Responsory "Amicum querit pristinum" for the feast of Saint Francis

Amicum querit pristinum
qui spretum in cenobio
tunicula contexit contemptu gaudet hominum
Leprosis fit obsequio
quos antea despexit
Sub typo trium ordinum
tres nutu dei previo ecclesias erexit

He seeks the former friend
whom he had spurned in the monastery;
He weaves shirts and rejoices in the contempt of men;
He ministers to lepers,
whom earlier he had despised.
In the image of the three orders,
he built three churches at God’s command.