He Who Works With His Hands And

The Greatest Security We Can Have In This World That We Are In The Grace Of God, Does Not Consist In The Feelings That We Have Of Love To Him, But Rather In An Irrevocable Abandonment Of Our Whole Being Into His Hands, And In A Firm Resolution Never To Consent To Any Sin Great Or Small.

And In Any Preaching You Do, Admonish The People Concerning Repentance, And That Nobody Can Be Saved Except He Who Receives The Most Holy Body And Blood Of Our Lord. And When It Is Sacrificed On The Altar By The Priest Or Borne Anywhere, Let All The People On Bended Knees Render Praise, Glory And Honor To The True And Living Lord God.

I Therefore Command All My Brothers, Those Living Now And Those To Come In The Future, To Venerate The Holy Mother Of God, Whom We Always Implore To Be Our Protectress, To Praise Her At All Times, In All Circumstances Of Life, With All The Means In Their Power And With The Greatest Devotion And Submission.

Grant Me The Treasure Of Sublime Poverty: Permit The Distinctive Sign Of Our Order To Be That It Does Not Possess Anything Of Its Own Beneath The Sun, For The Glory Of Your Name, And That It Have No Other Patrimony Than Begging.

It Is Good To Read The Testimonies Of Scripture; It Is Good To Seek The Lord Our God In Them. As For Me, However, I Have Already Made So Much Of Scripture My Own That I Have More Than Enough To Meditate On And Turn Over In My Mind. I Need No More . .. I Know Christ, The Poor Crucified One.