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GOVERNMENT OF THE LEGION

1. OF APPLICATION TO ALL GOVERNING BODIES

1. The government, local and central, of the Legion shall be
carried on by its councils, whose duty in their respective
spheres shall be to ensure unity, to preserve the original ideals
of the Legion of Mary, to guard the integrity of the Legion
spirit and rules and practice as set forth in the official
handbook of the Legion, and to spread the organisation.
The Legion in any area will be as good as these councils
wish to make it.

2. All councils should hold regular frequent meetings, that
is, as a general rule not less frequently than once a month.

3. The prayers, setting and order of the meetings of any
council of the Legion shall be identical with that prescribed in
the case of the praesidium, save that, (a) the time-limit on
length shall not apply; (b) the standing instruction need not
be read; (c) the secret bag collection shall be optional.

4. A primary duty of any council is that of allegiance to its
next highest council.

5. No praesidium or council shall be instituted without the
formal permission of its next-highest council or of the
Concilium Legionis, and the approval of the appropriate
ecclesiastical authority.

6. To the bishop of the diocese and to the Concilium
Legionis severally is reserved the right to dissolve an existing
praesidium or council. On dissolution, a praesidium or
council ceases at once to be part of the Legion of Mary.

7. Each council shall have a priest as Spiritual Director, who
shall be appointed by the appropriate ecclesiastical authority,
and shall hold office at the pleasure of that same authority. He
shall have decisive authority in all moral and religious matters
raised at the meetings of the council, and he shall have a

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