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8. The Treasurer’s books shall be audited annually. It is
suggested that two members of the praesidium or the council
(as the case may be), other than the Treasurer, be appointed to
that duty.
9. It would be impossible to associate the idea of waste ful -
ness with Our Lady’s housekeeping. Therefore, it goes without
saying that every legionary body must handle its property
and its funds watch fully and economically.
“All mankind is one whole, a body in which each member receives
and ought also to give. Life should live and circulate. It comes to all;
he who would stop it, loses it. He who consents to lose it, finds it.
Each soul, if it would live, should pour itself forth into another soul.
Every gift of God is a force which must be passed on in order to be
preserved and multiplied,’’ (Gratry: The Month of Mary)

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PRAESIDIA REQUIRING SPECIAL

MENTION

1. JUNIOR PRAESIDIA
1. Praesidia for persons under 18 years may be established
with the approval of the Curia and subject to any special
conditions which may be deemed necessary. See chapter 14,
paragraph 22.
2. The only real way of learning the Legion is to work its
system. Lectures are often given urging the young to under -
take the apostolate when they go out into the world, but such
lectures, however excellent, are but dry bones compared with
the living body of actual practice. Moreover, without some
actual training, an intention or desire to begin apostolic work
is of little value. Inexperience is easily intimidated, or if a
begin ning is made along one’s own lines, it will almost
assuredly end in a morass.