STIGMATA OF OUR HOLY FATHER FRANCIS
0917 Feast
Entrance Antiphon [ Gal 6:14 ]
May I never boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ! Through it the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.
The Gloria in excelsis (Glory to God in the highest) is said.
Collect
Almighty God, you renewed the marks of the sufferings of your Son in the body of our holy Father Francis in order to inflame our hearts with the fire of your love. Through his prayers may we be made conformable to the death of your Son and thus share also in his resurrection. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
See Franciscan Lectionary, no. 50*.
Prayer over the Offerings
Lord, may the humble and devout prayer of Saint Francis sustain us. Through this offering may we always experience within us the saving benefit of the sufferings of your Son. We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord.
Preface: Our Holy Father Francis of Assisi.
Father, all-powerful and ever-living God, we do well always and everywhere to give you thanks. You exalted your servant Francis through sublime poverty and humility to the heights of evangelical perfection. You inflamed him with seraphic love to exult with unspeakable joy over all the works of creation.
Branding him with the sacred stigmata, you gave us the image of the crucified Jesus Christ, our Lord. Through him the choirs of angels and all the powers of heaven praise and worship your glory. May our voices blend with theirs as we join in their unending hymn of praise:
Communion Antiphon [ Mt 16:24 ]
If anyone wishes to come after me, he must renounce himself, take up his cross, and follow me, says the Lord.
Prayer after Communion
Almighty God, in many ways you displayed the wondrous mystery of the Cross in our holy Father Francis. May we follow the example of his devotion and find strength in constant meditation on the same Cross. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
May I never boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ! Through it the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.
The Gloria in excelsis (Glory to God in the highest) is said.
Collect
Almighty God, you renewed the marks of the sufferings of your Son in the body of our holy Father Francis in order to inflame our hearts with the fire of your love. Through his prayers may we be made conformable to the death of your Son and thus share also in his resurrection. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
See Franciscan Lectionary, no. 50*.
Prayer over the Offerings
Lord, may the humble and devout prayer of Saint Francis sustain us. Through this offering may we always experience within us the saving benefit of the sufferings of your Son. We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord.
Preface: Our Holy Father Francis of Assisi.
Father, all-powerful and ever-living God, we do well always and everywhere to give you thanks. You exalted your servant Francis through sublime poverty and humility to the heights of evangelical perfection. You inflamed him with seraphic love to exult with unspeakable joy over all the works of creation.
Branding him with the sacred stigmata, you gave us the image of the crucified Jesus Christ, our Lord. Through him the choirs of angels and all the powers of heaven praise and worship your glory. May our voices blend with theirs as we join in their unending hymn of praise:
Communion Antiphon [ Mt 16:24 ]
If anyone wishes to come after me, he must renounce himself, take up his cross, and follow me, says the Lord.
Prayer after Communion
Almighty God, in many ways you displayed the wondrous mystery of the Cross in our holy Father Francis. May we follow the example of his devotion and find strength in constant meditation on the same Cross. We ask this through Christ our Lord.