Traditional Catholic prayer
Prayer for the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi
Lasance prints this feast prayer from the Roman Missal. It asks God, through St. Francis’s intercession, for detachment from earthly goods and the gifts of heaven.
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 779.
O God, who, through the merits of blessed Francis, dost magnify thy church, enriching it anew with spiritual offspring: make us, like him, to disdain the goods of earth, nor at any time to lack the comforting gifts of heaven.
About this prayer
Prayer source
With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 779.
View the printed prayer page.About our prayer sources- What it is
- Lasance prints this feast prayer from the Roman Missal. It asks God, through St. Francis’s intercession, for detachment from earthly goods and the gifts of heaven.
- Prayer intention
- Detachment and heavenly gifts.
- When to pray
- On St. Francis’s feast or in prayer for simplicity of life.
- Connection with a saint
St. Francis of Assisi: Prayer asking the saint’s intercession. The printed prayer in With God (1911), page 779, asks the intercession of St. Francis of Assisi; it is not presented as a prayer used by the saint. Read the source.
- Languages
- English
- English prayer source
- With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 779. View the historical source. View the printed prayer page. Novena Regina provides the explanations above. The prayer text follows the source named here.
Traditional Catholic prayer
Prayer for the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 779.
O God, who, through the merits of blessed Francis, dost magnify thy church, enriching it anew with spiritual offspring: make us, like him, to disdain the goods of earth, nor at any time to lack the comforting gifts of heaven.