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232 SUGGESTIONS AS TO WORKS CHAPTER 37
(b) Conducting para-liturgical services on Sundays and
holidays of obligation in places where there is no priest
available to celebrate Mass;
(c) Conducting religious instruction classes;
(d) Visitation and care of the handicapped, the sick and the
old, including, when necessary, making arrangements for a
visit of the priest;
(e) Recitation of the rosary at wakes and funerals;
(f) Promotion of Catholic Associations and Parish Societies,
including Church Confraternities or Sodalities, where they
exist, by recruiting new members and encouraging existing
members to persevere;
(g) Collaboration in every apostolic and missionary
undertaking sponsored by the parish and so help to bring
every soul in some manner into the protective network of the
Church, thus securing the safety alike of the individual and
the community.
There are certain other parochial works which, though
important, would not satisfy, except in special cases, the work
obligation for senior legionaries. Among these works are: Altar
Society work, the keeping of the church clean and beautiful,
stewarding at Church services, Mass serving, etc. Where
necessary, the legionaries could organise and superintend the
performance of these duties, which would be a source of
blessing to the persons undertaking them. The legionaries
could then make the more difficult, direct approaches to
souls.
“I desire, like the Mother of Grace, to work for God. I desire to co-
operate by my labours and sacrifices towards my own salvation and
that of the whole world, as the Holy Scripture says of the Machabees,
who in the holy enthusiasm of their courage, ‘did not care to save
themselves alone, but undertook to save the greatest possible number
of their brethren’.” (Gratry: Month of Mary)

2. VISITATION OF THE HOMES OF THE PEOPLE
Though not its initial venture, the visitation of the homes
has been traditionally the preferred work of the Legion, its
special occupation everywhere and its avenue of greatest
good. It is a char ac teristic of the Legion.