When the Holy Father gave to the Christian world both the Apostolic Constitution Provida Mater Ecclesia and the Motu Proprio Primo Feliciter, it was not to present the Church with something novel in the search for Christian perfection but rather to set the seal of his approval on a form of life, wholly given to God, already being lived by many who, for various reasons, were unable to enter a religious Order or who perhaps felt that a consecrated life in the world gave them greater scope for the exercise of their apostolate. It was natural—and indeed eminently desirable—that some of the attempts at the dedicated life in the world should be grouped around the contemplative Orders—Benedictines, Carmelites, Dominicans— for the fact that such a life is lived in the world makes whatever contact with a centre of contemplative life is possible all the more valuable and indeed essential.