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may go their way. While the last prayers are being said, the
sacristans, if told to, will collect the alms from those
present.
In the Association there are various offices: the
Prioress, two Assistants or Sub-Prioresses, Head-
Moderator, some other Moderators, Registrar, Sister of the
week, two Antiphonaries, two Readers, four Sacristans, at
least six choir members, six Silencers and five or more

Nurses. The duties pertaining to each of these offices are
found in the cards prepared for that purpose. These offices
are changed every year by the Director at his discretion,
and the reshuffling is done on the Sunday after the Feast of
the Nativity of the Mary Most Holy. From time to time the
Director must read out and clearly explain, at an
Association gathering, the Method of Christian living that all

the members are obliged to follow. Moreover, at least twice
a year, members must have the Day of Recollection in
common.
If a member dies, all fellow-members are required to
attend her funeral, wearing a white head-kerchief and
holding a candle in their hand. The body will be carried from
her home to the Church by some appointed for that
purpose. All the members have the obligation to offer for
her a Holy Communion, hear a Mass for the repose of her

soul and recite in common the Office for the Dead.
It is also the custom to carry out in common, in this
Association, the devout practices for the month of May.

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