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B07680	The rule of the religious, of the thirde order of Saint Francis, both sexes, making the three vouues, and liuing together in communitie and cloyster. VVith certaine other things vvhich the leaf following doth shevve..	Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.; Third Order Regular of St. Francis.	1624 (1624)	STC 11314.6; ESTC S92578	13,969	99

the Brothers and Sisters by the counsail of the discreetes of the sayde Convent let them be receiued to the profession of the sayde order Of the forme of their profession In vvhich profession let them promiss to keep the commandementes of God and to make satisfaction for the transgressions vvhich they shall commit against this third Rule vvhen of theyr prelates they shal be required liuing in obedience vvithout proprietie and in chastitie Of the Faste CHAP. III. THe Brothers and Sisters perpetually on the secoÌ„d fourth sixt feries and the sabbath must eate no flesh except on the feast of the natiuitie of our lorde And from the feast of al saintes vnto the resurrectioÌ„ of our lorde euerie fourth and sixth ferie they must be tyed to fast and likevvse euerie sixth ferie of the vvhole yeare Also from the feast of S. Martin vnto the natiuitie of our lorde let them fast euerie day adioyning the lent of the vniuersal church till the resurrection of our lorde vvhich neuertheless from quinquagesima they must begin But on those dayes in vvhich they fast not let them eat only tvvice a-day Except that from the feast of Easter vnto the moneth of October those that labour in paineful or hard vvork may eate thrice aday Of the laborers the dayes of fast alvvaies excepted Not vvithstanding trauelers infirme and vveake persons in time of necessitie may breake their fast Of the diuine office and Prayer CHAP. IV. THe Brothers and Sisters must in the church keepe silence Of silence specially vvhen mass is celebrated or the vvord of God proposed But in other places let them keepe vvhat by their superiores concerning sileÌ„ce shal be ordeined them they ought also euerie day in the euening betvven themselues and God to thinck vvhat they haue done sayde Of mass to be heard for clerckes for laie or thought And everie day if they can comodiously they ought to heare mass And they must procure that they haue a religious man vvho on certe in dayes may propose to them the vvorde of God and induce them to poenance and virtues And he or she or they vvho by themselues do knovve to say the Canonical hovvres ought to fulfil the Canonical hovvres according to the vse of the holie Romane church But those that do not knovve hovve to say the Canonical hovvres let them say tvvelue Pater nosters for matines and for everie one of the other hovvres seaueÌ„ adding Gloria Patri in the end of euerie Pater noster adding also Credo and Miserere mei Deus in the beginning of Prime aÌ„d of Complet and vvho knovve not thees fore sayde things must say three times the Pater noster for poenance And as often as they take dinner or meate they ought to giuet hankes to God but of Sacramental confession Of ConfessioÌ„ and CoÌ„munion and receiuing the sacred Communion they shal keep the ordination of Pope Nicolas the fovverth that thrice in the yeare they confess and CoÌ„municate or else the statutes of theyr superiores heer vpon ordeined Of the ordeyning of Prelates and Officers CHAP. V. EVerie house if it shal be a Monasterie of men shal haue a Superior of this fraternitie vvho shal be called the Local minister But if of vvomen she shal be called the Mother and they shal be chosen by their conuents or instituted by theyr Prouincial superiors or General visitorâ— so neuertheless Of their subiectioÌ„ to the order of Freers Minores that none be perpetual but for a certein time Which Ministers and Mothers shal obey in al things vvich belong to this present rule to the Prouincial ministers of the order of Minores of B. S. Francis and to the visitors deputed by the same ministers as long as they shal be in the sayde offices But as concerning other offices vvithin the hovvse they shal keepe theyr ovvne statutes Of the maner of Conversing within and without CHAP. VI. WHeras the Brothers and sisters of this fraternitie are called of poenaÌ„ce Of the qualitie of their vesture it behoueth them to abstaine from al curiositie asvvel in vesture as other things vvhat soeuer And according to the vvholsome counsel of the prince of the Aposteles Saint Peter other vaine ornameÌ„ts of this vvorlde layde asyde they ought to carie no corporal ornament but only an humble and necessarie tegumeÌ„t of theyr bodie They ought also to auoyd by all meanes access to the courtes of Princes lordes or ladies vvhere the delicacies of this vvorlde are had as our sauior doth vvitnes Of the sparing of speach Nor euer at onie time to be present at dances playes sportes and other vanities of players They must also be sparing in vvordes and speaches vvhich seeldom vvithout sinne are multiplyed And aboue al things they must abstaine from euerie lye aÌ„d vvhatso euer oath according to the commandemeÌ„t of our lorde vnless it be for peace fidelitie calumnie and giuing testimonie And euerie day at evening among other things they ought examine