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PERPETUAL INTERCESSION TO

one desirous of becoming an Associate, should address a request for admission to the Director of the Confraternity, or to one of the chief dignitaries, who will submit it for approval to the Council of the Associa- tion; and, should no objection be made, the person then becomes a postulant. If, after a period of at least a month, the Council con- sider the postulant worthy, she is admitted to the Association, and makes her act of con- secration to the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, publicly, in the chapel of the Confraternity, in presence of the other associates, adding the three following promises: first, to pray every day for those who die that day; secondly, to make half an hour's intercession for the same intention, every month; thirdly, to assist at the meetings of the Association. At the end of this chapter, we give the act of consecration, and the promises. They do not oblige under pain of mortal, or even venial, sin, but we earnestly beg those who have not a firm purpose of fulfilling them, to content themselves with remaining Compan- ions of the Confraternity, instead of seeking admission as Associates. The duties of the Companions will be explained in the next chapter.