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Christ is a Divine Person, but his human nature played a
part in his actions, his human intelligence, his voice, his
glance, his manner of behaviour. People, including children,
the most discerning of all, liked to be in his company. He was
a welcome guest at everyone’s table.
St. Francis de Sales was a man whose conduct and manners
were not the least of the means by which he brought many
souls to God. It was he who recommended that everyone who
wished to practice charity should cultivate what he called
“the little virtues”: friendli ness, courtesy, good manners,
consideration, patience and under stand ing, especially with
the difficult.
“Identity of blood implies between Jesus Christ and Mary a
similarity of formation, of features, of inclinations, of tastes, of
virtues; not only because identity of blood very frequently creates
such a similarity, but because in Mary’s case (her maternity being
altogether a supernatural fact — the effect of overwhelming grace)
this grace took hold of this more or less general principle of nature
and developed it in her in such a manner as to make her the living
image and portrait of her divine Son in every way so that whoever
could see her, could admire the most exquisitely formed image of
Jesus Christ. This same relation of motherhood established between
Mary and her Son an intimacy not only as to intercourse and
communion of life, but as regards an interchange of hearts and of
secrets; so that she was the mirror reflecting all the thoughts, feelings,
aspirations, desires and purposes of Jesus, as he in turn reflected in a
more eminent manner, as in an unspotted mirror, the miracle of
purity, of love, of devotedness, of immense charity which was the
soul of Mary. Mary could, therefore, say with greater reason than the
Apostle of the Gentiles: “I live, not I: it is Jesus who lives in me.”‘ (De
Concilio: The Knowledge of Mary)

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DUTIES OF OFFICERS OF

PRAESIDIA

1. THE SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR
As the Legion judges its success entirely according to the
spiritual qualities developed in its members and brought to
bear by them on their work, it follows that the Spiritual