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106 ORDER OF THE PRAESIDIUM MEETING CHAPTER 18
In climates where it is necessary to shield the flame of the
candles, plain glass cups or globes, which will not conceal the
candle itself, may be fitted on to the top of the candle.
The words “Legio Mariae” may be worked upon the cloth,
but not the name of the praesidium. Points of unity, not of
dis tinc tion, should be stressed.
“In effect, Mary’s mediation is intimately linked with her motherhood.
It possesses a specifically maternal character, which distinguishes it
from the mediation of the other creatures who in various and always
subordinate ways share in the one mediation of Christ, although her
own mediation is also a shared mediation. In fact, while it is true that
‘no creature could ever be classed with the Incarnate Word and
Redeemer’, at the same time ‘the unique mediation of the Redeemer
does not exclude but rather gives rise among creatures to a manifold
cooperation which is but a sharing in this unique source.’ And thus
‘the one goodness of God is in reality communicated diversely to his
creatures’.” (RMat 38)
2. Punctually at the appointed time, the members shall
be in their places, and the meeting shall begin. But a punctual
start (so necessary for the efficiency of the praesidium) will
not be possible unless the officers are in attendance some
time in advance in order to make the requisite preparations.
No praesidium meeting is ever to begin without its written
programme, termed the “Work Sheet”. This should be drawn
up in advance of each meeting, and from it the President will
call the business. In the Work Sheet should be set down in
detail all the work being done by the praesidium, and
opposite to each item, the names of the members assigned to
it. The various items need not necessarily be taken in the
same order at succeeding meetings, but every member’s name
should be called and a report taken from each one, even
though they may be working in parties of two or more.
Before the end of the meeting it is to be ensured that each
member has been provided with his work for the coming
week.
The President should have a bound book in which the
Work Sheet can be compiled each week.

“Idealism, however fervent and absorbing, must never be an
excuse for vague and unpractical emotion. As already pointed out, the
genius of St. Ignatius consisted in his careful and methodical
exploitation of religious energy. Steam is of no use, rather a nuisance,
until we have a cylinder and piston for it. How much spiritual fervour