the prayer, or to deliver
itself/themselves sometimes to the predication; and he/it wanted
to know a lot on this point God's will. And because the humility
that was not in it allowed him to trust himself nor nor to his/her/its
prayers, it had the thought to search for the divine will by
means of the prayers of the other. He/it called Massaged brother
therefore and spoke to him thus: "Go find sister Claire and say him of my part that he/it pleases to him to make known me what is the best, or to devote to me to the predication or only to the prayer. Go then find brother Silvester 27 and say him the same thing. " This last had been, in the century, this Messire Silvester who had seen to come out of the mouth of François saint a cross of gold that was high until the sky and large until the extremities of the world: and this brother Silvester was of such a piety and such a holiness that he got that for that he asked God and that he was granted, and often he conversed with God; it is reason holy François had in him a big confidence. Massaged brother left and, following the order of François saint, he first carried the message to Claire saint, then to brother Silvester 28. This one, as soon as he/it had received it, immediately threw himself in prayer, and while he/it prayed, he/it had the divine answer; he/it came back then to Massaged brother and spoke to him thus: Here is what God says that you return to brother François: God didn't only call it in this state for himself, but so that he makes a big crop of souls and that a lot of men are saved by him. " Having received this Massaged answer brother returned holy Claire circa to know what she/it had gotten God. And she/it answered that she and his/her/its companions 29 had had of God this same answer that brother Silvester had received. With it, Massaged brother came back by François saint, and holy François received it with a very big charity, washed him the feet and prepared him one meal. After he/it had eaten, holy François called brother Massaged in wood, and there, knelt before him, pulled his/her/its hood, put the arms in cross 30 and asked to him: "What does my Lord Jesus Christ order that I make? " Massaged brother answered that, so much to brother Silvester that to sister Claire and to his/her/its sister, the Christ had answered and revealed this: "His/her/its will is that you are going to preach by the world, because it didn't elect you for you only, but also for the salute of the other. " Then holy François, having heard this answer and known by her the Christ's will, rose in a very big devotion and says: "Let's go in the name of God. " And he/it took for Massaged mates brother and brother Angel, two holy men. And leading under the impetuous impulse of the mind without worrying nor about road, nor of trail, they arrived to a village that was called Cannara 31. And holy François started preaching. To the Christ's praise. Amen. |
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| HOW TO SAINT-DAMIEN GOD REVEALED TO SAINT
FRANÇOIS THAT HE/IT WOULD HAVE THE PARADISE WHILE LEAVING THIS WORLD |
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| As once holy François suffered seriously from the eyes, Messire
Hugolin, protective cardinal of the order, in the big tenderness
that he had for him, wrote him to come to find it in Rieti,
where there were excellent physicians of the eyes. Then holy
François, having received the cardinal's letter, first surrendered
to Saint - Damien, where was holy Claire, very religious wife
of the Christ, to give him some consolations and to go then
close to the cardinal. And holy François being there, the state
of his/her/its eyes worsened the following night so that it
didn't see the all the light anymore; as for this reason it
could not leave, holy Claire made him a small cell of reeds
where he could take a rest better. But holy François, so much
because of the pain of his/her/its pain that of the multitude
of the mice that tormented it extremely, could not rest one
instant, nor of day nor night. And suffering several days of
this pain and tribulation, he/it began to think and to recognize
that it was there God's curse for his/her/its sins; and he/it
began to thank God of all his/her/its heart and his/her/its
lips; then he/it shouted in a high voice these words: "My Lord, I am worthy of it and of very worse again. My Lord Jesus Christ, grant me the grace and the virtue of ever to separate me of you, for no illness, anguish or pain. " And when he/it had made this prayer, a voice came him from the sky that said: "François, answer me, if the whole earth was gold. and that all seas, the streams and the fountains were the balm, and that all mountains, the hills and the rocks were precious stones, and that you found another nobler treasure more that those, is as much as gold nobler than the earth, and the balm that water, and the precious stones that the mountains and the rocks, and that this nobler treasure you were given for this illness, would not you have to in to really be happy and very happy? " Saint François answered: Lord, I am not worthy of a treasure as precious. " And God's voice tells to him: "Rejoice you, François, because this treasure is the treasure of the eternal life that I reserve to you and of which I invest you from now on; and this illness and tribulation is only the deposits of this blissful treasure 32. " Then holy François, in a very big joy of one so glorious promise, called his mate and tells to him: "Let's go to the cardinal. " And after having comforted holy Claire with saints words and taken humbly holiday of her, he/it moved toward Rieti. To the Christ's praise. Amen. |
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| HOW HOLY CLEAR, BY ORDER OF THE POPE, BLESSED
THE BREAD THAT WAS ON THE TABLE, WHAT MADE APPEAR ON EVERY BREAD SIGNS IT OF THE CROSS |
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 Saint
Claire, very devout disciple of the Christ's cross and noble
plant of Messire holy François, was of such a holiness that,
not only the bishops and the cardinals, but even the pope wanted
with big affection to see it and to hear it, and visited it
often in person. Once among others, the holy Father 33 went
to the monastery where she was to hear to speak it of the celestial
and divine things; and as they were thus together in divine
interviews, holy Claire, during this time, made prepare the
tables and there to put bread, so that the holy Father blessed
it. Then, the finished spiritual interview, holy Claire kneels
with big respect and pray it that he pleases to him to bless
bread placed to table. The holy Father answers: "Sœur very faithful Claire, I want that it is you that blessed these breads and that on them you make the sign of the Christ's cross, to which you you are all data. " And holy Claire says: "Very holy Father, forgive me, because I would deserve too big reproaches if, in presence of the Christ's priest, me that am only a vile small woman I had the presumption to give such a blessing. " And the pope answers: "So that it is not imputed to the presumption but to the merit of the holy obedience, I order you, by the holy obedience, to make on these breads the sign of the cross and to bless them in the name of God. " Then holy Claire, in truth girl of the obedience, blessed very devoutly these breads with the sign of the cross. Admirable thing! immediately appeared on all these breads the sign of the perfectly engraved cross. And then a part of these breads was eaten and the other kept because of the miracle. And the Saint Father, who had seen the miracle, took this bread and left returning thanks to God and letting holy Claire with his/her/its blessing. In this time stayed in this monastery sister Ortolana, mother of Claire saint, and sister Agnès, his/her/its sister, all two as Claire saint full of virtues and full of the mind - Saint, and also a lot of other saints moniales; holy François sent them a lot of patients; and they, by their prayers and by the sign of the cross, returned them to all health. To the Christ's praise. Amen. |
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| HOW HOLY CLEAR, BEING SICK, WAS TRANSPORTED
MIRACULOUSLY, THE NIGHT OF THE EASTER OF CHRISTMAS, IN THE CHURCH
OF SAINT FRANÇOIS AND HEARD THE OFFICE THERE |
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| Saint Claire was once seriously sick to the point not to be able
to go to say the office at the church with the other moniales;
came the solemnity of the Christ's Nativity, all other went
to Matins, and her only remained in bed, dissatisfy not to be
able to come with the other and to have this spiritual consolation.
