[Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson]@TWC D-Link bookLord of the World CHAPTER II 36/37
We must love and suffer....
" (He drew one sobbing breath.) "Your Holiness has preached charity always.
Let charity then issue in good deeds.
Let us be foremost in them; let us engage in trade honestly, in family life chastely, in government uprightly.
And as for suffering--ah! Holiness!" His old scheme leaped back to his mind, and stood poised there convincing and imperious. "Yes, my son, speak plainly." "Your Holiness--it is old--old as Rome--every fool has desired it: a new Order, Holiness--a new Order," he stammered. The white hand dropped the paper-weight; the Pope leaned forward, looking intently at the priest. "Yes, my son ?" Percy threw himself on his knees. "A new Order, Holiness--no habit or badge--subject to your Holiness only--freer than Jesuits, poorer than Franciscans, more mortified than Carthusians: men and women alike--the three vows with the intention of martyrdom; the Pantheon for their Church; each bishop responsible for their sustenance; a lieutenant in each country....
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