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The Community Obedience

This offering of prayer is to be made daily on its own or in the context of Morning or Evening Prayer.

Here and in all your churches throughout the world, we adore you O Christ, and we bless you, because by your holy Cross you have redeemed the world.

The daily reading from The Principles of the Third Order occurs here.

Intercessions are offered from the annual Third Order Directory and Intercession List.

God, we give you thanks for the Third Order of the Society of St. Francis. Grant, we pray, that being knit together in community and prayer, we your servants may glorify your holy name after the example of Saint Francis, and win others to your love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Collect

Either:

May our blessed Lady pray for us.
May Saint Francis pray for us.
May Saint Clare pray for us.
May all the saints of the Third Order pray for us.
May the holy angels watch over us and befriend us.
May our Lord Jesus give us his blessing and his peace. AMEN.

or

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all evermore. AMEN.