OR ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, PARALIP ALSO THE LLED ALSO TAR Order of Penance. “What every one is in the eyes of God that he is, and no more." B. FRANCIS OF ASSISI. IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOLB Det LONDON: BURNS, OATES, AND COMPANY, 17 & 13 Portman Street and 63 Paternoster Row. 1869. 138. 9 352 CONTENTS. PAGE CEREMONIES AND PRAYERS OF THE THIRD ORDER : INTRODUCTION OF POSTULANTS TO THE CONGREGA- THE VOW OF CHASTITY FOR THE SISTERS . : 40 SENTENCES OR SAINTS OF THE MONTH . . . GENERAL ABSOLUTION AND PAPAL BENEDICTION , PRAYERS AND LITANIES FOR VARIOUS OCCASIONS . . EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE ON THE RULE. . . LITTLE OFFICE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY . . 117 ANTIPHONS, VERSICLES, AND PRAYERS FOR THE Com- MEMORATION OF THE SAINTS OF THE ORDER . . THE ASPERSION OF HOLY WATER . . . . . 352 BENEDICTION OF THE Most Holy SACRAMENT . . 354 OCCASIONAL PRAYERS . . . . . . . 357 “Let us begin to serve the Lord our God; for hitherto we have made very little progress.” Words of St. Francis in his last sickne THE FORM OF CEREMONIES FOR CLOTHING, PROFESSION, RENEWAL OF VOWS, GENERAL ASSEMBLIES, AND OTHER OFFICES BELONGING TO THE THIRD ORDER, TOGI HER WITH CERTAIN SPECIAL FRANCISCAN LITANIES AND PRAYERS. “Corporeis audivit auribus ter dicentem : Francisce, vade, et repara domum meam, quæ, ut cernis, tota destruitur.” “He heard these words thrice : Francis, go and repair My House, which thou seest in ruins.” ST. BONAVENTURA, Legend of St. Francis, c. xi. VOL. II. |