"Rule not bullata" of Saint Francis of Assisi

"All those who want to serve the Lord God in the holy Catholic and apostolic Church: all orders clergymen: the priests, deacons, subdeacons, acolytes, exorcists, readers, ostiari, and all clerics, all men and women religious, all children, the poor and miserable, and the kings and principles, workers, peasants, slaves and masters, all virgins, widows and maritate, lay people, men, women, all children, adolescents, young, old, healthy, the sick, all small and large, and all peoples, nations, races, languages (Rev 7.9), all nations and all people on earth, which are and will be, we all Friars Minor, useless servants (cf. Luke 17:10), humbly pray and beg to persevere in the true faith and repentance, because otherwise no one can be rescued.

All love with all my heart and with all your soul (Deut. 6:5), with all your mind, with all the capacity and strength, with all the intelligence, with all the forces (Mark 12.30-33) (Luke 10.27), with all the momentum, with all the affection, with all the deepest feelings, with all the desire and the will the Lord God, who gave us and gives the whole body, whole 'Soul, all his life, that we are all created and redeemed, and that we will save for its sole mercy. Lui che ogni bene fece e fa a noi miserevoli e miseri, pieni di putrido fetore, ingrati e cattivi. He did that every good and makes us miserable and miserable, full of putrido stench, ungrateful and evil.

Nothing else so desires, we want nothing more and nothing we like and we meet if not the Creator and Redeemer and Savior our only true God and that is full of good, all good, completeness of good, true and supreme good, that alone is good (Luke 18.19), merciful and mild, gentle and sweet, who alone is holy, just, true and righteous, who alone is benign, innocent and pure, from whom and for whom and in which (see Rom 11.36) is every forgiveness, every grace, every glory of all the penitents and all right, all the saints who enjoy together in heaven.

" And everywhere, all of us, in every place, every hour, every time, every day, without cease believe truly and humbly and in the heart and we love, honor, worship, serve, bless and praise, glorify and exalt, and magnify Thank the high and supreme eternal God, Triune and one, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Creator of all things, the Saviour of those working and believes in him, who loves him: who, without beginning and without end, immutable , Invisible, inenarrabile, ineffable, incomprehensible and ininvestigabile, blessed, worthy of praise, glorious, sopraesaltato, sublime, sublime, sweet, lovely, fun and everything always and above all things is desirable for ever and ever. "

Dalla “Regola non bollata” di San Francesco d’Assisi From the "Rule does not bullata" of Saint Francis of Assisi.