Translations:Order of the Good Samaritan/39/en

Beloved ones, when you meet on the path of life and when you are approved as a member of this order, you may elect to call yourself “Brother John,” “Brother Paul,” or “Brother James”—or “Sister Mary” or “Sister Joyce.” Or you may elect to simply be called as you are. It is important that you come to understand that one who is a member of a lay religious order must act the part, must put on the mantle, must recognize that with the mantle are responsibilities not to go off again in riotous living or indulgences, not to say, “Well, I may do this or that today, for I am no longer being seen as a member of this religious group.”