Penitential Associations: The Origins of Civic Democracy | Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P.
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The Ordinance of the Society of St. Mary's
All recited the poters grace before meals and after meals. Leadership was vested in two brothers who served as ministers. A new member needed permission of his wife to join because it involved giving up secs. The literate members recited 50 psalms, and the illiterate 50 poters each hear priest affiliates said three masses. Later urban societies, be these religious confraternities or communal or business corporations, perpetuated virtually actly the same forms which i have described for this holy religious society. Ah. It's great to be live as a jesuit, be sick as a franciscan, but be dead as a dominican. We have the most suffrag
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