themselues if either lye or anie oath they haue made and for euerie one they must say three times Pater noster Of the visitation and care of the sicke CHAP VII IF anie Brother or sister of this fraternitie shal fal into infirmitie the Minister of the hovvse or Mother once euerie day by themselues or by another person shal be bound to visite theÌ„ And of the commun goodes they shall diligently cause al thinges necessarie to be ministred vnto them let them be bound also to moue the sicke person to accept poenance and to make a true coÌ„version to God by proposing the neerness of death and the distriction of the diuine iustice and vvithal the diuine mercie Of the visitation vvhich the Prelates ought to make of the Brothers and Sisters CHAP. VIII THe Prouincial minister of the Freers Minores or the visitor of the same order to vvhom he shal commit it shal visite euerie yeare once only in euerie hovvse vvith preseÌ„ce of the elders and the visitation made he ought not to enter into the offices or other invvard places of the Sisters Of entrance of the enclosure And let neuer the visitor himselfe remaine alone and separate vvith anie Sister And the Ministers and Mothers ought to tel the visitor the defects vvhich vvant correction like vvise also the other Brothers Of the incorrigible and Sisters And if anie shal be incorrigible by the iudgement of the discreetes of the hovvse as infectious cattel let them be cast out of the congregation Of the Offices for the dead CHAP. IX AFter that anie Brother or Sister shal be departed out of this vvorlde Of making exequies the Minister or Mother shal take care that their exequies be solemnly celebrated at vvhich al the Brothers or Sisters of anie hovvse vvhere they shal happen to dye ought personally to be present nor to departe vntil the bodie be put into the graue And for the soule of everie one dead vvithin eight dayes let

THE RVLE OF THE RELIGIOVS OF THE THIRDE ORDER OF SAINT FRANCIS both sexes making the three vovves and liuing together in Communitie and Cloyster VVith certaine other things vvhich the leaf follovving doth shevve IHS AT BRVXELLES By Ihon Pepermans at the golden Bible 1624. THE Bulle of Pope Leo the tenth in vvhich is declared that the professed Sisters of the third order of S. FraÌ„cis living together in Communitie and Cloyster having made the three vovves are truly Religious and may enioye the privileges granted to the Freers Minors THe perfectioÌ„s of the rule The prayse of the rule Three privileges which Sâ— Francis obteined of God Three other privileges graÌ„ted him SeaveÌ„ other priuileges granted him Certaine Indulgences granted to S. Francis Order An examin of conscience for Ã Religious person Twelue evilles which come by venial sinne Nine wayes by which we participate of others sinnes Twelue fruictes of the blessed Sacrament Twelue Evangelical counsels The malediction of S. Francis The Litanies of our holie Father S. Francis QVicumque hanc Regulam secuti fuerint pax super illos misericordia Gal. 6.16 Whosoever shall followe this rule peace vpon them and mercie Galat. 6.16 Regula est qua rectum probari solet quam si flectes quicquid ex illa mutaueris iniuria est recti Seneca Epistola 72. A rule is that vvherby the right vseth to be proved which if thovv decline whatsoever thow change of it is iniurie to the right Seneca Epist 72. Nisi ad Regulam praua non corriges Vnless by rule thou canst not correct the vvrong Epist. 11. Regulam tuam gestabis per omne tempus vitae tuae S. Athanasius lib. de Virginitate tom 3. Thou shalt beare thy rule for al the time of thy life Hard great difficult but great are the revvardes S. Hierom. Epist. to Rustic the monck THE PROLOGVE SAint Francis having a most feruent desire to drawe al men to God of what state or coÌ„dition soeuer Rested not but hauing ordeined for the men his first rule called the Rule of the Freers Minors and his secund Rule for women called of S. Clare hath also written the thirde Rule called of Poenance for retyred persons remayning in the worlde Ecclesiastic and saecular maried and vnmaried of both sexes confirmed by Pope Nicolas the fowerth In this Order verie manie holie persons haue liued of which a great number are beatified and some also Canonized in the holie church as Saint Elizabeth S. Ludovic king of France S. Iuo Priest S. Elzearius Count through whose merites the order is verie much multiplied in al partes of the worlde VVheras therfore great multitudes of persons of both sexes are gathered together into seueral communities holding the foresayd third rule and after the maner of spiritual and Religious people binding them selues with the three vowes to witte of obedience Pouertie and Chastitie the same notwithstanding hath been done by permissioÌ„ of the sea Apostolic which hath holden it for good and all such persons lawfully professed for true religious Afterward Leo the tenth Pope of that name out of the first rule of Nicolas aboue related drewe the rule following and wrote it and coÌ„firmed it for all the religious of the third order of both sexes liuing in communities and Cloysters in the forme ensuing vvhich he wil of al to be observed And wheras some people haue been and as yet are found who wil not acknowlege for religious