[Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Paul Sabatier]@TWC D-Link bookLife of St. Francis of Assisi CHAPTER XV 5/29
I have said these things, being still in the world, that they may have joy in themselves. I have given them thy words, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world.
I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou wilt keep them from the evil.
Sanctify them through the truth; thy word is truth.
As thou hast sent me into the world I have also sent them into the world, and for their sake I sanctify myself that they may themselves be sanctified in the truth; and neither pray I for these alone, but for all those who shall believe on me through their words, that we all may be one, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and that thou lovest them as thou hast loved me.
I have made known unto them thy name, that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them.' PRAYER. "Almighty, most high and sovereign God, holy Father, righteous Lord, King of heaven and earth, we give thee thanks for thine own sake, in that by thy holy will, and by thine only Son and thy Holy Spirit thou hast created all things spiritual and corporeal, and that after having made us in thine image and after thy likeness, thou didst place us in that paradise which we lost by our sin.
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