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100 ADDITIONAL GRADES OF MEMBERSHIP CHAPTER 16
their prayers from their own movements. For note that those
auxiliary prayers are offered in honour of Our Blessed Lady
and not on behalf of the Legion.
(h) A non-Catholic cannot be an auxiliary member. But in
the event (which is of occasional occurrence) where such a
person is willing to recite all the Legion prayers daily, he
should be supplied with a Tessera and encouraged in his
generous programme. Special note should be taken of his
name so as to keep in touch with him. It is certain that Our
Blessed Lady will be attentive to the needs of that soul.
(i) It is the Legion’s world-wide adventure and battle for
souls, rather than the local needs, which are to be represented
to the auxiliaries as the object of their service of prayer. The
conception should be placed before their minds that though
they are not in the fighting ranks, nevertheless they play an
essential part, comparable to that of the munition workers
and the supply services, without which the fighting forces are
powerless.
(j) Persons should not be lightly accepted as auxiliaries. In
advance they should be made fully acquainted with the
obligations, and there should be reasonable assurance that
they will be true to them.
(k) With a view to intensifying the interest of the auxiliaries
in the service undertaken by them, and thus (1) in the
present, improv ing its quality and ensuring its perseverance;
and (2) in the future, leading them on to adjutorian and
active membership; they should be given an insight into the
work of the Legion.
(l) The keeping in touch with the auxiliaries for the purpose
of preserving their membership and interest will be necessary,
and will provide admirable work for certain of the legionaries
whose ideal should be the leading on still further of their
charges.
(m) Every auxiliary should be made aware of the great
benefits attaching to membership of the Confraternity of the
Most Holy Rosary. As the auxiliary is already saying more
than the amount of prayer required by the Confraternity, the
only additional obligation entailed by joining the latter is the
registration of name.