the professed of this third rule it was necessarie at the end of the same rule heer set downe to adde the Bul of the sayde Leo the tenth Pope out of which it is manifest that euen before his time they haue been holden for true Religious and that he wil also that all meÌ„ do acknowledge and hold them for such and that no man do coÌ„tradict it and other things he forbiddeth therein vnder paine of excommunication He hath endued the fore saide Religious with al priuileges giuen and granted to the Freers Minors Omnia autem honeste secundum ordinem fiant in vobis 1. Cor. 14.40 But let al things be done honestly and according to order among you IN THE NAME OF OVR LORde beginneth the rule of the thirde Order of S. Francis called the Order of Poenance To our beloued children the Bretheren and Sisters of the third Order of S. Francis liuing in Congregation vnder the three essential vovves LEo the tenth Pope Beloued sonnes and daughters health and Apostolical benediction Among other thinges committed to our charge and gouernment those chiefly do make vs solicitous by vvhich the concupiscenses of the vvorld and flesh being brideled the quiet state of innocencie and first peace giueÌ„ vs from heauen is knovven to be reduced to his original state and perfection Long since truly for this cause and respecte Pope Nicolas the fovverth our predecessor confirmed and approued the third rule of S. Francis vvhich he tearmed of poenance by vvhich the holie coÌ„fessor of Christ ful of the spirite of God labored to further the saluation of al faithful Christianes But forasmuch as by course of time through the inspiration of the holie ghost not only maried persons such as dvvel in the vvorlde for vvhom the foresayde third rule vvas made by S. Francis but also quires of innumerable virgins taking vpon them the three essential vovves and some also that of inclosure by our authoritie and hauing builded verie manie monasteries not vvithout manifold fruict and edification of the militant church subdevved their necks vnder the yoake of the foresayde third Order And because in the saide thirde rule some things to maried persons accomodated are inserted vvhich to single aÌ„d virginal estate vnder this third Rule seruing our lorde are no vvayes conuenient for vvhich the pure affectes of chast mindes are novv then auerted from entring into the sayde order vvee according to the vvil of our lorde separating the pretious from the vile doe confirme anevv approue the same third rule distinguished in maner as follovveth and deliuer the same to you and your successores to be kept the tenor vvherof follovveth and is such Of the entrance of Nouices CHAP. I. THe Brothers The condition of those that are to be receiued or sisters to this thirde Order to be receiued ought to be faithful Catholikes not tyed in mariage free of debtes sound in bodie prompt in minde not taxed vvith anie vulgar infamie reconciled vvith theyr neighbores And of althees things before they be receiued of him vvho hath facultie to receiue them they are diligently to be examined Of the things which the Brothers and Sisters are to promiss in the profession of this third rule CHAP. II. THe Brothers and Sisters after thay haue for a vvhole yeare borne the habit of probation vvhich ought to be of course cloath according to the iudgement of the visitor if their conuersation shal be thought laudable in the Conuent vvherin thei haue borne the habit of probation Of the habit of

euerie Priest be bound to say one mass And they that can the psalter fifty psalmes but they that can not the psalter fiftie Pater nosters and at the end of euerie one Requiem aeternam And at the end of euerie yeare or vvithin euerie yeare euerie Priest ought to say three masses for the dead those that can the psalter one psalter but those that can not the psalter a hundred Pater nosters vvith Requiem aeternam at the end of euerie one And concerning thees offices of the dead and other diuine offices in this present revve annexed the care is imposed on the Ministers and Mothers that they be faithfully discharged Of the obligation of the things conteined in the rule CHAP. X. AL and euerie thing in this present rule conteined are counsels to sauâ— more easilie the soules oâ— the vvayfaring and none oâ— them are obligatorie to sinne mortal or venial vnless by humane or diuine lavve anie one should be out of some other respect obliged The Brothers and Sisters are neuertheless obliged to do the poenances imposed vpon them by theyr superiors vvhen heer vpon they are required they are obliged also to the three essential vovves pouertie by hauing nothing in special chastitie because after the vovve they cannot contract matrimonie nor vvithout transgression mix them selues in vices of the flesh and obedience in as much as toucheth those things vvithout vvhich this fraternitie can not commodiously be manteined They are also bound to keep inclosure those Sisters vvhich haue expresly vovved to keep it vvhich to al and euerie Conuent vve grant so that the hospitalitie and charitie vvhich they are vvont to exercise vvith the infirme do vvith reputation suffer no detriment Giuen at Rome at Saint Peters vnder the ring of the fisher the 20. day of Ianuarie 1521. in the 8. yeare