de Foucauld had drawn up the statutes of a brotherhood which is a sort of third order, open to all, lay people, single or not, ecclesiastics: there are pages inspired by the purest spirit of St. Francis, on humility, poverty, the sanctity of work, which would deserve to be known one day and which would be especially useful to the Watchers". In 1925, in Cameroon, he wrote the Livre de prière des Veilleurs (Prayer Book of the Watchers), which was used for a long time in the Fraternity. In it, he proposed prayers for the three daily moments of recollection, which he called the offices of the light, the flame and the perfume, as well as liturgies for various other occasions. Faithful all his life to his youthful commitment, he recites the Beatitudes daily in Greek (the original language of the New Testament). His life ethic, his relationships and his commitments testify to a personal appropriation of the main elements of the Watchers' Rule that opens to the universal. The Friday tribute recommended by the Watchers becomes for him, for example, the occasion for a weekly fast of twenty-four hours, about which he confides: "Friday pleases me, because it is also the sacred day of Islam, which allows me to evoke my Muslim brothers, just as we found ourselves associated with them during the Algerian war, when Louis Massignon organised fasts for peace. The results of what we do are not always very visible, but I believe that the little we can do, and I add the very little we can do for peace, (...) we must do it all the same". See also Wilfred Monod Theodore Monod Taizé Community Pomeyrol Community References External links Website Protestantism in France Watchers