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FAMILY SPIRIT -- "OUR"

" . . . . Despite the fact that from this time on there has been monetary remuneration for services exchanged, the old family spirit never died out. Somehow it still remains very easy for even the younger members of the two institutions to put the word "our" in front of the words, Fathers, Brothers, and Sisters. No other relationship can ever be imaginable for the sons and daughters of the same spiritual Father Founder, who live under the same Rules and whose lives are patterned after the lives of the Holy Three who once lived in the little town of Nazareth." "On the King's Highway", pp. 311-12


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