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224 PRAESIDIA REQUIRING SPECIAL MENTION CHAPTER 36
be required to provide each member weekly with a substantial
active task fully equivalent to his capacity. Many juniors are
capable of doing work which is recognised as senior work, and
in fact no junior who has reached 16 years should be given
work which would not be accepted from seniors. The works of
the praesidium should be diversified. Different works will
educate in different ways. As each member cannot do all the
works, the next best way of getting an all-round training is to
watch all of them being done by others. Moreover the
proceedings of the praesidium gain in interest.
7. A minimum of one hour’s work per week, that is one-half
of the senior obligation, may be accepted from the junior
member.
8. Suggestions for the work are:
(a) Distribution of the miraculous medal after the following
plan. At each meeting one or two medals (a fixed number) are
served out to each legionary. They are to regard these as a
ration of ammuni tion, which as soldiers of Mary they must
use to the greatest advan tage, by giving them, if possible, to
non-Catholics or neglectful Catholics. This idea stirs the
imagination and induces sacrifice. They should be instructed
as to the manner of answering the questions which are likely
to be asked and as to the utilisation of openings.
(b) Winning of auxiliary members. This will include the
instruct ing of their recruits in the saying of the prayers, also
the periodic visitation of them so as to ensure their fidelity.
(c) Endeavouring to have at least one additional person
every week undertake: attendance at Holy Mass daily, or the
practice of some devotion, or to join a sodality, the
Apostleship of Prayer, or some Catholic society.
(d) Bringing of young children to Holy Mass and the
Sacraments.
(e) Serving Mass.
(f) Teaching the Catechism and recruiting for catechism
classes.
(g) Visitation of children in a hospital or other institution,
or in their own homes.
(h) Visitation of the infirm and the blind and the perform-
ing for them of all sorts of needed services.