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Educational Service

87 Educational service has been perceived by our Founding
Father himself as an indispensable part of our apostolate of
mercy. That was an apostolate he started in view of the
illiterate, poor children. We are bound to preserve and
promote the self-same spirit of our Founder in our
educational services. Our service of education should
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provide us with an opportunity to bear witness to the Gospel
values taught by Jesus, the light of the world, as well as to
preserve and promote them. Our apostolate of education
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will be a witness to others, only when our students and fellow
teachers can find reflected in our own lives such educative
values as discipline, spirit of co-operation, habit of hard
working, compassion to the poor, social sense, morality etc. 31

The Service of Home-Visits 31
88 As a zealous pastor, our Founding Father used to keep very
close friendship with the families within the premises of his
activity; he was keen on helping them in their physical and
spiritual needs. Besides, he paid great attention to console
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those who were at the point of death in families so as to
prepare them for their heavenly journey. Our early Mothers
too had a laudable tradition of carrying out this ministry in a
very effective manner, which they had inherited from the
Founder himself. Superiors as well as members of the
Community should evince special interest and diligence in
fostering and promoting the ministry of the family apostolate
in accordance with the present-day needs.
Catechism and Parish Ministry

89 The formation our first Mothers had received from our
Founding Father, in whom there existed a harmonius
blending of the people-orientation of a parish priest and the
religious vision of a spiritual leader, made them specially

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