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THE AGONIZING HEART OF JESUS.

No one can become an Associate, who is not already a Companion: a person becomes a companion by having her name entered on the register of the Confraternity to become an Associate, she must also, after admission by the Council, make the public act of con- secration, and the promises of which we have spoken.

Any one who wishes to be a Companion, can send her name to the Director of the Confraternity; if no serious reason to the contrary exists, he enters it on the Register, and she can then, on fulfilment of the pre- scribed conditions, gain the indulgences granted to Companions. It will be seen that there is a great difference between the Asso- ciates and Companions, and it is most im- portant that this difference should be main- tained, otherwise the registers will soon be full of names, while the results in the pro- motion of the glory of God and the salvation of the dying will be small. We beg directors, and members of councils, to be very careful in their admission of associates; for, on their piety, devotion, and perseverance, the suc- cess of the Confraternity, and its influence for good in a neighborhood, in great mea- sure, depends.