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194 BASIC DUTIES OF LEGIONARIES CHAPTER 33
St. John Chrysostom: ‘Christians, you will render an account not of
yourselves alone but of the whole world’.” (Gratry: Les Sources)
4. INVIOLABLE CONFIDENCE MUST BE PRESERVED
by the legionaries in regard to what they hear at their
meetings or in the course of their work. This knowledge
comes to them because they are legionaries, and it would be
an intolerable treachery to the Legion for them to divulge it.
Reports must, of course, be made to the praesidium meeting,
but even here there must be circumspection. This question is
more fully discussed in section 20, chapter 19, The Meeting
and the Member.
“Guard what has been entrusted to you.” (1 Tim 6:20)

5. EVERY MEMBER SHOULD HAVE A NOTEBOOK
in which will be kept a brief record of cases. (a) It is due to the
work to attack it in a business-like way; (b) past and
unfinished cases will not be lost sight of; (c) without its aid a
suitable report will not be made; (d) it will form a training in
habits of order; (e) this tangible record of work done will
prove a valuable corrective in that inevitable hour when
present failure casts its hue over past perform ance.
This record should be of a guarded character (that is, a
species of code should be devised), so as not to disclose
delicate information to eyes other than those of the legionary.
It should never be entered up in the presence of the persons
concerned.
“All things should be done decently and in order.” (1 Cor 14:40)

6. THE DAILY RECITATION BY EACH LEGIONARY OF
THE CATENA LEGIONIS (CHAIN OF THE LEGION)
composed principally of the Magnificat, Mary’s own prayer,
the evening hymn of the Church, “the most humble and
grateful, the most sublime and exalted of all the Canticles.”
(St. Louis-Marie de Montfort)
As the name implies, this is the link between the Legion
and the daily life of all its members, active and auxiliary, and
the bond which unites them one to another and to their
Blessed Mother. The name is suggestive, too, of the obligation