OF

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI,

CALLED ALSO THE

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.-VOL

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让给

LONDON:

BURNS, OATES, AND COMPANY,

17 & 18 Portman Street and 63 Paternoster Row.

1869.

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138.

352

LONDON:

ROBSON AND SONS, PRINTERS, PANCRAS ROAD, N.W.

CONTENTS.

CEREMONIES AND PRAYERS OF THE THIRD ORDER:

INTRODUCTION OF POSTULANTS TO THE CONGREGA-

TIONAL ASSEMBLIES

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GENERAL ABSOLUTION AND PAPAL BENEDICTION

PRAYERS AND LITANIES FOR VARIOUS OCCASIONS

EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE ON THE RULE.

LITTLE OFFICE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

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88

112

117

BLESSING OF THE CORD OF ST. FRANCIS

COMMEMORATION OF THE DEATH OF ST. FRANCIS

360

364

"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

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.

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