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About the Legion of Mary
The Legion of Mary is an international association of lay Catholics finding Jesus through prayer, works of mercy and evangelization rooted in Marian spirituality and commitment to the Holy Spirit.
OBJECT
The object of the Legion of Mary is the glory of God through the holiness of its members developed by prayer and active co-operation in Mary’s and the Church’s work. The unit of the Legion of Mary is called a praesidium, which holds a weekly meeting, where prayer is intermingled with reports and discussion. Persons who wish to join the Legion must apply for membership in a Praesidium. The Legion sees as its priority the spiritual and social welfare of each individual. The members participate in the life of the parish through visitation of families, the sick, both in their homes and in hospitals and through collaboration in every apostolic and missionary undertaking sponsored by the parish. Every legionary is required to carry out a weekly apostolic work in the spirit of faith and in union with Mary.
Allocutio: The Righteousness of God (Romans 3:21-30)
By Fr. Joseph Dass (October 2025)
For the last 4 days, our first reading at Mass has been from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans. Throughout his letter, St. Paul uses two words frequently: LAW and FAITH. It is important that we understand those two words as St. Paul intended.
First, the Law – refers to the Law of Moses; It is also called the Torah. St. Paul insisted to the ancient Jews, especially to the Pharisees, that simply observing the Mosaic Law does not make you holy or make you righteous or justified in the eyes of God. By “justified” St. Paul means that you are being raised to the former status of being children of God.
The second word St. Paul frequently used is Faith. We are saved by grace through faith; “it is the gift of God.” (Eph 2:8-9). By faith – St Paul means much more than the intellectual acceptance of truth which God has revealed in Christ. For example: A person may believe that his wife is a wonderful person who loves him. That is a kind of faith. But if his faith in her goes no further than that, they will not have much of a life together. If he gradually came to ignore her, came home from work always late, spent less and less time with her, and allow himself to be absorbed in his work, or perhaps with other women, then his profession of faith in his wife, could be meaningless,; the relationship will soon fall apart. He will still believe in her love, but his faith is hollow and baseless. In a word, we can say he has not been faithful.
Being truly faithful to God is what St. Paul is concerned with. A person of true faith is so full of his belief in God that it becomes a driving force in his life. His entire life is absorbed by his faith in God. It colors all his thinking and determines all these actions. To put it in another way – the kind of faith St. Paul writes, cannot be separated from the love of Christ. St. Paul in I Cor 2:16 says: “We have the mind of Christ.” In other words, St Paul is here saying, “I have the mind of Christ, that is, I think as Christ thinks, I will what Christ wills, I forgive as Christ forgives, and above all, I love as Christ has dearly loved us, even to the point of laying down his life on the Cross for us. Then we can truly say: “I live, no not I, Christ lives in me.” Announcement
Frank Duff Reading Reference: Writings of Frank Duff, Mary Shall Reign, # 8, Excerpt from – “The Spirit of Home Visitation, See Christ in All”, p. 72
Therefore, you must go to them in the spirit of that third Standing Instruction, which bids you to see Christ in each member of the family, and to behave to Him as Mary herself behaved to Him. Higher than that you could not aim, but you must not aim any lower. That extreme example is not unattainable. Out from that person whom you visit, Our Lord is radiating the help to enable you to proceed in the perfect way. While Mary, who walks hand in hand with you is filling you with her own spirit to enable you to fulfil your mission. This effort to recollect yourself should be made before entering into each home. It is not enough to go about your work with vague good intention. The difficulties are too great for that. A vivid principle must animate your action.
This effort to get your motives into order at each door will create psychologically, and still more spiritually, the right complexion of mind and of soul in you, so that you enter the home mindful of the dignity of each person there, properly respectful to each one. You must go with reasonable frequency to each home. Visitation should not be a sort of hit and run business. An isolated call without prospect of seeing the people again for a long time is not visitation according to the Legion idea. It is not possible to develop an acquaintance on such a foundation. Vital to the process of showing interest in people is that you will know their names. It is disturbing commentary on the modern set-up that we can deal with people closely even daily for a long period – for instance in shops, office or restaurants – and in the end have to confess ignorance of their names. One is tempted to generalize drastically: No names, no influence! An anomaly in this visiting is that the house may not be a home. The home is the family living in the house. Do you ever meet the home in that sense? The cry among you is that you do not; that a large proportion of the family, especially the young adult element, is always out at their own enjoyments. You must not let them evade you like that. As a first step towards tracking them down, you must try to know them, though absent. Talk about them in the ordinary friendly intercourse which should have developed. Find out what are they following up. Get some idea of what they are like. They are part of the home, so you have a responsibility for them. You must not be satisfied with perfunctory visitation which deals with people whom you find and no more. Announcements • Confidentiality of Paramount Importance: “It is treachery to the Legion to repeat outsi