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CHAPTER 37 SUGGESTIONS AS TO WORKS 245
approved by the ecclesiastical authorities of each place will be
taken up by the Legion and applied with all its might.

(e) Sodalities for the young. For children who have been
at good schools, the crisis comes at school-leaving age. They
are then emancipated from school with its sound influences,
its protective restraints, its minute safeguards. Sometimes they
were entirely dependent upon that support by reason of the
fact that their homes did not provide religious or controlling
influences.
There is the further complication that the withdrawal of
these things occurs about the age of greatest moral difficulty,
and unfor tunately, too, when those young people have ceased
to be children without becoming adults. Naturally, approp -
riate provision for that twilight stage is difficult, and accord -
ing ly is frequently lacking. Then, when that transition period
passes, and the adult safe guard ing system opens its arms to
them, it usually does so unavailingly. The perilous charms of
liberty have been tasted.
Therefore, the supervision which was maintained in school
must in some measure be carried on when those children leave.
A method which is recommended is that of forming, under the
auspices of the Legion, Juvenile Sodalities, or at least special
juvenile sections in the ordinary Sodalities. Before the children
are due to leave school, those in authority will see that the
names of such children are supplied to the legionaries. The
latter will then call to their homes to make their acquaintance
and to persuade them to join the Sodality. The children, who
cannot be induced to join, should be made the subject of
special visitation, as also those who attend irregularly.
Each legionary would be allocated a certain number of the
young Sodality members, for whom he or she will be held
responsible. Before each Sodality meeting, those members will
be called upon to remind them of their duty to attend. An
Annual Retreat (enclosed, if possible) and an annual
entertain ment should form part of the system.
There is no better way, in fact there is no other definite
way, of ensuring a regular frequentation of the Sacraments by
the young during the post-school period.
The case of young people discharged from Juvenile
Detention Centres or Orphanages requires special attention in