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252 SUGGESTIONS AS TO WORKS CHAPTER 37
weakest word and that she is almost infinitely anxious to
make their aposto late fruitful.

10. MISSION TO THE CATHOLIC DOMESTIC WORKER
This can be carried out as part of visitation work or as a
special work in itself. Only too often placed in households
indifferent or hostile to the faith, viewed as mere machines,
isolated, frequently migrants or immigrants with no friends,
and reduced to forming chance acquaintanceships full of the
possibilities of disaster, Catholic domestic workers are in need
of special care and support. Making contact with them forms
an apostolate of a notable kind.
To them, the regular visits of legionaries solicitous for their
welfare, will come as rays of light. Generally the object will be
to bring them into membership of Catholic societies or clubs,
into suit able friendships, and perhaps, in many cases, into
legionary member ship itself. This work will help to direct many
on new and happier paths, leading on to safety and holiness.

“At first sight we might certainly have anticipated that much state
and dignity would have been allotted to God’s great Mother during
some portion, at least, of her life upon the earth. How different was
the reality as arranged by the Providence of God. We find Mary in her
poor dwelling discharging such humble duties as sweeping the floor,
washing the linen, cooking the food, going to and from the well with
a pitcher on her head, engaged in that kind of work which we, in face
of the example set by Jesus, Mary and Joseph, venture to call menial.
Mary’s hands were doubtlessly reddened and harden ed by toil; she
was often weary and overworked; hers were the anxieties of a working
man’s wife.” (Vassall-Phillips: The Mother of Christ)

11. WORK FOR ARMED SERVICES PERSONNEL AND
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
The circumstances of these people’s lives incline them to
neglect of religion and expose them to many pitfalls.
Therefore an apostolate among them is doubly desirable.
(a) As access to military establishments may not always be
easy to civilians, effective work for soldiers may require the
setting up of praesidia composed of soldiers. This has already
been done in many places with signal success.