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as the mode of initiation to an apostolic society, few will
present them selves as recruits. Most persons are determined
to be finished with school when they have left that state.
Especially the simpler people are awed at the prospect of
going back again into a sort of classroom, even though it be a
holy classroom. That is why apostolic study systems fail to
exert a wide appeal. The Legion is on simpler, more psycho -
logical lines. Its members say to other people: “Come along
and do this work with me.” Those who come are not
presented with a classroom. They are presented with a work
which is already being done by someone like themselves.
Accordingly, they know that the work is within their own
capacity, and readily they join that society. Having joined,
having seen the work being done and taken part in it, having
learned by listening to the reports and comments on that
work the best method of doing it, they are soon found
proficient in it.
“The Legion is sometimes criticised for lack of expertise on the part
of its members, or because it does not insist that they devote long
periods to study. So let it be said: (a) The Legion systematically utilises
the contribution of its better equipped members. (b) While avoiding
the extreme stressing of study, it does endeavour in appropriate ways
to fit each one for his particular apostolate. (c) But the dominating
purpose is to provide a framework through which the Legion may say
to the ordinary Catholic: ‘Come, bring your mite of talent; we will
teach you to develop it and use it through Mary for the glory of God’.
It must not be forgotten that the Legion is for the lowly and
underprivileged as much as for the learned and powerful.” (Father
Thomas P. O’Flynn, C.M., former Spiritual Director of Concilium
Legionis Mariae)

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SCHEME OF THE LEGlON

1. PERSONAL HOLINESS: THE OBJECT AND MEANS
The general and essential means by which the Legion of
Mary is to effect its object is personal service acting under the
influence of the Holy Spirit, having Divine Grace as its
moving principle and support, and the Glory of God and the
salvation of souls as its final end and purpose.