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Through this visitation, personal contact can be made with
a great many people and the Church’s concern for every
person and every family can be shown. “The Church’s pastoral
concern will not be limited only to the Christian families
closest at hand; it will extend its horizons in harmony with
the Heart of Christ, and will show itself to be even more lively
for families in general and for those families in particular
which are in difficult or irregular situations. For all of them the
Church will have a word of truth, goodness, under standing,
hope and deep sympathy with their some times tragic
difficulties. To all of them she will offer her disinterested help
so that they can come closer to that model of a family which
the Creator intended from ‘the beginning’ and which Christ
has renewed with his redeeming grace.” (FC 65)
The praesidium must think out its methods of approach to
the homes. Obviously, the legionaries have to introduce
themselves and to explain why they are there. Visitation for
the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart in the homes, for the
making of the Parish Census and the dissemination of
Catholic literature described in the following pages, are
among some of the ways in which approach to the homes
may be undertaken.
Not only Catholics who are living the Christian life but all
can be brought within the sphere of the legionary apostolate
through the visitation of the homes. Contact can be made
with non-Catholics and non-Christians, and with Catholics
who are estranged from the Church. Attention will be given
also to those in irregular marriage situations as referred to
above, to those in need of instruction, to the lonely and the
infirm. Every home should be viewed from the angle of
rendering service.
The legionary visitation will be marked by humility and
simpli city. People may have incorrect ideas concerning the
visitation, expecting to be lectured in a superior way. On the
contrary, legion aries should aim initially at listening instead
of talking. Having listened patiently and respectfully, they
will have won the right to be heard.
“One cannot fail to stress the evangelizing action of the family in
the evan gelizing apostolate of the laity.
At different moments in the Church’s history and also in the
Second Vatican Council, the family has well deserved the beautiful