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(c) Applications for membership of the Pioneer Association
would be processed at the weekly meeting of the praesidium,
just as would be done by any Pioneer Centre at its monthly
meeting.
(d) N.B. All enquiries about the Pioneer Association should
be addressed to: Central Director, Pioneer Total Abstinence
Association, 27 Upper Sherrard Street, Dublin 1, Ireland.

APPENDIX 10

STUDY OF THE FAITH

Study could advantageously be carried on by some or all of
the members of a praesidium as an addition to their other
work. Certain types of praesidia should undertake it as a
matter of course, for example, internal and Junior praesidia
and those which specialise in the giving of instruction.
The intense spirit of prayer and the devotional system of
the Legion secures an admirable approach to such study and
averts the disadvantageous possibilities which sometimes
attach. The self-sufficient, the knowledge-proud, and such
like, who would enter only to disturb and to drop out, will be
repelled by the system. On the other hand, the system will
hold to membership those whom the quickly-spent novelty of
study would not retain.
Moreover, the success of the study will be guaranteed by its
being undertaken in a spirit of union with her whose seeking
of light was so humble, so simple, that it forms ever the perfect
model for its pursuit: “How can this be?” (Lk 1:34) Then to her
he was given who is the Divine Wisdom, the Eternal Truth, the
True Light. She remains the guardian of this treasure. To her
must come those who wish to draw from it. Those legionaries
will see in their weekly praesidium meeting a clustering round
their lovely Mother, a twining of their hands in hers so full of
the treasures of knowledge which they seek.
Thus the salient characteristic is that the legionary
approaches his work of study from the angle of devotion rather
than as an intellectual exercise. Another distinctive feature is