CONFRATERNITY OF ST. MICHAEL
CONSTITUTIONS

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                                                 Last Updated:  09/03/16 

     1. Purpose.  The Confraternity of St. Michael is made available to 
TRADITIO Network participants to enable them to work in a directed way 
toward their personal sanctification through traditional divine worship and 
traditional devotional practices. 
    
     2. Participation.  Any man or woman, clergy or layman, married or 
single, may participate.  No formal enrollment is required.
    
     3. Confession and Communion.  The participants attend the fully 
Traditional Latin Mass exclusively and receive the Sacraments of Penance 
and Holy Communion regularly.  According to the traditional practice of the 
Church, the members fast from midnight before receiving Holy Communion, 
absent any medical or other impediments.
    
     4. Regular Prayer.  The participants engage in regular prayer, 
especially liturgical prayer, saying at a minimum the indulgenced prayer to 
St. Michael the Archangel daily.  In addition, members might include some 
other prayers each day (e.g., a part of the traditional Divine Office or of 
a Little Office, one or more decades of the Most Holy Rosary, the Angelus, a 
litany). 
    
     5. Fast and Abstinence.  The participants maintain the traditional 
precepts of fast and abstinence.  These are (for adults) abstinence from 
meat on all Fridays; abstinence and fast (one meal and two smaller 
collations) on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, the Ember Days (meat at 
the main meal only), and the vigils of Pentecost, All Saints, the Immaculate 
Conception, and the Nativity; and fast on the weekdays of Lent, absent any 
medical or other impediments.
    
     6. Charitable Works.  The participants practice the spiritual and 
corporal works of mercy to the degree that their state of life permits.
    
     7. Scapulars and Medals.  The participants wear or carry a 
scapular or medal of Our Lord, Our Lady, or one of the Saints.  A medal 
of St. Michael would be particularly appropriate.