Adore the Lord, Almighty God, in Trinity and unity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Repent and make fruits meet for repentance, for you know that we shall soon die.
Give, and it shall be given unto you.

Forgive, and you shall be forgiven; for if you forgive not, God will not forgive you.
Blessed are they who die repenting, for they shall be in the kingdom of heaven....

Abstain carefully from all evil, and persevere in the good until the end."[14] We see how simple and purely ethical was the early Franciscan preaching.
The complications of dogma and scholasticism are entirely absent from it.

To understand how new this was and how refreshing to the soul we must study the disciples that came after him.
With St.Anthony of Padua ([Cross] June 13, 1231; canonized in 1233[15]), the most illustrious of them all, the descent is immense.