id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195804 Kennedy, James F. The Society of St. Vincent De Paul : an outline 1922 .txt text/plain 6641 234 51 In a general way, it may be said that a member fulfills his duties as such by; first, attending at least three of the weekly meetings of his Conference every month; second, visiting once a week the poor family or families assigned to him, or the prison, almshouse, hospital or other institution he has engaged to visit, or in performing such other work as he has assumed, in accordance with the Eule of the Society; third, attending each year the General Communions and meetings of all the members of the Society in the town in which he resides, on the four Feast Days of the Society; fourth, con- tributing such amount as he can afford to the secret collection which is taken up at the weekly Conference meetings as also at the General Meet- ings; fifth, attendance at the General Meetings; sixth, attendance at the exercises of the annual retreats. These and other works engage the attention of the members, for it is an axiom that “no work of charity is foreign to the Society. ” cache/_005195804.txt txt/_005195804.txt