Almighty, Most Holy, Most High and Highest God,
Holy Father and Just One,
Lord King of Heaven and Earth,
on account of Thee Thyself we give Thee thanks,
because through Thy holy will
and through Thy only Son with the Holy Spirit
Thou hast created all spiritual and corporal things
and Thou hast placed us,
made according to Thy image and likeness,
in paradise.
And we fell through our own fault.
And we give Thee thanks, because
just as Thou hast created us through Thy Son,
so through Thy sacred love,
with which Thou hast loved us,
Thou hadst Him born true God and true Man
from the glorious and ever-Virgin Holy Mary
and Thou willed that we captives be redeemed
through His Cross and Blood and Death.
And we give Thee thanks,
because Thy Son Himself is to come
in the glory of His Majesty to send the accursed,
who do not do penance
and who do not know Thee,
into eternal fire, and to say to all,
who know Thee and adore and serve Thee in penance:
Come, you blessed of My Father,
lay hold of the kingdom,
which has been prepared for you
from the origin of the world.
And because all of us wretches and sinners
are not worthy to mention Thee,
we entreat Thee suppliantly,
so that Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Beloved Son,
in whom Thou art well pleased,
together with the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete,
may give Thee thanks,
as it may please Thee and Him, for all things,
He who for Thee is always sufficient for all things,
through whom Thou hast made so many things for us.
Alleluia.

And we humbly entreat the glorious Mother,
the most blessed Mary ever-Virgin,
blessed Michael, Gabriel and Raphael
and all the choirs of the blessed Seraphim, Cherubim,
Thrones, Dominations, Principalities, Powers,
Virtues, Angels, Archangels,
blessed John the Baptist, John the Evangelist,
Peter, Paul and the blessed Patriarchs,
Prophets, the Holy Innocents, Apostles, Evangelists,
Disciples, Martyrs, Confessors, Virgins,
blessed Elijah and Enoch, and all the Saints,
who were and will be and are,
for the sake of Thy love, so that,
as it may please Thee,
to render thanks for these things to Thee
the true God, eternal and living,
with Thy most dear Son,
Our Lord Jesus Christ,
and the Holy Spirit unto the ages of ages.
Amen Alleluia

And all of us friars minor, useless servants,
humbly beg and beseech all within the Holy Catholic
and Apostolic Church willing to serve the Lord God
and all those following orders,
priests, deacons, subdeacons,
acolytes, exorcists, lectors, ushers and all the clergy,
all the religious men and women,
all the converts and children, poor and needed,
kings and princes, labourers and farmers,
servants and lords, all virgins and the continent
and the married, lay, men and women,
all the infants, adolescents, youth and elderly and infirm,
all the small and great, and
all peoples, clans, tribes and tongues,
all nations and all men of whatever lands,
who are and who will be,
that we may persevere in the True Faith
and in penance, because no one can be saved otherwise
Let us all love with all our heart,
with all our soul, with all our mind,
with all our virtue and strength, with all our intellect,
and with all our powers of soul and body,
with all our effort, with all our affection,
with all our guts, with all our desires and willings
the Lord God, who gave and gives all of us
our entire body, our entire soul and our entire life,
He who created, redeemed,
and by His mercy alone will save us,
He who has worked and works all good for us
who are miserable and wretched,
putrid and stinking, ungrateful and wicked.
Therefore let us desire nothing other,
let us want nothing other,
may nothing other please and delight us
except Our Creator and Redeemer and Saviour,
the only true God,
who is the Full Good, All Good, entirely Good,
the True and Highest Good,
who alone is good , faithful, meek, gentle and sweet,
who alone is holy, just, true, holy and right,
who alone is kind, innocent, clean,
from whom and through whom
and in whom is all pardon, all grace,
all the glory of all the penitents and the just,
of all the blessed rejoicing together in Heaven.
Therefore let nothing impede, nothing separate,
nothing come between us and Him;
wherever all of us are in every place,
at every hour and in every season, daily and continually,
let us believe truly and humbly and hold in our hearts
and love, honour, adore, serve, praise
and bless, glorify and exalt above all,
magnify and give thanks to
the Most High and Highest Eternal God,
in Trinity and Unity,
the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
the Creator of all and the Saviour of all who believe
and hope in and love Him,
who is without beginning and without end,
immutable, invisible, inexplicable, ineffable,
incomprehensible, unsearchable, blessed,
praiseworthy, glorious, exalted above all ,
sublime, exceeding, gentle, lovable,
delightful and desirable above all things
throughout the ages.

Amen.

 

 

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