Monday, October 12, 2009

A provocative statement of St. Francis

All of us lesser brothers, useless servants, humbly ask & beg those who wish to serve the Lord God within the Holy Catholic & Apostolic Church & all the following orders: priests, deacons, subdeacons, acolytes, exorcists, lectors, penitents & youths, the poor & the needy, kings & princes, workers & farmers, servants & masters, all virgins, continent, & married women, all laypeople, men & women, all children, adolescents, young & old, the healthy & the sick, all the small & the great, all peoples, races, tribes & tongues, all nations & all people everywhere on earth, who are & who will be, to persevere in the true faith & in penance for otherwise no one will be saved.

- Earlier Rule to the Friars

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