Soldiers of Christ 2

A follow up to the last quotation from The Spirit of St. Ignatius by Fr. de Franciosi:
"'To bring sure ruin upon a Religious Order, it needs only to allow an entrance to the spirit of innovation on any point whatever. Such a change may please you, other changes will be much more pleasing to others, and will seem to them to be absolutely necessary. In this way will be broken, ring after ring, the chain which only continues as such by the mutual dependence of the links, since it is only formed by their union and continuity.' Ignatius was certainly not the advocate of routine, or the systematic enemy of progress, but he was prudently on his guard against the eagerness, so natural to certain minds, to introduce novelties on every opportunity under the pretext of improvement. Every well-regulated community has its own customs and traditions, which are a precious inheritance received from the supernatural wisdom and the experience of its founders. In establishing any custom, or in deciding upon any measure of apparently secondary importance, they were actuated by motives which still hold good, and which those who come after them ought to respect."