Eugene Borg rents a further house at Cospicua and starts daily catechism lessons. He is appointed as the leader of the group.

Fr Preca is requested by the Vicar General Mgr Salvino Grech to close all the catechism Centres. After doing so, the order is withdrawn after several parish priests persuaded the Bishop for the Centres to continue.

Fr Preca asks Giannina Cutajar, a sixteen-year-old, to start teaching catechism at Raħal il-Ġdid. He later chooses her to be the first female Superior General.

Experiences a mystical experience at Marsa Cross. A boy demands that Fr Preca help him push a load of fertiliser which Fr Preca does. On later reflection George concludes that Jesus was confirming his mission to teach God’s people by symbolically revitalising the field of the Lord with good fertiliser.

Fr Preca drafts the first Rule for the Society called “The Best Rules for all the Company of the Apostles”.

A series of media attacks in two newspapers: “Is-Salib” and “Malta Tagħna”. During this period Fr Preca tells his Members to make a vow to forgive enemies.

Bishop Dom Mauro Caruana establishes a commission to inquire about the ministry of the new Society and on 6 March 1917 Mgr Louis Attard, as leader of the commission, announces to the Members a number of prohibitions including the study of scripture and theology

After reading the life of Blessed Maria of the Passion (1866-1912), Fr Preca starts spreading the devotion to the words “Verbum Dei caro factum est” – “The Word of God was made flesh” (Jn 1:14). A year later he asks Members to bear a badge with these words.