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102 ADDITIONAL GRADES OF MEMBERSHIP CHAPTER 16
touch with the Legion and develop them in important ways.
Then on the other hand, if the Patricians are recruited into
auxiliary membership, it would represent for them another
step upwards and onwards.
(r) Auxiliaries must not be employed on ordinary active
Legion work. Proposals to utilise them in this way are at first
sight attractive. It seems a good thing to lead on the
auxiliaries. But examination will show that what is really at
stake is the doing of legionary work without the Legion
meeting, in other words the setting aside of the vital
condition of active membership.
(s) Where deemed desirable or possible, auxiliaries may
participate in the Acies, which in such circumstances forms
an admirable function for them and brings them into
intimate touch with the active legionaries. Auxiliaries who are
prepared to make the individual Act of Consecration, should
make it after the active legionaries.
(t) The invocation to be inserted on the Tessera for auxiliary
members shall be, “Mary Immaculate, Mediatrix of all Graces,
pray for us.”
(u) The Legion’s call to the active member to be “ever on
duty for souls” is addressed likewise to the auxiliary. Just as
much as the active member, the auxiliary must strain every
nerve to bring others into legionary service. By this addition
of link to link the Catena Legionis can be made into a golden
network of prayer enveloping the whole world.
(v) It is frequently suggested that the prayers of the
auxiliary service should be reduced or changed to meet the
case of blind or illiterate persons or of children. Apart from
the fact that an obligation is inclined to lose its binding force
according as it becomes less definite, the impossibility of
administering such a concession should be manifest. It could
not and would not long be withheld from the less illiterate,
the partly blind, or the very busy. In time, the relaxation
would become the ordinary practice.
No! The Legion must insist upon the performance of the
standard service. If this is beyond the powers of certain
persons, they cannot be auxiliaries. But they can give
invaluable help by praying for the Legion in their own way,
and they should be encouraged thereto.