Way of life of the Apostles preserved in the Order until the Day of Judgement
As it is written in the Legend of the Three Companions our Father said that Our Lord appeared to him in the beginning in the crucified form when he wanted God to reveal to him the way of life for himself and for his Order.
Our Lord said to him, “Francis, your Rule and the way of life for you and for those who will want to follow you will be my life that I led in the world. The way of life will be to live according to the Gospel. Therefore found yourself in me along with all those who will want to follow you because in these latter days I have begged from my Father to give me a people that trusts in me alone. Just as I rest in my Father and the Father in me, so this people will rest in me. I have chosen you as head of this people because you are a lowly man so that the works that I perform for you everyone will know that they do not come from you but from me and that I can do all that I want. Therefore this will be your Rule: to love according to the Holy Gospel and to place all your hope in me. Do not wish for any earthly inheritance nor wish to possess any earthly thing. Your inheritance, and that of those who will want to follow you, will be my Name. The more you distance yourself from the things of this world, the more the world will come after you to give you some of its things for My Name.
The more your draw near to the world, the more the world will avoid them because I want the life I and my Apostles led preserved in your Order until the day of Judgement. Then anyone who wants to know what my life was will know it in your Friars who will observe the Rule that I will give you.”
That which Our Lord showed him by revelation He has proven by example to the true observers of the Rule. When human means could not provide for them, the Lord God has provided for them miraculously.