Once, someone asked the Superior how one should “entertain” during Worship time. He wanted to know how to spend that time, and how to meditate and pray.
As our mission is extraordinary, it calls our attention something like this, because love should replace any deficient ability to pray; but, we should have certain rules and to be able to devote time to the souls in the hereafter.
Many years ago, the Knight Great Master asked a holy man how the soul realized that it reached a true spiritual understanding, and this man replied, “When the house stands without a support”.
Knight Great Master’s words on occasion of the Temporary Vow of a soul:
“I am very glad to admit you personally. I recommend you to behave perfectly these six months in the Seminary.
To be before the Holy Altar to take Renunciation Vows in the commemoration day of Saint Therese of Lisieux is a true event and festivity for the soul, because if certain person can teach us how to fulfill our Renunciation Vow in every aspect, even to suffer a mystical martyrdom and a perfect holocaust, this being is Saint Therese of Lisieux.
I want you to know the development of Cafh.
As all Sons of Cafh form only one Body, you should know your respective duties. You should not believe that the labor of one is more or less important than that of other, because of the greater or lesser solemnity of the Vow that you have taken.
I. We appeal to you, Mother of ours; we appeal to your Heavenly Heart so that the Word of blessing and help may reach us.
How can we dare to penetrate into the sublime secret of vocations but through you?
Today I wish to impart certain recommendations. This year, as every year, we make a new experience, or rather every year, and this occurs always, one learns certain new thing during the labor that the Divine Mother entrusted to us, and all Her Daughters prepare themselves to serve truly the Divine Mother by assisting boys in this college; also there are some few girls, but the purpose of this college is to educate boys.
When we begin the Path of Cafh we learn the backward review, one of the fundamental bases of Renunciation; not exactly the introductory exercise to the backward review, but the backward review itself.
Despite our total surrender, human personality is ever present and manifested in us by sublime actions, but however sublime they be, they are not our mission. We have to be no more than a flame burning at the feet of the Divine Mother.
In the path to Realization, a Solemn Vow is an act extremely important, vitally important and solely important for the Sons. Personally I do not believe in successive Vows, but in the Vow at the moment of the first surrender, of the first act of love that unites us with the Divine Mother.