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A PRAYER OF THE BLESSED FRANCIS TO OBTAIN HOLY POVERTY.

O Lord Jesus! Show me the ways of Thy dearly-loved Poverty. I know that the Old Testament was but a Figure of the New. In the Old, Thou hast promised that "every place that your foot shall tread upon, shall be