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not order unmeaning or unnecessary steps to be taken. When
that comprehensive approach to people has been effected, at
least the divine command has been obeyed; and that is the
important circumstance. What happens next might well be
the renewal of the Pentecostal fires.
Many earnest workers believe that by labouring to the
limits of their strength, they have done all that God expects
of them. Alas, such single-handed effort will not carry them
far; nor will the Lord be satisfied with that solitary striving;
nor will he make good what they leave unattempted. For the
work of religion must be set about like any other work which
exceeds the individual power, that is by mobilising and
organising until the helpers are sufficient.
This mobilising principle, this effort to join others to our
own efforts, is a vital part of common duty. That duty applies
not merely to the higher ones of the Church, not merely to
the priests, but to every legionary and every Catholic. When
the apostolic ripples proceed from every believer, they will
add up into a universal deluge.

“You will find that your powers of action will always be equal to
your desires and your progress in faith. For it is not in heavenly as it
is in earthly benefactions; you are stinted to no measure or boundary
in receiving the gift of God. The fountain of Divine Grace is ever
flowing, is subject to no precise limitations, has no fixed channels to
restrain the waters of life. Let us encourage an earnest thirst after
those waters and open our hearts to receive them, and as much will
flow in upon us as our faith will enable us to receive.” (St. Cyprian of
Carthage)

2. THE LEGION MUST DIRECT ITSELF TO THE
INDIVIDUAL SOUL
“We must not allow the crowded altar-rails at the morning’s
Mass to blind us to the existence of horrible contrasts: entire
families where things are wrong, or even whole
neighbourhoods corrupted and abominable, where evil is, as
it were, enthroned with its court all around it. Second, we
should remember that although sin is in such places
congested and doubly repulsive, it is none the less vile where
it is more spread out. Third, though we see there the matured
fruit — the Dead Sea fruit of evil — the roots lie in the soil of