ones, Dominions, Principalities
and Powers, Virtues and Angels, Archangels, John the Baptist,
John the Evangelist, Peter, Paul, and the holy Patriarchs, the
Prophets, the Holy Innocents, Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples,
Martyrs, Confessors, Virgins, the blessed ones, Elijah and
Enoch, and all the saints who have been, shall be, and are, we
humbly pray them by thy love to give thee thanks for these
things, as it pleases thee, sovereign, true, eternal and living
God, and also to thy Son, our most holy Lord Jesus Christ, and
to the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, forever and ever. Amen.
Alleluia.
"And we supplicate all those who desire to serve the Lord God,
in the bosom of the Catholic and Apostolic Church, all priests,
deacons, sub-deacons, acolytes and exorcists, readers, porters,
all clerks, all monks and nuns, all children and little ones,
paupers and exiles, kings, and princes, workmen and laborers,
servants and masters, the virgins, the continent and the
married, laics, men and women, all children, youths, young men
and old men, the sick and the well, the small and the great, the
peoples of every tribe and tongue and nation, all men in every
part of the world whatsoever, who are or who shall be, we pray
and beseech them, all we Brothers Minor, unprofitable servants,
that all together, with one accord we persevere in the true
faith and in penitence, for outside of these no person can be
saved.
"Let us all, with all our heart and all our thought, and all our
strength, and all our mind, with all our vigor, with all our
effort, with all our affection, with all our inward powers, our
desires, and our wills, love the Lord God, who has given to us
all his body, all his soul, all his life, and still gives them
every day to each one of us. He created us, he saved us by his
grace alone; he has been, he still is, full of goodness to us,
us wicked and worthless, corrupt and offensive, ungrateful,
ignorant, bad. We desire nothing else, we wish for nothing else;
may nothing else please us, or have any attraction for us,
except the Creator, the Redeemer, the Saviour, sole and true
God, who is full of goodness, who is all goodness, who is the
true and supreme good, who alone is kind, pious, and merciful,
gracious, sweet, and gentle, who alone is holy, righteous, true,
upright
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