of our Papacy THE BVL OF POPE LEO THE TENTH wherin is declared that the professed Sisters of the third order of saint Francis liuing together in coÌ„munitie and cloyster hauing made the three vovves are true Religious and endued vvith the priuileges giuen to the Freers Minors To our vvelbeloued sonn Christopher of the title of S. Marie of Aracoeli Priest Cardinal LEO THE TENTH POPE TO our beloued Sonn health and Apostolical benediction Those things vvhich by the sea Apostolic are knovveÌ„ to be providently constituted or deined and declared sometimes the Roman Bishop according as in our lorde he seeth profitably to be expedient hath accustomed vvhen it is demanded of him to approue and of nevve to ordeine and dispose least the same in success of time be subiect to impugnatioÌ„ It is true indeed that hertofore Sixtus IV. of happie memorie our predecessor hath established and ordeined the Sisters of the third Order of S. Francis living collegially by making the three essential vovves to be true Religious and the vovve of obedience pouertie and chastitie by the Sisters of the third Order of S. Francis liuing collegially then made in the handes of theyr Superiors or by them for the time hereafter to be made to haue the force and validitie of a solemne vovve and to induce euerie effect vvhich a soleÌ„ne vovve doth induce made in vvhatsouer of the Religions approued by the Apostolick sea and to hinder matrimonie to be coÌ„tracted and to take avvay that vvhich is already contracted And although vve in the sacred Councel of Lateran last celebrated for coÌ„seruing of peace and vnitie betvven Prelates and Religious personnes the same sacred Councel approuing it haue profitably ordeined vvilled and decreed that the Brothers and Sisters of the foresaid third Order bearing the habit therof and leading collegially virginal and vidual or continent life by express vovve ought to enioy al the priuileges of the Freers Minores as in our and our foresaid predecessores letters respectiuely is more fully conteined Nevertheless as your vigilancy hath lately related vnto vs manie Praelates and Rectors of parish churches chiefly in France and Germanie affirme the sayde sisters not to be religious and that therfore they can not enioy the fore sayde priuileges and do not permit them to haue oratories and places for burial and in their oratories the Sacrament of the Eucharist and holie oyles and to sing masses and make holie vvater but as mere seculars do endeuor to compel them to hear masses and receiue the Sacraments of the church in their parish churches to the great troble of the sisters and scaÌ„dal of verie manie vvherfore you vvho execute the office of General minister of the sayde order of Freers Minors by Apostolical graÌ„t haue made humble supplication to vs that vve vvould out of our Apostolikall Clemencie vouchsafe to approue renevv and furthermore intirely to establish the declaration of Sixtus 4. and the brief therupon geuen hence it is that vvee yeelding our consent to such your desires do by our Apostolick outhoritie by the tenor of thees presents approue and renevve and decree that the sayde declaration of the forenamed Sixtus our praedecessor vvith al and everie clause therin conteyned ought to obteine the force of perpetual stabilitie And moreover to al and everie Praelate asvvel regular as saecular and Rectores of parish churches and al other Ecclesiastical persons vnder paine of excommunication lata sententia vve forbidd that the sayde Sisters vvhom according to the ordinance of our foresaid predecessor vve declare for true Religious they do not heare after presume to hinder in vvhat sort so euer but that they according to the priuileges of the saide Brothers may haue freely and lavvefully oratories vvith a lovve steeple and bel and in thâ— same oratorie the Sacrament of the Eucharist in a comely and decent place and also holie oyles for theyr ovvne vse only and halovved burial in vvhich the bodies of the Sisters decessed by theyr coÌ„fessor may be buried and in the same oratories holie vvater to be solemnly made aÌ„d masses according to theyr deuotioÌ„ solemnly to be song and celebrated And that to hear masses and other diuine offices in anie other place then in the sayde oratories or to receiue the Ecclesiastical Sacraments of an other then the confessor secular or regular by their superiors to them assigned by no meanes by the sayde Prelates and Rectors or anie others to be compelled or any vvay for such respect to be molested and the confessor him selfe if he be secular as long as he shal continevve in the office of confessor imposed vpon him by his superiors cannot at al be hindred in the premisses by the ordinaries of the places And notvvithstanding to al and euerie the Archbishops Bishops and persons constitute in Ecclesiastical dignitie Metropolitanes also or Canons of Cathedral churches vvho heervpon on the behalfe of the saide Sisters shal be required by thees presents vve do commande that they or tvvo or one of them by himself or another or others assisting the sayde sisters or theyr hovvses in the premisses vvith safeguard of efficacious defense do make them to enioy thees like privileges

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