But Christ, his/her/its spouse, didn't want to let it thus inconsolée:
he/it made it transport miraculously there to the church of
François saint, to attend all the office of Matins and the Mass
of the night, to receive besides the holy communion, and to
report then to his/her/its bed. The office finished to Saint - Damien, the moniales came back close to Claire saint and told to him: "have our mother, holy Claire, what big consolation us had in this holy Nativity! Be pleasing to God that you had been with us! " Saint Claire answered: "I return graces and praises, my sisters and beloved girls, to my blessed Lord Jesus Christ, bus to all solennités of this very holy night, and to bigger than those where you went, I went myself with a lot of consolation for my soul; because, by my father's intercession holy François and by the grace of my Lord Jesus Christ, I was present in my father's church holy François 34, and, of the ears of my body as those of my soul, I heard all songs and the music of the organs that are made itself of it; and there same I received the very holy communion. Of so many graces that has been made to me, rejoice yourselves therefore and thank Our - Lord Jesus Christ. " Amen. |
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| HOW MESSIRE LANDOLFE CONNUT THAT BROTHER
FRANÇOIS AND CLEAR SISTER HAD SAVED THE WORLD OF GOD'S ANGER |
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| To the time where holy François was about to die, the demon entered
in a woman of the castle of Massaged di Santo Piero, close to
Gubbio. II tormented it cruelly and made it speak so subtly
that she triumphed over all scholarly and literate men who came
to dispute with her. Hearing it, Landolfe messire, noble knight,
who was very religious to François saint, came to find this
woman and interrogated the demon. II adjured it, in the name
of God, to tell him what there was of truly touching the holiness
of François saint, of which he said that he had died, and of
Claire saint, that living being. The demon answered: "That I want it or no, I will tell you what is true of it. God the Father was so indignant against the sins of the world, that he appeared to want to pronounce shortly against the men and against the women the definitive sentence to wipe out them of the world if they didn't correct themselves. But the Christ, his/her/its Son, praying for the sinners, promised to renew his/her/its life and his/her/its Passion, in a man, that wants to say in François, small poor and beggar, by life and the doctrine of that he would bring back a lot of whole society people in the way of the truth and to the penitence 35. And now, to show to the world that it he/it had made it in François saint, he/it wanted that the Stigmata of his/her/its Passion, that he/it had printed on his/its body during his/her/its life, were now seen and touched, to his/her/its death, by a lot of people. In the same way the Christ's Mother promised to renew his/her/its virginal purity and his/her/its humility in a woman, that means in sister Claire, so that, by his/her/its example, she would pull a lot of thousands of women of our hands. And so God the Father, pacified by these promises, delayed his definitive sentence. " To the Christ's praise. Amen. |
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| Midnight. A bell rang. And the Mass began.
Brother Léon celebrated. François helped it, covered of the
deacon's white dalmatique. He/it sang the gospel that announces
to the world the happy event..... |
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| Then François took the floor: "My friends, did you hear? he/it exclaimed, elated of enthusiasm: "You will recognize it to this sign: it is a child newborn, lying in a manger". The Lord of the glory, to this sign,: quite a small, on straw, like the most miserable, the poorest, the darkest of the children of the men! See God's humility. Oh humble sublimity! In this night, the God of majesty became our brother. Him biggest is made itself smallest, the last. He/it approached of us under the sign of fragility and the tenderness. This time, God revealed us his/her/its being's bottom. In him, there only are not the power, the sovereignty, the science and the majesty; has the innocence, the childhood and the tenderness also infinite. And him the East because he/it is father, infinitely father. The men didn't know until what point God is father. They were not able to the knowledge. It was necessary that God showed them his/her/its Son. Alas! the men hastened to forget. The men with the hard heart don't need the humanity of God and his/her/its tenderness. She/it is them a reproach. They don't understand it. They don't even see it. They always imagine that the size is in the power and the domination. Poor men! The true grandeur,la only true size, my brothers, is to like indeed and to be as the Father. In this world, this size is threatened. Since God's Kingdom presented himself/itself to us under the features of a small child, surrounded of weakness, it is always threatened, dedicated to the persecution and to the death. The valets of Hérode are already agitated in the Christmas eve. Kingdom is threatened to the outside of us and in us, because is born again always in each of us the old animal desire, the will to dominate and to devour, to be the strongest, the most powerful. But quit to fear. The angel of the Lord asks us |
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