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Updated: June 4, 2025
Why, the boys could not help loving a boy like him. Sodalities were rare in those days; but the college boys of Vienna had a sodality, devoted to the honor of our Lady, and under the patronage of Saint Barbara. At their meetings; the sodalists in turn had to address their companions, give a little talk about the Blessed Virgin, or on some virtue, or the like.
The elder boys, of course, will see that this custom is not infringed and I look especially to the prefects and officers of the sodality of Our Blessed Lady and of the sodality of the holy angels to set a good example to their fellow-students. Let us try, therefore, to make this retreat in honour of saint Francis with our whole heart and our whole mind.
There was a Gonzague party among the aristocracy of the hour, and a very strong party it promised to be, and very ably guided to further his own ends by the courteous, so seeming amiable gentleman who was its head. About him at this moment were grouped some of the joyous members of that jovial sodality.
And at the same time the work of knitting together the peoples and nations of Europe and forming them into a friendly sodality was to go forward without interruption. "How to promote our interests in the Rhineland," wrote M. Maurice Barrès, "is a life-and-death question for us. We are going to carry to the Rhine our military and, I hope, our economic frontier.
And you, Stephen, have been such a boy in this college, prefect of Our Blessed Lady's sodality. Perhaps you are the boy in this college whom God designs to call to Himself. A strong note of pride reinforcing the gravity of the priest's voice made Stephen's heart quicken in response. To receive that call, Stephen, said the priest, is the greatest honour that the Almighty God can bestow upon a man.
This I could answer too, definitely enough; for Friendship Cemetery, by the vigilance of the Married Ladies' Cemetery Improvement Sodality, is kept in no less scrupulous order than the Friendship parlours. "Well, that's a relief," she said; "I couldn't get it out o' my head."
But beyond all this for me were the arrangements for my first confession, which, coming a little late, I made with ten or twelve other girls of my sodality, feeling so faint when I took my turn and knelt by the grating, and heard the whispering voice within, like something from the unseen, something supernatural, something divine, that I forgot all I had come to say and the priest had to prompt me.
"Unless," said Joseph Antony, "it could be that he's signed the pledge for life." "Have you signed the pledge for life, Barnabas?" said Priscilla. "Let go of her hand for one minute and answer the question that's asked you." "Does he mean a temperance pledge?" said Mr. Pennefather. "I do," said Joseph Antony. "Are you a member of the Total Abstinence Sodality?"
"The Friendship Married Ladies' Cemetery Improvement Sodality," she told me, as she rose to go, "is to our wits' end to get up a new entertainment. We want to give something, and we want it should be rill new and spicey, but of course it has to be pretty quiet, owing to the Cause the Dead, so. It bars us from home-talent evenings or festivals or like that.
An' I know when I got into the room, full as I was o' news o' them little children an' the wreck an' the two killed an' all them that was hurt there was the Sodality settlin' whether the lamb's wool comforter for the bazaar should be tied with pink for daintiness or brown for durability. "'Dainty! says I, when I got my breath.
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