No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

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.

Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.

Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.