To describe the Spirit of an Order is a task of no little difficulty: it is to explain that which is neither palpable, tangible, nor visible; it is to picture the unseen. No one but a member of an Order can understand, much less reveal to others, the Order's Spirit; it presupposes not book-learning but practical life-study, it is a .. drawing from life." "What man knoweth the things of a man but the spirit of a man that is in him?" The late Archbishop Ullathome was accustomed to say that "to understand is to stand wIder." To Wlderstand the spirit of a life one must stand or live under it. To...
To describe the Spirit of an Order is a task of no little difficulty: it is to explain that which is neither palpable, tangible, nor visible; it is to...