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CHAPTER 36 PRAESIDIA REQUIRING SPECIAL MENTION 225
9. It is most strongly urged that every junior praesidium
should have at least two members on each of the three last-
named works, that is, (f) (g), (h). Those works, properly done,
represent superb training for the young legionaries engaged
on them, and would set the proper sort of standard for the
other works of the praesidium.
10. It would be permissible for a junior to perform his work
in company with a senior legionary.
11. In the case of internal praesidia it would be desirable to
provide the members with ordinary active work outside. But
Superiors, mindful of their responsibility, will fear lest this
privilege be abused and may imagine other dangers. As to
these apprehen sions: (a) If those legionaries were in junior
praesidia outside, they would be doing that ordinary work; (b)
The future is only provided for by training. If there be no
liberty now, there is no training for the time of unrestricted
liberty. That outside work, safeguarded by the double
discipline of college and Legion, can be made an ideal
preparation.

12. It is in order to establish a praesidium in a college
where the students go home for the vacations, rendering it
impossible to hold meetings during that period. During that
time the members may be able to work in the praesidia in
their home towns.

13. It should be brought home to the members that their
own holiness is not only the main object of the Legion but
also the mainspring of the Legion’s work. Hence, they should
be encouraged to pray and make sacrifices for the intentions
of the praesidium. But these exercises should not be assigned
to the members, and they should not be reported on at the
meeting. It is particularly emphasised that spiritual exercises
cannot substitute for the active work. If they are performed, it
must be in addition to the active work.

14. Special thought must be given by the members to the
pre paring of their reports, and they should be diligently
educated by their officers in the manner of furnishing a