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CHAPTER 31 EXTENSION AND RECRUITING 179
An item of the Congress should be a special Talk, by some
Spir itual Director or legionary qualified to give it, on some
aspect of legionary devotion, idealism, or duty.
Each session should begin and close with prayer. The
Legion prayers will provide for three of those occasions.
Careful timekeeping and stewarding is imperative. Failure
in this department will ruin the day.
There must be diversification as between successive
Congresses in the same area. Only a limited number of topics
can be covered at a single Congress, whereas it is necessary
that over a period of years much new ground be ploughed up.
Secondly, there must never be a sense of standing still.
Therefore, change for the very sake of change must be sought.
Thirdly, the success of a particular Congress naturally suggests
that the same programme be adhered to on the next occasion.
But part of that success was certainly due to the element of
novelty, and this is spent by the first production. If novelty is
to figure as a stimulating ingredient in each new Congress, the
event must be preceded by ingenious planning.
“If we wish to know in what manner the faithful soul is to be
prepared for the coming of the divine Paraclete, let us go in thought
to the Cenacle where the disciples have come together. There,
according to the order of the Master, they are persevering in prayer as
they await the Power from on high that is to come on them and
clothe them as with armour for the warfare which lies before them. In
that sacred abode of recollection and peace our reverential eye rests
on Mary, the Mother of Jesus, the masterpiece of the Holy Spirit, the
Church of the living God. From her by the action of the same Holy
Spirit will issue, as from the womb of a mother, the Church Militant,
which this New Eve represents and still contains within her.”
(Guéranger: The Liturgical Year)

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EXTENSION AND RECRUITING

1. The duty of extension is not for the higher councils
alone, nor for Curia officers alone. It is the duty of each
member of the Curia. Nay, more, it is the duty of each
individual legionary, and each one must be made to realise