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CHAPTER 37 SUGGESTIONS AS TO WORKS 235
attract the special graces of the Holy Spirit) in the Legion of
Mary propagating the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart.
“Loving the family means being able to appreciate its values and
capabil ities, fostering them always. Loving the family means
identifying the dangers and the evils that menace it, in order to
overcome them. Loving the family means endeavouring to create for
it an environment favourable for its development. The modern
Christian family is often tempted to be dis couraged and is distressed
at the growth of its difficulties; it is an eminent form of love to give it
back its reasons for confidence in itself, in the riches that it possesses
by nature and grace, and in the mission that God has entrusted to it.
‘Yes indeed, the families of today must be called back to their original
position. They must follow Christ’. (AAS 72 (1980), 791)” (FC 86)
4. THE MAKING OF THE PARISH CENSUS
This work provides an excellent way of getting in touch
with the Catholics who need attention or who have drifted
into the category of lapsed, that is, those who have lost all
association with the Church. Going in the name of the priest,
visitation should if possible be from door to door. It is taken
as a matter of course by the persons visited that particulars as
to religion should be asked, and as a rule they are cheerfully
given. Included in what is learned is much that will form
subject for long-continued effort on the part of Priest and
legionaries.
But discovery is only the preliminary, and the easiest, step.
To restore to the fold each one of those so found must be
regarded as being in a measure a trusteeship conferred upon
the Legion by God — one to be entered upon with joy and
pursued with invincible spirit. Let not the Legion, through
any cause in its own power, fail in the fulfilment of that trust,
no matter how long-drawn-out the battle, how arduous the
labours, how great the rebuffs, how harden ed the cases, how
hopeless the prospect.
In addition, it is repeated that not merely the indifferent,
but all, shall be the subject of an affectionate attention.
“We have in the Church’s field of apostolic endeavour an official
mission a providential mode of action, a special weapon of our own.
It is that we go to souls not only in the name of Mary and under the
auspices of Mary, but also and above all, that we labour with all our
might to fill those souls with childlike love for her.” (Petit Traité de
Marialogie: Marianiste)