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234 SUGGESTIONS AS TO WORKS CHAPTER 37
name of ‘domestic Church’. This means that there should be found in
every Christian family the various aspects of the entire Church.
Furthermore, the family, like the Church, ought to be a place where
the Gospel is transmitted and from which the Gospel radiates.
In a family which is conscious of this mission, all the members
evangelize and are evangelized. The parents not only communicate
the Gospel to their children, but from their children they can
themselves receive the same Gospel as deeply lived by them.
And such a family becomes the evangelizer of many other families,
and of the neighbourhood of which it forms part. Families resulting
from a mixed marriage also have the duty of proclaiming Christ to
the children in the fullness of the consequences of a common
Baptism; they have moreover the difficult task of becoming builders
of unity.” (EN 71)

3. ENTHRONEMENT OF THE SACRED HEART
IN THE HOMES
It will be found that the propagation of the devotion of the
En throne ment of the Sacred Heart in the home provides a
specially favourable introduction and avenue to the
friendship of families.
The ideals and the methods which are to characterise that
approach are considered in detail in chapter 39, Cardinal Points
of the Legion Apostolate. Therein, it is sufficiently stressed that
as far as possible no home should be passed over, and that in
each home loving and persevering effort is to be directed
towards the inducing of each person, young and old without
exception, to ascend at least one step in the spiritual life.
Those detailed to this work may take to themselves in
fulness the Twelve Promises of the Sacred Heart. Even the
tenth: “I will give to the priests the grace to touch the most
hardened hearts,” belongs in a measure to those who go as
the priest’s representatives. Specially encouraged by this
thought, the legionaries will go with perfect confidence to
grapple with the cases branded “hopeless.”
The Enthronement visitation forms the most fruitful of all
intro ductions, striking the right note of simple piety from the
very com mence ment, facilitating acquaintance and hence
repeated visits, and rendering easy the development of the
Legion apostolate.
As it is the mission of Mary to bring about the reign of
Jesus, so there is a special appropriateness (which should