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 | | This apostolic surge included many aspects: the exemplary sacramental life of the communities including celebrating Mass, hospitality, and social activities such as visiting and aiding the needy and the ill, preaching atheists, catechesis, and the like. |
 | | It is now ready to embark upon a new path of renewal while safeguarding the seclusion, asceticism, apostolic spirit, and faithfulness to tradition represented in the spirituality of the early church fathers and while maintaining the deep experience of the forefathers represented in this mature spirituality itself. |
 | | After the issuing of the Apostolic will “in monks, Church funds, and on the meaning of the Words” in 1952, the monks engaged themselves in revising their regulations and making them comply with the new provisions. |
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